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University of Washington Press, 1992. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:
(Exhibition catalog): [Broadside]: Behold! The Man Who Carves His Sermons in Wood. Displayed by Mr. and Mrs. E. Pierce by PIERCE, Elijah - 1935
by PIERCE, Elijah
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(Exhibition catalog): [Broadside]: Behold! The Man Who Carves His Sermons in Wood. Displayed by Mr. and Mrs. E. Pierce
by PIERCE, Elijah
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[Columbus, Ohio]: New Model Printing Co, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Two broadsides and a pamphlet. The broadsides measures 11" x 14" and 6" x 11". One broadside on stiff card stock, the other a thin sheet. Both age-toning on the edges, very good. The pamphlet is a single sheet folded once to make four pages. 16mo. Fine. Examples of fragile and rare posters for the traveling exhibition of Pierce's woodcarvings from the Bible and a pamphlet for his exhibit with a list of works. The larger poster leaves blank space for the place, time, and price of admission for the exhibition and also advertises "Quartet Singing ... Good Music." The smaller poster advertises a "Mammoth Sacred Art Demonstration" held in Columbus, Ohio and viewable by appointment only. Pierce (1892-1984) was born the son of a former slave in Mississippi, became an ordained minister, and worked as an itinerant preacher displaying his carvings in the 1930s. Pierce was also a barber, sculptor, and woodcarver during his long career who lived in Columbus, Ohio. In the exhibition catalog *Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver*. (Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art 1992), the larger poster image is employed in the Introduction on page 11 of the catalog. A rare set of posters and ephemera from early in Pierce's career as a woodcarver.
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- Place of Publication [Columbus, Ohio]
- Date Published 1935
- Keywords African-Americana, Broadside, Art/Illustration, Religion, Archive
Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver
by Elijah Pierce
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MODERN TEXTBOOK OF BARBERING: A PRACTICAL COURSE ON THE SCIENTIFIC FUNDEMENTALS OF BARBERING FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTICING BARBERS
by (Pierce, Elijah) (Woodcarver)
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The Riggs-LeMar Institute, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Elijah Pierce - Woodcarver
by PIERCE Pierce, Elijah
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Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art Ohio. Good paper copy ex. cat. 256 pp, 2 pp preface, 2 pp curator's statement, 2 pp intro, lists 173 works with B/W ilus, 74 4/C illus. and text throughout . Good. Paper. 1992.
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Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver
by Pierce, Elijah
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Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 1992. Oversize Paperback. Very Good. Light wear and small spots on cover and top page ends. 256 pages. 8 3/4""w x 11 1/2""h. Exhibition catalog with b&w and color photos of 173 art works, chronology, and bibliography.
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Elijah Pierce Woodcarver
by Pierce, Elijah
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Ohio: Columbus Museum of artUniversity of Washington Press, 1992. First Edition . Oversize Paper. Lavish and large catalog pub. in conj. with an exhibition of the great artists carved works. Illustrated with 100's of repros most in color and several essays. Postcard laid in. There is a soft bump like crease to the bottom corner tip of the front cover which is very lightly mirrored to some of the pages.Nicley produced and printed. Vg+
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Small Group of Ephemera Relating to Elijah Pierce and his Mammoth Sacred Art Demonstration
by [Art - African-American] Pierce, Elijah
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Columbus, 1950. Three items including: "Look. It's your chance to see the Mammoth Sacred Art Demonstration." Printed handbill, 11 x 6 inches. "Pierce's Wood Carving Exhibit: Over 1000 Carvings, Educational, Fascinating, Carved with a Pocket Knife." [2] pages, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches on one folding sheet; Admission ticket to "The Mammoth Sacred Art Display" at 536 Long Street (next door to Pierce's barber shop at 534 Long Street). 2 x 3 1/2 inches, completed in pencil. Overall near fine with minimal wear. Near Fine. An early collection of ephemera from the career of Elijah Pierce. Pierce worked as a barber to pay the bills, and one of the locations listed here, at 536 Long St., was next door to his barbershop. Though he worked in relative obscurity during his life, his work is now held at many major institutions.
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[Broadside]: Behold! The Man Who Carves His Sermons in Wood. Displayed by Mr. and Mrs. E. Pierce
by PIERCE, Elijah
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[Columbus, Ohio]: New Model Printing Co, 1935. Unbound. Good. Photographically illustrated broadside. Measuring 11" x 14". Stiff card stock. Dampstain on the right hand margin, age-toning on the acidic card stock, small chips, repair with archival tape on the verso, a good example of a fragile and rare poster for the traveling exhibition of Pierce's woodcarvings from the Bible. The poster leaves blank space for the place, time, and price of admission for the exhibition and also advertises "Quartet Singing ... Good Music." Pierce (1892-1984) was born the son of a former slave in Mississippi, became an ordained minister and worked as an itinerant preacher displaying his carvings in the 1930s. Pierce was also a barber, sculptor, and woodcarver during his long career who lived in Columbus, Ohio. [With]: *Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver*. Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art 1992. Large quarto. Illustrated wrappers. 256pp, heavily illustrated. The picture employed on this poster appears in the Introduction…
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Elijah Pierce Woodcarver.
by PIERCE, Elijah - YOUNG, Mahonri Sharp
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Columbus, OH: Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, , 1973. The catalogue for Elijah Pierce's 1973 exhibition at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, his first major show, the commentary largely composed from Pierce's own words, edited from taped interviews with Carolyn Jones, 1972-3. Pierce is now widely considered one of the great American outsider artists. Signed by Pierce with his address on the title page: his autograph is genuinely uncommon. The son of freed slaves, Pierce was born on a farm in Mississippi in 1892, he took to barbering to escape farm labour. Settling in Ohio in the 1920s, he eventually set up his own barbershop, and became a Baptist preacher. Pierce had taken to woodcarving when given his first pocket-knife as a child, and was encouraged in it by his maternal uncle, in the 20s and 30s he began to make three dimensional animal carvings that he decorated and either gave away or sold, before graduating to the creation of bas-relief narratives, largely on religious or moral themes, giving…
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