Hardcover. New York , Nan A. Talese, 1st US, 2014-11-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. Newport Beach CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, softcover exhibition catalog, illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Betty Turnbull. Clean, tight copy. David Park, an artist who fused representational figuration with abstract expressionism and was one of the creators of the Bay Area Figurative style is featured here in a career retrospective exhibition containing work from throughout his life.
Softcover. Washington D.C, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w and color. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs spanning over 30 years. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover (cloth) in near fine condition with dust jacket which is protected by clear plastic covering, also in near fine condition. 293 pages., including 226 illustrations with 65 color plates. A beautiful and large-format monograph focusing on Willem De Kooning's life and paintings.
Hardcover. New York, Balance House/Watson Guptill, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, 63 color plates, 236 b&w illustrations. Beautiful copy of this scarce volume. Preface by Norman Rockwell. The slightest bit of fade to the spine edge of the dust jacket otherwise near fine in a mylar protector.
Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. B&W and color illustrations. Essay by David Park Curry. Introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Nice clean copy with tight binding and beautiful cover.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of "America" and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings.Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the engrossing story of Urban and Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theater lent dramatic flair to everything they designed and how this theatricality gave the distinctive modernity they created such wide appeal. If the American lifestyle has been much imitated across the globe over the past fifty years, says Innes, it is due in large measure to the designs of Urban and Bel Geddes. Together they were responsible for creating what has been called the "Golden Age" of American culture.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of Calfornis, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light marking on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Williamstown MA, Trustees of Williams College, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Cover features "Self Portrait," by Chuck Close. Features numerous black and white works from 39 artists. Complete with biographical and critical text. Slight wear and blemishes on cover. Interior is clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art ; London : University Press of New England, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. This catalogue explores the often uneasy relationship between the art of painting and the art of illustration, featuring American artists who practiced both styles of painting between 1850 and 1950. The catalogue charts the development of both types of art through the eyes of a select group of artists of who engaged in both fine art and illustration.
Softcover. New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art ; London : University Press of New England, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. This catalogue explores the often uneasy relationship between the art of painting and the art of illustration, featuring American artists who practiced both styles of painting between 1850 and 1950. The catalogue charts the development of both types of art through the eyes of a select group of artists of who engaged in both fine art and illustration.
Softcover. Los Angeles :, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 191 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in b&w. Cream dye-cut textured wrappers. Light wear and staining to covers, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes. V.1; 164 pages with text, V.2; 227 plates in color and b&w. Gray cloth, gilt title spine. Lacking slipcase and dust jacket, but in excellent shape. A very nice, tight, clean set.
Softcover. New York, Jill Newhouse, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, staple-bound pamphlet, with 47 black-and-white illustrations. Price list for works laid in. Light soiling, edge-wear, and shelf-wear to covers. A little foxing to top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Fox, Duffield & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated. 39 full page b&w plates of drawings by A. B. Frost, accompanied by verse by Wallace Irwin, introduction by Joe Chandler Harris, small b&w illustrated figures throughout, monotone illustration to cover. Covers have noticeable wear, faded, wear to cloth spine, water stains to right edge of pages, dark markings to back cover, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, some pages partially separated from binding.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 87 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Gray cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket, slight wear to edges, closed tear to front cover, Upper edge of spine worn and torn, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Watson - Guptill, 1st , 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. Brown cloth cover with very little wear. Dust jacket has some wear to corners and edges. 32 full-page color reproductions, and b&w illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. 64 b&w illustrations and 8 plates in full color. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with some wear and small tears to spine,light sun-fading to front cover, still overall a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Parke Bernet Galleries Inc. , 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue paper wrappers, auction catalog. Items in catalog listed for public sale on Saturday, April 5th, 1941. With b&w photographs throughout. Front cover torn slightly along edge, else a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom, reprint, 1972, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 65 pages. Reissue of rare 1930 first edition. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated profusely with over 50 b&w plates. Copy still packaged in original shrinkwrap, never opened; in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. (Library of American Art Series) 1971 reprint of the original 1926 edition. 110 pages. b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Light wear and unfortunate paper-clip impressions to upper edge of some pages. Still a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 232 pages. The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such notions of American art are significantly owed to a Russian Jewish immigrant named Edith Halpert. The founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York, Halpert shaped an identity for American art, declaring that its thrilling heterogeneity and democratic values were what most distinguished it from the European avant-garde. For forty-plus years, Halpert's gallery brought recognition and market success to now-legendary American artists--among them Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, in addition to the artists mentioned above. She relentlessly championed nonwhite, female, and unknown artists and was a formative advisor in the shaping of many of the nation's most celebrated art museums and collections, from San Francisco to Boston. Not content with those achievements, she also pioneered the appreciation and collecting of American folk art. Richly illustrated with works that passed through her groundbreaking gallery, this book tells the extraordinary and largely overlooked story of her career and legacy. The artists Halpert launched into the American canon are household names--and this book compellingly argues that hers should be, as well. In publisher's shrinkwrap.