The Book of A Hundred Hands

In this book, Mr. Bridgman has appreciated what others have felt – the human hand’s great capacity for expression and the care the artist must take to realize it. The hand changes with the age of the person, is shaped differently according to sex, reflects the type of work to which it is put, the physical health and even the emotion of the person. To represent these distinguishing features, to capture the expressiveness of a particular pair of hands, the artist must understand the construction, anatomy, formation and function of the hand.

There is probably no better instructor to turn to for this understanding than Mr. Bridgman, a well respected artist who for nearly 50 years lectured and taught at the Art Student League of New York. In this volume, a full text is accompanied by many illustrations depicting the human hand, virtually every aspect and posture of it, for the reader.