Bound in wooden boards, approximately 9.5 x 13”, 23pp. With 22 attached 9 x 9” woodblock prints, some in color. Dampstaining, affecting the cover and some text pages, but only two of the block prints (by Stenvall and Barford)
Created “to bring contemporary American art to the American home”, these calendars were issued for only three years, from 1937 to 1939, each illustration by a notable artist being intentionally printed on a separate sheet from the calendar text, “so that it will be possible to save and mount the prints”. Which accounts for their increasing rarity in recent years, as they appear individually on the art market at prices that sometimes soar into the hundreds.
For this, the last issue, in addition to the front cover illustration by Birger Sandzen, there are contributions by Frank Hartley Anderson, Todros Geller (Yemenite Beggar), Gerhard Bakker, Alexander Masley, Charles Heaney (Oregon Town), Florence V. Cannon (Swans), Josef Albers (Aquarium), Bernice Jamieson, George Raab (Portal in Weimar), Warren Mack (Delaware River at Shawnee), Everlynne Mess,Josphe Alderkauski (Street Crime), E.Sophonisba Hergesheimer (Mount Rainier), Grover Page, Rockwell Kent (Flame), Wuanita Smith (Pythons), Gregory Orloff (“Study in Black” [African-American portrait]), Howard Thomas (Indian Pony), Walter Dubois Richards, Donna Miller (Thanksgiving), John Stenvall (Modern Chaos) and George Barford (Gloomy Sunday).