A Treasury of American Prints edited by Thomas Craven, 1939 edition.

Various artists. Edited by Thomas Craven. First edition, 1939. Simon and Schuster. New York.

A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithographs by the Foremost living American Artists
(The book was spiral bound to allow for easy removal of the prints for framing.)

Peggy Bacon - Thomas Benton - Isabel Bishop - Arnold Blanch - Aaron Bohrod - Alexander Brook - Andrew Butler - Paul Cadmus - Francis Chapin - Paul Louis Clemens - Howard Cook - John Corbino - John E. Costigan - John Steuart Curry - Adolf Dehn - Mabel Dwight - Ernest Fiene - Lauren Ford - Don Freeman - Wanda Gag - Emil Ganso - Minnetta Good - William Gropper - George Grosz - William Heaslip - Albert Heckman - Eugene Higgins - Irwin D. Hoffman - Edward Hopper - Joe Jones - Yasuo Kuniyoshi - Doris Lee - Charles Locke - Luigi Lucioni - John Marin - Reginald Marsh - John S. De Martelly - Kenneth Hayes Miller - Thomas W. Nason - Waldo Peirce - Boardman Robinson - Charles Sheeler - John Sloan - Raphael Soyer - Lee Townsend - Stow Wengenroth - Harry Wickley - Grant Wood - Mahonri Young.

Thomas Craven (1888 - 1969) was an American author, critic, and lecturer known for his influential role in promoting American Regionalist painters such as Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. Included among his most popular works are Men of Art and Modern Art: The Men, the Movements, the Meaning. Craven's writing was characterized by its directness and often caustic commentary, earning him the reputation as the "leading decrier of the School of Paris." Craven contributed essays and critiques to magazines and journals, and was the art critic for the New York American.

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Condition: Very Good/Good. Black slipcase: Light shelf wear to front and back panels; on the front, moderate to heavy wear to upper, lower, spine, and fore edges; on the back, three small white scuffs, a small semi-circle of pale white spots; 3" section of the top panel, at the front, loosened from the lower case; bumped and chipped at tail of the spine; wear of the paper along the lower front edge has loosened 2" - 3" of cardboard at both ends. Green quarter-bound spiral cover boards: On the front, tiny white fleck left of label; on the back, small pale smudge in lower right; very lightly bumped at top corners. Shadow of a small label on the front fly leaf else preliminary and illustrated pages are clean, undamaged, and complete.