art monograph

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages with full colored plate illustrations, as well as black and white illustrations and photos. Remainder spray on bottom edge. Bound in blue cloth. Tightly bound, clean copy. Dust jacket shows a little bit of wear on corners, protected by a mylar cover.The first complete biography of a major American artist who devoted both his life & his immense talents to the realistic portrayal of the frontier West." Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 - 1939) was a painter of the Old American West, and he popularized a style of painting cowboys which became known as "The Johnson Moonlight Technique".

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. VG/VG printed mylar jacket, some foxing to top and edge of text block, else a clean solid copy of the first edition, with no later printings indicated. Book design by Robert Motherwell. Illustrated cloth boards with clear plastic DJ with minor soil, 272 pages, 53 color and 152 BW plates, one fold-out. Mostly plates by American artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), with some interspersed text by Barbara Rose; also includes a biographical outline and selected bibliography. A fairly comprehensive collection of her work from 1951-1969. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. Antwerp/Paris, Fonds Mercador/Alpin Michel, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Slipcased. Text in Dutch. Original illustrated dustjacket over white quarter paper and black cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on spine and initials on cover. Black illustrated endpapers. Two frontispieces, a Masereel woodcut and 1923 self-portrait woodcut. Sound monograph profusely illustrated with 284 mostly b/w Masereel woodcuts and drawings, two fold-outs and 7 color plates. Includes indices with Masereel's published artwork, partly with b/w thumbnail reproductions and list of illustrations.

Hardcover. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 319 pages. Text by David Campany, Jeff Wall, Hans-Michael Koetzle. Text in English and German. Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of color in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, and only in the past decade has technology allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional color and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the New Color photographers of the seventies. This book brings together over 230 images, many never before reproduced, and will feature essays by acclaimed authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle. Small bunp tp top of front board otherwise very good, clean copy.

Softcover. US, Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, 1st, 1992-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Louisville KY, Butler Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with wraparound title band. The book measures 13.25x10 inches and has 327 glossy, color and black and white pages. Frederick Hart (1943-1999) was surely among the most profoundly talented sculptors to live in our times. For his work on the Vietnam Memorial, the National Cathedral, and for his careful crafting of scores of more intimate pieces, Hart touched the human soul even as he dazzled the human mind. Art gallery sticker on front fly leaf otherwise clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Snow Lion Graphics, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Color pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers. A volume of the art work of Stanley Mouse, creator of numerous posters for rock venues in the 60's and other counter culture works, as new, full color illustrations.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 2nd Printing, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 125 full color plates. A rare insight into the mind of the greatest painter of our time. Usually reluctant to speak about his work, Freud has agreed to enter into a conversation on painting with writer Sebastian Smee. Photographs taken by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson.

Hardcover. D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers,Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. The first 38 pages of this oversized book are devoted to a biography of Frida Kahlo's life and a discussion of some of her most famous paintings. Several vintage color and black & white photos are also included in this section. The remaining pages of this book are the plates...large full page images of her paintings reproduced in full color and detail. Each painting is titled and dated, the medium used and the current whereabouts of the original piece.

Hardcover. NY, Independent Curators Incorporated, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Board covers with a red label on front. Non-paginated, ca 50 pages. B&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear and rubbing, laminate is coming off the paper of the dust jacket. Moderately soiled. Cover boards are clean, internally clean and tight. There are 4 color plates tipped in; Black and white illustrations throughout.

Softcover. US, PIE International, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Most of text in English and Japanese with portions in Japanese only. 256 pp. ; 200 color illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 181 pages with 177 illustrations, including 50 plates in full color. Oblong folio. With an introduction by Thomas Hart Benton. Focuses on the life and art of the great American artist, George Caleb Bingham. Green cloth with silver lettering to spine and decoration in silver on front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with minor rubbing to lower edge of front cover. Beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two hardcover volumes. 339 pages+ plates, 238 pages. 197 illustrations in b&w and color throughout. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spines. Small sealed up tears to front cover of Evolution of an Artist, small chip missing from back dust jacket cover of Catalogue Raisonne. Price clipped. Clean and tight set.

Hardcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. George III enjoyed one of the longest reigns in English history (1760-1820) at a time when both England and the world were undergoing drastic changes. Yet he remains a dim figure, remembered mainly for his failures (losing America) and his "madness" (which turns out to have been not mental but physical). He was highly unpopular for much of his reign, and this judgment is spectacularly endorsed by hundreds of contemporary caricatures, many reproduced here for the first time. Among George's enemies were some of the wittiest artists of any age, and few took the trouble to be fair. This was the way the English nation saw its king, adding a new dimension to what is ultimately a tragic story. 200 color illustrations.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first book about the artist's two Italian sojourns (1851-52 and 1870-74) and their formative impact on his work. Italy--its art and its landscape--offered Inness a font of inspiration as he developed his unique artistic vision. This handsome book presents ten oil paintings surveying Inness's Italian subjects dating from 1850 to 1879, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art's recently restored Twilight on the Campagna, which has not been on view since 1952. This was the first of Inness's works completed in Italy, and its reemergence offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the career of a leading American artist.

Hardcover. Houston, Rice University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by George Krause. Clean, bright copy. For the past 45 years, George Krause has worked on four distinct series of photographs, each represented in this volume. "The Street" is an oblique journal of places, including Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Philadelphia, where the artist has lived and worked. The objects photographed in "Qui Riposa" are tombstones and cemetery monuments; in "Saints and Martyrs," religious statuary; and in "I Nudi," naked human models. From these common objects arise pictures of great beauty and mystery.

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume of the definitive work of George Segal. Softcover, 128 pages, 118 b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, shows some rubbing on cover. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Discusses the full range of Segal's work. Includes photographs of the artist at work. Topics include early cast sculpture, fragments and painted plasters, public commissions, and more. George Segal (1924-2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 520 pages. New Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, in the mid-1960s. Not only did his career undergo a meteoric rise, but his work proved at once controversial and provocative, nuanced and groundbreaking. Critics and collectors embraced his bold images, describing them as sexual, sensual, exploitative, erotic, iconoclastic, and innovative. Beneath the surface, Dureau was even more complex as a person and persona, as he crafted a sensational character out of his artistic acumen. His reputation dimmed after his death, but in recent years his importance, and that of the New Orleans art scene he occupied, has once again been recognized. This lush publication features 100 large-format photographic plates, most of which have never been seen or published and surprisingly some in color. There are more than 200 illustrations and two essays to accompany the plates, along with a special section devoted to the artists and artwork of 1980s New Orleans, featuring hundreds of additional photographs, and several appendices of supplementary materials, such as interview transcripts, a timeline of Dureau's life and career, a map of important locations, and a section on relevant art publications, invitations, and posters. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. US, Rizzoli, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, illustrated throughout with 235 illustrations, including 150 in full color. Faint soil to fore edge. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear on front end paper.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gold endpapers. Profusely illustrated with numerous full-color plates (many full-page) as well as B&W illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, October 1996 to May 1997. Includes essays by Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Gail Feigenbaum, Patricia Behre Miskimin, Edmund P. Pillsbury, and Leonard J. Slatkes; and also technical essays by Claire Barry, Barbara Berrie, Melanie Gifford, and Michael Palmer. Also includes Bibliography and detailed Index. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in pristine condition.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 450 pages w/ bibliography & index; 352 illustrations, 244 in full color. Exhibition was at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris in 1991 before going to the Metropolitan Museum in NY in 1991 and early 1992. In this exhibition such masterpieces as Parade de cirque, Cirque, and Jeune femme se poudrant and an extraordinary group of seascapes testify to Seurat's pictorial ambitions. His splendid drawings in conte crayon place him, with Ingres, among the greatest draughtsmen of the nineteenth century. These sheets and the beautiful series of small paintings on wood- his croquetons (little sketches)- give a more intimate view of Seurat. A large number of works are exhibited together for the first time, Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. B&w illustrations. White cloth. beautiful pictorial dust jacket. A lovely copy without tears and bumps. Looks almost brand new.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 226 pages 66 b&w illustrations and 82 plates in full color. White cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.