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The Red Fox in Art
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A masterful, comprehensive tribute to one of the great iconic animals of art and literature – a must-have book for all readers, collectors, and lovers of wildlife.
Trade edition • hard cover with dust jacket • 650 copies Both opulent, full-color editions, authored and curated by John Orrelle, are 11 x 11 inches with 360 pages, featuring nearly 300 paintings and sculpture. Deluxe edition in slip case • 100 copies signed and numbered
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William Secord & Galina Zhitomirsky
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illiam Secord completed a Masters degree in arts administration at NYU and the course work for a Ph.D before becoming the first director of what was then known as The Dog Museum of America. After the museum moved to St. Louis, Secord opened the William Secord Gallery (1989), specializing in the exhibition and sale of 19th century dog and animal paintings. Since that time, he has become the world’s acknowledged expert on 19th century dog painting, having written four reference books on the subject. He is currently working on a book on the history of horse painting. Galina Zhitomirsky earned an MA in Business Administration from the University of Moscow in 1979. She moved to New York where she completed a certificate program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. She became the director of William Secord Gallery in 2000.