Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain ; illustrated by…
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Creator
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Title
Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain ; illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton, with an introduction by Edward Wagenknecht and a number of previously suppressed passages, now printed for the first time, and edited with a note by Willis Wager.
Publisher
New York : The Limited Editions Club,
Date
1944
Description
edition of twelve hundred numbered copies
MU: Library has no. 1022, signed by the illustrator.
MU: Library has no. 1022, signed by the illustrator.
Subject
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs.
Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs.
Contributor
Thomas Hart Benton was perhaps the best known muralist associated with the American Scene Painting movement of the 1930s.
Benton is most closely associated with Regionalism a movement that rejected modernism in favor of a naturalistic and representational style.
Source: American Studies at the University of Virginia
Benton is most closely associated with Regionalism a movement that rejected modernism in favor of a naturalistic and representational style.
Source: American Studies at the University of Virginia
Language
English