Category: Art & Photography

Lost Cities of the Mayas: The Life, Art and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood

By: Bourbon, Fabio

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Swan Hill Press : 1999

Seller ID: 25295

ISBN-13: 9781840370423

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Beautiful as new copy -- no defect of any kind and dustjacket protected by brand new mylar.. . Recounts the extraordinary life of Frederick Catherwood, the English artist who explored the Central American forest and the Yucatan plateau during the first half of the 19th century in search of Mayan cities. Illustrated with full color art by Catherwood and maps. 193 pages plus back matter.Beautiful fold-out at front too. Exqusite book.Measures 10"x14"
View More...

Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Graphic Work

By: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Washignton D.C., Smithsonian Inst Press : 1979

Seller ID: 28202

ISBN-13: 9780874742848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Beautiful book -- clean as a whistle inside and out. No bumps to boards and no names or writing. Book is designed with paper over boards and a blue cloth spine. Book measures 9" x 12" and has 189 pages. Book opens with an extensive chapter about Cassatt's life and work, plus notes and a chronology. The next discussesnher techncal methods used by her -- drypoint, hard ground etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, color prints, other tonal processes and lithography. The majority of the book is the catalogue which focuses solely on her graphci works. It is predominately illustrated in black an...
View More...

Views of Paris and Its Festivals: Works of Banque de France and Musee Carnavalet

By: Brewster, Carly (Editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System : 2010

Seller ID: 23770

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

There's a lot of reasons to love this exhibition catalog. First of all, the text is in ENGLISH. Secondly, its an exhibition catalog replete with color and sepia art printed on coated paper. Then there's the fact that it's brand new and has pretty two-tone blue maps printed inside both covers. What's remarkable though is the art depicting fireworks from 1644 which had pyrotechnics for the King's Feast on Place de Palais in August, 1644 to the marriage of Napoleon I and the Archduchess Marie-Louise in 1810. The Booklet measures 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" and has 77 pages. The exhibition spanned October 11...
View More...

Texas On Paper Organized and Curated by Cheryl A. Brutvan and Linda Cathcart

By: Brutman, Cheryl A.; Cathcart, Linda

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Houston and New York, New York Independent Curators Incorporated and the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum : 1982

Seller ID: 23542

Binding: Card Cover

Condition: Very Good

This is not the usual art catalog which presents the works in booklet form. This one is a portfolio which contains fifteen cards measuring 8" x 11" with the works on the front and the artist's biography on the back. The fifteen artists are these and all are accounted for: Linda Blackburn, Suzanne Hitt Bocanegra, Jean A. Dibble, Michael Doga, Vernon Fisher, Roberto Munguia, Bradley R. Petersen, Jim Poag, Albert T. Scherbarth, Charles Schorre, Gael Stack, Earl Staley, William Steen, James Surls, and Danny Williams. There are also three more cards which offer commentary from the curators, plus an...
View More...

The White House in Miniature: Based on the White House Replica by John, Jan, and the Zweifel Family

By: Buckland, Gail;Culbert-Aguilar, Kathleen

Price: $27.00

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc : 1994

Seller ID: 24367

ISBN-13: 9780393036633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very nice, clean book with o bumps to corners and very clean red boards. Oversized at 9"x10". Jacket is very clean with no tears or chips and has not been price-clipped. Looks most handsome in brand new mylar. Only fault is a narrow ban of toning at top edge of endflaps. SIGNED and inscribed to previous owner by John Zweifel, one of the artists who created the miniature masterpiece. Book is filled with excellent full color photographs, but also contains much text offering details about both the real building and the creation of the replica. 201 pages plus back matter.
View More...

MOONSAILORS

By: BUCKLEY SMITH

Price: $15.00

Publisher: LA JOLLA CA. , GREEN TIGER PRESS

Seller ID: 8002

ISBN-13: 9780881380392

Binding: PAPER

Condition: FINE

ITEM # 8002 MOONSAILERS BY BUCKLEY SMITH PUB BY GREEN TIGER PRESS 40 PGS 8 1/4 X 10 3/4 PAPER BACK 1 ST ED A PICTURE BOOK WITH NO WORDS , FULL OF SMITH'S UNIQUE ART IN B& W DEPICTING A FANTASY VOYAGE , UNDER SAIL ,THROUGH THE MOONLIT NIGHT BOOK FINE CONDITION DJ HAS 1" TEAR TOP ,BACK [ ART BX 1 ]
View More...

Image for The Fine Arts; A University Course Sculpture, Painting, Archticture and Decoration in Their History, Development and Principles (Vols. 1-11)

The Fine Arts; A University Course Sculpture, Painting, Archticture and Decoration in Their History, Development and Principles (Vols. 1-11)

By: Buckley, Edmund

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Chicago, National Art Society : 1907

Seller ID: 27143CWR

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Eleven consecutive books in a fine arts course published in 1907. Beautifully kept and beautifully designed. All are illustrated, primarily in black and white on quality coated paper. Each measures 9"x12" and each is focused on one period of art. Appears to be missing one volume -- #12 -- which covers Asian art. All are clean and tightly bound with just light wear. Begins with principles and technique of fine art and moves through the ages showing painting, sculpture and architecture of each. The final volume I have -- #11 -- is devoted to decoration. 742 pages collectively.
View More...

Art Treasures From Vienna

By: Bulliet, Clarence J.

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Chicago, Louis Mariano Publisher : 1950

Seller ID: 17460IN

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very nice clean copy of a relatively hard to find brochure. Orange cover with black pictorials and printing to face. Measures 7x9" Only fault is evidence of regluing at front hinge. Tightly bound with no names or writing. Illustrated with black and white photographs, some full page. The author was art critic for the Chicago Daily News and the subject of a biography by Sue Ann Kendall discussing his efforts to both introduce the American Midwest to modern art and organize independent Chcago area artists who were left out of the loop by the traditional tastes of the Chicago Art Institute.
View More...

Barbara Morgan

By: Bunnell, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Morgan And Morgan Monograph : 1972

Seller ID: 28299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book itself is clean and bright with no names or writing. Dustjacket is likewise clean with just one small tear to lower back near spine and a small bit of lamination gone tat top back next to spine.Will arrive in brand new mylar cover. The photographer, Barbara Morgan, is well known for her photographs of Martha Graham and her dance company. Here there is also dance, and much more, with 144 black and white images taken over four decades .Preface iis written by Peter Bennell. Book measures 9-1.4" x 10-3/4" . Very beautiful work.
View More...

Tunnicliffe's Birds: Measured Drawings by C.F. Tunnicliffe

By: C. F. Tunnicliffe

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co : 1984

Seller ID: 27753

ISBN-13: 9780316165563

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book is quite lovely and very clean with a beautiful dark brown cloth binding. Pristine inside and out. The dustjacket shows no tears or chips, no price clip and is very handsome in brand new mylar. Only fault is a small crease to bottom edge.of jacket. The art is beautiful and includes predatory birds, waterfowl, sea and shore birds, and miscellaneous birds. There is also a memoir of Tunnicliffe at back. 160 pages of which uinclude 62 illustrations.
View More...

El Siglo De Picasso (Two Volume Set)

By: Cabanne. Pierre

Price: $58.00

Publisher: Ministerio De Cultura : 1982

Seller ID: 17998

ISBN-13: 9788474832358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Beautiful two volume set. SPANISH LANGUAGE. Books are clean inside and out with no names or writing and pristine outer page edges.Dustjackets show only light edgewear and are most handsome in brand new mylar covers. Both are gloriously illusrated in full color on coated paper. Volume I (1881-1937) -- El Nacimiento Del Cubismo Las Metamorfosis; Volume II (1937-1973) La Guerra Gloria Y Soledad. 968 collective pages.
View More...

Tiepolo Pink

By: Calasso, Roberto

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Alfed A. Knopf : 2009

Seller ID: 28225

ISBN-13: 9780307267665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, beautiful book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Pages and page edges are pristine. Dustjacket is likewise nice with no tears or chips and no price-clip. Only fault is a small light stain to title box on front cover. Looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book was translated from the Italian and is illustrated plentifully with color images and black and white drawings throughout. The subject is Giambattista Tiepolo, noted for his thirty three bizarre etchings. Most authors have declined to take them on, but Calasso made each one the subject of his book. The topics...
View More...

Women Artists of the Arts & Crafts Movement

By: Callen, Anthea

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books : 1979

Seller ID: 27984

ISBN: 0304506677

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very nice clean, tightly bound book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Measures 8-1/2" x 12" with 332 pages. Much illutrsation with black and white photographs which show portraits of the women and their art which consisted of ceramics, embroidery, needlework, jewelry, metalwork, woodcarving, furniture, interior design, hand-printing, book binding and illsutration. Other chapters discuss class structure, design eeducation for women and women artists and politics.
View More...

THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART 1916 - 1966

By: CARL WITTKE

Price: $19.00

Publisher: CLEVELAND, : 1966

Seller ID: 8423

Binding: HARD BACK

Condition: AS NEW

ITEM # 8423 THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS THE CLEVELAND MUEUM OF ART 1916 - 1966 BY CARL WITTKE PUB 1966 BY JOHN HUNTINGTON ART TRUST AND CMA 161 PGS 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 HARD BACK EXTENSIVE TEXT AND SOME B & W PHOTOS TELL THE HISTORY OF CMA UP TO 1966 LAYED IN IS BOOKLET BY HOLLY WITCHREY " UNCOVERING THE WADE STORY " ABOUT THE WADE FAMILY AND THEIR ROLL IN FOUNDING CMA BOOK AS NEW IN AS NEW SLIP CASE [ ART ]
View More...

Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi, Miro, Dali

By: Carmen Belen Lord; Jordi Falgas; William H. Robinson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art/Yale : 2006

Seller ID: 23658

ISBN-13: 9780940717886

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Beaurtiful book of substantial measurements and weight. It's 9-1/4" across and 12" tall with 524 pages and no names or writing. Book is clean and nice with no spine crease and pristine pages and page edges. The only fault is small bit of wear to upper back corner around which is a bit of roughness which looks to me as though the top layer of the paper there was reglued. The book is illustrated profusely throughout, but the text is likewise ample. This is actually an art catalog published to accompany an exhibition which began at the Cleveland Museum of Art from Oct. 25, 2006 to Jan. 7, 2007 ...
View More...

Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration

By: Carrier, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Self-published : 1998

Seller ID: 27529RD

Binding: Harfd Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, clean, as new book. Clearly never read. Book is large at 10" x 13" with 159 pages, plus two page photo spread at back. Numerous photographs of the artist at work, as well as biographical material and information about his formative years; his Northern, Caliofnria years 1965-1985;and his Santa Barbara and New York years. Many color plates at back of book.
View More...

Steve Joy Paintings, 1980-2007: Uncreated Light

By: Carrier, David;Carpenter, Kim

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S.A., Prestel Publications : 2008

Seller ID: 24889

ISBN-13: 9783791339610

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: NEW in Shrinkwrap

Crisp BRAND NEW book still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Measures 11" across and 12" high. Artist's abstract paintings complimentned by inspirational photographs from beautiful palces aroudn the world. Joy is noted for his use of gold leaf.
View More...

PAPER GRAPHICS

By: CATHARINE FISHEL

Price: $18.00

Publisher: GLOUCESTER MASS., ROCKPORT PUB. : 1999

Seller ID: 7341

ISBN-13: 9781564965639

Binding: HARD BACK

Condition: FINE

200 PGS. FINE PHOTOS OF BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS AND LIMITED TEXT CREATIVE , ARTISTIC WAYS TO THRIVE IN THE PRINT MARKET IN THE ELECTRONIC WORLD THE POWER OF PAPER IN GRAPHIC DESIGN . A BEAUTIFUL BOOK FINE CONDITION FINE D.J.
View More...

Monet and Bazille

By: Champa, Kermit Swiler

Price: $18.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Harry N. Abrams : 1999

Seller ID: 27205TB

ISBN-13: 9780810963849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp and clean inside and out with no names ro writing, no bumps to boards and no tears or chips. Jacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. An oversized volume measuring 9-1/2"x12-1/2" with 107 pages 77 illustrations of which 55 are in full color. Very interesting look at the similarities and differences of two French artists.
View More...

THE ILLUSTRATED LETTER

By: CHARLES HAMILTON

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY , UNIVERSE BOOKS : 1987

Seller ID: 7352

ISBN-13: 9780876636640

Binding: HARD BACK

Condition: FINE

AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF EMBELLISHED CORRESPONDENCE BY CELEBRATED ARTISTS AND WRITERS LETTERS FROM 26 FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM BEN FRANKLIN TO MARK TWAIN, PRINCESS LOUISE TO H.G. WELLS BOOK IN FINE CONDITION D.J. IN MYLAR HAS MINOR WEAR AT CORNERS
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Art & Photography