Factory sealed. 35 color plates. Measures 9.5x11 inches. 71p. Introduction by Norman Rosenthal.
Presenting an exceptional overview of Freud's works on paper over his more than six-decade career, this oversized volume highlights the artist's unconventional approach to etching. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Previous owner's name inside cover. Sun line on back cover. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 48p. Measures 8.25 inches square.
Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Folded advertising piece for a collection of 23 screenprints by Patrick Caulfield available from Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham. Measures 11.75x16.5 inches unfolded.
Patrick Caulfied (1936-2005) was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold canvases, which often incorporated elements of photorealism within a pared-down scene. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Tanned pages. Dust jacket (unclipped and with small closed tear) under clear mylar cover. 650p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches.
Includes The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribbean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs McGillicuddy Saw! (a.k.a The 4:50 from Paddington), and The Body in the Library. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. French flaps. Beautifully illustrated. Exhibition catalogue. Exhibition checklist. Contributors Hardy S. George, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Susan P. Casteras and Christopher Wood. 148p. Measures 9x12 inches.
Organized in six sections: paintings inspired by literature; those based on Greco-Roman mythology; ones depicting religion and history; others of rural life; paintings of new urban subjects; and prints exemplifying a mix of these subjects. • • • View More...
Three parts. A bibliography of British photographic literature, 1839-75, and British Books illustrated with origin. Illustrated in black-and-white. Index. • • • View More...
Based on private conversations in which Freud held forth on everything from first love to gambling debts to the paintings of Velázquez, and informed by interviews with friends, lovers, and some of the artist's children who have never before spoken publicly about their relationships with the painter, this is a deeply personal memoir that is illuminated by a keen appreciation of Freud's art. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. 76p. Large french flaps, with plan of the space inside front flap. Lain in "Welcome to Hampton Court Palace" brochure. The original Tudor Hampton Court Palace was begun by Cardinal Wolsey in the early 16th century. Henry VIII brought and added gorgeous gardens and famous features such as the Maze and the Great Vine. When William III and Mary II (1689-1702) took the throne in 1689, they commissioned Sir Christopher Wren to build an elegant new baroque palace. Later, Georgian kings and princes occupied the splendid interiors. Queen Victoria opened the palace to... View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated throughout. 40p. Measures 8.25x11.5 inches. Undated. The pavilion is a mixture of Moorish, Gothic, and Chinese built for George IV when he was the Prince of Wales. The architect was John Nash. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 32p. Measures 5.75x8.25 inches. Chronology. Section on Romanticism. Bibliography.
The Keats–Shelley Memorial House is a writer's house museum in Rome, Italy, commemorating the Romantic poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. This is not the catalog for the "Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters," exhibition, but a slim volume that accompanied the exhibit. It succinctly summarizes the main themes of the exhibit. Major artworks from the show and related to it are beautifully reproduced. 40p. Measures 8.5 inches square. • • • View More...
Exhibition catalog. Beautifully illustrated. Essays by leading scholars. Designers include Walter Crane, C.F.A. Voysey, M.H. Baillie Scott, C.R. Mackintosh in Britain, Josef Hoffmann, Georg Jensen, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright in Europe and America and Hamada Shoji and Bernard Leach in Japan. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Catalog for a 10 October 1988-2 January 1989 exhibition at the Tate Gallery of 19th century bird drawings. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 78p.
JMW Turner (1775-1851), an English Romanticist landscape painter, was considered a controversial figure in his day. He is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence that rivaled history painting. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Brochure on cover stock. Eight panels. Printed letter from Neil MacGregor, Director of the National Gallery, on one panel. Sixteen color thumbnails. Measures 8.25x11 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Keepsake of an exhibition in the Department of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, 9 December 1990--29 March 1991. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Rudyard Kipling by Marchioness of Gransby. Six black-and-white illustration throughout.
Essay by Corrine McCutchan. Catalog by Mildred Abraham. 62p. Measures 5x8 inches. Edition of 2000 copies.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Some crinkling on cover. 20p. A guide for Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition from May 3-September 4, 2006 in the Costume Institute Annie Laurie Galleries. Measures 5x8.5 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Slight tanning on edge. Slim booklet that accompanied an exhibition a 1971 exhibition at The Art Gallery, Illinois State University and The University of Kansas Museum of Art. Exhibition checklist. Seven black/white plates. Bibliography. 32p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated 8-panel gallery brochure for the "An Eye for Beauty: Collectors and the History of British Watercolor" exhibition at the Huntington Library from February 12--May 15, 2005.
Artists include Thomas Girtin, Francis Towne, Thomas Shotter, David Cox, and others. Illustrated in color. Measures 7x10 inches folded. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Catalog for November 2-December 2, 2000 exhibition at Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco. 24 plates, primary in color. Measures 8.25x8.25 inches. 35 unnumbered pages.
Anthony Murphy (b. 1956) is an Argentinian-born English painter, with strong Irish connections. Murphy was also a child-actor who played the eponymous hero in the British television serial, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971).
This stunning large-format book includes commentary and reproduces over one hundred images from the Gough collection in the Bodleian Libraries, many of which are published here for the first time. Sections: illustrating maps and scenes of the City, Westminster, the Thames, and London's fashionable environ. • • • View More...
Unmarked. 8-sided gallery brochure for Matrix 239, September 30, 2011-January 15, 2012, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. 4 illustrations. Measures 9x6 inches folded. Essay by Dena Beard.
The exhibition highlights Otto-Knapp's watercolor paintings, which focus on the visibility of motion in the pictorial frame. • • • View More...
Illustrated in color with stunning furniture and designs by William Morris, Gustav Stickley, and Elbert Hubbards Roycroft community, among many others, along with such ephemera as the catalogues, sales brochures, and magazine spreads that generated popular interest. Offers a new understanding of the Arts and Crafts idea, its geographical reach, and its translation into everyday design. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. 208p. Measures 9.25x11.25 inches. Beautifully illustrated. This book features over eighty artworks by more than seventy artists that represent the glory of British watercolors from the Victorian period. Artists include: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne?Jones, George John Pinwell and Myles Birket Foster. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Full color auction catalog. Spread of artist photographs in black-and-white inside front and back covers. 295p. Measures 8.25x10.75 inches.
Artists include George Romney, Gainsborough, William Deniell, John Russell, David Cox, John Roddam Spencre Stanhope, Arthur Rackham, the Maas Collection of photographs and letters, and more. • • • View More...
