Softcover. Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art Washington, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover. National Gallery of Art publications from exhibition laid in. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In beautiful condition. Wrapper bright and excellent. Pages clean, binding good. Catalogue to accompany exhibition held from February 7, 1991-May 9, 1982.
Hardcover. Manchester VT , Hudson Hills, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Text by numerous authors. 104 pages, over 100 color plates. 4to, cloth. Museum of Contemporary Art in association with New York, Hudson Hills Press. This book brings together works from Lichtenstein's "Interiors" series, most of which he painted in the last decade of his career. In addition to paintings, the book includes prints, sculptures, drawings, and some of the source materials Lichtenstein used to develop this imagery. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. Hanover, NH, New England University Press, 1st Revised , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Revised and enlarged from the 1st Edition of 1993 with 13 new illustrations. SIGNED BY SABRA FIELD on the half-title page.
Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 152 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Featuring many rare works and a large- scale, previously forgotten masterwork, this wide-ranging yet intimate book reintroduces readers to one of the most versatile and beloved artists of the post-war era. Romanian-born Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) had one of the most remarkable careers in American art. While renowned for the covers and drawings that appeared in The New Yorker for nearly six decades, he was equally acclaimed for the drawings, paintings, prints, collages, and sculptures he exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. Through these parallel yet integrated careers, he crafted a rich, playful and constantly evolving visual language. Known to the larger public as the creator of the iconic View of the World from 9th Avenue, Steinberg lamented being most famous as "the man who drew that poster." This beautiful volume goes a long way toward correcting that limited perception. It brings together more than eighty works in a variety of media: collage, drawings, objects, and photographs. It also features Steinberg's astonishing mural, Art Viewers, a gigantic assemblage that was shown on a single occasion in 1966. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. NY, Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 106 pages, color plates throughout. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on the title page. Japan, an island nation isolated until the mid-nineteenth century, opened its doors to foreign photographers in the 1860s. These photographers presented a visual cultural kaleidoscope of Japanese life to an eager outside world. The 160 photographs in this volume are curated from tourist albums and presented in the typical sequence. The modern reader will experience Meiji Japan in the way of a nineteenth century armchair traveler. While photographers in other countries were marketing sepia-toned prints, photographers in Japan took advantage of local artists and had their prints exquisitely painted. As with all hand-rendered artworks, quality varied; many photographs were executed so well as to challenge modern color photography. Photographers were limited by government restrictions and many scenes were set in studios rather than in real life. Despite the limitations, tourists visiting the country could purchase albums filled with colorful renditions of Japan's peoples and places. The carefully staged and approved photographs promoted an idealized and romanticized vision of Meiji Japan. Modernization and industrialization changed the country dramatically and the last vestiges of the disappearing feudal culture are captured by the camera. These intriguing photographs are beautiful multi-media artworks representing a vanished world. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Pond Ekberg, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Limited edition. #219/500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Blue cloth spine. blue paper boards, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Light wear around edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned with tape mark from old price-sticker. Bookplate. A nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages, oblong hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions, and still lives of incomparable delicacy. Whether painting a hunter setting out decoys, a wash of geese by moonlight, a watercolor of a companion poised to gaff a salmon, or an etching of a group of ducks silently gliding in for a landing, Benson conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman's life.
Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Brown cloth boards with gilt titles, in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 180 pages, 91 illustrations (6 in color), text by Dennis Longwell. Includes a catalog of the plates, an essay on Steichen's printing techniques, a selected bibliography and an index to the plates. Covers with mild soil, interior clean and bright. Related clippings laid in.
Hardcover. Huntington, NY, Black Oak Publishers, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 117 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Completes the cataloguing of Wengenroth's prints which began with "The Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth, 1931-1972", also by the Stuckeys. Cream cloth, light staining to upper edge. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket with light edge wear to back cover, otherwise a very nice, tight and well preserved copy.
Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, illustrated throughout with 52 plates, 10 in full color. Gray cloth, silver lettering to front and spine, Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 148 pages, b&w plates. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. During 1945 Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) photographed a young model named Norma Jean. His subsequent five-year working relationship with the woman who became Marilyn Monroe is the beginning of de Dienes's career in Hollywood. He photographed celebrities, and his documentary work took him from Muscle Beach in Venice to sharecroppers working the cotton fields of the deep South. But his first love in photography was the female nude, and in his lifetime he photographed and published thousands of these pictures. Selected from the archives of his estate are seventy-five of the finest images printed by the artist. Reproduced actual size these prints are a time capsule of half-century old interpretations of female beauty.
Softcover. Baltimore MD, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black illustrated wraps. 95 pages. Numerous b&w plates. Accompanying a loan exhibition from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, this catalogue includes an introduction by E. Maurice Bloch, prints by such artists as Albers, Altoon, Asawa, Celmins, Cremean, Diebenkorn, Frasconi, Townley and many more, as well as a bibliography. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, exhibition catalog includes intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by the artist.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Stabur Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. With the illustrated paper covered slipcase. The full-color jacket art by him was done expressly for this publication. Includes a checklist of his works: comic books, humor magazines, other magazines (Playboy, Esquire, etc), books, advertising, misc. prints, etc. All quotes in the book are from interviews conducted by the author.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Elephant Folios. 3/4 leather. Raised bands on spines. Titles in gilt. Designed by Stanford White, a.e.g. with marbled end papers. Set is 16 5/8 inches tall. Profusely illustrated with textual illustrations with fifty photogravures in color on heavy stock. There are also one hundred and twenty full-page typogravures in black and white. One plate with chipped edges - E. L. Weeks - "Three Beggars of Cordova". Rubbing to corner covers and along spines. Interiors clean and unmarked. Both volumes Very Good. Combined volumes weigh approximately 30 lbs - please contact us concerning shipping costs.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with 190 pages of Cruikshank's drawings. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket. the author's third art monograph, reproducing Cruikshank's illustrations of Dickens, Ainsworth, Sterne, Smollett, and others, with extensive commentary and context. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ The Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. In addition to being one of the preeminent American photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alfred Stieglitz was an avid collector of the works of other photographers. From 1894-1910, he collected over 650 prints from a variety of photographers. He donated 400 of these to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1939, and the balance was given in a bequest to the museum in 1949. Photographers included in the collection include Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Baron de Meyer, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Julia Margaret Cameron. This substantial volume was produced by Weston Naef, who was Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a black-and-white reproduction of all the photographs in the Stieglitz Collection, some full-page and many in smaller size. It also includes details about, and portraits and signatures of each of the painters. Small closed tears to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with yellow band, 248 pages. This beautiful book focuses on the distinctive and expressive power of Jackson Pollock's figurative paintings, drawings, and prints; a rarely studied aspect of his artistic career. Jackson Pollock's name has become synonymous with the abstract drip paintings that he famously created on the floor of his studio. Before these paintings, from the 1930s to the late 1940s, Pollock created figurative works, studying at one time under the painter Thomas Hart Benton and with the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Pollock took up figuration again after his famous drip paintings. This book starts with the early decades and also treats Pollock's re-adoption of the figuration after his renowned abstract paintings. The Figurative Pollock features 100 paintings and works on paper. From rolling landscapes to experiments in non-Western totemic painting to sketches and drawings fueled by Jungian analysis, the enormous range of Pollock's early and late work is presented here. Brimming with confidence and a sense of freedom, distinct yet so easily related to Pollock's most famous oeuvre, these works contribute to an understanding of how the artist found his voice.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 403 pages. Hardcover. 65 illustrations, 40 in full color. Price clipped dust jacket worn with tape repairs, fading - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. "An account of the life and death of an art, of the men who made it and of the lusty age in which they flourished. 65 illustrations, including 40 in full color." Index, glossary, bibliography, appendices, artist biographies, chronology. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard box housing twelve 11 x 14 inch color prints featuring illustrations from Joan Walsh Anglund's books, including Spring is a New Beginning, A Friend is Someone Who Likes You, Love is a Special Way of Feeling, and Christmas is a Time of Giving. All prints in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 3rd pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tojiro, a nine-year-old orphan, sells rice cakes on the streets of 19th-century Edo, the bustling city we now call Tokyo. One of his customers is the grumpy, eccentric octogenarian Hokusai. The old man takes a liking to Tojiro, and soon employs him as his assistant. The boy's ignorance provides a convenient vehicle for introducing the artist's life and work. Much of the dialogue and action is written for the purpose of conveying information about Hokusai, as well as the technique of woodblock printing and the social customs of Edo. The book's greatest strength is not the text, but the art that enlivens every page. A combination of the author's watercolors and reproductions of Hokusai's drawings and woodblock prints, the illustrations are arranged in enticing and varied page designs.
Softcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w. INSCRIBED to previous owners and SIGNED BY RICHARD AXSOM & FRANK STELLA on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knoedler Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 362 pages. 219 color plates and 75 black and white illustrations. White buckram with tipped in color illustration of elephants on front panel, embossed gilt lettering on the spine. This beautifully produced book contains four color reproductions of every serigraph, lithograph and etching that Neiman has published since he began making prints to 1980. Says "Book-of-the-Month-Club Selection" on front flap of DJ, though the quality of the book appears to be an original printing. Tight, clean and crisp. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.