Unmarked text. Spot on cover and bumped corner. Catalog for 28 September-11 November 1956 exhibition. One color plate. 51p plus 24 pages of B/W plates. Essay by Douglass Cooper. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Accompanied first major survey of Homer's watercolors, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Amon Carter Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery. 223 illustrations in color and black/white. Index. 260p. Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. His watercolors are thought to be among the greatest achievements of American art.
Unmarked text. 32p. A step-by-step introduction to Rembrandt, including his methods of drawing, color, composition, materials, subject matter, and more. Biographical outline of Rembrandt's life and the location of his major works. Measures 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated in color and black/white.
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was a Dutch Painter. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Includes "A Conversation: Chuck Close and Brenda Zlamany" and "A Double Portrait of Two Portraits" by John Yau. Beautifully illustrated in color.
Presents Zlamany's then recent painting series which marks a further step in her ongoing investigation of the relationship between color and light. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Large French flaps. 80p. Text in English and Italian. Measures 9.5 inches square.
Panos Koulermos was an internationally recognized architect whose work combined the traditions of Mediterranean classicism and Italian rationalism. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Foxed edges. Bumps on cover. This exhibition catalog includes an overview of Grant Wood's life, commentaries on his paintings, with a good selection of parodies of American Gothic. Illustrated. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Lain in exhibition review and brochure. Some discoloration inside cover from review.
Born in Iowa, Wood (1891–1942) is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. Measures 9.5x11.5 inches. 256p. Articles by Jocqueline Hoefer, Karin Higa, Mary Emma Harris, Paul J. Karlstrom, Emily K. Doman Jennings, Sally B. Woodbridge, John Kreidler, and Susan Stauter. Extensively illustrated. Bibliography. Notes. Chronology. Index.Beginning with her earliest works--drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College--this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the art... View More...
Unmarked. 21 color plates. 32 b/w illustrations. 1 color foldout. French flaps. Notes. Bibliography. Genealogy of the Guardi family. In 1568, Vasari noted that Pontormo painted a beautiful work, a portrait of Francesco Guardi. In 1612, however, the name of Cosimo de'Medici was attached to a description of the portrait. In this volume, Cropper argues that the subject of the painting is indeed Francesco Guardi. She discusses not only the specific determination of the sitter but the tools and methods used in general for establishing the people and places portrayed in works of art. View More...
Unmarked. Six-paneled gallery brochure. Each panel measures 8.25 inches square. Four larger reproductions and six small thumbnails. On panel offers "twenty-six good reasons for the existence of these paintings."
Richard Walker is a painter, printmaker and photographer. This large brochure accompanied the Days of Echo exhibition at Curwen Gallery, London in May 2004. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 144p. Beautifully illustrated in color. Measures 8.5x10.5 inches.
Developer Trays is master photography printer John Cyr's tribute to the craft and art he has spent his career perfecting. This book showcases the ubiquitous developer tray as an essential vehicle of analog photography that defies modern digital photographic advances: its material nature and functionality will not become obsolete. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Bumped spine and edges. Exhibition catalog. Color plates and black/white illustrations. 54p.Text in English and Italian. Danny Berger interview with Nino Longobardi.
Nino Longobardi (b. 1953) is an Italian Postwar and contemporary painter. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. 176p. Measures 10.5x9.5 inches. 42 color and 47 black-and-white illustrations. Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Cezanne.
In order to discover a new way of looking at these strange works, he engages with arguments about these paintings in the writings of Meyer Schapiro, Tamar Garb, and T. J. Clark. • •• View More...
Unmarked text. "Singapore artist" written on cover. Catalog for September 10-November 10, 1991 exhibition. Beautiful color plates. 32p. Text in English and Japanese.
Essay by Etsuko Tsuzuki titled "Between Ethnic Culture and Intimated Nature." Tang Du Wu (b. 1943) is a Singaporean artist who works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation art and performance art. Measures 8.25x10.5 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Bumped corner. Exhibition catalog. Interview of the artist with Patterson Sims. Essays by Mary Jane Jacob and Arthur C. Danto. Beautifully illustrated. 163p.
Howard Ben Tre (b. 1949) is an American glass artist who works with poured glass, creating small sculptures and large scale public artworks. He is pioneer in the technique of using hot glass casting in fine art. ••• View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. Notes and catalogue by Jean Adhemar. Preface by Arthur W. Heintzelman. Selection of lithographs produced between 1833 and 1868. Measures 9.5x12.75 inches. 135p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with a tear and some crinkling on dust jacket at spine head. A few scratches on the back of the jacket. Exhibition catalogue. Measures 9.75x13 inches.
Essays by David Davies and John H. Elliot. Catalogue entries by Xavier Bray, Keith Christiansen, Gabriele Finald et al. Lavishly illustrated.
Addresses the full range of the El Greco's (1541-1614), work in painting and sculpture, from his Byzantine icons to his late altarpieces. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Bumped cover. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Hugh M. Davies, and the text of his interview of Al Souza. 25 small color illustrations. Bibliography. Biography. List of previous exhibitions. Exhibition checklist. 24p. Al Souza (b. 1944) is an American artist. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Text in German. 48p. Catalogue. Illustrated. Essays by Kerstin Decker, Adolf Dresen and Herbert Kreppel.
Bernhard Heisig (1925-2011) was a German painter of the Leipzig School (with Werner Tubke and Wolfgang Matt Heuer), and a representatives of the GDR -Art. His painting is a combination of abstraction and Socialist Realism. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Gallery guide for exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (6 June-6 Spetember 1998), produced by the Hirshhorn Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Chronology. Black and white images. 12 panels, folded, 6 panels on each side. Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was one of the most innovative British painters of his era. His works include pre-First World War paintings and complex pieces of the mid-1930s, produced at a time of marital and stylistic crisis. This catalog celebrates the achievements of an artist who explored, experimente... View More...
Unmarked. Text in French. Beautifully illustrated. 36p. Measures 11x8.5 inches.
An introduction to Chatsworth. The house, set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland, contains an important collection of paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artifacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favorite country house several times. • • • View More...
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