Improvisations Artists Equity: Spring Fantasia & Bal Fantastique: Masquerade Ball for 1953, 1954, 1956 and 1957 by Hudson D. Walker

E-10: Artist Equity Association. Very Good. Paperback. Plastic Comb binding. 4to. Artist Equity Association. Unpaginated. Printed in color or monochrome on a variety of paper stocks. Issued in stiff paper wrappers. Wrappers worn with staining to wrappers and edges of wrappers of the front panel of 1954 (slight) and very heavy sunning and staining present to 1957. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is free of marks. First conceived in 1950 from an idea by Julio de Diego, as a medium for advertisers in sympathy with the ideals of Artists Equity Association. Improvisations has been accepted as a novel and original medium by advertisers in sympathy with the ideals of the Artists Equity Association. The member-artists who illustrated this journal were in most cases selected by the advertisers from our membership list and were given complete freedom of expression. Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making this a collection of original lithographs." Contains works by forty-nine artists including Chaim Gross, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn, Louise Nevelson, Milton Avery, Max Beckmann, Federico Castellon, Philip Evergood, Chaim Gross, Jack Levine, Reginald Marsh, the Soyers and many others. E-10; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .