Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations. Newspaper clippings paper-clipped to front fly leaf. Previous price sticker on back cover. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers, front cover slightly bent. Light stain to bottom edge. Else pages clean and tight.
Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, hardcover in publisher's original deep navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Folio 12 1/2 '' x 10 1/4 ''. Contains 436 printed pages of text with 350 color and approximately 550 monochrome illustrations throughout. Illustrator Raeburn Van Buren's copy with his ownership signature on the half-title page dated February 24, 1978. His illustrations featured on several pages. Foreward by Norman Rockwell, notes on the artists, bibliography. Dust jacket bright with minor shelf wear.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 126 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Thomas Eakins wrote and illustrated this drawing manual for students, based on his famous lectures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After his forced resignation in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual. The manuscript and illustrations remained in his studio, where they were recovered after the death of the artist's widow in 1988. Published here for the first time, the drawing manual offers readers a unique opportunity to meet Eakins in his own words.
Softcover. NY, New York Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, leaflet of the Museum of the American Indian, account of a rare blanket, thought to be woven of dog hair, of the Salish Indians along with discussion of technique. Very good condition, bound between stiff card wraps.
Hardcover. Boston, Garden Press, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 143 pages, b&w frontispiece. INSCRIBED BY BAYLEY on front fly leaf. Maroon and gray cloth with gilt lettering on front cover.
Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. There is a tear on the bottom left corner of the back cover as well as rubbing. Light soil along the spine of the book. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.
Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.
Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, softcover, 216 pages. Over 200 color illustrations. Published to coincide with the 2012 showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum of works by 64 self-taught artists in the Anthony Petullo Collection. Foreword by Daniel T. Keegan. Art Brut and "Outsider" Art, essay by Jane Kallir - "It's a Picture Already, essay by Lisa Stone. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Accordion-fold folio. Wrap-around band torn and wrinkled but present. Minor rubbing to edges. Clean, tight copy. Foreword and Interview By Masahiko Yanagi. Photographs By Wolfgang Volz.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages. The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied public interest in Abstract Expressionism and sparked rancorous debate? Drawing on recent critical, historical and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a sharp new focus on a pivotal art movement.
Softcover. West Chester, PA, Chester County Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. 3 plates and 16 B&W illustrations. Red pictorial cover with tear to spine and wear to edges. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, Revised 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 201 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with moderate wear, closed tear. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Atlanta, High Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. This illustrated book, published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death, addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art. array of pictures by 38 other American painters-including Henry Ossawa Tanner, William Merritt Chase, and John Singer Sargent-to demonstrate how Whistler's American contemporaries were affected by his techniques, colour palette, compositions and subject matter. with American artists and the reception of his work in the United States. The essays that follow discuss Whistler's Venetian sojourn and its effect on the American artists who flocked to that city, his relationship with Philadelphia's art community, the Whistler Memorial Exhibition held in Boston in 1904, and much more. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 360 pages. Hardcover. Illustrations in full color and black & white. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Maroon streaks along bottom edge of pages 355-356 due to printers error. Dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 270 pages illustrated throughout with photographs in sepia and drawings in b&w. Autobiography of a Canadian-born sculptor of Western subjects, considered one of the best sculptors of horses in the world. Black cloth spine with red paper boards, no dust jacket. Black pictorial slipcase with light wear. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Hardcover. Amon Carter Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Illustrated with 119 plates (some color), b/w text drawings and photos + 1 map (3 panel fold-out). 4to. Catalogue Raisonne by Karen Reyn.
Hardcover. Amon Carter Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Illustrated with 119 plates (some color), b/w text drawings and photos + 1 map (3 panel fold-out). 4to. Catalogue Raisonne by Karen Reyn.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. 134 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography and index. Dust jacket slightly sun-faded. Examines Steiglitz's revolutionary role in the American avant-garde from the turn of the century to 1917. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalogue of Alfred Thompson Bricher. Softcover, 103 pages; plates in black & white; chronology. Cover: "A Pensive Moment" (color). In very good condition.
Softcover. Tampa, FL, University of South Florida, Unknown, N. D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 54 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Green pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers and spine, front cover slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, with roughly 60 color and 5 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. This catalogue from the first and only exhibition of Alice Neel's Depression-era paintings places these early surrealist and expressionist influenced works in the context of quotations from the artist and an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York , Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, with roughly 60 color and 5 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. This catalogue from the first and only exhibition of Alice Neel's Depression-era paintings places these early surrealist and expressionist influenced works in the context of quotations from the artist and an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two faint damp stains to front panel. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 415 pages with 18 Color and 136 Black and White Plates. Cream colored boards. A reprint of the 1931 Doubleday edition. Some foxing to boards and edges, else very good. No dust jacket, as issued. Light smudging to covers and top and bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 476 pages illustrated in b&w and color displaying beautiful pieces of colored glass and pottery. Clean and bright copy. Dust jacket slightly stained. Previous owner's inscription present. Lavishly illustrated and exhaustively researched reference on Art Nouveau designs in glass produced in America from 1890 to 1925, marking a high spot in the decorative arts. Includes a detailed study of various manufacturers and their histories, with special emphasis on those artisans who created identifiable and collectable pieces, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, A. Douglas Nash, the Durand family, and Frederick Carder. Contains four useful appendices reproducing a complete 1932 catalog published by the Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works, several pages from a circa 1928 Vineland Flint Glass Works catalog, pages from a circa 1914 C. Dorflinger & Sons catalog, and a "Belle Ware" catalog of Carl V. Helmschmied.
Hardcover. New York , R.R. Browker Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 290 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Newark NJ, Newark Museum, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brick-red paper wraps. Exhibition catalogue featuring American folk sculpture, including wood carvings, decoys, and weather vanes. 108 pages with 24 black/white plates to accompany essays and catalogue entries. Near fine condition, some edge wear, small ink mark inside the cover.
Softcover. Fort Lauderdale, FL, Richard Stuart Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to white wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 165 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. INSCRIBED BY MARGARET & RAYMOND (HOROWITZ) TO JOHN WILMERDING, art historian and author. Also laid in is the business card of JOHN K. HOWAT - curator of this exhibition at the Metropolitan. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 163 color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 page, illustrated throughout with 126 plates in b&w. Lightly bumped corners and mild shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. Artists include: James McNeill Whistler, Joseph Pennell, Albert Sterner, Margaret Lowengrund, Tatyana Grosman, June Wayne, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Rockwell Kent, and others.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 243 pages, 150 b&w plates. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Book and unprice-clipped pictorial dust jacket are without defects. A beautiful catalog of the great Ralph Esmerian collection of American folk art done when the 400 outstanding works were given to the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Outstanding plates followed by detailed descriptions.
Hardcover. Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Encyclopedic volume featuring the historical evolution of American homes. Hardcover, 320 pages. Over 1000 black/white illustrations, including architectural plans for each variety of home discussed. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, only flaw on the dust jacket is a small blue ink stain on the front.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages. 113 color plates, 47 in b&w. The painters who came to be known as the Hudson River School - Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic Edwin Church, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, and others - found inspiration in our young country's natural wonders and were the first to paint many of its still-wild vistas. As America was settled and the wilderness receded, their successors - most notably Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran - carried their quest for the sublime to the Far West, communicating its breathtaking grandeur in brilliant views of Rocky Mountain peaks, roaring waterfalls, and vast canyons. Within a single generation these artists established the dramatic approach to American landscape painting that is celebrated in this stirringly beautiful book. The freshness of their vision, the intensity of their invention, and the energy of their execution were all born of the urgency these artists sensed in the life of America itself. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886-1961) was an important influence on his fellow New York artists in the 1920s through 1940s. Graham and his circle, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine ideas of what painting and sculpture could be. They, along with others in Graham's orbit, such as Jackson Pollock and David Smith, played a critical role in developing and defining American modernism. American Vanguards showcases about eighty-seven works of art from this vital period that demonstrate the interconnections, common sources, and shared stimuli among the members of Graham's circle. Three essays by notable scholars investigate the complex relationships among Graham and his New York artist-colleagues during this formative period. William C. Agee positions Graham and his circle within the movement of New Classicism, which drew upon classical and Renaissance examples in an attempt to overcome the devastation of World War I. Irving Sandler focuses on the social, political, and intellectual dynamics among Davis, Gorky, Graham, and de Kooning in the mid-1930s. Karen Wilkin discusses the circumstances that brought these artists together, their common commitment to modernism, and the fascinating artistic cross-fertilization evident in their work. This critical reconsideration sheds new light on the New York School, Abstract Expressionism, and the vitality of American modernism between the two world wars.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Hardcover, 301 pages, 450 color illustrations. This groundbreaking book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's vernacular art out of the antiques arena and specialty museum and into today's art world. Presents hundreds of newly identified and never-before-published objects, from carnival figures to religious toterns, from antique trade signs to spectacular examples of hand-carved canes.
Hardcover. Pasadena CA, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated in color. Bright, clean copy in similar dust jacket. Catalog of an exhibition organised by the Pasadena Museum of Californian Art and held there and at the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005-6. The book presents 77 works, reproduced in excellent colour as half and full page plates, including nudes, figures and urban and rural landscapes. William Gerdts offers a scene-setting Introduction after which Solon provides an in-depth study of the artist's life and work. This includes his marriage, travels abroad including Europe, Panama and Mexico, experience as an aerial photographer in the Great War, return to Southern California and life in Pasadena, a region that was recommended for health reasons, and a final decade marked by ill-health that contributed to the general decline in his reputation outside of the local art community.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket; tape-repaired cut on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy. Focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz-as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene--at a series of significant moments in his career.
Hardcover. New Haven, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. 55 B&w illustrations and 21 plates in full color. Debates the relationship between art, science and religion by exploring the 19th century landscape painters fascination with geology. Scarce. Pictorial boards, black cloth spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In original shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Bound in black fabric with gilt title on spine and front cover. Other than a bit of foxing on top edge, clean inside. In very good condition. Published to accompany exhibit at art Institute of Chicago, October 10, 1992-January 3, 1993.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light yellowing to top and bottom of dust jacket, front and back, otherwise clean tight copy.A dazzling book that looks back at six decaders of paintings by one os America's favorite artists. What makes the book truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting- an "autobiography" told through conversations with Thomas Hoving, the former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - which offer fascinating and sometimes unexpected facts about Wyeth's life and art.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. 2000 illustrations, 1400 in color. Sixteen pound monster elephant folio, a huge volume. Laminated covers, clean, very good. Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and comprehensive overview of Warhol's extraordinary career is packed with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork. Dave Hickey's compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution combines with chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders to give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. It also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.