West Richland, WA Author Publishes New Book

Thomas Nast – The Artist in Color, a new book by Christine Hayes, has been released by RoseDog Books.

The personal life and history of Thomas Nast has been a mystery, overshadowed by the plethora of works about his career as the Father of American Caricature.

Christine Hayes goes where no other has ventured-into Mr. Nast's family history, dating back to eighteenth-century Germany, investigating skeletons in the family closet (He owned a real skeleton that he would pose for his many sketches containing the figure!) and bringing to life some of his 3,000 images through color.

With nineteen full-page color family portraits, ten full-page color images of the Civil War and artwork, and eleven full-page color political images that mirror our present-day social and economic woes, this book is a memorial tribute to the honor and brilliant imagination of a remarkable man.

Was Thomas Nast a clairvoyant, as some historical articles asked, whose sketches 150 years ago depicted America's political, social, and economic upheaval we find ourselves in today? Readers must draw their own conclusions.

About the Author

Christine Hayes fell in love with the artwork of Thomas Nast in 2006 and has since restored over sixty of his sketches and portraits, bringing them to life in color, including forty select images in this book. While researching the artist, she has undertaken the task of bringing to light anecdotal and unrevealed facts about the artist, his family, and the life history that formed his political views. It is a story worth telling about a life worth living, the incomparable truth and integrity of an incorruptible man.

Hayes is an amateur artist, a prolific writer, a political junkie and a family history buff. Put these attributes together with an intense interest in the man that was Thomas Nast, and we have a book worth reading.

Thomas Nast – The Artist in Color is an 82-page hardback with a retail price of $37.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-8664-1. It was published by RoseDog Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.rosedog.com/pressroom or our online bookstore at www.rosedogbookstore.com.