Spirit of the West
The Art of Don Brestler
- Publisher
- Bayeux Arts
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2014
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781896209708
- Publish Date
- Nov 2003
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781897411957
- Publish Date
- Feb 2014
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
A beautifully illustrated tribute to a remarkable, self-taught artist of the Canadian West. The 81 oil paintings by Brestler featured in this volume depict perennial and endearing aspects of the West – ‘A Cowboy’s Life’, ‘Wildlife’, and ‘Home on the Range’. Intoductory essay by Arjun GUPTA, art historian.
About the author
Arjun Gupta graduated from Amherst College, Massachusetts, and completed graduate studies at SOAS, University of London, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Dayton Law School. He served as Managing Editor of Aperture Publishing, New York, in the late nineties.Presently, he makes his home in San Francisco with his wife and son.