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Our American Artistsby: Benjamin, S. G. W.

Our American Artists
by: Benjamin, S. G. W.

Hardcover. Boston, Massacusetts, D. Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Green cloth covers with black titles and gilt illustration, all edges gilt, beveled edges, multiple full page b&w tissue-protected plates, 12 chapters on different American artists. Very light foxing to tissue paper, mild wear to cover edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806050

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Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahnby: Pattison, Harriet

Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
by: Pattison, Harriet

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 438 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year romance, with Pattison becoming the architect's closest confidante, his intellectual partner, and the mother of his only son. Here for the first time, Pattison recounts their passionate and sometimes searing relationship. Married and twenty-seven years her senior, Kahn sent her scores of letters--many from far-flung places--until his untimely death. This book weaves together Pattison's own story with letters, postcards, telegrams, drawings, and photographs that reveal Kahn's inner life and his architectural thought process, including new insight into some of his greatest works, both built and unbuilt. What emerges is at once a poignant love story and a vivid portrait of a young woman striving to raise a family while forging an artistic path in the shadow of her famous partner. Clean copy.

Record # 382260

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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by: Dennison, Matthew

Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
by: Dennison, Matthew

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Inspired by the twenty-three 'tales', Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter's life and her own illustrations, this biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter's work. Clean copy.

Record # 387536

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Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrenceby: Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Patricia Hills, et al.

Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence
by: Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Patricia Hills, et al.

Hardcover. University of Washington Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full color, more than 200 works, most of which have not been published in color, or at all, in other books on the artist.

Record # 372063

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Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life and Times of George Caleb Binghamby: Alberta Wilson Constant

Paintbox on the Frontier: The Life and Times of George Caleb Bingham
by: Alberta Wilson Constant

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 193 pages including index, illustrated with 34 reproductions, some in color. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) who painted his world as it really was, everyday people in their everyday lives. His family was one of the early pioneer settlers, moving to the frontier in 1819. George began is art career painting tavern signs, later graduating to portraits, views of everyday life and "river paintings". He also was a Missouri politician, holding several important offices. Clean copy.

Record # 397372

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Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Artby: James Rosenquist and David Dalton

Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art
by: James Rosenquist and David Dalton

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, 384 pages. Ronsequist writes about growing up in a tight-knit community of Scandinavian farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s; about his mother, who was not only an amateur painter but, along with his father, a passionate aviator; and about leaving that flat midwestern landscape in 1955 for New York, where he had won a scholarship to the Art Students League. George Grosz, Edwin Dickinson, and Robert Beverly Hale were among his teachers, but his early life was a struggle until he discovered sign painting. He describes days suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway, painting movie or theater billboards, and nights at the Cedar Tavern with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and the poet LeRoi Jones. His first major studio, on Coenties Slip, was in the thick of the new art world. Among his neighbors were Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin, and Jack Youngerman, and his mentors Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Record # 361961

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Paintings of L. S. Lowry, The - Oils and Watercoloursby: Levy (Editor), Mervyn/Laurence Stephen Lowry

Paintings of L. S. Lowry, The - Oils and Watercolours
by: Levy (Editor), Mervyn/Laurence Stephen Lowry

Hardcover. London, Jupiter Books, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 31 pages text followed by 130 plates. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Frontis photograph of the artist, L. S. Lowry, Stockport, Winter 1962. Full page, full color & bw plates throughout. Dust jacket with wear & toning to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750837

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Paolo Uccello ITALIAN TEXT, INSCRIBEDby: Parronchi, Alessandro

Paolo Uccello ITALIAN TEXT, INSCRIBED
by: Parronchi, Alessandro

Hardcover. Italy, Massimiliano Boni, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages, plus plates. ITALIAN TEXT. INSCRIBED. Color frontispiece, B/w illustrations/plates throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Covers good, bound in blue fabric. Foxing on edges and endpapers, but pages clean. In very good condition.

Record # 30989

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Pasternak on Art & Creativityby: Livingstone, Angela

Pasternak on Art & Creativity
by: Livingstone, Angela

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages. Blue cloth boards. Pictorial dust jacket is tinted with light fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855656

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Paul Gauguin: The Calm Madmanby: Becker, Beril

Paul Gauguin: The Calm Madman
by: Becker, Beril

Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni , 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original light gray cloth hardcover with gilt & green lettering on the spine and the front cover. 340 pages, 8 b&w plates including frontis self-portrait. No dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 383328

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Paul Has a Summer Jobby: Rabagliati, Michel

Paul Has a Summer Job
by: Rabagliati, Michel

Softcover. Montreal , Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Michel Rabagliati throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Rabagliati`s strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999`s Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country won the 2000 Harvey award for Best New Talent. This, his first graphic novel, is a sweet, unsentimental story about being a teenager and Rabagliati's crisp retro-modern 1950s drawing style. Paul Has a Summer Job continues the story of Paul, a Quebecois teenager in the 1970s, as he experiences the first conflicts of responsibility with his desire to be free.

Record # 352235

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Paul Kleeby: Lanchner, Carolyn

Paul Klee
by: Lanchner, Carolyn

Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover published on occasion of the exhibition by the same title, touring various locations including the Museum of Modern Art, February 12 - May 5, 1987. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, Twittering Machine, 1922. Light toning to spine. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750514

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Paul Outerbridge: Command Performanceby: Paul Martineau

Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance
by: Paul Martineau

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages. "With assistant curator of photographs Paul Martineau's intriguing biographical essay (based, in part, on the Getty's archive of Outerbridge papers), 104 stunningly beautiful plates, a chronology, checklist, and index, this catalog offers a highly visual and seductive overview. A section featuring selected photographs from Outerbridge's California years, a period missing from earlier books, makes this publication of interest to specialists as well."--ARLIS/NA Reviews

Record # 362277

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Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake by: Peake, Mervyn, Gilmore, Maeve

Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
by: Peake, Mervyn, Gilmore, Maeve

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 576 pages. 16 pages of black & white plates, 48 line-drawings in text (one double-page), dark grey endpapers. Excellent copy in fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with photographs of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore on flaps. Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, "The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs;" the early "Mr. Slaughterboard," which foreshadows the "Titus" books; two plays, "The Wit to Woo" and "Noah's Ark;" a broadcast version of "Mr. Pye," and a generous selection of Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses and drawings-all of them adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly original writer.Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth.

Record # 353197

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Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonistby: Maslin, Michael

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist
by: Maslin, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 353204

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Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonistby: Maslin, Michael

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist
by: Maslin, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470908

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Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonistby: Maslin, Michael

Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist
by: Maslin, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352696

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Peter Beard (2 Volume Set}by: Beard, Peter and Ruth Ansel

Peter Beard (2 Volume Set}
by: Beard, Peter and Ruth Ansel

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcovers in a slipcase, Volume 1: African wildlife photos, Volume II: biography. 494 pages. Text in English. French & German. As a photographer, collector, diarist and writer, U.S. born Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolving into a serious career as an artist. He first visited Africa as a teenager and his documenting of the plight of starving animals, including elephants and rhinos, has continued to highlight the problems facing conservationists. This special edition is based on the original limited Collector's Edition which sold out on publication. NOTE: THIS LARGE HEAVY SET UNAVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Record # 360922

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Philip Evergoodby: Baur, John I. H.

Philip Evergood
by: Baur, John I. H.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 358545

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Philip Grushkin: A Designer"s Archiveby: Shaw, Paul

Philip Grushkin: A Designer"s Archive
by: Shaw, Paul

Softcover. New York, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. A look at book jackets designed by Grushkin, also includes jackets designed by George Salter, Grushkin's teacher. Table of contents, introduction, a biography of Grushkin, book jackets and examples of graphic design by Grushkin. Glossary, biographical sketches of important figures, biographical sketch of the author.

Record # 350501

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Photodiaryby: Goldsmith, Lynn

Photodiary
by: Goldsmith, Lynn

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli , 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. B&w and color photographs throughout. Binding cracked between two pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 352315

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Photographic Memoriesby: Delano, Jack

Photographic Memories
by: Delano, Jack

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellowing to top edge of dust jacket. Rubbing to rear. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Jack Delano's "Photographic Memories" include the struggles of migrant workers and the homefront contributions of ethnic and minority groups living in the shadow of the Depression. Employed as a photographer by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Delano later settled in Puerto Rico, where he has been a constant participant in the island's cultural life. This memoir includes rare photos from his FSA years, along with cartoons, personal snapshots and film stills.

Record # 353344

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Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoirby: Lord, James

Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir
by: Lord, James

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 368184

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Picasso My Grandfatherby: Picasso, Marina

Picasso My Grandfather
by: Picasso, Marina

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead , 1st, 2001-11-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Filled with fame, fortune, tragedy, excess, betrayal, and salvation, a powerful glimpse into the life of Picasso and his first family, as told by his granddaughter, reveals his controlling ways and alcoholism that led to the destruction of their family and how she learned to come to terms with the blessings and curses of the Picasso legacy.

Record # 463391

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Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France 1900-1973by: Cohen-Solal, Annie/Taylor, Sam (Translator)

Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France 1900-1973
by: Cohen-Solal, Annie/Taylor, Sam (Translator)

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 588 pages, several color plates. Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 386334

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Picasso: The Communist Yearsby: Utley, Guertje

Picasso: The Communist Years
by: Utley, Guertje

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the front flap: "This stimulating book is the first comprehensive examination of Picasso's political commitment, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member. Guertje R. Utley assesses the impact Communism had on the artist's life and explores how Picasso's political beliefs and the doctrines of the Communist Party affected his artistic production."

Record # 30405

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Piero della Francescaby: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Piero della Francesca
by: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in full color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458389

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Piet Mondrian: The Studios: Amsterdam, Laren, Paris, London, New Yorkby: Cees W. de Jong

Piet Mondrian: The Studios: Amsterdam, Laren, Paris, London, New York
by: Cees W. de Jong

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The work of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), whose orderly black-and-white squares, punctuated occasionally by primary colors are instantly recognizable, played a crucial role in shaping the avant-garde art of the twentieth century. Each section of this visual journey through his life and career takes its inspiration from the location of one of Mondrian's studios and traces his path from Amsterdam to Paris, and via the Dutch village of Laren to London and New York. Each of these locations represents a distinct stage in the development of Mondrian's art: from the naturalistic paintings of the 1890s and the experimental neo-Impressionist works of the early twentieth century to his involvement with the De Stijl movement and his famous grid paintings, and finally the bold dynamism of his late work in the United States, inspired by the rhythms of jazz and the buzzing metropolis. As Mondrian's art took the simplification of form to an extreme, the walls of his studios became an ever-changing surface made up of cardboard rectangles painted in primary colors, white, and gray. Illustrated by a wealth of paintings as well as personal photographs, documents, and texts written by Mondrian himself, the book captures every facet of this uncompromising artist's quest to represent the spirit of the modern world. Illustrated in color throughout

Record # 379566

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Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughterby: Walter S. Gibson

Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter
by: Walter S. Gibson

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel's art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings and drawings are thought to conceal profound allegories best illuminated with scholarly erudition. In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humor. In his illuminating examination of the witty and amusing elements in Bruegel's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to the sixteenth century European culture of laughter, Gibson reminds us exactly why Bruegel was one of the most original artists of his time. Clean copy.

Record # 373759

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Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury (SIGNED COPY)by: Kellogg, Steven

Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury (SIGNED COPY)
by: Kellogg, Steven

Hardcover. New York, DialBooks, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STEVEN KELLOGG WITH ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Dust jacket shows light rubbing. Cover boards show light edgewear, tight copy.

Record # 354259

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Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakinsby: McFeely, William S.

Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakins
by: McFeely, William S.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 color plates. A very clean, tight copy. Thomas Eakins, a native of Philadelphia, painted two worlds: one sure of its valuesthe surgeons, inventors, musicians, and athletes of his timeand another that reflected his own struggles with depression and sexual identity. In this evenhanded account of those struggles, William S. McFeely sheds new light on Eakins's genius and on the evocative melancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, which include many of his remarkable wife, Susan McDowell Eakins. Those deeply perceptive paintings may be the greatest expressions of his art.

Record # 452642

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Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakinsby: McFeely, William S.

Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakins
by: McFeely, William S.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 237 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations, including portrait frontispiece, 14 color plates. Thomas Eakins, a native of Philadelphia, painted two worlds: one sure of its values - the surgeons, inventors, musicians and athletes of his time - and another that reflected his own struggles with depression and sexual identity. This book presents an account of Eakins' struggles, his genius, and the evocative melancholy of his portraits.

Record # 351841

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Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakinsby: McFeely, William S.

Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakins
by: McFeely, William S.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 237 pages. Numerous B&W illustrations, including portrait frontispiece, 14 color plates. Thomas Eakins, a native of Philadelphia, painted two worlds: one sure of its values - the surgeons, inventors, musicians and athletes of his time - and another that reflected his own struggles with depression and sexual identity. This book presents an account of Eakins' struggles, his genius, and the evocative melancholy of his portraits.

Record # 351842

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Prendergast in Italyby: Mathews, Nancy Mowil

Prendergast in Italy
by: Mathews, Nancy Mowil

Hardcover. London/ New York , Merrell, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Minor bumping to corners, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457993

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Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographsby: Sasowsky, Norman

Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographs
by: Sasowsky, Norman

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Record # 362711

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Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographsby: Sasowsky, Norman

Prints of Reginald Marsh, The: An Essay and Definitive Catalog of His Linoleum Cuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographs
by: Sasowsky, Norman

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.

Record # 804762

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Private World of Tasha Tudor, Theby: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard

Private World of Tasha Tudor, The
by: Tudor, Tasha; Brown, Richard

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 134 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 383370

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Profusely Illustrated: A Memoirby: Edward Sorel

Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir
by: Edward Sorel

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures--and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork--Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: his poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at age eight; his time as a student at New York's famed High School of Music and Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios, founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, which became the hottest design group of the 1960s; his two marriages and four children; and his many friends in New York's art and literary circles.

Record # 381653

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Ralph Lauren by Ralph Laurenby: Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren by Ralph Lauren
by: Ralph Lauren

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Large volume, 15.25 x 11.75" in a slipcase. Color drawings of fashion on endpapers, color and b&w photographs throughout of Ralph Lauren and his world. Foreword by Audrey Hepburn. Clean copy. Due to size and weight this volume is domestic shopping only.

Record # 380660

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Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoirby: Blackburn, Henry

Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoir
by: Blackburn, Henry

New York, George Routledge, 1st , 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, 172 B&W illustrations. An exceptionally bright, tight copy. Green beveled covers with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Surprisingly scarce. First American Edition. A significant memoir, published in the year of Caldecott"s death.

Record # 303331

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Rauschenberg (Third Edition): Art and Lifeby: Mary Lynn Kotz

Rauschenberg (Third Edition): Art and Life
by: Mary Lynn Kotz

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 3rd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 368 pages, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and the art he made over his career. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Rauschenberg was a pivotal figure in the creative explosion of art following WWII. This revised edition of the classic biography of the artist adds a new chapter covering the significant moments in the final years of his life, and offers an in-depth look at his legacy and continued influence on the postmodern art world. It includes new photography and interviews with friends, colleagues, critics, and art historians.

Record # 370709

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Rauschenberg (Third Edition): Art and Lifeby: Mary Lynn Kotz

Rauschenberg (Third Edition): Art and Life
by: Mary Lynn Kotz

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 3rd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and the art he made over his career. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Rauschenberg was a pivotal figure in the creative explosion of art following WWII. This revised edition of the classic biography of the artist adds a new chapter covering the significant moments in the final years of his life, and offers an in-depth look at his legacy and continued influence on the postmodern art world. It includes new photography and interviews with friends, colleagues, critics, and art historians.

Record # 370708

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Red Man's Bones, The: George Catlin, Artist and Showmanby: Eisler, Benita

Red Man's Bones, The: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
by: Eisler, Benita

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353483

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Reed Crandall: Illustrator of the Comics (with author-signed bookplate)by: Hill, Roger

Reed Crandall: Illustrator of the Comics (with author-signed bookplate)
by: Hill, Roger

Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing , 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 256 pages, illustrated in color. From the 1940s to the '70s, Reed Crandall brought a unique and masterful style to American comic art. Using an illustrator's approach on everything he touched, Crandall gained a reputation as the "artist's artist" through his skillful interpretations of Golden Age super-heroes Doll Man, The Ray, and Blackhawk (his signature character); horror and sci-fi for the legendary EC Comics line; Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie, and Blazing Combat; the THUNDER Agents and Edgar Rice Burroughs characters; and even Flash Gordon for King Features. Comic art historian Roger Hill has compiled a complete and extensive history of Crandall's life and career, from his early years and major successes, through his tragic decline and passing in 1982. This full-color softcover includes never-before-seen photos, a wealth of rare and unpublished artwork, and over eighty thousand words of insight into one of the true illustrators of the comics. Bookplate signed by Roger Hill laid in.

Record # 369417

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Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portraitby: Ficowski, Jerzy

Regions of the Great Heresy - Bruno Schulz - A Biographical Portrait
by: Ficowski, Jerzy

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614462

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Reminiscences of a Portrait Painterby: Healy, George P.A.

Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
by: Healy, George P.A.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805229

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Rene Herbst: Pioneer of Modernismby: Guillemette Delaporte

Rene Herbst: Pioneer of Modernism
by: Guillemette Delaporte

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Rene Herbst's enduring furniture designs provide fundamental lessons for today's interior designers. A staunch modernist, Herbst was a founding member and later president of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) in France, which sought to make domestic comfort accessible to all, regardless of class. The diversity of his work is testament to his prolific and creative output, and his design is marked by its simplicity and functionality. The French architect turned designer was nicknamed the "man of steel" because he pioneered the use of the material for furniture years before mass production on a large scale was possible. In 1929 he created several versions of his celebrated Sandow Chair, which ignited his research into serial production and inaugurated the era of mass production. This book presents a selection of the best works from the Herbst Collection held by the library of the Musee des Arts decoratifs in Paris, and demonstrates how Herbst was the catalyst of a new style of living that spurred the birth of modernity.

Record # 361144

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Robert Feke: Colonial Portrait Painter by: Foote, Henry Wilder

Robert Feke: Colonial Portrait Painter
by: Foote, Henry Wilder

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

Record # 805222

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Robert Indiana: Figures of Speechby: Ryan, Professor Susan Elizabeth

Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech
by: Ryan, Professor Susan Elizabeth

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, May 11, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Although lumped together with Pop artists such as Roy Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol, and often the movement's spokesperson, Indiana and his paintings actually have an uneasy fit in Pop company, mostly because his work isn't grounded in the commodity-oriented (Campbell Soup) realism of most Pop Art. Instead, his work engages with literature and poetry and with the popular rhetoric of the American dream-all permeated by the particularities of his upbringing and life. Ryan's dual accomplishments are in articulating the dynamics of Indiana's art-especially the connections between the artworks and the sources of imagery and themes in his own biography-and in rendering a sophisticated and judicious roundup of the Pop Art movement.

Record # 455435

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Robert Lawson, Illustrator: A Selection of His Characteristic Illustrationsby: Lawson, Robert

Robert Lawson, Illustrator: A Selection of His Characteristic Illustrations
by: Lawson, Robert

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Brodart covering dust jacket has two blue lines that bled through onto dust jacket. Internally clean and tight copy.

Record # 354394

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