Art Exhibition

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Both in beautifully illustrated slipcase. Minor fraying to slipcase edges. Hardcovers both clean and unmarked. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Vancouver, Marion Scott Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Worcester MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages. 148 plates including 9 in color. Includes notes, bibliography, and catalogue. Minor edgewear to wrappers, clean copy.

Softcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition held from September 3-December 8, 2013. Clean, bight copy.

Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 123 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Smithsonian Institution / Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eighty-two watercolors and drawings selected from the extensive Searight Collection in London present a variety of 19th-century artists' encounters with the diverse cultures and dramatic lands of the fabled Ottoman Empire. Complementing the artworks are essays by experts in Middle Eastern studies elucidating the exchange of ideas and influences between East and West. Artists include Edward Lear, Luigi Meyer, David Roberts etc. 128 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable-and largely overlooked-influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century. Born in New York City in 1921 into a notable family, Wagstaff followed an arc that was typical of a young man of his class. He attended both Hotchkiss and Yale, served in the navy, and would follow in step with his Ivy League classmates to the "gentleman's profession," as an ad executive on Madison Avenue. With his unmistakably good looks, he projected an aura of glamour and was cited by newspapers as one of the most eligible bachelors of the late 1940s. Such accounts proved deceiving, for Wagstaff was forced to live in the closet, his homosexuality only revealed to a small circle of friends. Increasingly uncomfortable with his career and this double life, he abandoned advertising, turned to the formal study of art history, and embarked on a radical personal transformation that was in perfect harmony with the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Walt Disney Family Museum, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w throughout. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Montgomery, Ala., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 69 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small mark on rear cover, else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages, b&w illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy. 10 color, 99 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1980 exhibition featuring works of American artist Walter Gay (1856-1937). With a substantial illustrated essay by Gary A. Reynolds, a brief chronology and selected bibliography. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 90 pieces.

Softcover. Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design, 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover with slight edgewear to wrappers. Minor shelf wear to back wrapper with some discoloration to top edge. Black and white images throughout. Edition limited to 2, 200 copies designed by Malcolm Grear.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career in the 1940s as an illustrator and cartoonist. This book of 116 drawings-compiled with the full cooperation of the artist to accompany a major new exhibition at the Morgan Library Museum-explores the wide range of Thiebaud's production on paper, including early sketches, luminous pastels, and watercolors, and charcoal drawings made in connection with his teaching. In subjects ranging from deli counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings endow the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.

Softcover. San Francisco, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated thick wraps. appx. 44 pages, 12 color plates, half-tone frontispiece and color wraps. This exhibition was also held at the Alan Stone Gallery and Faggionato Fine Arts. The exhibition listed 6 works. Several short introductory essays by the various gallery owners.

Hardcover. Indianapolis IN, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages with 129 color plates. Foreword by James K. Ballinger. Wonderful work by the Arizona artist who started his career as an illustrator in New York for magazines like the Saturday Evening Post. The subject is primarily the American Indian. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 151 pages, illustrated throughout with plates in full color. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. Light wear to edges of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 306 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, b&w frontispiece. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery /Yale University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 231 pages, numerous color and bw plates. Catalogue of a de Kooning exhibition, organized by the National Gallery in association with the Tate Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This illustrated survey of de Kooning's paintings covers the period from 1938 through 1986. The catalogue, by curator Prather, is preceded by two critical essays: Sylvester's "Flesh Was the Reason" and Shiff's "Water and Lipstick: De Kooning in Transition." 12'' x 9.75''. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 84 color prints. A tight copy. Willem de Kooning is a masterful painter whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s. Organized thematically and chronologically, the book focuses on de Kooning's most noteworthy and original painted achievements.

Softcover. Seattle WA, Frye Art Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages in color. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** A major exhibition devoted to the American painter William Beckman, one of the leading exponents of the Realist "school." A figurative artist, he leans heavily upon classical tradition. The nude portraits can be sometimes jarring. Less well-known are his scenes of rural America, with farms and silos. *** "William Beckman (b. 1942) paints himself, loved ones, and the land he has lived upon, creating edgy portraits and landscapes. His subjects, whether mother or lover, are delivered to the viewer with gripping details, without embelishment. He creates his figurative art using a unique method. He applies paint, then shaves of layer after layer from the surface with a razor, repainting and polishing the canvas to create lustrous, absorbing images. His realism is stripped of sentiment, his idealized portraits scrupulously rendered, and his expansive tracts of Minnesota farmland theatrically scaled. Each painting is epic in significance and matter-of-fact at the same ime. This is the first book that offers a comprehensive view of Beckman's art and career.

Hardcover. Augusta, Georgia, Morris Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO FRAN BULL BY WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY. Gilt edged page block, clean covers with inset painting and gilt lettering. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Augusta, Georgia, Morris Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt edged page block, clean covers with inset painting and gilt lettering. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Augusta, Georgia, Morris Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt edged page block, clean covers with inset painting and gilt lettering. Tight copy.

Softcover. Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog of William M. Harnett's still-life paintings. 334 pages; 223 illustrations, including 52 in full color. Edited by Doreen Bolger, Marc Simpson, and John Wilmerding. Light scratching to covers, else a tight, clean copy.