The New Way Busy Fingers Drawing Primer. The Easy Book for Junior Artists
Chicago: Albert Whitman Company, Publisher, 1923. cloth. [JUVENILE] [ART] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE and ILLUSTRATIONS]. Just Right Books.
First edition. 12mo; 125pp + [3] publisher's ads; orange buckram over board, color pictorial onlay to front featuring a young girl in Japanese clothing making lanterns; brown and cream pictorial eps; fp and color pictorial title page; illustrations with instructions throughout; fine. OCLC locates 2 copies at Princeton and the Winterthur. Fine. Item #1899
Wonderful step-by-step instructional book for children on drawing objects, animals, and people. Fifty-eight lessons with full-page illustrations. Two lessons include racist illustrations of a young boy from India and the lesson on drawing a Pickaninny.
Price: $100.00