The Color of Silver
Subtitle: William Spratling, His Life and Art (Southern Biography Series)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780807125335
Subjects: Biography: general; Gold & silversmithing; Graphic design; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Silverwork; 20th century; Biography; Spratling, William,; Taxco de Alarcâon; Applied Arts (General); Mexico; Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; General; Biography/Autobiography; Taxco de Alarcon; USA; Individual Artist; Sculpture; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Silversmiths; 1900-1967; Art deco; Decoration and ornament; History
Description: "In this illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs.

Spratling influenced an entire generation of Mexican and American silversmiths and transformed the tiny village of Taxco into the "Florence of Mexico." Littleton widens the context of Spratling's popular reputation by examining the formative periods in his life and art that preceded his brilliant entrepreneurial experiment in the Las Delicias workshop in Taxco, which left a permanent mark on Mexico's artistic orientation and economic life.".

"Spratling made a fortune manufacturing and designing silver, but his true life's work was to conserve, redeem, and interpret the ancient culture of his adopted country. He explained for North American audiences the paintings of Mexico's modern masters and earned distinction as a learned and early collector of pre-Columbian art.

Spratling and his workshop gradually became a visible and culturally attractive link between a steady stream of notable American visitors and the country they wanted to see and experience."--BOOK JACKET.