American Dreamer: The Art of Philip C Curtis University of Arizona Press

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Honored as one of "Arizona History Makers

So highly regarded was his work that more than two hundred of his paintings were held at the Smithsonian Institution—where in 1865 a fire destroyed all but seven of them

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American Dreamer: The Art of Philip C Curtis University of Arizona PressHonored as one of "Arizona History Makers," Curtis and his meticulously crafted, charmingly enigmatic paintings have been too little known outside his region, a situation this finely produced retrospective volume seeks to rectify. Essays by five well published curators provide a cultural and biographical context for Curtis' distinctive paintings. The surrealistic aspects of his work and the influence of such artists as Rene Magritte and Stuart Davis