The book cover art of Thomas Watson Ball
By: collected and described by Richard Minsky
Publisher: Richard Minsky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stockport, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artists' books
Description: "Thomas Watson Ball was a Modernist book cover designer during the period 1897-1905. He was an innovator in abstract landscapes, such as the 1899 cover to the right. Until his portfolio of covers was discovered in the 1980s his work was unknown to scholars of binding design. He worked in a wide variety of styles and most of his covers are unsigned. The catalog identifies several genres of his work, including decorative symmetrical and floral covers, nautical, landscape, pictorial silhouette and cameos."--www.minsky.com.
Notes: "This is the first exhibition devoted exclusiely to his book cover art. The catalog essay places the covers in the context of his life and his work as a church decorator with mastery of Gothic painting styles and techniques, as an art director at Harper's 1894-1900, at Colgate 1901-1907, and at Richard Hudnut 1910-1913, and as an American Impressionist painter, particularly of marine and landscape subjects. Excerpts from his previously unpublished memoir bring his story to life."--www.minsky.com.

Includes bibliographical references.