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Download or read book American Artists' Materials Suppliers Directory: A guide to stretchers, panels, millboards, and stencil marks written by Alexander W. Katlan and published by Sound View Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides art researchers and conservators with the first in-depth examination of the kinds of stretchers, wood panels, mill boards and canvas types used by American artists from the 19th to early 20th centuries. Also features case histories of the art materials of three American artists--Thomas Cole, Jasper Cropsey and Albert Bierstadt; includes directories of commercial art suppliers, carvers, gilders and related craftsmen of the period. Features close to 300 bandw illustrations. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR