Rood, Ogden Nicholas (1831-1902) Original Sketchbook, 1860s.

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Rood, Ogden Nicholas (1831-1902) Original Sketchbook, 1860s. Dissected sketchbook consisting of approximately 160 gouache, watercolor, pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, taken apart and placed into sleeve protectors, now held in a three-ring binder, sketches mounted on the original album pages, sizes vary.

N.B. Rood was a graduate of Princeton College, and held his graduate degree from Yale. He taught chemistry at the university level and was chair of physics at Columbia for thirty-eight years. An amateur artist, Rood is most famous for his work on color theory, which culminated in a series of important work on optics, color, and chromatics, including the work, Modern Chromatics. He corresponded and collaborated with Albert H. Munsell, author of Color Notation and The Color Atlas.
Estimate $400-600


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