Art

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 288 pages. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This book assembles key works by leading artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin, and artists less familiar to audiences in the United States including Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Albert Paris GA 1/4 tersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Franz Sedlacek, Josef Scharl, and Rudolf Wacker, who will each be represented by small groups of significant works. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, A collection of b&w cartoons by Lou Myers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Tahiti, Pacific Comics Club, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover volumes that cover the Rip Kirby comic strip for a full year, Dec. 5 1949 through Dec. 23 1950. Color wraps, daily strips in b&w. Titles: "White Inferno", "Gunpowder Dreams", "Buried Treasure", "The Missing Nightingale." Clean copies.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Explores O'Keeffe's unmatched accomplishments in still-life painting in two essays accompanied by reproductions of her work and photographs of her studios.

1937, Book: Very Good, Color art of domineering washerwoman by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small label. 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. MD, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks to front upper edge and spine). 173 pp., 120 illustrations (33 in color), bibliographical references. Exhibition September 1-October 6, 1976, and at four subsequent venues.

Hardcover. New York, The Vendome Press, Reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover. Purple covers with gilt titles to black cloth spine, gilt vase design to cover. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked pages throughout. Glass from the turn of the 19th - 20th century; the "Belle Epoque" era. Features many glass artists, including Philippe-Joseph Brocard, Auguste Jean, Ernest-Baptiste Leveille, Emile Galle, Les Freres Daum, Henri Cros, Albert Dammouse, Francois Decorchemont, and several others.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 3rd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers. 558 pages, 240 b/w + 20 color plates. In this engrossing book, an eminent art historian surveys the ways that historians have made use of visual sources--sculptures, paintings, coins, and other relics--in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. Francis Haskell examines the specific objects that were used and discusses a wide range of historians - from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to later writers such as Michelet, Burckhardt, and Huizinga who made inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Watson-Guptil Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages with 32 full-page color plates. Includes chronology, bibliography, and index. Biography illustrated in black and white followed by full color plates on right side with author's descriptions on left. Painting on dust jacket. Overall a clean, tight, copy, dust jacket shows slight bit of wear around edges.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, b&w cartoons by Price, most from The New Yorker. Dust jacket bright but with a small chunk gone from bottom of front panel and some light chipping.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder mark on bottom edge, light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. A lively non-fiction account of an art dealer's long quest to own an original painting by Andy Warhol. An illuminating view of the inner workings of the art world and the interplay of artists, collectors, galleries, auction houses, etc.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributions by David B. returns with his second long story for Mome, the 30-page "Veiled Prophet"; R. Kikuo Johnson delivers a four-page biography of pioneering wildlife artist John James Audubon; Jeffrey Brown asks, "What Were They Thinking?"; Martin Cendreda traces a lifetime of regret in "La Brea Woman"; Sophie Crumb tells a true story of young love and heroin addiction in "Melanie & Billy"; Jonathan Bennett, the subject of this issue's feature interview, explores the concept of memory in "I Remember Crowning"; Paul Hornschemeier (Mother, Come Home) returns with "Life With Mr. Dangerous"; plus more all-new stories from Gabrielle Bell, Anders Nilsen, David Heatley, John Pham, and Kurt Wolfgang.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 208 pages illustrated in color. A surprising look at who designed for Disney: Michael Graves, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi etc. Based on interviews with those involved plus original photos and drawings. From fairy-tale castles to extraordinary buildings designed by the world's most distinguished architects, The Walt Disney Company has set new standards for the imaginative use of popular imagery in architecture. The company's enormously influential architectural philosophy, first expressed more than fifty years ago at Disneyland, draws on characters and settings from the world's most compelling legends and stories, especially Disney's own remarkable animated films. Clean copy.

Softcover. Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color illustrated wrappers. Black and white, color plates. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 235 pages, 251 illustrations with 56 plates in full color. Includes selected bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. Tokyo, Shinbaku Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, illustrated in color. The modern era of underground doll-making in Japan began in the late 1960s, with the experiments of Simon Yotsuya and Nori Doi. Directly inspired by the Surrealist Doll constructed by Hans Bellmer in 1932, Simon Yotsuya created a series of ball-jointed, life-sized dolls which featured in his ground-breaking "Eve In The Past And The Future" exhibition in Tokyo, in 1973. Simon Yotsuya's work inspired a new wave of avant-garde Japanese doll-making, headed by artists such as Ryo Yoshida and Katan Amano, which has continued to flourish to the present day. SECRET DOLLeEUR^UNDERGROUND, presented by Yuichi Konno, features dolls by fifteen artists, from Simon Yotsuya onwards, with over 80 full-sized colour photographs never before published outside Japan. It also includes Konno's introductory history of the underground doll in Japan.

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. New York , Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, color illustrations. At the forefront of American advertising's creative revolution in the 1960s, George Lois was hand-picked by magazine editor Harold Hayes to visually convey that Esquire--a proponent of that era's New Journalism--was on the cutting edge of American culture. In 2008, New York City's Museum of Modern Art acquired a wide range of George Lois's groundbreaking, often controversial Esquire covers for its permanent collection. This fascinating catalogue presents the original exhibit, with additional covers and images from Lois's private collection, including photos of the designer at work and out-takes of the shoot that resulted in Andy Warhol "drowning" in one of his own tomato soup cans. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassai to Picasso's chateau in Normandy, Boisgeloup, where he would take his iconic photographs of the celebrated plaster busts of Marie-Therese, Picasso's mistress and muse. Picasso was contributing to Andre Breton's Minotaur magazine and he was also spending more time with the likes of Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Lee Miller, and the poet Paul Eluard, in Paris as well as in the south of France. It was during this time that Picasso began writing surrealist poetry and became obsessed with the image of himself as the mythic Minotaur--head of a bull, body of a man--and created his most famous etching, Minotauromachie. Richardson shows us the artist is as prolific as ever, painting Marie-Therese, but also painting the surrealist photographer Dora Maar who has become a muse, a collaborator and more. In April 1937, the bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War inspires Picasso's vast masterwork of the same name, which he paints in just a few weeks for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair. When the Nazis occupy Paris in 1940, Picasso chooses to remain in the city despite the threat that his art would be confiscated. In 1943, Picasso meets Francoise Gilot who would replace Dora, and as Richardson writes, "rejuvenate his psyche, reawaken his imagery and inspire a brilliant sequence of paintings." As always, Richardson tells Picasso's story through his work during this period, analyzing how it shows what the artist was feeling and thinking. His fascinating and accessible narrative immerses us in one of the most exciting moments in twentieth century cultural history, and brings to a close the definitive and critically acclaimed account of one of the world's most celebrated artists.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. To many, Andres Serrano is the man responsible for "Piss Christ" and a national debate over government funding of controversial art. For those who look deeper, he's a highly-accomplished, ever-evolving photographic artist. This collection reveals three years of work that produced over 100 portraits of cultural diversity in America, as filtered through the critical lens of one of America's most mythologized contemporary artists.

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st pbk., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 221 pages with b&w illustrations. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. A title in the series 'The Documents of 20th Century Art'. Essays, written between 1920 and 1953, by Fernand Leger, an influential, modern painter, on the purpose of art in modern life. Translated by Alexandra Anderson; Edited by Edward F. Fry; Preface by George L. K. Morris.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in red. A bright clean copy of this annual collection. B&w cartoons by various artists from the top magazines of the day. Still funny. Lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages. A collection of comic books starring Barry Allen, a medical police scientist transformed into a dynamic superhero known as the Flash. Stories date from 1956 to 1961.

Meadville PA, Hookless Fastener Co., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Where social judgments are swift...", color art by Leslie Saalburg. 11 1/2 X 13 1/2", 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. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color, black and white pictures throughout. Features excerpts from graphic novels, newspapers, webcomics, and other sources and features work by up-and-coming contributors as well as such established artists as Joe Sacco, Jeff Smith, and Dash Shaw. Last 16 pages have a light tan stain (coffee or tea?) along bottom edge, about 1/4'' at worst down to just a sliver. Otherwise clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. London, MQ Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. "Aline Kominsky Crumb was one of the pioneers of women's comics, a genre that emerged in California in the sixties & seventies. She became well known during that period for her autobiographical work, influencing many comic book artists after her. Need More Love draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. Need More Love is a unique blend of comics, art, photographs & memorabilia, & portrays the movers & shakers (and the jerks) of the art & music worlds from the sixties to the present. Aline promises the reader: "I am packing this book with sordid details from my real life. I don't have to make up anything! You'll get fabulous adventures, sex, humor and advice on behavior, lifestyle & aesthetic judgment."

1938, Color art of two boys camping out under the stars by Douglas Crockwell. 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. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, color cartoons on end papers, b&w cartoons from The New Yorker, a great collection of Arno's work from the mid-sixties. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, inc, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages. color illustrations throughout. This VERY LARGE volume gives insight into the world of a realist, who's paintings have fascinated, and often shocked the public for more than fifty years. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Near fine copy, small tear to dust jacket otherwise as good as new. The first book devoted to the life and work of American painter Ivan Albright. Foreword by Jean Dubuffet. 173 plates, 83 of which are in color.

1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Portrait of blonde with bob cut. art by McClelland Barclay. 10 1/2 X 13 1/2", 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. Mesquite TX, Vanguard Productions, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. This book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself. For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.

Hardcover. Burbank, CA, DC Comics, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 218 pages, color comics. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Includes an illustrated essay by comics historian R.C. Harvey.

1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pittsburgh steel mills at night, art by John Atherton. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", very good. Mailing label. 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.

1918, Book: Very Good, Color art of mother pinpointing where Daddy is during WW1 by Coles Phillips. 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. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Over 200 duotone images throughout. Tight copy. Born in Cork, Ireland, Frank Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera. Browne quickly discovered a strong affinity for photography, and continued to take photographs throughout his life. It was not until 1985, however-when Father Edward O'Donnell SJ discovered a large trunk in the Irish Jesuit Provincial's House and found it packed with negatives and photographs-that Browne was catapulted to international fame. Father Browne's remarkable life is recorded in the superb selection of images presented in this book. With wit and a sharp eye, he observed 20th-century Ireland; life as a Jesuit priest; his experience as a passenger on the first leg of the voyage of the Titanic in 1912; and his later travels throughout Europe, Egypt, Yemen, Ceylon, and Australia. This handsome, copiously illustrated volume offers a complete survey of the photographic work of an exceptional man.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, hundreds of b&w cartoons from the magazine's golden age. Tan cloth spine with blue boards. No lettering on spine. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Calvaryman aiming his rifle laying on ground. Two-color art by Edward Penfield. 10 1/2 X 13", light spotting to edges, not affecting art, otherwise 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. Chicago, Volland Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, unpaginated, but roughly 60 pages of 2-color cartoons from the noted artist and satirist. Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. In publisher's illustrated box, worn and splitting at corners. Light foxing to cover boards, interior pages clean and bright.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy. One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America's most original painters.

Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Introduction and Translation by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top of spine, some additional lesser chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 128 pages, comprised of sixteen "graphic biographies" of luminaries of comics and illustration. Beautifully illustrated by artists like Mark Alan Stamaty, Peter Kuper, Drew Friedman, Arnold Roth and others.

Softcover. Paris FR, Paris-Musees, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible cloth covers, profusely illustrated, 463 pages, FRENCH TEXT. "This well-illustrated catalogue provides a fine review of the early years of the German Expressionist movement through a presentation of some 400 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures by members of the Brucke in Dresden (Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff and Nolde) , the Blaue Reiter artists in Munich (Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee, Macke, Marc, Munter and Werefkin) and Berlin painter Ludwig Meidner. Sixteen wide-ranging essays are supplemented by detailed entries for most of the exhibited works, a selection of texts and letters by the featured artists, and a chronology of important cultural and political events in Dresden, Munich and Berlin from 1905 to 1914." Clean copy.

1930, Book: Very Good, Color painting of locomotive passing over bridge by Maynard Dixon. 9 X 12" 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.

Softcover. Rochester NY, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, paperback. Fictions and the fictions of theory from acclaimed theorist of film. With a foreword by Annette Michelson. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light bumping to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpapers. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages. One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments. Juan Munoz illustrates in full color approximately sixty works, including sculptures, drawings, and several major installations, which were included in a major exhibition presented by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Institute of Chicago in October 2001.

Softcover. Toronto , Dragon Lady Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with staple binding. 59 pages of b&w Buz Sawyer strips ( A $100,000 Reward and The Crystal Mountain 12/22/46-7/15/47). Clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial pastedown on paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine. 100 b&w editorial cartoons reprinted from The New York Herald. Rogers was one of the country's top illustrators and a star in the Harper stable of artists. INSCRIBED BY ROGERS on the front fly leaf with a sketch of a boot kicking two Hun-like jackals. Light edgewear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of his time. This fresh assessment of the artist focuses on the role of drawing in his creative process and showcases Fragonard's mastery and experimentation with drawing in a range of media, from vivid red chalk to luminous brown wash, as well as etching, watercolor, and gouache. Unlike many old master painters, Fragonard explored the potential of drawings as works of art in their own right, ones that permitted him to work with great freedom and allowed his genius to shine. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 148 pages. Esther Heins' watercolors of leaves and flowers organized by month of bloom, crisp interior. A full color botanical drawing left-hand page is dedicated to each species. On the right page is explanatory text. Free of any markings, not ex-library. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST HEINS on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.