Eric Lee-Johnson - No Road to Follow. Autobiography of a New Zealand Artist
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Eric Lee-Johnson - No Road to Follow. Autobiography of a New Zealand Artist - Auckland - Godwit Press Limited - 1994 - 1st edition - 180 pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 19 x 26 cm. - Design: Richard King.
Condition: Good - SIGNED by the artist's widow. See more info below.
Posthumously published autobiography of the New Zealand artist Eric Albert Lee-Johnson (1908-1993). Illustrated with black and white photos and COLOUR reproductions. With foreword by his widow, Elizabeth Lee-Johnson. With index. Hardcover edition.
In addition to his painting, Lee-Johnson was also a freelance photographer who documented the daily lives of New Zealanders from the early 1950s through the 1970s. His photographs were as well known as his paintings - including images of 'Opo the dolphin'.
¶ This copy comes from the library of the Arnhem painter Willem van Manen with his signature, stamp and label on the endpaper, next to Elizabeth Lee-Johnson's handwritten dedication. Added: newspaper clippings and a number of handwritten postcards from Elizabeth to Van Manen and his wife.