Seven Nathan Oliveira art exhibition catalogs. Softcovers, various sizes and pagination. They are lovingly SIGNED and INSCRIBED by NATHAN OLIVEIRA to his close friends MARGOT & JAMES SCHEVILL. Six are inscribed on the title page or front endpaper, one has a laid-in inscribed postcard.

GOOD Condition: All the catalogs have some soiling to the covers, two have a sunned spine, one, Turomaquia, has a half-dollar size old grease stain to the front cover; internally all are tight, bright, clean and clear. A nice set.

Both James Schevill and Margot Schevill, to whom the catalogs were inscribed, led very interesting lives.

James Erwin Schevill, b.1920 d.2009, was an American poet, critic, playwright and professor at San Francisco State University and Brown University, and the recipient of Guggenheim and Ford Foundation fellowships. In a 1950 letter to Robert Sproul, the president of the University of California, he refused to sign a loyalty oath, at the time a prerequisite to becoming an instructor at UC Berkeley. - Wikipedia.

Margot Blum Schevill, b.1934 d.2024, was a talented musician and scholar. In 1972 she graduated from Brown University's first women's class. Margot was an opera singer in San Francisco during the 1950s and 60s, performing with orchestras. She founded the New Music Ensemble at Brown University. In the 1980s, she transitioned to anthropology, focusing on indigenous textiles and curating exhibitions. - S.F. Chronicle Obituary

You can read much more about the Schevills on the Internet.