[Moby Dick illustrations] [picture] / B.S. 1964-1967.
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Spruance, Benton, 1904-1967
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Benton Spruance was an American artist and educator. Born and educated in Philadelphia, he displayed an early aptitude for graphic sketching. He became a pioneer in color lithography, and is remembered as an expert technician with an artistic eye; he was also an accomplished painter. His subject matter generally ranged through social, religious, and mythological subjects, as well as landscapes. He also had a long career in education, chiefly at Beaver College and the Philadelphia College of Art,...
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...
