Let's play
By: by the Gearharts
Contributors: Gearhart, May, 1872-1951; Gearhart, Edna, 1879-1974; Dailey, Victoria; Futterman, Susan; Book Club of California
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
ISBN-13: 9780981959702
Subjects: Play; Juvenile poetry
Description: "In 1929, Pasadena artists and sisters Frances, May, and Edna Gearhart created a children’s book illustrated with their original linoleum cuts and descriptive verses. It was not published. Eighty years later The Book Club of California has now brought the first edition of this charming work into publication. Frances Gearhart (1869–1958) became the leading color woodcut artist in California during her lifetime, renowned for her dramatic landscape views of mountains, desert, and shore. Her use of saturated color, her sense of composition and her use of outline reflect her interest in Japanese prints. This series of children at play in our book combines Gearhart’s artistic sensibilities with a subject she knew well from her years of teaching. May Gearhart (1872–1951), a leading practitioner of the color etching, was the Supervisor of Art in the Los Angeles City School system, while Edna Gearhart (1879–1974), who was skilled at drawing, taught art at Los Angeles High School. During the 1920s, all three sisters worked together in the gallery, where they offered their own prints and exhibited the work of leading international printmakers—the Gearharts were at the center of the printmaking world of Southern California."--Publisher's website (viewed 06/30/2015).
Notes: Edited by Victoria Dailey and Susan Futterman--T.p. verso.

"In 1929, Pasadena artists and sisters Frances, May and Edna Gearhart created a children's book illustrated with their original linoleum cuts and descriptive verses. It was, however, not published, and the sisters' original set ultimately entered the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University. Eighty years later, it is with great pleasure that The Book Club of California announces that it is publishing the first edition of this charming work based on the Princeton portfolio"--Prospectus.

"Let's play is the 226th book published by The Book Club of California and has been issued in an edition of one thousand copies, each with a separate print, The lost balloon, laid in. Nine hundred copies are for sale; one hundred are reserved for the publisher."--Colophon.