Unmarked. Sealed. 3 blank cards with envelopes. Each card measures 5.25x7 inches. (1) Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam (detail); (2)Leonardo da Vinci: The Vitruvian Man (detail); (3)Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring. • • • View More...
Unmarked souvenir program, with the word "tour" written lightly on cover. Illustrated in black and white. Includes sections on the Singapore Junior Symphony Orchestra, the instruments in the Chinese Orchestra, Malay Music, Music of India, figures involved in the event, and more. 36p. Measures 8.5x11.5 inches. • • • View More...
4-sided invitation. Small dent. Unmarked. Backside includes the details of the 1889 Gauguin print on the front: Les Drames de la Mer, Bretagne (Dramas of the Sea, Brittany), a Gauguin zincopgraphy on canary yellow wove paper, Guerin 7. Inside includes information about the reception. • • • View More...
Unmarked, undated card advertising Julio Gonzlez (1876?1942). One image, with text on the back of this card, which measures 4x8.5 inches (10.16x21.59 cm).
Gonzlez was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture. This card depicts his Femme a la longue chevelure, 1940, Pen and ink and wash on paper. Unlike many of Gonzlez's pen and ink drawings which appear as detailed studies, Femme a la longue chevelure is a finished work in pen, ink, and wash that places the female subject within a setting. • • • View More...
Small, undated, unmarked piece that measures 25x4 inches unfolded. Printed on two sides and folded into six panels, three on each side. Small reproductions of the 10 drypoints that comprise the work plus 2 additional reproductions. Max Beckmann imagines the world as a carnival in this portfolio.
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. • • • View More...
Unmarked. 4-sided brochure on heavy stock for two exhibitions. Private Views (Feb 11-April 4, 2003) at Achim Moeller Fine Art and Lyonel Feininger and Mark Tobey: Two Friends (Feb 20-24, 2003) at The Art Show.
Inside lists the artists in Private Views (Arp, Cezanne, Duchamp, Kandinsky, etc.) and an image of Feininger and Tobey. Measures 8x8.5 inches (20.32x21.59 cm) opened. Printed on both sides. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Crease on cover. Some age tanning. 89p. Measures 6x9 inches.
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Music by Giacomo Puccini. In Italian and English, with the English version by K. H. B. d Jaffa.
Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. View More...
Unmarked. Excellent introduction to the processes and issues involved in preparing color publications at the end of the 20th century, when desktop publishing was beginning.
Topics include preparing for commercial printers, guidelines for constructing a publication, and more. Index. Extensively illustrated. 79p. • • • View More...
Unmarked throughout. Some rubbing around the edges. Produced by the University of California Natural Reserve System for the Tahoe Baikal Institute. Text in Russian and English. Maps, illustrations, photographs. Pribaikalsky National Park was developed in 1986 in the Irkutsk Province. 32p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Previous owner's name and very small tear on cover. 64p. Dog-eared page. Over 500 illustrations depicting the history of Britain in Tudor and Stuart times. Illustrations courtesy of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Folded card invitation to the 12 September-14 October 2000 exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. Cover is an image of Red Celia, 1984. The invitation is on card stock, 4 panels measuring 6x8.25 inches folded. One image. • • • View More...
Unmark. Folder 8-panel brochure. One side (4 panels) is Gwen Allen's write-up on the 2017 art wall by Lawrence Winer at the Berkeley Art Museum from March 1-October 30, 2017. One side (4 panels) is is an image of the wall.
American artist Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) is one of the canonical Conceptual artists of the 1960s. He pioneered the radical proposition that the work of art could exist as a concept, without the need for physical materials which will decay and which transform art into consumer goods. • • • View More...
Phone number written on mailing side of pamphlet, otherwise unmarked. 14x8.5 inches. Folded into 8 panels, 4 on each side. FAQ are written on a two side of an 8.5x11 inch sheet. • • • View More...
Untrimmed (and unsigned) American Legion card for Post No. 79, Riverside California. Preamble to the constitution on the back. Back also notes that "Payment of $1.00, the National dues in The American Legion, is herby acknowledged?"
The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is the nation?s largest wartime veterans service organization. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Exhibition catalog (27 April - 10 June 2000). Beautifully illustrated. Dust jacket over a saddle-stitched booklet. Hans Hofmann's Summer Studio was in Cape Cod. 16p. • • • View More...
Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), an American photographer of the 19th century, is best known for his landscape photos and images of Yosemite. His work influenced the United States Congress' decision to preserve it as a National Park. • • • View More...
Unmarked postcard. Measures 8.5x6 inches. Back reads "In the inner solar system of being Radiant Self is like the sun." Original acrylic on canvas painting measures 121x96 inches.
John David Anderson (Nov. 25, 1932-Nov. 13, 2011) was a painter who combined surrealism and abstract expressionism to create paintings that embody automatism or "spontaneous painting", with an emphasis on the inner psychic realms of the mind.
Anderson was mentored by Gordon Onslow Ford, who was a part of the 1930's Paris surrealist group surrounding Andre Breton. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Facsimile of Punishments in the Olden Time: Being an Historical Account of the Ducking Stool, Brank, Pillory, Stocks, Drunkhard's Coak, Whipping Post, Riding the Stang, etc. Illustrated. 80p. Index. Measures 4.75x7 inches. This book was first published in 1881 by W. Stewart & Company. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Measures 36x11 inches unfolded. Printed on two sides, with 14 panels folded, 7 on each side. 14 color images. Chronology.
Topics include religion and festivals, samurai, work, Edo style, etc. Two panels includes special programs and other information related to the exhibition. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Direct mail postcard to request more information about cable service before email and the internet. Metered Mail postage printed on the card. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Faint line down center. Poster-size original print advertisement from Army and Navy Journal (February 5, 1944), measuring 10.75x13.75 inches, with news clips on the back.
Poster includes a "For Victory Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps" icon and a White Lucky Strike package, changed from green to white during the war. It also reflects a new American Tobacco Company advertising campaign started in 1944: "Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco." The L.S./M.F.T that was added to every pack used the broad pen strokes of George Washington Hill. • • • View More...
