Wall, Bernhardt. CELEBRITIES SKETCHED FROM LIFE: AN ALBUM CONTAINING 20 ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY BERNHARDT WALL, circa 1900-1919. Folio - 14-3/4" x 11-1/4". Black cloth backed paper covered boards bound by Wall, with paper label to front cover with manuscript titles signed by Wall; boards with stains and wear. [20] pp. This is a superb album of original artwork, eighteen pencil sketches, one color pastel drawing and one watercolor painting, many of which were the basis of Wall's later etchings. The subjects are: Marshal Joffre, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan, Seth Low, H. W. Ranger, Charles S. Whitman, David Bennett Hill, Col. Ardolph L. Kline, Samuel Gompers, Ilya Tolstoi, F. Hopkinson Smith, J. J. Pastoriza, Josephus Daniels, Fannie Brice, W. R. Nelson, Frank Bacon, George R. Boynton and Rigo Jansci; each sketch is titles on the mount in Wall's hand, and most have brief notes as to date and place of sketching, with some containing additional details. A good example of the additional details added by Wall can be found on the mount of his sketch of Woodrow Wilson: "Woodrow Wilson / Governor N.J. / Summer 1912 / Addressing Spanish War / Veterans / At National Encampment / Atlantic City. He said he never had been a soldier, but could assure us he was a fighter any how - in the cause of righteousness. This was the prime inspiration for the plate 'Commander in Chief' made on our entry into the war - to which he took exception - on account of its military uniform. I suppressed the plate, after making twenty prints. BW;" mounts age-tanned and largely disbound. The condition of the album is VERY GOOD. The condition of the sketches are mainly NEAR FINE or FINE. UNIQUE #001034