Rare 1939 WPA Federal Music Project, Marian Hannah Winter, ART SCORES FOR MUSIC For Sale

Marian Hannah Winter, Art Scores for Music: Historic Scores for Cabaret and Concert Hall Music with Pictorial Decorations by Old and Modern Masters.
Exhibition catalog for an important show held at the Brooklyn Museum in cooperation with the United States Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Music Project of New York City.
1939, first edition, softcover, exhibition catalog. 51 pages, with 12 black and white illustrations.
Provenance: from the personal collection of music publisher Leonard Feist, with his signature in black ink to the inside of the front wrap. Feist became known for his work in Washington, D.C as an advocate on behalf of the music publishing industry. He was the son of Leopold Feist, the Tin Pan Alley publishing pioneer.In very good condition, clean contents, sound binding. Very light fading to the wraps; one small area with an abrasion at the lower left corner of the front wrap.
A rare book, important as a WPA and FMP piece and also for its scholarship and originality. Winter covered the periods from the 1500s up to the modern age - with the last illustration showing Eugene Berman's surrealist decoration for a piano score by Paul Bowles, the Beat-adjacent author of The Sheltering Sky.