Franklin Booth
Silent Symphony
Will be published approx. on 15. December 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-64041-061-9 (ISBN)
Description
Franklin Booth: Silent Symphony is a massive,
304-page book featuring over 400 pieces that span the artist's entire career.
Accompanying photos of Franklin Booth (1874-1948), his family, friends and
colleagues-along with illustrations by his peers and inspirations-add nearly fifty
more images. A new essay by the award-winning illustrator and professor Alice
A. Carter delves into Booth's life. This biography highlights his childhood in
Indiana, family life and the earliest days of his professional career, his road
trips, studio life and teaching career with intimate stories and much more.
Quotes of first-hand encounters with Booth by his students, friends and fellow
artists also are shared.
Pen-and-ink drawings cover a
fifty-year span-from Booth's earliest days to his final works. These include his
story illustrations for top magazines of the time, plus a diverse and rare
assortment of pieces made for poems, advertisements and prints. Book
illustrations completed in color as well as pen-and-ink also are featured,
along with rare sketches for an unrealized project. All art was scanned and
photographed from its original source material using the latest technology and
has been painstakingly prepped for this publication.
Franklin
Booth's meticulous and unique pen technique has been revered by artists and
students for the last hundred years. No one has ever been able to duplicate his
style. Booth utilized his own life, philosophies and experiences as vehicles to
project his thoughts to the viewer, which makes his work deeply compelling and
infused with his respect for nature and art. He always listened to his own
voice and developed a style that was not a natural product of his era. This
allowed his work to become timeless and to continue capturing audiences today.
Franklin
Booth's influence can still be seen in modern comic books, fantasy illustrations,
concept art and films. The magnitude of his art is made for the big screen,
with his figures in epic scenes. His work has made its way through decades of
shifting genres and changes in the art world and is still as immediate today as
it was in the early twentieth century.
304-page book featuring over 400 pieces that span the artist's entire career.
Accompanying photos of Franklin Booth (1874-1948), his family, friends and
colleagues-along with illustrations by his peers and inspirations-add nearly fifty
more images. A new essay by the award-winning illustrator and professor Alice
A. Carter delves into Booth's life. This biography highlights his childhood in
Indiana, family life and the earliest days of his professional career, his road
trips, studio life and teaching career with intimate stories and much more.
Quotes of first-hand encounters with Booth by his students, friends and fellow
artists also are shared.
Pen-and-ink drawings cover a
fifty-year span-from Booth's earliest days to his final works. These include his
story illustrations for top magazines of the time, plus a diverse and rare
assortment of pieces made for poems, advertisements and prints. Book
illustrations completed in color as well as pen-and-ink also are featured,
along with rare sketches for an unrealized project. All art was scanned and
photographed from its original source material using the latest technology and
has been painstakingly prepped for this publication.
Franklin
Booth's meticulous and unique pen technique has been revered by artists and
students for the last hundred years. No one has ever been able to duplicate his
style. Booth utilized his own life, philosophies and experiences as vehicles to
project his thoughts to the viewer, which makes his work deeply compelling and
infused with his respect for nature and art. He always listened to his own
voice and developed a style that was not a natural product of his era. This
allowed his work to become timeless and to continue capturing audiences today.
Franklin
Booth's influence can still be seen in modern comic books, fantasy illustrations,
concept art and films. The magnitude of his art is made for the big screen,
with his figures in epic scenes. His work has made its way through decades of
shifting genres and changes in the art world and is still as immediate today as
it was in the early twentieth century.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Cruz
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-64041-061-9 (9781640410619)
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John Fleskes is the president and publisher of Flesk Publications. He has published dozens of books featuring some of the top contemporary and most revered artists in the field. Fleskes has contributed to numerous books as writer, editor and designer. Alice A. Carter is a writer, artist, Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University and the former co-director of education at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. She earned her BFA at the University of the Arts and her MLA at Stanford University. Academic honors include San Jose State's Outstanding Professor award, a Fulbright Fellowship in Cairo Egypt, the New York Society of Illustrator's Distinguished Educator in the Arts award, and the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities. Carter's illustration clients have included LucasFilm Ltd., Rolling Stone magazine, The New York Times, and ABC Television. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the country, including the New York Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration, The Norman Rockwell Museum, the Art Institute of Houston, and the New Britain Museum. Carter's publications include The Art of National Geographic: One Hundred Years of Illustration; The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love; The Essential Thomas Eakins; Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in The Gilded Age, The Drawings of Edwin Austin Abbey, and (in press) Franklin Booth: Silent Symphony. In conjunction with her publications, Ms. Carter has curated exhibitions at the Woodmere Art Museum, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration. Carter serves on the Board of Trustees at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge Massachusetts and is a member of the Hall of Fame Committee at the New York Society of Illustrators.