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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 50 plates in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 30 plates in full color. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to spine, slight wrinkle to back cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear and rubbing to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Red cloth cover, light blue dust jacket with color illustrations, 135 illustrations including 50 plates in full color, published for the Library of American Art. Still in original shrink wrap, never opened, very small hole to front of wrapping and dust jacket; book in excellent condition.
Softcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 3rd pr, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages, b&w photographs. Light creases to front wrapper. Else a very clean, tight copy. An architect for the Santa Fe Railway and the Fred Harvey Company, Colter laid the groundwork for female architects who followed. Seven of her remarkable structures are preserved in Grand Canyon's historic district. This is her story.
Softcover. The Anschutz Collection, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 176 pages. An impressive collection of American West art by 128 different artists, with full color reproductions of a painting by each followed by a short biographical sketch of each. Small ink price in corner of front fly leaf, otherwise clean.