Art Portraits

Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, color illustrated, large format. This catalog raisonne brings together Velazquez's complete works--jaw-dropingly reproduced in extra-large format with a selection of delicious enlarged details--with insightful commentary on how his paintings give equal attention to all that they contain. To him, an old woman frying eggs or a buffoon was as important as a Pope or a King. For him, form was subservient to light and color; the brushstrokes were markers to help the viewers reconstruct each picture mentally--concepts adopted vehemently by the Impressionists. Velazquez's greatest talent was creating beauty from the grotesque, imbuing each subject with a human liveliness rarely seen on canvas. In its extensive detail and comparisons, Jose Lopez-Rey's book reveals the development of this vision. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Center for American Places, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 184 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Includes CD. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people. With his insightful and complex images Willis enlists several other voices to offer a more complete story: writer Kent Nerburn, who contributes an original essay; Lakota elders and Pine Ridge High School students, who offer poems; Emil Her Many Horses, the associate curator of the National Museum of the American Indian, Kevin Gover, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and Oglala Lakota artist Dwayne Wilcox. Accompanying the book is Heartbeat of the Rez, a compact disc collecting traditional songs compiled by the author, the elders, and KILI, the radio station of the reservation.

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, Monacelli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages, Full-page photographs throughout, most b&w, minor edge wear and remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Ron Galella, the photographer who made his name capturing celebrities in unguarded, often private moments, was a favorite of Andy Warhol, who shared his fascination with the great and near-great. Warhol himself recorded his nightly rounds through a seemingly endless parade of parties, openings, and happenings in his diaries. In these photographs Galella presents the definitive visual diary of Warhol's life and times, his entourage, and his haunts.

Softcover. NY, New American Library, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Over one hundred photos of Warhol, his friends and activities. Name on front fly leaf. otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume devoted to the work of painter and portraitist William McGregor Paxton. Includes 30 black/white and 52 color plates, many full-page. Includes essay on Impressionism and biographical information on the artist. Very good condition; dust jacket shows some wear on the edges, but cloth bound book has no internal flaws. 165 pages, essay by R.H. Ives Gammel.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages. The great American artist William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) completed a wide variety of portraits over his long career. Among his subjects were presidents, businessmen, celebrities, New York luminaries, and members of his family as well as a number of self-portraits. Chase's ability to capture a likeness was renowned, yet it was his dashing and bravura brushwork that truly set his portraits apart. This highly anticipated book presents the entire collection of Chase's known portraits in oil. Each is gorgeously reproduced, and many are published in color for the first time. This is the second of four volumes cataloguing the complete works of William Merritt Chase.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Pa. , Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 211 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial gray stiff wrappers. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, lower front corner dog-eared, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in good condition--tears to upper and bottom spine of book, as well as nicks to upper, front edges. ix+ 185 pp. + color frontpiece; 148 b/w illustrations. Catalogue of 1108 works by 412 known artists (127 works by unidentified artists) in all media except prints. Preface by John Marshall Phillips; portraits arranged alphabetically by subject, with biographies of each; index of artists, with list of portraits by each.

Softcover. NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps. 39 pages, 15 b&w, 25 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition. With a preface by Stuart P. Feld and a 7-page illustrated introduction by Gregory Hedberg. The 30 catalogue entries are annotated. Artists include Henry Inman, James McNeil Whistler, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Wellington, et al. Also includes Andy Warhol's portrait of John Lennon and Nelson Shanks portrait of Princess Diana.