Connoisseurship & Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Bernstein, Bruce

Publisher: Ralph T. Coe Foundation (Santa Fe, NM)

Pub Date: 2015

Binding: Paperback, with stiff paper flaps.

Condition: Good.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes:  More a booklet than a pamphlet.  Exhibit catalog, for an exhibit at the Wheelwright Museum in 2015-2016.  Ralph Tracy (Ted) Coe (1929-2010) was a museum curator, director, author, collector, and traveler (hence the “pie”–meals during collecting trips are tax deductible, after all).  Excellent color illustrations throughout, with some black-and-white thrown in.  This really is a beautiful catalog, but I consider the spacing of foreword and illustrations annoying as hell.  Start reading the foreword/biographical note on Coe,  and, after a couple of pages, you have to skip 8, 10 more pages to get to the continuation, and again, and again.  That’s a failure of design, even for an excellent catalog like this.  Coe had a good eye for Native American objects, and I wish my office looked like his.