art engravings

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.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 106 bw repros. Essay by John Wilmerding. Catalog, prepared by Elaine Evans Dee, lists 106 works. Includes Drawings, Oils, Etching and Wood Engraving. The vast majority of these drawings were found in Homer's studio after his death and given to the Cooper-Hewitt.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, reprint, undated/c1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. History of the art of engraving within a European context. Undated, published c1880. Illustrated with 34 black/white reproductions of engravings. Good condition; pages have gilt edges, cloth bound book has some wear to the edges and introductory pages lightly spotted from age.

Softcover. Waltham MA, Brandeis University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. Written and illustrated by master wood engraver Barry Moser, this primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with valuable knowledge including how to prepare a printing block; how to think in the mediums properties of line, shape, and ink; and how to transfer a drawing onto a block. It also offers practical advice on which tools to use for a project and which ink works best. A highly illustrated guide to this art form, Wood Engraving will be useful to experienced and beginner engravers alike. This book features stunning examples of Mosers art and skill to admire and inspire. "This primer on the art of wood engraving is filled with knowledge and instructions including how to prepare a printing block, how to think in the medium's properties of line, shape, and ink, and how to transfer a drawing onto a block". Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, The Studio Ltd., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with white stamping. 192 pages, 150 beautiful b&w woodcuts from the era. Review slip laid in, former copy of American illustrator Aldren Watson with his stamp on half-title page. Minor fraying to top of cloth spine.Otherwise a tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Bounty Books, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 204 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Yellow cloth with gilt title to spine, light wear to edges and small stain to upper corner of front cover. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with slight wear to edges and upper edge of spine torn and chipped. Overall a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages, illustrated with many b&w line engravings by various artists. Light tan cloth covers with bright gilt and dark brown design. Copyright page states 1888, so assumed a reprint. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Perry Mason & Co., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600+ pages. This is a children's periodical, all issues for the year 1899, bound together in black-cloth, gilt, edgeworn boards. Many b&w engravings. Large format, 11.5x16". Total of 50 issues or around 12-16 pages each. A treasure trove of old advertising and graphic images from that era. Perfect for a graphic artist, or collector, interested in Victoriana.