Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 458 pages. Through furniture, this exhibition catalogue will explore the cultural identity of a little-studied region of 18th and 19th century New England: southeastern Massachusetts, an area that stretches from just south of Boston to Providence, east to the tip of Cap Cod, and includes the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. The era between 1710 and 1850 was marked by enormous changes in the landscape, population, and economy of this area, as well as in the activities of furniture craftsmen and the purchasing patterns of local residents. Three themes are paramount here: 1. Regionalism in the character of furniture made in the area and the forces that shaped that identity. 2. Fashion, changing tastes and the growing affluence of local residents over time. 3. Shop practices and the evolving craft practices of furniture makers through the recreation of two shops, the rural handcraft tradition of Samuel Wing of Sandwich in 1800 and the mechanized operation of a New Bedford or Fall River chair factory in 1850. The exhibition will include approximately 75 pieces of furniture from private and institutional collections, tools and equipment from the Samuel Wing cabinet shop (now owned by Sturbridge Village), and selected household furnishings depicting interiors in southeastern Massachusetts during the 18th and 19th centuries. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. San Francisco, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, plastic comb binding, Soft white and color illustrated wraps with gray and black lettering. Color plates. Interior pages printed on thick, gray paper. Includes text by Stephen Wirtz. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST on the inside cover. Created to announce the exhibition "Harold Paris: The 26 Days of John Little", held from February 7 through March 8, 1978 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color pictorial guide throughout. Includes price guide.
Softcover. Old Lyme. CT, Florence Griswold Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, b&w illustrations, 29 color plates, illustrated tissue guard. Light wear to wrapper corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. A book examining the life and work of an artist noted for his joie de vivre and for his versatility as an artist from winter views of New England to undersea paintings of the Bahamas. 89 pages, 29 color & 40 b/w illustrations with unique color frontispiece on vellum.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages illustrated in b&w. Printed card wrappers, staple bound. Exhibition shown from March to May 1970. Architect Hector Guimard is the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover catalog, 234 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. Includes 16 full page color illustrations printed on glossy card stock; black and white photograph of Frankenthaler on verso of title page. Catalog for exhibition held Nov. 30 - Dec. 31, 1983. Clean copy.
Softcover. Houston TX, Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light tan wrappers. 10 color plates, 16 pages. For an exhibition November-December 1980. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, 14 color plates, gives sizes and medium for each. Exhibition catalog for October 4 - November 3, 1984. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 255 duotone photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 255 duotone photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Oversize hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Large black and white & color photographs throughout. Tight copy. Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in 1943. During this period, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, assuming that the photographer had died in the war, started preparing what they thought would be a posthumous exhibition of his work. When he reappeared, Cartier-Bresson was delighted to learn of the exhibition and decided to review his entire oeuvre and curate it himself. In 1946 Cartier-Bresson traveled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook, glued in the photos, and brought that album to MoMA's curators. His exhibition there, a celebration of his survival, opened on February 4, 1947.In the 1990s, Cartier-Bresson once again turned his attention to this scrapbook. Following his death in 2004, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the present owner of the prints, finished the job of restoring them, making it possible to bring a large body of his extraordinary work to the public, images that have now become a memorial collection after all.
Softcover. Washington DC/NY, National Gallery of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1986, Softcover, large exhibition catalog, white wraps, 367 pages. Profusely illustrated with color and bw plates. A coherent group of major paintings representing that period when Matisse gave up his primary artistic residence in Paris to watch him settle in Nice. First as a temporary visitor and then as a permanent citizen, we watch him respond to the Mediterranean and the constancy of its light. Bookplate on inside fron cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Heavy volume. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages with 282 color plates, 53 in b&w. No dust jacket. Published to coincide with a major exhibition of the artist's work in Europe, this loving tribute to one of the greatest, and most bizarre, of the medieval painters introduces readers to the often grotesque vision expressed in his work.
Softcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversized softcover. Published with the the exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September-November 2001. Minor wear to corners and edges of cover. Inside is bright and clean. Many color illustrations throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Sotheby's New York, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 579 lots, color photos throughout. Maroon cloth. Includes silver, miniatures, watches, prints and illustrations, maps, small statuary, a few paintings and marble busts, furniture, painted portraits, more furniture, clocks, chairs, Indian artifacts, more clocks, china, brassware, more furniture, a few paintings, samplers, embroidered items, carved ivory, more furniture, and some folk-art items. Lots of annotation on the more expensive items. Small dent to lower edge of front board, light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. landscapes. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship. This edition has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. Henry Smith ex-plains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modern urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies imaginable.
Softcover. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue featuring the Hispanic art of the American Southwest. 118 pages, 21 black/white plates, 105 other black/white illustrations of pieces, and 36 black/white photographs of featured artists. Good condition, some soiling/light discoloration on the cover, top right corner bent.
Softcover. Chadds Forf PA, Brandywine River Museum , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages. Exhibition catalogue for a show that ran in spring 1998. Book has two essays in addition to the artwork: Howard Pyle: A Life in Illustration, and How and Why We Collected, both by Howard Broka. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Remainder mark to textblock. Hockney's Pictures is the first definitive "retrospective" to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography, including new and published works. The pieces, presented thematically, are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track Hockney's lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. With 325 illustrations, accompanied by extensive quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures is destined to become a classic.
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Remainder mark to textblock. Hockney's Pictures is the first definitive "retrospective" to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography, including new and published works. The pieces, presented thematically, are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track Hockney's lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. With 325 illustrations, accompanied by extensive quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures is destined to become a classic.