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OverviewThroughout history, especially from the 18th century to the beginning of World War II, artists have produced a remarkable wealth of graphic representations of fruit. This volume includes paintings by American artists, including the Peale family, Grant Wood, and Thomas Hart Benton, engravings and lithographs by major printmaking companies like Currier and Ives, botanical illustrations, and excerpts from vintage nursery catalogs. Find hundreds of illustrations, chosen to arouse physical and aesthetic appetites. These include still lifes, photographs, and amusing antique postcards, as well as expert botanical and historical information. Fruit you know and some you may not are illustrated here in unique works of art or artefacts. They include standards like apples, cherries, and grapes, tropicals such as bananas, mangoes and avocados, biblical fruits, including pomegranates, dates, and olives, and rare delicacies like medlars, persimmons, prickly cactus pears, and pawpaws. Fruit has never looked this good. AUTHOR: Emery was born in Eastern Pennsylvania to a family with deep agricultural roots. Logan Emery Sr., Lewis (Mike) Emery, and Hazel (Emery) Alexander regaled Mike with their stories of growing up on the large family farm of C. Ralph and Rachel (Umble) Emery in north-eastern Chester County. They weren't fruit farmers, but every farm family had a few apple trees. Mike's great grandfather, Ralph, made cider. A great grandmother, Elizabeth Diem, continued to make apple butter into old age. Mike prides himself on his prowess as a baker of apple pies, which he makes using ancestral redware pie plates, with time blackened bottoms. Richman was born in New York City and summered in New York's Catskill Mountains. In the City he became familiar with the decorative labels on fruit crates when he went with his mother and grandmother to do their fruit and vegetable shopping at the outdoor stands and pushcarts of Prospect Place in Brooklyn. In the Catskills he ate apples from trees along country roads, picked wild strawberries and blueberries and actually tended a small orchard apple, pear, plum, cherry, and peach at his family's home in Woodbourne, New York. He also became cast under the spell of nursery catalogs a lifetime intoxication. He holds a compote of fruit made from Italian Majolica a tin-glazed earthenware. 415 colour photographs Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael B. Emery , Irwin RichmanPublisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd Imprint: Schiffer Publishing Ltd Weight: 0.662kg ISBN: 9780764344893ISBN 10: 0764344897 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 28 December 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMichael B. Emery is the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum’s Educator and Volunteer Coordinator. Irwin Richman works with the Landis Valley Associates, a private group dedicated to forwarding the aims of the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |