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John Sloan: A Painter's Lifeby: Brooks, Van Wyck

John Sloan: A Painter's Life
by: Brooks, Van Wyck

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket with chipping to top of spine, still very good. 246 pp., 26 b&w illustrations. Biography written by close friend of the artist. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 382879

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John Sloan: New York Etchings, 1905-1949by: Helen Farr Sloan (Ed.)

John Sloan: New York Etchings, 1905-1949
by: Helen Farr Sloan (Ed.)

Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, July 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, 66 b&w plates. Light edge wear to wrappers, top right corner slightly bent. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451223

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John Sloan: Spectator of Lifeby: Elzea (curators), Rowland, Elizabeth Hawkes

John Sloan: Spectator of Life
by: Elzea (curators), Rowland, Elizabeth Hawkes

Softcover. Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white, with some color, illustrations. Light sun-fade to spine. A little wear to bottom corner of front cover. Very good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856480

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John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painterby: Saunders, Richard H.

John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter
by: Saunders, Richard H.

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press , 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 239 pages, 134 pages of text, 135 b&w illustrations, 26 color plates. A catalogue of 533 items by this important American artist. Near fine in a slipcase, still in shrinkwrap. Sun fade to spine. John Smibert (1688-1751) was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This book by Richard Saunders is both a catalogue raisonne of Smibert's work and a discussion of his life and career. Saunders explores Smibert's early Scottish and London training as well as his travels to Italy; his portrait practice in London; his arrival in America and his stylistic development; the creation of The Bermuda Group, Smibert's masterpiece; and, finally, the business of portrait painting in Boston.

Record # 605007

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John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood: Painting Modern Historyby: Eldredge, Charles C.

John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood: Painting Modern History
by: Eldredge, Charles C.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Univ of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Minor shelf wear on front cover. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470903

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John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapesby: Chotner, Deborah, Lisa Peters and Kathleen Pyne

John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes
by: Chotner, Deborah, Lisa Peters and Kathleen Pyne

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY CHOTNER TO JOHN (WILMERDING) on title page. Softcover exhibition catalog in like new condition.

Record # 401353

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John Twachtmanby: Boyle, Richard J.

John Twachtman
by: Boyle, Richard J.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. 33 full page color plates. The first full-scale, illustrated study of John Twachtman's life and work, taking the artist's "dramatic transformation from dark to light" to the surface. Pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear. Brown cloth. A very nice, clean and crisp copy.

Record # 605172

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John Twachtmanby: Boyle, Richard J.

John Twachtman
by: Boyle, Richard J.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. Tan cloth covers, black stamped titles, laminate dust jacket with color illustration, 32 full-page color plates, chronology. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401346

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Jose de Riveraby: Gordon, John

Jose de Rivera
by: Gordon, John

Hardcover. New York, American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1961, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Catalogue of the sculpture of Jose de Rivera, with a chronology and introductory essay. Approximately 50 pages, illustrated with 15 black/white plates in addition to several other illustrations. Small cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is slightly faded on the spine but in very good condition.

Record # 805174

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Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter by: Weekley, Carolyn J. and Stiles Tuttle Colwill, et al.

Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter
by: Weekley, Carolyn J. and Stiles Tuttle Colwill, et al.

Softcover. Baltimore MD, Maryland Historical Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial wraps with color illustration and white lettering; 173 pages. 45 color, 88 b&w plates. Exhibition catalogue lists 83 extensively annotated works, and a Supplemental Catalogue lists an additional 13 works. Selected bibliography and short-list of titles. Each essay includes extensive notes. The definitive work on the early Afro-American portrait painter. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, Sept. 26, 1987 to Jan. 3, 1988, three other locations. Scarce. Previous owner's stamp and bookplate, short inscription on inside front cover. Related clipping, brochure laid in.

Record # 387363

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Jules Feiffer's America: From Eisenhower to Reaganby: Feiffer, Steven Heller (Ed.), Jules

Jules Feiffer's America: From Eisenhower to Reagan
by: Feiffer, Steven Heller (Ed.), Jules

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, b&w cartoons by Feiffer, mostly political, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 360863

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Julian Alden Weir- an Appreciation of His Life and Worksby: Phillips, Duncan, and others

Julian Alden Weir- an Appreciation of His Life and Works
by: Phillips, Duncan, and others

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 141 pages. 33 B&W illustrations. No dust jacket. Pages uncut. Blue cloth. In good condition. Articles included in this tribute include: Julian Alden Weir, by Duncan Phillips; Weir The Painter, by Emil Carlsen; Weir, by Royal Cortissoz; Reminiscences of Weir, by Childe Hassam; The Tile Club, by J.B. Millet; Weir The Fisherman, by H. de Raasloff; A Letter, from Augustus Vincent Tack; A Letter from C.E.S. Wood; Lists of Paintings, which is 17 pages long, and lists paintings chronologically, and lists dimensions and owner. One of 712 copies with eight extra illustrations which were published by Phillips Publications as Publication No. 1.

Record # 605073

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Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection by: Wood W Raymond; Joseph C Porter; David C Hunt; Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection
by: Wood W Raymond; Joseph C Porter; David C Hunt; Karl Bodmer

Softcover. University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages. This remarkable volume collects Bodmer's studio art: a series of compositions he created in his Paris studio. These images, thirteen of them previously unpublished, are augmentations of the artist's expeditionary sketches and watercolors. 12 color plates, 32 b/w plates, 16 B/W in-text figures.

Record # 361106

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Kenneth Noland: Winds, Painted Monotypesby: Andre Emmerich Gallery

Kenneth Noland: Winds, Painted Monotypes
by: Andre Emmerich Gallery

Softcover. New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery , 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, softcover. Unpaginated, 40 pages, illustrated throughout in color. White stiff wrappers. Slight foxing to covers, light wear to spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606435

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Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, Theby: Jones, Arthur F., and Bruce Weber

Kentucky Painter from the Frontier Era to the Great War, The
by: Jones, Arthur F., and Bruce Weber

Softcover. US, University of Kentucky Art Museum, na, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 page catalog of the January 25-March 15, 1981, exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Numerous black and white illustrations. Five color plates. Mild crease on front and back cover. No marking. Kentucky's Resident-painters: From the Ante-Bellum Era to World War I by Arthur F. Jones; In Pursuit of Success: Kentucky and the Visiting Artist, 1805-1865 by Bruce Weber; Selected Bibliography; Catalog Entries; Illustrations.

Record # 806599

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Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, Theby: Weekley, Carolyn J.

Kingdoms of Edward Hicks, The
by: Weekley, Carolyn J.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, 173 illustrations, 131 in color. Although he is now seen as a progenitor of the "naive" style, during his lifetime Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was known only as a devout, impoverished Quaker minister who liked to paint. With a few exceptions, his extant body of work is made up of 62 "Peaceable Kingdom" pictures, based on Isaiah's biblical prophecy. Although these paintings, known for their charmingly wide-eyed and sensuous beasts, use potent color and effective design, they are technically unsophisticated and repetitive in the extreme. But they contain a powerfully serene devoutness, a mood probably expressed in compensation for Hicks's guilt about an avocation viewed as frivolous by other Quakers. As the popularity of folk art boomed in the early 20th century, Hicks's homely visions were popularized and became the focus of scholarly attention, and this work is probably the best to date. Weekley, the director of museums at Colonial Williamsburg, shrewdly considers Hicks's "secular" life and art through the filter of his intense piety and copiously illustrates her large-format book with brilliant color plates.

Record # 350477

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L.P. Latimer:: California Watercolor Painter (SIGNED COPY)by: Harrison, Jr., Alfred C.

L.P. Latimer:: California Watercolor Painter (SIGNED COPY)
by: Harrison, Jr., Alfred C.

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Full color illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 456471

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Lacquer: An International History and Illustrated Surveyby: Scott, Rosemary, ET AL

Lacquer: An International History and Illustrated Survey
by: Scott, Rosemary, ET AL

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 330 illustrations, including 150 plates in full color. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. A very clean, tight and crisp copy. Like New.

Record # 605329

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Laporte, Indianaby: Bitner, Jason

Laporte, Indiana
by: Bitner, Jason

Softcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Black and white portraits of citizens of Indiana, taken over 4 decades.

Record # 353493

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Larry Rivers - Art and the Artistby: Rose, Barbara and Jacquelyn Days Serwer

Larry Rivers - Art and the Artist
by: Rose, Barbara and Jacquelyn Days Serwer

Hardcover. Boston NY, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 83 color plates, 53 duotone plates. Foreword by David Levy. Rivers, one of the original Pop artists on the 1950s art scene, is known for his bold and eclectic style. Inspired by sources as diverse as the impressionists, Napoleon, and Hollywood movies, Rivers' work shows a keen sense of history and an adventurous spirit.

Record # 601175

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Larry Rivers: Art and the Artistby: Levy, David

Larry Rivers: Art and the Artist
by: Levy, David

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. 183 & 1 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout, including many full-page illustrations. Near fine. First edition. Produced in association with The Corcoran Gallery of Art with a foreword by David C. Levy and essays by Barbara Rose and Jacquelyn Days Serwer. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap.

Record # 385854

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Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931by: Kellner, Bruce

Last Dandy, Ralph Barton, The: American Artist, 1891-1931
by: Kellner, Bruce

Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352421

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Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920-1970by: Cancel, Luis R.

Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States 1920-1970
by: Cancel, Luis R.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams/Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages, illustrated throughout in color with brief biographies of artists. Very good, unmarked, in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 404951

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Letterheads: 100 Years of Great Design 1850 - 1950by: Cabarga, Leslie

Letterheads: 100 Years of Great Design 1850 - 1950
by: Cabarga, Leslie

Softcover. San Francisco , Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A history of American typography and graphic design throughout the industrial age. 200 color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353319

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Letters of Horatio Greenoughby: Greenough, Frances B.

Letters of Horatio Greenough
by: Greenough, Frances B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805225

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LEWIS MILLER Sketches and Chronicles. The Reflections of a Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German Folk Artist by: Donald A. Shelley (Intro.)

LEWIS MILLER Sketches and Chronicles. The Reflections of a Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German Folk Artist
by: Donald A. Shelley (Intro.)

Hardcover. York PA, Historical Society of York County,, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, square, tight unmarked copy, lettering on cover is faded. 185 pages illustrated in color. Foreword by Robert P. Turner; introduction by Donald A. Shelley. In a brown slipcase with a label on front.

Record # 373491

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Life and Letters of Washington Allstonby: Flagg, Jared B.

Life and Letters of Washington Allston
by: Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 372025

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Life and Letters of Washington Allstonby: Flagg, Jared B.

Life and Letters of Washington Allston
by: Flagg, Jared B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805226

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Life and Work of David G. Blythe, Theby:  MillerDorothy

Life and Work of David G. Blythe, The
by: MillerDorothy

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. 21 b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, light wear to extremities. Yellow dust jacket edge wear with a few small sealed up tears. Price clipped. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 605497

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Life and Works of John Singleton Copley, Theby: Bayley, Frank W.

Life and Works of John Singleton Copley, The
by: Bayley, Frank W.

Hardcover. Boston, The Taylor Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages. Brown cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate to blank endpaper, light wear to covers, edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806051

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Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, Theby: Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E.

Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, The
by: Stebbins, Jr., Theodore E.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated primarily in black & white - one section in full color. Bottom corner of page 275 wrinkled with short tear. Dust jacket worn. Clean, tight copy.This is the landmark work on American artist Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), the first catalogue raisonne. The narrative is accompanied by many examples of his work. The full catalogue of 402 items appears at the rear of the book, with light annotations and small BW illustrations. An updated edition was published in 2000; and this one is useful to consult in order to compare the differences.

Record # 611239

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Life and Works of Winslow Homer, Theby: Hendricks, Gordon

Life and Works of Winslow Homer, The
by: Hendricks, Gordon

Hardcover. 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large oblong hardcover, 345 pages with 440 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Oblong folio. Cream cloth boards with blue titles to front and spine and a pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Paperclip imprints to front fly leaf, else like new.

Record # 605659

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Life Lines. American Master Drawings, 1788-1962, from the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute by: Mary E Murray, Paul D Schweizer

Life Lines. American Master Drawings, 1788-1962, from the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute
by: Mary E Murray, Paul D Schweizer

Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. Published on the occasion of the multi-venue exhibition held from 1994-1996 featuring masterworks on paper by Copley, Kensett, Audubon, Blakelock, Bluemner, Storrs, Cadmus, Pollock, and many others. Clean copy.

Record # 382096

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Life's Pleasures - The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925by: Tottis, james W.

Life's Pleasures - The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925
by: Tottis, james W.

Hardcover. New York, DIA/Merrell, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Illustrated in full color. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 609081

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Lillie May Nicholson, 1884-1964: An Artist Rediscoveredby: Nelson-Rees, Walter A.

Lillie May Nicholson, 1884-1964: An Artist Rediscovered
by: Nelson-Rees, Walter A.

Hardcover. Oakland, CA, WIM, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. The first complete survey of Nicholson's paintings and life, with a catalog of her currently known works. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with fading to spine edge, small closed tear to back cover and light edge wear. A very nice, clean and well preserved copy.

Record # 605365

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Limitless Sky, A: The Work of Charles M. Russellby: Renner, Ginger

Limitless Sky, A: The Work of Charles M. Russell
by: Renner, Ginger

Hardcover. Flagstaff, Arizona, Northland Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages. Dark brown cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, numerous color and b&w plates of Russell's oils, drawings, watercolors, bronzes and illustrated letters. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 605474

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Lincoln in Caricature; a Historical Collection with Descriptive and Biographical Commentaries by: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell / McMurtry, R. Gerald (Intro.)

Lincoln in Caricature; a Historical Collection with Descriptive and Biographical Commentaries
by: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell / McMurtry, R. Gerald (Intro.)

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 327 pages. Bound in black cloth with gold titling on the cover and spine. Illustrated with B&W political cartoons from the era throughout from Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Vanity Fair, Punch, etc. The illustrations are reproduced side-by-side with historical background and commentary by the author. Includes artwork by Thomas Nast, Matt Morgan, Frank Bellew, Louis Maurer, Sir John Tenniel, Currier and Ives, etc. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light soil, chipping.

Record # 363556

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Lions and Eagles and Bulls: Early American Tavern and Inn Signsby: Society, Connecticut Historical (Contributor)

Lions and Eagles and Bulls: Early American Tavern and Inn Signs
by: Society, Connecticut Historical (Contributor)

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes extensive notes and appendices. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352035

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Liza Louby: Heartney, Eleanor

Liza Lou
by: Heartney, Eleanor

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 264 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. In this comprehensive volume devoted to her work, illustrated with two hundred photographs, writers, critics, and scholars explore her work in depth.

Record # 350159

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Lowell Nesbitt Flowers: 1964-1979by: Nesbittt, Lowell

Lowell Nesbitt Flowers: 1964-1979
by: Nesbittt, Lowell

Softcover. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 74 color and B&W illustrations. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo. Overall very tight and clean copy.

Record # 850512

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Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914
by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition. American artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I.The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James. This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art.

Record # 605468

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Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914
by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition. American artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I.The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James. This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art.

Record # 371895

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M & M Karolik Collection of American Watercolors & Drawings, 1800-1875 (2 Volumes)by: M & M Karolik

M & M Karolik Collection of American Watercolors & Drawings, 1800-1875 (2 Volumes)
by: M & M Karolik

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, quarto, 337 + 352 pages., indices, well illustrated in color and b&w. Organized by academic artists, folk artists, visiting foreign artists and artists of the Civil War, with detail biographical information on the artists, this has become an indispensable reference work. near fine copies in gilt decorated gray boards with terra-cotta cloth spines. Clean copies.

Record # 372723

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M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Hipkiss, Edwin J.

M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hipkiss, Edwin J.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Blue cloth cover with small gilt illustration embossed to front, gilt lettering embossed to front and spine, 270 b&w plates, appendix of supplemental b&w plates of art pieces described in collection. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 2 small squares of tape residue to opposite endpaper, light foxing evident of front and rear endpapers, light wear to cover. This extensive catalog is one of the finest for the study of colonial and early American furniture, painting, and the decorative of arts of the period of 1720-1820.This beautifully printed volume, set in Monotype Bembo and with full-tone collotype illustrations, established a high visual standard for furniture catalogs.

Record # 804799

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Man Ray: Despreocupado Pero No Indiferente / Unconcerned But Not Indifferent (English and Spanish Edition)by: Jacob, John P. and Noriko Fuku

Man Ray: Despreocupado Pero No Indiferente / Unconcerned But Not Indifferent (English and Spanish Edition)
by: Jacob, John P. and Noriko Fuku

Hardcover. La Fabrica, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 391 pages, profusely illustrated. This excellent catalog contributes a wealth of new information, providing a valuable contribution to our understanding of Man Ray. The treasure trove of images and objects collected here is drawn from the large archives of the Man Ray Trust in Long Island, New York, and includes little known early works, documents and objects from his private life, working drawings and sketches for major works as well as innumerable familiar masterpieces.

Record # 350203

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Margaret Bourke- White: moments in historyby: Quimby, Sean

Margaret Bourke- White: moments in history
by: Quimby, Sean

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P.//La Fabrica , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. America's first female war correspondent, Margaret Bourke-White was also something of a media star, with the portrait of her decked out in flying gear, camera in hand, about to set off on a bombing raid, being a favorite pin-up among U.S. forces. Focusing on the work Bourke-White made in the 1930s and 40s in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and the U.K., Moments in History presents 150 classic photographs alongside revelatory extracts from letters and publications in periodicals. Bourke-White traveled to the USSR when the first Five-Year Plan was being implemented; she documented the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and the Allied bombing of Germany. In the summer of 1945 she was commissioned by Life to make a photographic record of the destroyed German cities. She was present at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and the Leipzig-Thekla forced labor camp. She recorded the partition of India and the Korean War, and one of her most famous pictures of this period is "Gandhi," which shows the subject at his spinning wheel. Also included in the catalogue are some of the word-picture sequences Bourke-White did for Fortune and Life, as well as extracts from her correspondence with personalities from the worlds of politics and culture, such as Winston Churchill and Georgia O'Keeffe. Bourke-White wanted to be the "eyes of the age," and her pictures testify to (as she put it) her "unquenchable desire to be present when history is being made."

Record # 352350

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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by: Annie Cohen Solal

Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
by: Annie Cohen Solal

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , reprint, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 281 pages. A fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America's most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 382261

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Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art by: MacAdam, Barbara J. with John Wilmerding, Mark D.Mitchell

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art
by: MacAdam, Barbara J. with John Wilmerding, Mark D.Mitchell

Softcover. Hanover NH/ New York, Hood Museum of Art/Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages. with 82 color plates and 270 halftones. Catalogue to accompany the centerpiece exhibition of a year-long celebration commemorating the Hood's 20th anniversary and its permanent collection. Thorough text accompanies each plate, and the essay material includes an overview of the collection. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPIG ONLY.

Record # 396850

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Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism (Georgia O'Keefe Museum)by: Heather Hole and Barbara Buhler Lynes

Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism (Georgia O'Keefe Museum)
by: Heather Hole and Barbara Buhler Lynes

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color plates. Considered to be among the greatest early American modernists, the painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) traveled the United States and Europe in his search for a distinctive American aesthetic. His stay in New Mexico resulted in an extraordinary series of landscape paintings--created in New Mexico, New York, and Europe between 1918 and 1924--that show an evolution in style and thinking that is important for understanding both Hartley's oeuvre and American modernism in the postwar years. Marsden Hartley and the West examines this pivotal stage of the painter's career, drawing upon his writings and providing illustrations of rarely seen and previously unpublished works. The author considers Hartley's involvement with the Stieglitz circle and its "soil-and-spirit" philosophy, the Taos art colony, New York Dada, and the impact of historical events such as World War I. Within this setting she analyzes the pastels and oil paintings that suggest Hartley's increasingly ambivalent response to the land. Beginning with optimistic, naturalistic views, the New Mexico works grew progressively darker and more tumultuous, increasingly reflecting a sense of loss brought on by war. The paintings become a site where the landscapes of memory, self, and nation merge, while reflecting broader modernist debates about "American-ness" and a usable past.

Record # 361145

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Marsden Hartleyby: Haskell, Barbara

Marsden Hartley
by: Haskell, Barbara

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum & University of New York Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and some yellowing to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605708

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