Bidspirit auction | 1980-1981 Western Association of Art

1980-1981 Western Association of Art Museums Catalog of Exhibitions - A landscape orientation softcover catalog published by the Western Association of Art Museums (WAAM) for the 1980-1981 traveling exhibition season. The cover features minimalist graphic design with a stylized red W motif over horizontal red lines. The title page is printed with WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUMS CATALOG OF EXHIBITIONS 1980-1981. The lower margin of the second page contains a printed copyright notice reading Copyright 1979 by Western Association of Art Museums, 270 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Ca. 94108. The publication is a stapled booklet serving as a prospectus for museums to rent traveling shows, providing logistics such as rental fees, security requirements, crate counts, and weight for various curated collections. Featured exhibitions documented within include Americans in Glass (mentioning artists such as Dale Chihuly, Thomas Patti, and Howard Ben Tre), Friends of the Rag: Fantasy Apparel, Contemporary Crafts: WESTAF Award Winners (featuring Susan Nininger), Caerulea: Ruins and Restorations (Eleanor Rappe and Eleanor Bender), Form and Figure (Nancy Grossman), The Great American Foot (Ewao Kagoshima), The Mother of Us All (Robert Indiana), Our Environment (Arthur Mathews), Chicago Currents (Roger Brown and Ed Paschke), Crying for a Vision: A Rosebud Sioux Trilogy (John A. Anderson and Eugene Buechel), and Masters in Perception (Henry A. Hussey and Peter Henry Emerson). Page 15 features a black ink stamp reading FEE REDUCTION in sans-serif capital letters. The paper covers show light toning and yellowing consistent with age, primarily concentrated along the top edge of the front cover (photo 1). The corners exhibit minor handling wear and small creases (photo 2). The interior pages are clean and bright with clear black and white photographic illustrations (photos 6-16). The stapled binding is secure and intact. There is a decorative black ink stamp on page 15 (photo 9).