The Enjoyment and Use of Color

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. xi, [1], 274 pages: illustrations, 7 plates (6 color) diagrams; 22 cm; biobliographical references. About near fine(+) with a few small blemishes and spots to rear board; else suprisingly clean and very tight. Lacks jacket. . Hardcover.

A desirable copy. "This volume is arranged primarily as a text-book in color for art departments of secondary schools and colleges, but also as a book for general reading."--Preface. Best remembered for this book, Walter Sargent (1869-1929) was a painter, color theorist and one of the founding figures of American art education. He joined the University of Chicago’s School of Education in 1909 as professor of drawing and education, and led its art department until 1929. He integrated studio practice with historical and theoretical study, treating art as the counterpart of rational scientific thinking and of equal importance. Author of a run of influential school texts: Modelling in Public Schools (1909), Fine and Industrial Arts in Elementary Schools (1912), How Children Learn to Draw (1916, with Elizabeth E. Miller) and a federal report on art instruction in the United States (1919). He is best remembered for The Enjoyment and Use of Color (1923), drawn from his Chicago teaching, which proposed a “scientifically arranged palette.” Its color theory still turns up in art curricula. Sargent painted and exhibited throughout his career. ¶ Contents: Color sensations -- Color values and intensities -- Complementary colors -- Composite colors -- Near-complements and triads -- Color harmonies -- Color in nature and art.; Color Couleur. color (perceived attribute) Color Authors' inscriptions. ¶ Later reprinted by Dover.