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HandMade:
the Western
Books
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Wharton Esherick:
Studio & Collection
By Mansfield Bascom,
edited by Paul Eisenhauer
$19.99
Esherick, Maloof,
Nakashima: Homes ofthe
Master Wood Artisans
By Tina Skinner
Photography by
Steven Paul Witsitt
$49.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Atglen,
PA
schifferbooks.com
By the late 1950s and early
’60s, when Wharton Esherick
(1887-1970) was starting to be
hailed as the “dean of Ameri-
can craftsmen” and the “god-
father of American studio
furniture,” he had spent a life-
time in relative obscurity in
rural Paoli,
PA,
evolving from
an academically trained paint-
er into a master artist-crafts-
man who found in wood and
the physical experience of
working with it the perfect
means of distilling his varied
artistic influences into a style
uniquely his own. His master
work was his studio/home
on a wooded hillside, begun
in 1926 and completed in
1966, in which all the architec-
tural details, as well as the
furnishings, are painstakingly
integrated. The studio is now
a museum, opened in 1972 by
the artist’s heirs, and
IVharton
Esherick: Studio
fif
Collection
is
its catalog. The book
www.WorldMags.net & www.Journal-Plaza.net
Photo Steven Paul W hitsitt.
