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xxv, 190 pages 24 cm

William Mills Ivins Jr.   (1881 – 1961) was curator of the department of   prints   at the   Metropolitan Museum of Art ,   New York , from its founding in 1916 until 1946, when he was succeeded by   A. Hyatt Mayor . The son of   William Mills Ivins Sr.   (1851 – 1915), a   public utility   lawyer who had been the 1905 Republican candidate for   Mayor of New York City , Ivins studied at   Harvard College   and the   University of Munich   before graduating in   law   from   Columbia University   in 1907. After nine years' legal practice, he was asked to take on the conservation and interpretation of the Met's print collection. He built up the remarkable collections that can be seen there today, and he wrote many prefaces to exhibition catalogues, as well as other, occasional pieces which were later collected and published. His best-known book is   Prints and Visual Communication   ( MIT Press , 1969,   ISBN   0-262-59002-6   (first published 1953 by   Harvard University Press )), and his   How Prints Look   (1943, revised edition 1987) remains in print. (Wikipedia)

William Mills Ivins Jr.   (1881 – 1961) was curator of the department of   prints   at the   Metropolitan Museum of Art ,   New York , from its founding in 1916 until 1946, when he was succeeded by   A. Hyatt Mayor . The son of   William Mills Ivins Sr.   (1851 – 1915), a   public utility   lawyer who had been the 1905 Republican candidate for   Mayor of New York City , Ivins studied at   Harvard College   and the   University of Munich   before graduating in   law   from   Columbia University   in 1907. After nine years' legal practice, he was asked to take on the conservation and interpretation of the Met's print collection. He built up the remarkable collections that can be seen there today, and he wrote many prefaces to exhibition catalogues, as well as other, occasional pieces which were later collected and published. His best-known book is   Prints and Visual Communication   ( MIT Press , 1969,   ISBN   0-262-59002-6   (first published 1953 by   Harvard University Press )), and his   How Prints Look   (1943, revised edition 1987) remains in print. (Wikipedia)

William Mills Ivins Jr.   (1881 – 1961) was curator of the department of   prints   at the   Metropolitan Museum of Art ,   New York , from its founding in 1916 until 1946, when he was succeeded by   A. Hyatt Mayor . The son of   William Mills Ivins Sr.   (1851 – 1915), a   public utility   lawyer who had been the 1905 Republican candidate for   Mayor of New York City , Ivins studied at   Harvard College   and the   University of Munich   before graduating in   law   from   Columbia University   in 1907. After nine years' legal practice, he was asked to take on the conservation and interpretation of the Met's print collection. He built up the remarkable collections that can be seen there today, and he wrote many prefaces to exhibition catalogues, as well as other, occasional pieces which were later collected and published. His best-known book is   Prints and Visual Communication   ( MIT Press , 1969,   ISBN   0-262-59002-6   (first published 1953 by   Harvard University Press )), and his   How Prints Look   (1943, revised edition 1987) remains in print. (Wikipedia)