Art

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Numbers 1-6, all reproduced in full color. Very good.

Softcover. Art Gallery of Ontario, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 72 pages, exhibition catalog. Essay by Jay Clarke. Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) was a leading 20th century German artist. Kollwitz's art was rooted in socialism and naturalism, and focused on the lives of the common people, usually working class women. Through her involvement in the sufferings of the poor in the slums of Berlin, her exposure to the horrors of two world wars, and the experience of living through several personal tragedies, she came to see herself as the "voice of suffering" and "an advocate" for the people. Among her preferred themes were motherhood, sacrifice, separation, oppression and death. She also created many moving self-portraits. Includes 45 reproductions (15 colour, and 30 b&w). Contents of the catalogue include: a brief history of the Stuttgart Kollwitz collection by the former curator Dr. Gunther Thiem.

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in dust jacket. 195 full color and 7 black & white illustrations throughout. Tight copy. In this sumptuous new book, leading figures in the world of fashion- Giorgio Armani, Marc Bohan, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, Miuccia Prada, Zandra Rhodes, Emanuel Ungaro, Gianni Versace, and Viktor & Rolf-are profiled, together with illustrations of their costume designs. Helena Matheopoulos's interviews with many of the designers illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a demanding new medium.Costume designs for many well-loved operas-including Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Aida, Thai?s, Agrippina, Cosi` fan tutte, Attila, and The Magic Flute-are featured. The opera houses commissioning the costume designs include La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the The'a^tre Royal de la Monnaie, the Are`nes de Ni^mes, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and the San Diego Opera, among many others. Hundreds of color illustrations include original designers' sketches, photographs of the finished costumes, and images of the actual productions, many of which feature breathtaking stage sets as well. 195 full-color and 7 black-and-white illustrations

Softcover. New York, Hudson Hills, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, color and b&w photographs. Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the contemporary Navajo artist and her weaving of Chant Rugs; a majority of the 83 textiles (shown in color plates) that have been selected are a well-balanced demonstration of the very finest weaving skills of any period in Navajo history.

Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 236 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of Modernist painting. Her shaped and constructed canvases, often topologically modeled in three dimensions or fitted together out of multiple jigsaw-like parts, treat figure and ground in unprecedented ways, giving the elastic shapes of classic Surrealism a space in their own image. The alternatively comfortable and cataclysmic world that her images depict would crack irrevocably if it followed Euclidean logic; instead; it constantly metamorphoses under stress. With a chaptered essay by Robert Storr, plate section, and in-depth interview, the book explores Murray's relation to artists such as Joan Miro, Stuart Davis, Claes Oldenburg and Frank Stella, as well as to the mainstream and opened up options for rising generations. This book accompanies the most detailed examination of Murray's art yet mounted, showing its development from Pop-oriented reliefs in the 1960s to the extraordinary volumetric of her recent work.

Hardcover. Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color photographs throughout. Tight copy. "State Fair" is filled with captivating images. Christopher Chadbourne takes you on a journey filled with interesting characters, vibrant colors, and memorable moments - all compiled from years of photographing the goings-on at this uniquely American institution. Chadbourne knows state fairs and has an uncanny ability to catch often peculiar scenarios as people mingle, eat, and participate in this once a year event.

Hardcover. NY, Blast Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 110 pages. Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins; Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks; Koo Koo the Birdgirl; and 45 more fascinating sideshow freaks both famous and obscure are immortalized in Drew Friedman's color portraits.

Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Yves Clerc, a French painter born in 1947, has ammassed a body of work of over 240 very large and colorful canvases. This publication presents about 100 of them, mostly dedicated to the interpretation of well-known portraits, but also to flowers in vases, "fashion accessories" such as handbags and shoes, nudes, stuffed animals, and adorned women with enormous gowns.

Hardcover. NY, Pivately Printed, 1st , 1908, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine and raised bands. 16 pages of text by W. Stanton Howard. 261 pages. Black & white plates. Card of author tipped on front end paper. Previous owner's name & stamp. Bright, sharp condition.

Softcover. Chicago IL, Playboy Press , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Some edge wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. More than 220 cartoons - 120 in full color.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. In the 1980s, London-based Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, born in 1958, worked as an assistant to filmmaker Derek Jarman, soon gaining a reputation for his own experimental shorts and his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark. Since the 1990s, Wyn Evans has also been creating installations, often inspired by cinema history or literature, that incorporate elements like philosophical texts, mirrors, neon lights, fireworks, plants and Morse code to form a constellation of meanings that unravel into myriad poetic associations. Evans' desire to animate knowledge and reconceive the materials of the past make him analogous to Marcel Broodthaers, his erstwhile mentor Derek Jarman or even William Blake. This publication includes essays that delve into the artist's use of language and his experiments with time and perception. On the subject of Evans' purposeful inscrutability, critic Jens Asthoff has written, "Evans wants to go beyond that which we describe as understanding, to reach the untranslatable elements hidden in all experience. 'I hate the idea of being accessible,' he says." This volume includes nearly 200 images of the artist's installations, films, wall texts and sound works.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, over 40 b&w full page cartoons, cloth-bound cover, acetate-protected dust jacket. Wear and fading to edges and corners of dust jacket, price-clipped, discoloration to endpages, foxing on cloth cover; still, a neat and tight copy overall. Paul Webb"s hillbilly cartoons were a popular feature in Esquire Magazine in the 30s and 40s.

Softcover. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 16 full-page color plates; many other illustrations. Short-lived mid-nineteenth-century Baltimore artist who painted interior and exterior scenes usually of two or more people in some sort of exchange. Critics praise his composition and use of color.

Softcover. New York, NY, National Academy of Design, 1st, 1985?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 95 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Introduction By Annette Blaugrund. Red pictorial cover with wear to spine and slight soiling to covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Munchen GR, Anton Schroll, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 385 pages, b&w plates throughout. Clean copy with a very good dust jacket with minor edge wear. GERMAN TEXT.

Hardcover. Liverpool UK , Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations and photographs throughout. Includes extensive documentation and notes. Some edge wear to fore edge, Slight fray to raised bands, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. This book was published to go along with an exhibition of Dow's work that showcased the work of a leading figure in the development of American modernism.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages. Henry Frick, remembered by art lovers today for his splendid collection of old-master paintings by Rembrandt, Bellini, and others that make up New York's Frick Museum, was one of the 19th century's worst robber barons. Brutal with workers, he never hesitated to hire mercenary armies to kill railway and mine strikers. Frick's was such a bloody and vicious climb to a pot of gold that his descendents have been understandably reluctant to allow historians full access to his papers. Finally, his great-granddaughter, Martha Sanger, a noted steeplechase and hunting enthusiast, decided to write about the life of her ancestor, and was allowed full use of the archives.Sanger's publisher, Abbeville, has done her proud with a luxuriously produced volume in which Sanger offers many theories about why Frick bought certain works of art. And although art historians may dismiss her black-and-white analyses of a collector's motivations--based, as she admits, on her own years in psychoanalysis--they at least reflect how Frick's own family saw him. Among the reproductions are famous pictures by Goya, Greco, and Gainsborough, but also many others rarely reproduced, perhaps because they are typically bad-taste 19th-century art, showing that even Frick bought some duds. Whether or not he acquired paintings, as Sanger asserts, because they reminded him of a daughter who died in early childhood, Frick was still a major historical figure, and his life needs this kind of voluminous treatment in order to complement harsher portraits by professional historians like Samuel Schreiner, who subtitled his own 1995 book from St. Martins Press The Gospel of Greed.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 168 pages. 84 black and white photos. Edited by: Sharon Helgason Gallagher. "Lee Friedlander`s exploration of one of photography`s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside lamps, potted plants and sofa fabrics to play off against the angular poses of the models and the emphatic framing of the overall composition. "

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. Black & white illustrations by Edward Koren. Red remainder mark on top edge at spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Barcelona, Spain, Syzygy, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with padded covers. Color pictures throughout of Fran Bull sculptures. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Graphic Novels, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Jason Little throughout. clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, blue cloth with white lettering in a worn and chipped dust jacket with fading in spots. 280 cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post. Artists include Hoff, Richter, Chon Day, Ted Key, many others. Book very good, clean. Dust jacket fair only.

Hardcover. NY/London, Titan Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Technical drawings of all the major ships and vehicles from the Alien movies, presented in incredible detail. Includes iconic spacecraft like the Nostromo, the Sulaco and the Covenant. Alien: The Blueprints is a collection of brand new blueprints of all the major vehicles, ships and technology of the Alien movie universe. Artist Graham Langridge delves deep into the concept art, set designs and photography to recreate full and accurate blueprints of the drop ship, the Sulaco, the Nostromo and many more. Covering all the movies including Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, this is a must-have for any Alien fan. The blueprints are big, clear, and superbly detailed, taking full advantage of the huge page size. They actually look like hard-copy technical readouts that would exist in-universe, complete with peripheral formatting and specifications. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs by Arthur Rothstein throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 549 pages. Tan cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, b&w illustrations, comprehensive reference work on Western American art. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Laurence King, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 428 pages. This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American post-war visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta. His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates, as well as an equally impressive series of film titles, ranging from Stanley Kubrick s Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese s Cape Fear and Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Jennifer Bass, Saul Bass's daughter and written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass personally, this book is full of images from the Bass archive, providing an in depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 illustrations (8 color plates), 232 pages. Dust jacket with front flap creases otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Cream cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, text and catalogue raisonne by Carol Clark, color frontispiece, 9 color plates, dozens of b&w plates. Very light wear to dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.

Softcover. Newport Beach CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, softcover exhibition catalog, illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Betty Turnbull. Clean, tight copy. David Park, an artist who fused representational figuration with abstract expressionism and was one of the creators of the Bay Area Figurative style is featured here in a career retrospective exhibition containing work from throughout his life.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This catalogue presents 59 masterful Italian drawings from the late 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven Goldman. In her essays, Jean Goldman assesses the collection within the context of Mannerism and the role of drawing in the business of art. She and Nicolas Schwed coauthor detailed entries on the works' attributions, subjects, and functions, complete with documentation including provenance, bibliography, exhibition history, and comparative illustrations. The catalogue presents the work of more than forty artists, some of whom, such as Giorgio Vasari and Pietro da Cortona, were major figures, and others who were virtually unknown. Together, these magnificent works trace the rise and evolution of Mannerism in Italy.

1914, Book: Very Good, Color art of Indian soldier on horseback by Edward Penfield. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in near fine condition (some discoloration to black laminated covers). 112 pages, b/w and color illustrations of fashion from 1907 to 1967. Annotated catalogue of an exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York held at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 169 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth edition. Top edge stained red. Illustrated with 126 black & white photographs and a few in color. Previous owners name embossed at top of rear interior dust jacket flap. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, minor smudges at upper left corner - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 123 pages. Illustrated throughout with wonderful black and white photographs, period advertisements, floorplans, houses, furniture, dinnerware and room designs. Small inscription on front fly leaf otherwise pages white and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, with photographs throughout by Martha Swope. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Greenwich, Ct., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth with gilt title to spine. Yellow pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges, slight soiling to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum/Stedelijk Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Oblong softcover with full color and black & white photographs. 406 illustrations. Texts by Alexander van Grevenstein and Jan Debbaut, in parallel English and Dutch. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 7th pr., 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated in b&w by Ronald Searle. Dust jacket with light soil, price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Calif., Chronicle Books, 1st, September 1, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Oversized. Blue cloth cover, embossed design, minor wear to edges and corners. Dust jackethas light edgewear, some small dents. Many color and b&w illustrations throughout. A bright and clean copy.That's the Way I See It offers a revealing look at one of our most popular artists. In this tour de force, over 350 reproductions of Hockney's paintings, graphic designs, and experimental work are closely interwoven with the artist's insightful and highly personal narrative. Accessible, articulate, and always ahead of their time, Hockney's compostions and reflections offer a fascinationg look at a uniquely talented artist.

Softcover. Stackpole Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 147 pages, color illustrations. Published during the war's centennial, this is the story of the First World War through forty propaganda posters. Essays explain each poster, unpacking the visual imagery and setting the poster within the military, political, social, and cultural history of the war. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributors include

Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, color illustrations throughout. 1932 saw the launch of Disney's second-ever original comic strip, the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies, and with it came the debut of Bucky Bug, a daring, rhyming, mischievous squirt whose escapades took him from brutal birds of prey to the terrifying trenches of the Great Flyburg War! With his brave lady friend June and bumpkin pal Bo, Bucky even travels to a mixed-up Mother Goose Land... where a not-so-merry Old King Cole has mayhem on his mind!In this Disney reprint collection, readers can follow all of Bucky's adventures and the Symphonies Sunday sagas that followed, which also includes Donald Duck's debut as the barnyard's spoilt brat in "The Wise Little Hen"... and further tales of golden age Silly Symphony cartoon stars: egotistical Max Hare, slow-but-sure Toby Tortoise, and that awful bandit Dirty Bill (who "never took a bath, and he never will!").

Softcover. Eugene, OR, University of Oregon Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. The cartoonist's first book is rich with his portrayal of people's foibles, goofs, and misinterpretations, as seen originally in the New Yorker, Playboy, and Punch. Introduction bu Whitney Balliett. Dust jacket with small tape repair, price-clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Pictorial boards with die-cut window and front mechanism very good. Still in publisher shrinkwrap. introduction by Adam Gopnik. Goldberg (1883 - 1970) was the most famous cartoonist of his time, best known for his comical inventions, which were syndicated in daily newspapers throughout the world. Author Jennifer George celebrates all aspects of her grandfather's career, from his very first published drawings in his high school newspaper and college yearbook to his iconic inventions, his comic strips and advertising work, and his later sculpture and Pulitzer Prize - winning political cartoons. Also included are essays by noted comics historians, rare photographs, letters, memorabilia, and patents, many reproduced here for the first time.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc.

Hardcover. Shambhala, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 174 pages, color plates. Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the Heart Sutra, one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher, scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.

Softcover. US, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sun-fade and edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Independent Spirits brings to vivid life the West as seen through the eyes of women painters from 1890 to the end of World War II. Expert scholars and curators identify long-lost talent and reveal how these women were formidable cultural innovators as well as agitators for the rights of artists and women during a period of extraordinary development.