Life Studies: A Short Course in Figure Drawing

Hutton, Hugh McMillen

Bart Publications, 1927

[16 mounted, albumen photographic prints of a female nude]  Fine. First edition.  30 cm.  Bound in publisher's maroon cloth.  Contemporary signature on front paste-down.  79 p., with all 16 original photographs. The photos are of a nude women in various poses; each approximately 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. [19.1 x 12.1cm].  Intended for art students, the nude photographs which were supposed to be removed and placed in front of the student has they drew.  The author, Hugh McMillen Hutton (1897-1976), was an editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer for over 30 years.