Romantic California.

PEIXOTTO, Ernest.

$750.00

Item Number: 147696

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912.

Finely bound edition of this classic in travel and tourism for the state of California. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands with a design of a California mission and bell on the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated throughout by Ernest Peixotto. In very good condition with light rubbing.

American artist, muralist and travel author Ernest Clifford Peixotto wrote and illustrated a dozen travel books throughout his lifetime including Tales of Languedoc, By Italian Seas, Romantic California and Our Hispanic Southwest. Born in San Francisco, Peixotto married fellow American painter Mary Glascock Hutchinson in 1897 and the couple took up a primary residence in Fontainebleau outside of Paris, France. He later taught at the Art Institue of Chicago where Thomas Hart Benton was his student, served as a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, an official artist attached to the American expeditionary force, and President of the National Society of Mural Painters.