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Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style

By Dean T. Lahikainen

9" x 12"
Clothbound and paperbound editions
304 pages; 191 color plates, and 193 duotones

Client

Peabody Essex Museum

Samuel McIntire catalog cover 

Samuel McIntire chapter opener

Samuel McIntire text spread

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Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style is the first book ever to examine the full range of McIntire’s carving career and to put it into a broader cultural and artistic perspective in terms of the work of his contemporaries and other decorative traditions of the Federal period. Like the major exhibition it accompanied, the book draws on the remarkable American decorative arts collections of Salem's Peabody Essex Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Wintertur, among others.

What We Did:

Complete editorial work (line and copy editing, proofreading, text management, and index compilation)
Full design program (cover and interior)
Type composition
Collaboration with printer on separations and correcting color proofs
Press approval