Randolph Wardell Johnston : Feel Intensely, Imagine Vividly, Control Precisely

Sculpture Professor, Randolph Johnston took his young family sailing in the Bahamas during his sabbatical from Smith College in Massachusetts. They found a "dream" island & decided to stay. That was 1951. Prof. Johnston left behind a burgeoning reputation as a passionate sculptor reminiscent of Rodin, & a complete bronze casting studio/foundry. What he brought to his island was the exacting technical skills of a foundryman, & a desire to live a simpler life with his family. On his isolated island he generated his own electricity, caught his water in cisterns, & built a crude foundry from scavenged shipwrecks. His sculpture uses allegory, metaphor, & remarkable insight to expose the contradictions of our nature, & to unite us in hope. This book is a photographic journal of the final commission of his long career & a tribute to his sailing skills. He died in 1992, a legend in his adopted Bahamas. His life & work deserve a wider audience & a place in art history. The book will appeal to the academic, the artist & the adventurer. The first edition is limited to 1000, numbered & signed copies. Archival paper, duotone photographs, image varnished & Smythe sewn.Dahlgren, Emily is the author of 'Randolph Wardell Johnston : Feel Intensely, Imagine Vividly, Control Precisely', published 1993 under ISBN 9780963824400 and ISBN 0963824406.