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Fresh Off the
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STANLEY
MELTZOFF - Picture Maker
190 Page Full Color Limited Edition
On Sale Now for $89
The first
comprehensive book on the life and work of celebrated artist Stanley
Meltzoff has finally been published. Stanley Meltzoff - Picture Maker was
nearly done when Meltzoff passed away in 2006 and the project was put
aside. However, angler and award-winning author Mike Rivkin has now
brought the work to fruition with his own lively narrative alongside Stanley's most
memorable paintings, and the artist's own discussion of his life in art.
Advanced
collectors of game fish art will have no trouble recalling Meltzoff's breathtaking pictures. He was the first
artist to paint all the major game species in their natural underwater
settings, and no one before or since has come close to surpassing his
technique. Stanley received a classical
education in the arts before joining The Stars and Stripes newspaper in Italy
as a war correspondent. After five years in Europe, he returned to
teaching at prestigious Pratt Institute in New York and later became one of the
premier commercial artists in the country. Meltzoff pictures have graced
the covers of Field and Stream, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific
American, The Atlantic Monthly and many other publications. His work
also adorned pulp and science fiction book covers, annual reports, major
international ad campaigns, and the iconic 1976 AT&T bicentennial
phone book of which more than 176 million were distributed.
In 1960, Stanley
completed a groundbreaking series on striped bass for Sports Illustrated
that served to establish an entirely new genre with himself firmly at the
apex. As a pioneering SCUBA diver, he dove every ocean and spent
thousands of hours observing his subjects. During a hugely productive
four-decade career, Meltzoff renderings of billfish, tuna, tarpon, and
many other species came to define the category for countless enthusiasts
and earned the awestruck admiration of his peers. Frequently decorated by
the American Society of Illustrators and other groups, his death at age
89 stilled a brush that may never be equaled.
Stanley Meltzoff -
Picture Maker
190 Page Full Color Limited Edition for $89
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