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Both
A Portrait in Two Parts
by Douglas Crase
ISBN: 0375422668
ISBN-13: 9780375422669
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 2004
Size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches
Weight: 0.9 pounds
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Both is the enchanting account of a remarkable fifty-year relationship: Dwight Ripley, the child heir to an American railroad fortune, and Rupert Barneby, the product of a wealthy, baronial English upbringing, shared an obsession with botany from the moment they met at an exclusive boys’ boarding school in England. Together they embarked on a lifelong pursuit of rare plants, first in Europe and then in the United States, where they migrated in the late 1930s. Every spring they explored the American Southwest in a sputtering Dodge, discovering new species and cultivating the spoils at their renowned home gardens. Barneby published so many taxonomic findings that he became a world authority on legumes. But the two men had other interests as well: they were intimates in the expatriate circles that included W. H. Auden and Peggy Guggenheim, and early collectors of painters such as Jackson Pollock and Joan Miró. Ripley, a prescient artist himself, whose startling work in colored pencil was lost in a trunk for several decades before being rediscovered, used his fortune to bankroll much of the avant-garde art scene of the early 1950s.
The lives of Ripley and Barneby were shaped by a passion for knowing the world in all its lush particulars. Douglas Crase, who received an education in character when he came to know Barneby in the 1970s, offers us not just the brilliantly told story of “both,” but a vivid portrait of the bohemian postwar period they inhabited, bristling with the energy of the new.
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books. with no dust jacket 2004. Hardcover. Brand New Book, Hardcover, clean, tight, unmarked, Dwight Ripley and Rupert Barneby were linked not just by their fortunes in their youth, but by their common travels and interests in art, discovering rare plants in the American southwest, and yearly road trips in a rickety Dodge. Between bankrolling the avant-garde art of the 50s or their shared history at boarding school, this single portrait of two men holds character in common. . ( more information)
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New York: Pantheon Books, 2004 Cloth, 303 pp., illus., biblio., index; 20 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Both is the enchanting account of a remarkable fifty-year relationship: Dwight Ripley, the child heir to an American railroad fortune, and Rupert Barneby, the product of a wealthy, baronial English upbringing, shared an obsession with botany from the moment they met at an exclusive boys' boarding school in England. Together they embarked on a lifelong pursuit of rare plants, first in Europe and then in the United States, where they migrated in the late 1930s. Every spring they explored the American Southwest in a sputtering Dodge, discovering new species and cultivating the spoils at their renowned home gardens. Barneby published so many taxonomic findings that he became a world authority on legumes. But the two men had other interests as well: they were intimates in the expatriate circles that included W. H. Auden and Peggy Guggenheim, and early collectors of painters such as Jackson Pollock and Joan Miró. Ripley, a prescient artist himself, whose startling work in colored pencil was lost in a trunk for several decades before being rediscovered, used his fortune to bankroll much of the avant-garde art scene of the early 1950s. The lives of Ripley and Barneby were shaped by a passion for knowing the world in all its lush particulars. Douglas Crase, who received an education in character when he came to know Barneby in the 1970s, offers us not just the brilliantly told story of 'both,' but a vivid portrait of the bohemian postwar period they inhabited, bristling with the energy of the new. / Douglas Crase was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan, and grew up on a nearby farm. He is the author of The Revisionist, a poetry collection that was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. A former MacArthur Fellow, he lives in New York City and Honesdale, Pennsylvania." - Publisher.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible. ( more information)
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