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Traces of Forgotten Places: An Artist's Thirty-Year Exploration and Celebration of Texas as It Was
Don Collins
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Paperback. Presents a collection of seventy works of art that the author created for the Miller Blueprint calendars. This book features recordings of buildings from farmhouses to industrial plants, from shanties to mansions in Texas county. Editor(s): Baker, T. Lindsay. Num Pages: 176 pages, 70 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 279 x 13. Weight in Grams: 481.
For more than half a century, Austin artist Don Collins crisscrossed Texas looking for traces of the past. Most often he has found them in a variety of old buildings. Drawings of these places, thirteen a year, appeared for three decades in popular calendars issued in Austin by the Miller Blueprint Company. The publications themselves have become collectors' items.In order to prepare his annual calendars, Don frequented less-traveled byways and often forgotten places. When he discovered that he had begun retracing his routes, he bought a stack of Texas county road maps. The artist marked the courses that he had ... Read more
For more than half a century, Austin artist Don Collins crisscrossed Texas looking for traces of the past. Most often he has found them in a variety of old buildings. Drawings of these places, thirteen a year, appeared for three decades in popular calendars issued in Austin by the Miller Blueprint Company. The publications themselves have become collectors' items.In order to prepare his annual calendars, Don frequented less-traveled byways and often forgotten places. When he discovered that he had begun retracing his routes, he bought a stack of Texas county road maps. The artist marked the courses that he had ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875653617
SKU
V9780875653617
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About Don Collins
A native of Parker Country, DON COLLINS served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended classes at several Texas universities, and in 1956 entered an informal partnership with Austin printer Jack Wilson. Operating from a business they called The Art Studio, the two men designed and produced graphic arts materials for customers that ranged from real estate agents ... Read more
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