Neighborhood
By: Laura Davidson.
Contributors: Artists' Books Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Artists' books -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Painting, American -- Massachusetts -- 20th century.; Fort Point Channel Area (Boston, Mass.) -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: Ms.
The sole copy of this artist's book depicting the Fort Point Channel area of Boston, which has a large concentration of artist's studios, before the "Big Dig" project.
Cover title.
Inside back cover signed: Laura Davidson, Boston, 1998.
Each miniature street scene is painted inside an arched "window" with decorative painted border. Captions are lettered on beveled mat board that frames each painting and forms the pages of the book.
Bound by the artist in painted wooden boards with leather spine. Cover painting depicts the scene outside the artist's studio window.
Explanatory information from artist's "quote for purchase" letter to the Library of Congress.