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Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos De Taos Churchby: D'Emilio, Sandra; Campbell, Suzan; & Kessell, John L. (essays)

Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos De Taos Church
by: D'Emilio, Sandra; Campbell, Suzan; & Kessell, John L. (essays)

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2nd pr, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Foreword by George Kubler. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 127 pages. 81 artists interpret this masterpiece of 19th century Spanish Franciscan architecture. Map of Taos laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 382117

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Steel & Real Estate - Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland 1927 - 1929by: Bourke-White, Margaret/Geraldine Wojno Kiefer

Steel & Real Estate - Margaret Bourke-White and Corporate Culture in Cleveland 1927 - 1929
by: Bourke-White, Margaret/Geraldine Wojno Kiefer

Softcover. Wooster, College of Wooster Art Museum, The, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Softcover. Minor wear to cover edges. Full page black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750030

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Stow Wengenroth's Lithographs: A Supplementby: Stuckey, Ronald, Joan

Stow Wengenroth's Lithographs: A Supplement
by: Stuckey, Ronald, Joan

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.

Record # 605377

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Stuart Davisby: Kelder, Diane

Stuart Davis
by: Kelder, Diane

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.

Record # 606364

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Sunlight & Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalfby: de Veer, Elizabeth and Richard J. Boyle

Sunlight & Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf
by: de Veer, Elizabeth and Richard J. Boyle

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Red cloth cover with embossed title and gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, 301 illustrations with 100 in full color. Book in excellent condition.

Record # 512692

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Superman: The Atomic Age Sundays Volume 1 (1949-1953)by: Schwartz, Alvin

Superman: The Atomic Age Sundays Volume 1 (1949-1953)
by: Schwartz, Alvin

Hardcover. San Diego , IDW Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Wayne Boring. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352244

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Superrealist Painting & Sculptureby: Lindey, Christine

Superrealist Painting & Sculpture
by: Lindey, Christine

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. History and analysis of the American artistic phenomenon of Superrealism. Contains 72 color plates and 68 black/white plates as well as notes on particular artists. Very good condition; no internal marks, slight wear on the edges of the dust jacket.

Record # 804730

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Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor by: Andrew Crispo

Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor
by: Andrew Crispo

Softcover. NY, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, The catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, May 16 - June 30, 1974. Features the work of 10 artists: Milton Avery (15 works), Charles Burchfield (14 works), Charles Demuth (20 works), Arthur Dove (15 works), Winslow Homer (14 works), Edward Hopper (16 works), John Marin (19 works), Maurice Prendergast (13 works), John Singer Sargent (14 works), Andrew Wyeth (18 works). With 52 color Illustrations and 106 in black and white. Clean copy.

Record # 385770

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Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor by: Andrew Crispo

Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor
by: Andrew Crispo

Softcover. NY, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, May 16 - June 30, 1974. Features the work of 10 artists: Milton Avery (15 works), Charles Burchfield (14 works), Charles Demuth (20 works), Arthur Dove (15 works), Winslow Homer (14 works), Edward Hopper (16 works), John Marin (19 works), Maurice Prendergast (13 works), John Singer Sargent (14 works), Andrew Wyeth (18 works). With 52 color Illustrations and 106 in black and white. Clean copy.

Record # 385771

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Texas Folk Art: One Hundred Fifty Years of the Southwestern Traditionby: Steinfeldt, Cecilia

Texas Folk Art: One Hundred Fifty Years of the Southwestern Tradition
by: Steinfeldt, Cecilia

Hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A book devoted to the various forms of folk art that have developed in Texas. Includes over 200 illustrations, approximately half of which are in color. Also contains biographical notes on the various featured artists. Very good condition, some wear to the edges and spine of the dust jacket.

Record # 804740

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The 100 Best Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russellby: M., Charles (Charles Marion) Russell and Brian Dippie

The 100 Best Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell
by: M., Charles (Charles Marion) Russell and Brian Dippie

Hardcover. Fort Worth, Tex., Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. High quality production in this well-illustrated look at Charles M. Russell"s art-filled letters. Published by world renowned Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Includes reproduction of letter, with envelope, addressed to "Young Boy" tucked inside pocket on rear board. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352367

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The American Earls: Ralph Earl, James Earl, R.E.W. Earl: October 14-November 12, 1972by: N/A

The American Earls: Ralph Earl, James Earl, R.E.W. Earl: October 14-November 12, 1972
by: N/A

Softcover. Storrs CT, The William Benton Museum of Art , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 59 pages. Includes introduction and selected bibliography. The catalog is separated into three sections: one each for Ralph Earl, James Earl, and R.E.W. Earl. 21 b&w reproductions throughout. There is slight water damage to the top left corner of the front cover, otherwise a nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 396637

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The Art Museum In Americaby: Pach, Walter

The Art Museum In America
by: Pach, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Title on spine: "The American Art Museum". Blue cloth, gilt title, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606350

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The Art of Frank C. McCarthyby: Kelton, Elmer

The Art of Frank C. McCarthy
by: Kelton, Elmer

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor shelfwear to dust jacket. This beautiful book is a spectacular overview of McCarthy's exciting Western work, presenting colorful paintings from his fine art career. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353054

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The Art Of Ogden M. Pleissner by: Bergh , Peter

The Art Of Ogden M. Pleissner
by: Bergh , Peter

Hardcover. Boston , David R. Godine , reprint , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, hardcover. Color illustrated dust jacket with blue cloth covers. Extensive color and black and white illustrations though out. Illustrated end pages and flyleaves. (Originally published in 1984). Previous owner's notation on half-title page otherwise clean, minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857219

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The Best American Comics 2008by: Abel, Jessica and Lynda Barry

The Best American Comics 2008
by: Abel, Jessica and Lynda Barry

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This newest edition to the Best American Series--"A genuine salute to comics" (Houston Chronicle)--returns with a set of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Lynda Barry and and brand new series editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden--acclaimed cartoonists in their own right-- have sought out the best stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web to create this cutting-edge collection "perfect for newbies as well as fans"--The San Diego Union Tribune. This newest volume features luminaries like Chris Ware, Seth, and Alison Bechdel alongside Paul Pope's "Batman" and beloved daily cartoonists like Matt Groening.

Record # 350394

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The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibitionby: Carmean, Jr., E. A

The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition
by: Carmean, Jr., E. A

Softcover. Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. White stiff wrappers, black/red titles. Light wear to edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned, small tear to spine, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 606044

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The Figurative Pollockby: Josef Helfenstein , Nina Zimmer, et al.

The Figurative Pollock
by: Josef Helfenstein , Nina Zimmer, et al.

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.

Record # 374954

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The Image of Thomas Jeffersonby: Cunningham, Jr., Noble E.

The Image of Thomas Jefferson
by: Cunningham, Jr., Noble E.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Black cloth cover with silhouette of Jefferson's head embossed to front and gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrated dust jacket, 60 b&w figures, 8 b&w plates. Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Record # 604979

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The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagleby: Severin, John

The John Severin Westerns Featuring American Eagle
by: Severin, John

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 484 pages illustrated in color. In the 1950s, between his legendary EC work and his celebrated Marvel comics, John Severin joined with Mad artist Will Elder and Two-Fisted Tales writer Colin Dawkins to introduce a new level of historical accuracy to the comic-book Western. While Native Americans had generally been vilified or left in the shadows of gun-slinging cowboy heroes, the American Eagle stories featured in Prize Comics Western were built around action-packed tribal intrigues and a heroic Crow warrior. Collected here for the first time are all of the American Eagle stories drawn by Severin from Prize Comics Western #85-#113. Plus Severin-drawn stories featuring The Fargo Kid, Black Bull and The Lazo Kid. More than 55 exciting, gorgeous, Western tales of bullets vs. arrows, stampedes, tribal warfare, prospectors, buffalo hunters, broken treaties, gun battles, cavalry charges, wagon trains, and warriors on horseback. Thanks to Severin's famously exacting art, you'll be able to smell the leather and gunpowder. With commentary by comics historian Howard Leroy Davis. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383994

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The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinezby: Richard L. Spivey , Maria Montoya Martinez, et al.

The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez
by: Richard L. Spivey , Maria Montoya Martinez, et al.

Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st revised, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. Maria, the potter of San Ildefonso (1887-1981), is not only the most famous of Pueblo Indian potters but ranks among the best of international potters. Her work Is collected and exhibited around the world, and more than any other artist, Maria Martinez brought "signatures" to Indian art. She and other members of her family revived a dying art form and kindled a renaissance in pottery for all the Pueblos. She raised this regional art to one of international acclaim. This lavishly illustrated book draws from Spivey's 1979 classic work. Featuring entirely new photography and 120 added pots as well as a significantly expanded text, this volume considers the entirety of this artist's immense oeuvre and important works and developments in her collaboration with Julian, and after his death, with her daughter-in-law Santana, son Popovi Da, and grandson Tony Da, bringing the legacy of Maria into the bright future of Pueblo ceramics.

Record # 377993

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The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths by: John Adair

The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths
by: John Adair

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 8th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 220 pages with black & white illustrations. A thorough study of the art of the Indian silversmiths of the Southwest. Includes the history of the craft as well as names and localities of pioneer artisans. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 387558

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The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock by: Stock, Joseph Whiting/Juliette Tomlinson (Ed.)

The Paintings and the Journal of Joseph Whiting Stock
by: Stock, Joseph Whiting/Juliette Tomlinson (Ed.)

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 180 pages illustrated in b&w, some color. The life & work of a 19th century American folk artist Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Clean copy.

Record # 396685

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The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Lifeby: Schueler, Jon

The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life
by: Schueler, Jon

Hardcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 359 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Jon Schueler, the American abstract expressionist painter, worked on this book for 30 years. He writes about his struggle to uncover his artistic motivations and his conflict between solitude and intimacy. Clean copy.

Record # 396775

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The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler by: MacDonald, Margaret F.

The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
by: MacDonald, Margaret F.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. In 1860 James McNeill Whistler and Joanna Hiffernan met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistlers works, including his controversial Symphony in White paintings, a trilogy that fascinated and challenged viewers with its complex associations with sex and morality, class and fashion, academic and realist art, Victorian popular fiction, aestheticism and spiritualism. This luxuriously illustrated volume provides the first comprehensive account of Hiffernan's partnership with Whistler throughout the 1860s and 1870s a period when Whistler was forging a reputation as one of the most innovative and influential artists of his generation. A series of essays discusses how Hiffernan and Whistler overturned artistic conventions and sheds light on their interactions with contemporaries, including Gustave Courbet, for whom she also modeled. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386336

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Theme and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 : An Exhibition Organized by the Dayton Art Instituteby: Lorenz, Marianne

Theme and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 : An Exhibition Organized by the Dayton Art Institute
by: Lorenz, Marianne

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, December 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Resulting from a groundbreaking, four-venue exhibition, Theme & Improvisation features exquisite color reproductions of works from Kandinsky's abstract oeuvre as well as of works by thirty-eight remarkable American artists - some world-renowned, others less well known. Based on important new research into the art of the American avant-garde, and illustrated with many beautiful, often revelatory works of art, this book points the way to a new interpretation of the art of the first half of the twentieth century.

Record # 451731

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Theodore Roszak: Paintings and Drawings from the Thirtiesby: Dreishpoon, Douglas

Theodore Roszak: Paintings and Drawings from the Thirties
by: Dreishpoon, Douglas

Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Some shelf-wear on rear cover. Light sun-fade to spine. A little soiling to bottom edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856453

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Thomas Coleby: Baigell, Matthew

Thomas Cole
by: Baigell, Matthew

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 84 pages. 32 dolor plates and 12 b&w illustrations. Wine red cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket with minimal edge wear. Nice, tight copy. Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness, which feature themes of romanticism and naturalism.

Record # 512756

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Thomas Eakins (2 Vols.)by: Goodrich, Lloyd

Thomas Eakins (2 Vols.)
by: Goodrich, Lloyd

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in a cloth slipcase, 336, 356 pages. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w plates. The Ailsa Mellon Bruce Studies in American Art, published for the National Gallery of Art. Some soiling and browning to the white cloth part of the two-color covers. No dust jackets issued, nice rust-color slipcase. Overall very good.

Record # 604984

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Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Pictureby: Eakins, Thomas

Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture
by: Eakins, Thomas

Paperback. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Mseum , 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. 2l color, 83 B&W plates. Edited by Doreen Bolger and Sarah Cash. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Examines a single painting that is now widely regarded as an American masterpiece: Swimming, completed in 1885 by the Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916).

Record # 303051

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Thomas Eakins Centennial 1844-1944by: M. Knoedler & Company

Thomas Eakins Centennial 1844-1944
by: M. Knoedler & Company

Softcover. New York, M. Knoedler & Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, vintage exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, b&w and color plates. Light wear to edges, spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401824

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Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Picturesby: Cooper, Helen A.

Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures
by: Cooper, Helen A.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 139 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. During the 1870s, rowing became a tremendously popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Philadelphia-born Thomas Eakins painted, sketched and drew an extraordinary series of rowing pictures. His 24 rowing works are brought together and examined as a group in this beautiful book.

Record # 357243

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Thomas Eakinsby: Wilmerding, Ed., John

Thomas Eakins
by: Wilmerding, Ed., John

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, rep, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Catalogue of the works of Thomas Eakins. Includes 49 large color plates with accompanying black/white and color illustrations and notes for each. Also contains reproductions of Eakins's lesser-known black/white photographs and biographical text about the artist. Very good condition; cloth bound book has virtually no flaws, dust jacket has few small tears near the edges.

Record # 804758

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Thomas Hart Benton: A Life by: Wolfe, Justin

Thomas Hart Benton: A Life
by: Wolfe, Justin

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages. In this definitive biography, Justin Wolff places Benton in the context of his tumultuous historical moment-as well as in the landscapes and cultural circles that inspired him. Thomas Hart Benton-with compelling insights into Benton's art, his philosophy, and his family history-rescues a great American artist from myth and hearsay, and provides an indelibly moving portrait of an influential, controversial, and often misunderstood man.

Record # 362310

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Thomas Hart Benton: An American Originalby: Henry Adams

Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original
by: Henry Adams

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Benton (1889-1975) is a painter shrouded in paradox and misapprehension. Though pigeonholed as a regionalist chronicler of the Midwest, many of his finest on-site pictures are of Southern blacks and poor whites. Remembered best are his folksy rural scenes and aggressively three-dimensional murals, but the public tends to forget that he ran through the gamut of modernist styles (he was Jackson Pollock's teacher) and that his brilliant abstract color experiments ally him with the modernist movement. Some of Benton's crowded murals of the 1930s reflect his leftist sympathies, yet critics reviled him as politically conservative. These contradictions are illuminated in this catalogue of a touring exhibition curated by Adams. The text stands on its own as a wholly engaging biography, offering an unbuttoned look at a pugnacious, often reckless, artist who valiantly sought to preserve a rural America that was vanishing before his eyes. Clean copy.

Record # 378618

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Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall by: Boylan, Alexis L. [Editor]

Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall
by: Boylan, Alexis L. [Editor]

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 284 pages, color and b&w illustrations.Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards. Kinkade sells his work through his shopping-mall galleries, QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. He is quite possibly the most collected artist in the United States. While many art-world and academic critics have dismissed him as a passing fad or marketing phenomenon, the contributors to this collection do not. Instead, they explore his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. They consider Kinkade's imagery and career in relation to nineteenth-century Currier and Ives prints and Andres Serrano's Piss Christ, the collectibles market and the fine-art market, the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center, and "The Village at Hiddenbrooke," a California housing development inspired by Kinkade's paintings. The conceptual artist Jeffrey Vallance, the curator of the first major museum exhibition of Kinkade's art and collectibles, recounts his experiences organizing that show. All of the contributors draw on art history, visual culture, and cultural studies as they seek to understand Kinkade's significance for both art and audiences. Along the way, they delve into questions about beauty, class, kitsch, religion, and taste in contemporary art. Clean copy.

Record # 397286

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THOMAS MORAN AND THE SURVEYING OF THE AMERICAN WESTby: Kinsey, Joni Louise

THOMAS MORAN AND THE SURVEYING OF THE AMERICAN WEST
by: Kinsey, Joni Louise

Softcover. Washington DC, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations, color plates. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451009

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Thomas Moran, Artist of the Mountainsby: Wilkins, Thurman

Thomas Moran, Artist of the Mountains
by: Wilkins, Thurman

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Pictorial dust jacket with light sunfading to spine; edge wear and light rubbing near extremities. Clean text.

Record # 805405

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Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American Westby: Clark, Carol

Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West
by: Clark, Carol

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Internally very good.

Record # 459684

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Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American Westby: Clark, Carol

Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West
by: Clark, Carol

Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Cream cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, text and catalogue raisonne by Carol Clark, color frontispiece, 9 color plates, dozens of b&w plates. Very light wear to dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Record # 804694

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Touchless Automatic Wonder: Found Text Photographs from the Real Worldby: Koch, Lewis

Touchless Automatic Wonder: Found Text Photographs from the Real World
by: Koch, Lewis

Hardcover. Madison WI, Borderland Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The title comes from the cover image, a building named as such. "Created as a poetic and visual journey, spans twenty-five years and four continents. These striking photographs capture 'found text': The sometimes mysterious, occasionally humorous, often cryptic presence of words in the everyday landscape. In Koch's lyrical sequencing, the images reveal obscure and eccentric voices in their various and distinctive roles on the daily stage of the world around us.

Record # 352106

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Touchless Automatic Wonder: Found Text Photographs from the Real Worldby: Koch, Lewis

Touchless Automatic Wonder: Found Text Photographs from the Real World
by: Koch, Lewis

Hardcover. Madison WI, Borderland Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The title comes from the cover image, a building named as such. "Created as a poetic and visual journey, spans twenty-five years and four continents. These striking photographs capture 'found text': The sometimes mysterious, occasionally humorous, often cryptic presence of words in the everyday landscape. In Koch's lyrical sequencing, the images reveal obscure and eccentric voices in their various and distinctive roles on the daily stage of the world around us.

Record # 352107

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Treasures from Olana - Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Churchby: Church, Frederic Edwin

Treasures from Olana - Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
by: Church, Frederic Edwin

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 71 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Essay by Kevin J. Avery. "The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that established him as an eminent and influential artist in his own time. As works he held on to or reacquired and kept in his house during his lifetime, they embody the heart of his artistic vision and convey a deeply personal slant. As pictures he hung and lived with at Olana, they tell the larger story of that extraordinary place and are as illuminating when seen in context as on their own."

Record # 75501

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Trending Into Maine (SIGNED COPY)by: Roberts, Kenneth/N. C. Wyeth

Trending Into Maine (SIGNED COPY)
by: Roberts, Kenneth/N. C. Wyeth

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Hardcover. No slipcase. SIGNED BY KENNETH ROBERTS AND N. C. WYETH. One thousand and seventy-five numbered copies of this Arundel Edition have been printed on all-rag paper, bound in natural finish cloths and autographed by the author and by the artist - this being hand numbered #147. Full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth - illustrations are clean, and bright. Cloth covers with areas of strong fading. Spine cloth darkened, with some shallow abrading to leather title label. Interior is clean, and tight.

Record # 611002

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Twachtman in Gloucester : His Last Years, 1900 - 1902by: Hale, Essays by John Douglas & Richard J Boyle, William H Gerdts

Twachtman in Gloucester : His Last Years, 1900 - 1902
by: Hale, Essays by John Douglas & Richard J Boyle, William H Gerdts

Softcover. New York , Ira Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 88 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w and 19 plates in full color. French folded pictorial wrappers. Lovely copy. like new.

Record # 401396

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Underground Together: The Art and Life of Harvey Dinnersteinby: Frey, Raman and Wendi Norris

Underground Together: The Art and Life of Harvey Dinnerstein
by: Frey, Raman and Wendi Norris

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This is the first career-spanning monograph from one of the foremost contemporary realist painters. New York-based artist Harvey Dinnerstein creates hauntingly penetrating portraits and allegorical street scenes. His work over the course of five decades remains fresh and apt for our time, depicting New York as a microcosm of our society's rich pluralism, struggle, and resilience.

Record # 351624

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Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicagoby: Lambourne, Lionel

Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago
by: Lambourne, Lionel

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 256 b&w plates, some in color. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 805312

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Valentina: American couture and the cult of celebrityby: Yohannan, Kohle/Harold Koda

Valentina: American couture and the cult of celebrity
by: Yohannan, Kohle/Harold Koda

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Valentina was the twentieth century's first American fashion designer celebrity, working and living on equal social footing with the clientele she dressed (Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Katharine Hepburn, Millicent Rogers, and Audrey Hepburn, among others). One of the few designers who proved that America could live without the Parisian haute couture, her career is a much needed missing link in the history of American fashion. Beyond merely turning out show-stopping evening gowns, Valentina's exotic beauty, dramatic personality, and incomparable style earned her a legendary reputation. Kohle Yohannan explores the carefully constructed persona and lore of this designer who helped define American Couture. Published in association with the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition Valentina: New York Couture and the Cult of Celebrity, this book includes photographs, never-before-seen personal ephemera, sketches, and original platinum prints from master photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, and George Hoyningen-Huene.

Record # 352356

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Varga Girls I (Artist Archives)by: Collins, Max Allan

Varga Girls I (Artist Archives)
by: Collins, Max Allan

Softcover. Portland, OR, Collector's Press, 1st US, October 1, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451797

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Vestiges of a Proud Nation the Ogden B. Read Northern Plains Indian Collectionby: Markoe, Glenn J. [Ed.]

Vestiges of a Proud Nation the Ogden B. Read Northern Plains Indian Collection
by: Markoe, Glenn J. [Ed.]

Softcover. Burlington VT, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Six pages with light pencil marking otherwise clean.

Record # 378701

Price: $35.00 
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