ITEM # 6054 CLAUDE MONET 1840 - 1926 BY CHARLES STUCKEY PUB 1995 BY THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 282 PGS 10 X 11 HARD BACK PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY AN EXHIBITION AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO , EXTENSIVE TEXT AND MANY FULL PAGE PHOTOS OF MONETS WORKS BRING TOGETHER IN AN ACCESSABLE FORMAT A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ABOUT ONE OF THE WORLDS BEST LOVED ARTISTS BOOK IN FINE CONDITION INSIDE AND AND OUT CLEAN AND BRIGHT , NO MARKS OR TEARS [ ART ] View More...
PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY AN EXHIBITION OF THE SAME NAME IN 1995 AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO TEXT AND PAINTINGS BRING TOGETHER IN AN ACCESSABLE FORMAT A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ABOUT ONE OF THE WORLDS BEST LOVED ARTISTS LAYED IN ARE ,TICKET STUBS FROM THE EXHIBITION NEWS PAPER CLIPPING ABOUT THE SHOW , GUIDE TO THE MUSEUM , A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION AND A POSTCARD SIZE PHOTO OF "THE ARTIST'S GARDEN IN ARGENTEUIL' BOOK IS CLEAN BRIGHT & TIGHT CREASE ON SPINE AND CORNER FRONT COVER View More...
This book is so charming . Every Christmas Nutcracker ballets pop up out of the snow drifts to the delight of theater and ballet buffs. But this book contains a prologue to the beloved Nutcracker and was written by Mihail Chemiakin who has worked with the Russan ballet. There is very little text, but the art is so compelling and with the sporadic introductions the story reveals itself. The book appears to be new and , as such, would make a lovely gift. It's oversized at 9-1/2" x 12-1/2" and has 151 pristine pages. There are also photographs at the back.The dustjacket will also arrive i... View More...
Beautiful book, gently kept. Clean and bright inside and out with just a small dark spot to upper back corner near spine (see photo). This is an exhibition catalog which accompanied a traveling display which began in 1989 and ended in 1994. Sites included The Phoenix Art Museum; The Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University; The Harvard University Art Museums; the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; The Columbus, Ohio Museum of Art; The Elvehjem Art Museum of the University of Wisconson, Madison; and the Chrysler Museum. The early catalog was titled Heritage of the Brush ... View More...
Very nice book -- clean as a whistle inside and out with no defects of note aside from former owner's name written small on front paste-down. Pages and page edges are pristine, as are boards, and book is designated a first edition, but also part of a limited edition of 1250 copies for distrubution to friends of the publisher. Book is is #734. of the 1250. Illustrated throughout in both black and white and color. Discusses figureheads and sternboards, shop figures and mausement props, portraits and monuments, decoration, household articles andreligious works. 149 pages. View More...
ITEM # 5932 THE I.Q. VAN REGTEREN ALTENA COLLECTION PUB 2014 BY CHRISTIE'S 193 PGS 9 X 11 1/2 CARD COVER THE CATALOG FOR AN AUCTION BY CHRISTIE'S DEC. 10 2014 IN AMSTERDAM PART II OF DUTCH & FLEMISH DRAWINGS FROM 1500 TO 1900 FROM THE IQ VAN REGTEREN ALTENA COLLECTIONS PHOTOS AND TEXT ON HEAVY ,HIGH GLOSS STOCK BOOK IN FINE CONDITION [ AUCT CAT ] View More...
Collectors of Bessie Pease Gutmann will find this clean, atractive catalogue (no names or writing) very helpful for identifying her work and where it appeared. This includes her entire ouvre -- published prints, illustrated books, postcards, magazine illustrations, commercial (advertising) art, Christmas cards, and the "Gutmann Colonials." There's also biographical info, a collectors' checklist and more. Measures 5-1/2"x8-1/2" and has 74 pages including eleven illustrations in black and white. View More...
ITEM # 6027 BLANCHARD MYTH & ALLEGORY . TEXT BY CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT & ANDREA GATES PUB 2008 BY MATTHIESEN FINE ART 46 PGS 10 1/4 X 10 1/4 HARD BACK EXTENSIVE TEXT AND MANY COLOR PHOTOS TELL OF THE LIFE AND WORKS OF 17TH CENTURY ARTIST JACQUES BLANCHARD BOOK , ONE OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES, IN FINE CONDITION [ ART ] View More...
THE SNOWY DAY AND THE ART OF EZRA JACK KEATS BY CLAUDIA NAHSON PUB BY JEWISH MESEUM & YALE 2011 92 PGS. 7 1/2 X 10 1/4 THE EXHIBIT BOOK FOR THE SHOW ARRANGED BY THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN NY . COLOR PHOTOS OF 75 KEATS WORKS PLUS EXTENSIVE TEXT ON HIS JEWISH BACKGROUND , HIS CIVIL RIGHTS WORK ,AND HIS ART. LAYED IN IS THE SHOW GUIDE BOOK BY THE AKRON ART MESEUM PUB WHEN THE SHOW APPEARED THERE BOOK AND DJ IN MYLAR IN FINE CONDITION [ ART] View More...
This is a rather unusual topic in which artists such as Picasso, Faith Ringgold, Audrey Flack, Arshile Gorky and others offer insights on the aspects of mothers. The essays include "The Artist's Mother Portraits and Homages" by Barbara Coller; "Sometimes A Mother is a Mother, At Other Times She Is Only Someone Else" by John E. Gedo; and "Representing the Mother, Representing the Unpresentable?" by Donald Kuspit.There's a lot to read and many beautiful color and black and white art. The catalog measures 8-1.2" x 11 and 63 pages. Cleand and bright with two small corner creases at front cover whi... View More...
Crisp, clean magazines to include the following issues:Spring, Summer, Fall 2004; and Spring and Summer 2005. Intersting to note that Spring 2005 shows a misprint on cover with wrong volume and number. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Exhibits, new acquisitions, relevant books, events, and people in the field.Illustrated with black and white photos. 32-48 pages each. One issue shows short tear to top edge repaired at reverse with archival tape -- almost invisible. View More...
Crisp, clean book that is charmingly SIGNED by author without inscription, but WITH a humorous drawing. The art continues in color throughout the book which is a love letter to the golden state. The book is clean and nice with no bumps and no price-clip. The dust jacket has one very tiny tear to lower front corner, but otherwise is lovely in a brand new mylar cover. If you love California -it's all here -- the Redwoods, Chez Panisse, Silicon Valley, Yahoo!, Yosemite, and lots and lots more in 141 pages. Book measures 6-1/4" x 8-3/4". View More...
Three crisp clean magazines lacking one issue to be a full run,. Measures 6"x9" and is printed on quality coated paper with beautiful color photography. Articles include: Eric Fischel, Under the Weight of Tradition; the Return of the Academy; The Avant Garde and the Sea; The Legacy of the Pennsylvania Fine Arts; Refelctions on the Passion (of Christ); The State of Poetry; Sculptures by Donald Hoard; Of the Plesures of Learnign How To Read; The Hickory Museum of Art; The Rebirth of Drawing; Reflections on the Whitney Biennial; Reading American Contemprary Poetry; William Michael Harnett... View More...
Crisp, clean book with virtually no wear inside or out and no names or writing. This is a first AMS edition, but the true first was published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1914. This is a reprint of the original. Portrait of Copley at frontis. A fascinating correspondance betweem Copley, the Americna painetr, and his half-brother, Henry Pelham who was also an American painter, engraver and cartographer.384 pages. View More...
Fleur Cowles is best remembered as the founder and editor of the gorgeous magazine named Flair, a publication so beautiful and unique that the cost of producing it drove it off the newstands. Flair remains popular today despite its short life. After the magzine was canceled Cowles created this hardcover annual with many of the same charming touches readers loved. Here we have big fold-outs, a cut-out front cover, and an exquisite little booklet bound-in titled "The Flower of Flowers" by none other than the celebrated author Katherine Ann Porter. Among the topics here are Walter Wi... View More...
An exquisite oversized book measuring 13 1/4 X 12 1/4 Beautifully illustrated throughtout. Contents and page edges pristine. No tears or chips -- just small bit of wear to corner of spine. Forty-four Japanese screens (many in pairs) dating from the late 15th to the early 19th centuries are photographed and discussed. Printed as part of an exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 96 pages. 84 color plates. View More...
Very nice copy -- clean as a whistle inside and out with no names or writing. Dustjacket shows small bit of wear to upper corners, but no tears or chips and is most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Quarto-sized at 10" tall. Printed on high quality glossy paper and lavishly illustrated in both black and white and color -- 139 pieces of sculpture and paintings ranging from early ceramic sculptures through late 19th century paintings. Ample text discusses the Japanese reality movement. 292 pages. Accompanying the book is the exhibit booklet published by the Cleveland Museum of Art dated 1983. ... View More...
Book itself is crisp and clean with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Dustjacket is likewiseclean with no tears or chips. Will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Many beautiful full color plates show the work of an artist who began his career as something of a late starter. Though he loved the play of light (he died in 1998) , he cannot be pigeon-holed as an impressionist. Book measures 9" high and 11-1/4" wide and has 128 pages. View More...
A bright red cover with stark white lettering makes for an attractive book. Clean and tightly bound with pristine pages showing no names or writing other than artist's inscription which reads "To ----- A delightful lunch. My best. Love, Phyllis." Book measures 8-1/2"x10" and has 53 pages with numerous illustrations in both black and white and color. Considerable text. View More...
ITEM # 6053 LA BEAUTE DE LA FEMME BY DANIEL MASCLET PUB 1933 BY SALON INTERNATIONAL IN PARIS A COLLECTION OF 96 B&W FULL PG. PHOTOS OF FEMALE NUDES BY OVER 50 PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING MAN RAY , BRUNO SCHULTZ BERTRAM PARK AND MANY OTHERS 9 1/2 X 12 CARD COVER WITH RED CORD AT SPINE . INSIDE CLEAN AND BRIGHT , ALL PHOTOS FINE , NO MARKS OR TEARS COVER SHOWS SOME SOILING , DAMAGE TOP AND BOTOM OF SPINE [ ART ] View More...
