Hardcover. D Giles Ltd, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This is the first major publication in more than 30 years devoted to Duveneck, one of the most influential and widely respected late-nineteenth century American artists.Beloved to his students, Duveneck was lauded by many Gilded Age luminaries such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Henry James. Yet a century after his death, he is largely known only for asingle, brilliant painting, The Whistling Boy. By contextualizing his work in the artistic, cultural and social milieus of the time, this publication offers diverse perspectives on Duveneck's life, work, subjects and reputation. The essays span his beginnings as a painter of dark realism to his later impressionistic work and examine his significance as a printmaker and draftsman. The lavishly illustrated volume includes a chronology and selected bibliography. irst half of the book consists of essays which detail the artists uneven life. Numerous photos, drawings and a few great close ups. The second half of the book consists of the catalog. 128 catalog images, mostly paintings with some drawings and pastels. All in color.
Hardcover. College Station, TX, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 148 pages. Collection of 61 full-page color plates of Frank Reaugh's work devoted to Texas. Introduction by Donald L. Weismann. Very good condition, very slight rubbing on the back of the dust jacket, ends of the spine have some wrinkling. The Texas landscape and the legendary longhorn are equally elegant in the beautiful impressionistic artwork of Frank Reaugh. This volume contains a large selection of impressionistic work by Reaugh, who began painting out on the prairies near Dallas in the late 1800s.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light sun-fade along spine. Green cloth boards, color-illustrated dust jacket. 236 pages, 66 color illustrations, 43 BW illustrations. Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention to detail, yet the significance of this pictorial approach has remained largely unexplored. In this important reconsideration of Church's works, Jennifer Raab offers the first sustained examination of the aesthetics of detail that fundamentally shaped 19th-century American landscape painting. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. More than one hundred reproductions--58 in full-color--bring to life this quintessentially American artist and the dramatic and colorful imagery that has become part of America's epic story.
Hardcover. Garden City, Duobleday & Company Inc., First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with white titles to spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. 30 color reproductions throughout. Beautifully illustrating the skills of this remarkable man, accompanying each of his paintings with notes describing techniques employed, many with revealing comments by the artist himself. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, color slightly faded at edges. Pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear and faint smudges to front cover. Tight binding.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. The color-drenched gardens and sun-dappled nudes by Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) have long been loved by admirers of American Impressionism, and his paintings are treasured in museum collections across the country. This beautiful and comprehensive volume--with more than one hundred color and almost eighty black-and-white plates--is the most ambitious ever devoted to his work. It is being published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the artist's work.A biographical overview and a detailed chronology by the artist's grandson, including charming vintage photographs, provide much new information and correct several misconceptions about Frieseke's life and career. Three invaluable essays by leading scholars discuss the diverse stages of his work and place it in art historical context, detailing his experience as a student at Whistler's atelier in Paris and as a central member of the group of American expatriates who settled in Giverny, France, near the French master Monet. The book's groundbreaking scholarship casts new light on Frieseke, American Impressionism, and the art world at the turn of the last century.
Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked in a bright dust jacket. The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century.
Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century. Historical illustrations throughout. 387 pages Including index.
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. New York, Beaufort Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.
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.
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.
Softcover. Springfield, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, vintage exhibition catalog, 87 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece. Small tear on spine. Else a clean, tight copy.
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. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, inc, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition, small folio, 254 pages, [1]; frontis portrait, 195 illustrations; biographical note by Thomas Beer, introduction by Eugene Speicher, edited by Emma S. Bellows; original coarse buckram lettered in black on upper cover and spine; very good. The catalogue raisonne of Bellows' lithographs.
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.
Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society Books, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Exceptional copy. Based on the Exhibition at the National Gallery(1988-1989), "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986" 120 color and 11 black and white illustrations. The book is complemented by documentary photographs and portraits as well as over 120 letters--most of them never published before--written to artists, critics, and friends.
Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. x, 102 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges, else like new.
Softcover. New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover.This catalog of paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe features 117 black and white prints and 4 color prints. The front and back cover features "Sky Above Clouds IV." The cover is slightly smudged and worn, particularly on the back. All else is in fine condition.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated throughout with 120 plates, including 51 in full color. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine and light wear to edges, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., & Da Capo Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of painter Gilbert Stuart. Contains 7 black/white illustrations; 6 are reproductions of Stuart's work, and one is a portrait of the artists himself. Very good condition; brown cloth with gilt lettering, corner of the back cover bumped. This edition is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in Cambridged, Massachusetts, in 1932. It is reprinted by arrangement with Harvard University Press.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, large color-illustrated label pasted to front cover, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates, top edge gilt. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, cloth lightly faded at edges, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Richmond, Va., Candela Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Tipped in plate on front cover. Small stain to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Working primarily from the 1940s through the early 1960s, the American photographer Gita Lenz (1910-2011) made documents of New York street life that won her early recognition and inclusion in two group shows curated by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art, a three-person show at the Brooklyn Museum and numerous articles and features in photography magazines of the time. Equally given to inflecting her portraiture with hints of social realism one on hand, and surrealism on the other, and also influenced by her close friend Aaron Siskind, Lenz produced abstract compositions, city still lifes, surreal still lifes and intimate portraits. She receded from view in the 1960s as financial demands impeded her practice, but in 2002, a chance meeting with photographer Gordon Stettinius led to the retrieval of this small but charming body of work, and the publication of this superbly printed first monograph.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, 326 pages, b&w plates. The story of the sculptor who carved the faces of America's heroic dead on granite mountains, most prominently, Mount Rushmore. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild shelf-wear.
Hardcover. Alexandria VA, Art Service International / Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Comprehensive treatment of Grandma Moses, her life, work, significance, and with a Catalogue of her work. Illustrated in color. Designed for a major traveling exhibition of Moses' work, the hardcover copies were distributed by Yale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The definitive study of the painter.
Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with blue wraps. Unpaginated. Compiled and edited by Sylvan Cole, Jr., 2 b&w frontispieces, 66 b&w plates, errata slip laid in. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Da Capo, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 14 pages + 100 prints in b&w. Green pictorial stiff wrappers with some wear to spine and slight rubbing to covers, otherwise a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Slight edge wear, otherwise clean, tight copy. Many photos of old saloons, both interior and exterior shots. From Alaska, Arizona, California, Minnesota, Texas, and all over the country.
Softcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper clean and very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Edges have a touch of tanning from age.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publishing, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Artist Harvey Dinnerstein writes about his personal approach to and process of painting. 144 pages, 80 color and 58 black/white reproductions of his work at various stages. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, very clean copy; dust jacket has slight wear and a few creases around the edges.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy in shrinkwrap. Like new. The first biography of the couple who created the landmark collection that is still the base of most American museums.
Hardcover. NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Illustrated, laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy. This is a beutifully produced catalog of a NY retrospective for the Australian/British/American painter Hayley Lever (1876-1958). His painting also crossed boundaries including elements of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism & Tonalism. Perhaps it was this refusal to sit in one box that accounts for his being so nearly forgotten. There are many lovely pictures here, mostly of St Ives & the coasts of New England.
Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover published to accompany the exhibition, Church's Great Picture, The Heart of the Andes, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 5, 1993 - January 2, 1994. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. Burgundy cloth cover with gilt pictorial and lettering to cover, and lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, 119 full-color illustrations and 128 b&w illustrations. Book in excellent condition; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages+63 b&w prints of the Hudson River artists. Green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket only good and price clipped. Still a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. White cloth spine, red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. For-edge rough cut. Light wear to edges and covers, slight bump to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. White cloth spine, red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. For-edge rough cut. Light wear to edges and covers, slight bump to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Softcover. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue featuring the Hispanic art of the American Southwest. 118 pages, 21 black/white plates, 105 other black/white illustrations of pieces, and 36 black/white photographs of featured artists. Good condition, some soiling/light discoloration on the cover, top right corner bent.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, C. E. Goodspeed & Co , Revised, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Edition, Illustrated with three volumes. 391+403+418 pages. 174 b&w full-page illustrations. Ruff cut paper edges. Dark green cloth, some bumps to corners. No dust jackets as issued. Light edge wear, otherwise a very nice, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.
Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art]/Yale, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 249 pages, Illustrated throughout, including 386 in color. Publishers' oatmeal cloth with black and orange titles to spine and upper board, with pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring Study for "Nighthawks". Clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. In-depth visual overview and study of the work of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, and his working methods. Multiple illustrations on virtually every page, featuring working sketches, photos of the artist at work, notebooks and final artworks. A brilliant reference work to Hopper's art and methodology. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. Published to accompany traveling exhibit. Color and b/w illustrations and photography throughout. Photographs, sculpture, paintings, and works on paper from: Max Belcher, Beverly Buchanan and William Christenberry. Small rip along spine, cover slightly yellowed with age. Clean inside.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow and Co., 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Hardcover, oblong salmon cloth-covered boards, illustrated paper label on front cover, wear to corners. Prose and poetry on eleven aspects of Pueblo Indian life, each passage accompanied by a beautiful color illustration after watercolors by Native American artists, including Allan Houser, an Apache who was the great-grandson of Geronimo and Gerald Nailor, a Navajo; both of whom studied at the Santa Fe School. Mild soil, shelfwear. No markings.
Softcover. Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art catalog of the first major retrospective exhibition of the works of Edward Ruscha. 10 pages, illustrated with Ruscha's artwork, and a photograph of the artist. A clean copy in publisher's stiff wrappers.