Art Biography

Softcover. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Historical and biographical volume on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 544 pages. Includes drawings, notes, and writings by Frank Lloyd Wright. Near fine condition; book is still in shrinkwrap that has some tears near the spine and on some corners.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A volume of the life and work of Arnold Friberg, includes 50 full-color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. 175 pages. Red cloth bound, some white dots on front and back covers. Well-bound, clean copy. Dust jacket shows signs of rubbing along edges and small tear along the back bottom left corner.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, MFA Publications , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to edges of cover boards.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, and Company, na, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of American artist William Morris Hunt. 219 pages with 16 black/white plates of Hunt's paintings. Cloth bound book is in good condition, some marks on the cover and corners slightly bumped. Some pages still uncut. Previous owner's name and date written in ink inside the cover.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 4th Edition, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, a touch of agewear. Top edge dyed green.

Hardcover. Trumbull, CT, Greenwich Workshop Press Inc., 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Includes a bonus colored print with publishers note. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy. James Bama is one of the best contemporary artists working today. His portraits - of people from the smallest child to the greatest hero - have garnered the respect and captured the imagination of art collectors and critics around the world. The Art of James Bama is a new, comprehensive collection of his finest work, showing real people of the new West recreating their history, and descendants of the Old West paying homage to their heritage. Bama's ability to convey their emotion gives his paintings a resonance like no other.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with illustrations to endpapers. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color illustrations beautifully presented, including fold out illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. SIGNED BY BOTH SENDAK AND KUSHNER on half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., first, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. 261 illustrations including 94 plates in full color. Pop-up illustrations not working, but present. Depiction of the life and works of children's illustrator Maurice Sendak. In very good condition, pages a bit faded along edges, overall a clean book with a tight binding. Transparent dust jacket with white lettering, the cover underneath depicts a scene from "Where the Wild Things Are"

Hardcover. Kent UK, Telos Publishing, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Over 125 color illustrations, memorabilia, plus a framable print in the back.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 301 pages. Fox was Editor-in-Chief of Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 6 color plates, 105 b/w photos. 301 pages, clean and clear. Blue endpapers, with previous owner's name and address on ffep. White cloth cover, with silver titles on the spine.

Hardcover. Warren, ME, Warren Historical Society, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages followed by 38 plates. Red cloth cover with embossed lettering to front cover and gilt lettering to spine, blue dust jacket with b&w illustration to front, 5 b&w illustration throughout text, biography, reminisces of author, record of paintings, list of exhibitions. Light edge wearing and rubbing to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World; Teachers College; and Conclusion. With extensive notes, bibliography, and 94 illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World; Teachers College; and Conclusion. With extensive notes, bibliography, and 94 illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, inc, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 220 pages. B&w photography throughout. Foreword by Karl Katz, critical evaluation by Dr. Alfred Werner. Dust jacket somewhat edgeworn but protected by mylar covering. Nice clean copy in good shape.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 105 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Dust jacket price clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. More than a biography of an important western artist, it is a saga of the times as related through an artist's eyes, along with a timely account of the artist's life on the frontier.

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.

Hardcover. NY, American Artists Group / Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. 304 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. An autobiography by the artist and writer. He was an important part of the American art scene in the 1920's and 30's. He was an art critic, writer and editor of art magazines as well as an artist. Two color plates, others in b&w. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1sr, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright gold foil dust wrapper, 476 pages. The artist Francis Picabia -- notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist -- has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade -- Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabia's hands, Baker argues, the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabia's readymade opened art not just to the commodity, but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming them for art history -- and naming them -- for the first time: Dada Drawing, Dada Painting, Dada Photography, Dada Abstraction, Dada Cinema, Dada Montage.Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada "manifestations" to Picabia's polemical writings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 292 pages, b&w illustrations. It's very possible that the only thing more peculiar and arresting than Edward Gorey's books and illustrations is Gorey himself. This collection of chronologically arranged interviews with Gorey (1925-99) spans three decades and shines light into many corners of his eccentric life and work. Gorey ponders his own bizarre dress (floor-length fur coats and sneakers), his obsession with the New York City Ballet, and his life with six cats and even manages to delve into some of the inspirations that fuel his enigmatic and strangely endearing work. This assembly by Wilkin reveals a charming, extremely intelligent, articulate, and eminently likable artist and writer. A thoughtful self-portrait thus emerges from the mist of questions and answers, one that helps to counter the paucity of recent Gorey scholarship. Gorey's own words clarify his peculiar and macabre worldview more succinctly than any biographer could hope to. Note: small bump to bottom corner of book, evident to the first half of the pages. Otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A beautifully produced monograph devoted to the paintings and drawings of John Altoon, a central figure in the Los Angeles art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Haunting and erotic, Altoon's colorful paintings and intimate drawings capture the magical moment in postwar California between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolution of the late '60s.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 223 pages in b&w. In honor of the magazine's 100th birthday, this celebratory collection captures the brilliantly quirky personalities behind some of The New Yorker's most iconic cartoons. Filled with striking portraits by world-renowned photographer Alen MacWeeney, captivating profiles by long-time New Yorker contributor Michael Maslin, and a sampling of each artist's work, these pages offer an exclusive peek inside the creative brains of over fifty prominent cartoonists, both seasoned and newly minted. From legends like Roz Chast and Jack Ziegler to contemporaries like Liana Finck and Jeremy Nguyen, this landmark volume is a beautiful homage to the artists who have long brought joy, humor, and satire to our lives. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Somogy Editions D'Art , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Full color exhibition catalogue of the new retrospective exhibition of Saint-Gaudens' work, the first in Europe since 1900. Venues include the Muse des Augustins, in Toulouse (February 2-May 30, 1999), and the Muse national de la Cooperation Franco-Americaine, at Blrencourt (June 26-October 18, 1999). The artwork covers Saint-Gaudens' entire career, from the cameos done during his youth, to sophisticated portrait reliefs, public monuments and coins. The essays contribute new scholarship on the sculptor's career and art, including his decorative art designs for Tiffany's, personalized pencil caricatures for friends, and the development of the monument to Charles Stewart Parnell in Dublin, the last public monument Saint-Gaudens saw to completion.