Ben Messick - Hardcover James Grant rather than to produce a

rather than to produce a realistic picture of the scene

At the Santa Monica Pier

by Jan Noreus Jennings

Millard Sheets and His Southern California Legacy

Hardie Gramatky

Ben Messick - Hardcover James Grant rather than to produce a90 pages, by James R. Lafferty, Sr. 51 color illustrations, 50 black and white illustrations Hardcover $49. 00 This book is the definitive biography of rediscovered artist Benjamin Newton Messick, 1891 1981. Messick was one of America's most important Scene painters and Modernists of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. His paintings and prints have been shown in over four hundred exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Annual in 1927; the Carnegie Institute, 1941;