Oriental Art
London: Bluett & Sons, 1988. Softcover. Color wraps. Appx. 40 pp. 24 color plates. Wonderful illustrations, ample annotation of works presented. Includes massive Jades, very ancient Gold, and other unique treaures. More
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American Abstract Artists
New York: Ram Press, 1946. Hardcover. Pink boards with navy and white lettering. 35 bw plates. [68] pp. Includes essays by Moholy-Nagy, Karl Knaths, George L.K. Morris, Fernand Leger, A.E. Gallatin, Piet Mondrian, and Josef Albers. A lovely copy, quite crisp. All of these articles were written expressly for this..... More
Japanese Netsuke: Serious Art (Outstanding Works Selected From American Collections)
London: Sydney Moss Ltd., 1989. Hardbound. Tan boards with matte color-pictorial dustjacket. about 140 pp., 66 items illustrated with over 150 large and small color plates. In addition to the stunning aray of figures presented and illustrated in vivid color, there is outstanding annotation for each of these items. Additionally..... More
The Human Figure in Motion
NY: Dover, 1955. Hardcover. Grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine, illustrated dust jacket, 195 plates (appx. 390 pp and 2000 individual photographs). Muybridge's 1887 eleven-volume pictorial treatise of human and animal life in motion is finally prepublished in an abridged format focusing on the Human Figure. Contents: Men. Walking..... More
Chats on Old English Tobacco Jars, together with a reprint of a book on The Westminster Tobacco Box
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910, circo. Hardbound. Red embossed cloth. xvi, appx. 143 pp., including 34+ pages of bw plates. A most difficult book to paginate. But a thorough examination of the topic. More
The Poetry of Crisis: the Peter Nahum Collection of British Surrealist and Avant Garde Art 1930-1951
South Kensington: Sotheby's, 2006. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 300 lots described and illustrated. Includes 300 lots, all illustrated in vivid color and annotated. More
Maritime America: Art and Artifacts from America's Great Nautical Collections
NY: Balsam Press/Abrams, 1988. Hardcover. Navy cloth. 255 pp. 18 bw, 214 color plates. This is the most comprehensive volume of America's maritime art and artifacts from 13 premier collections of restored vessels, historic buildings, paintings, ship's carvings, scrimshaw, ship models, etc. Collections featured (by their own curators) include Calvert..... More
William Hahn, Genre Painter 1829-1887
Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1976. Softcover. Wraps. 84 pp. 11 color, 52 bw plates. Introduction written by George W. Neubert. Essay and catalogue by Marjorie Dakin Arkelian. Most of his work was done either in New York or California, between 1872 and 1882. Lengthy essay is followed by extensive notes..... More
The Hoosier Group: Five American Painters
Indianapolis: Eckert Publications, 1985. Hardcover. Tan cloth, black & color illus. dust jacket, 168 pp. 55 color, 62 bw plates. "An intimate look at the hitherto-unknown personal lives of the Hoosier Group artists -- Otto Stark, Theodore C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams, William Forsyth and Richard B. Gruelle -- and..... More
Paul Klee: Paintings, Watercolors 1913 to 1939
NY: Oxford University Press, 1941. Spiral bound. Spiral binding, color covers.Title-page, then contents (marked page 7) and pp. 7-35, with color plates within and directly after page 35. Two tipped-in color serigraphs: 'Fulfillment 1920' and 'Figure of the Oriental Stage' w/ tissue guard and 65 BW plates. Spiral binding tight..... More
The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann
Penland, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1971. Hardcover. Tan cloth with bw illustrated dustjacket. Unpaginated. Appx. 32 pp of text followed by 63 full-page photographs. Twenty-five page Introduction gives wonderful insights and annecdotes about Ulmann. The b/w photographs in this book were taken by Doris Ulmann in the 1930's when..... More
Manuel Neri: The Figure In Relief
New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2006, circa. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth with color pictorial dustjacket. 195 pp., 240 color plates. Manuel Neri’s concern with the dynamic nature of the architectural or special environment has developed his keen understanding of its potency as a setting for the figure. Since the..... More
Homage to Charles Demuth: Still Life Painter of Lancaster
Ephrata, PA: Science Press, 1978. Limited edition, of 900 copies, #548. Hardcover. Navy cloth. xiii, 130 pp. 46 bw, 73 color plates. Includes a chronology; four essays (with plates throughout) by Norton, Gerald S. Lestz, Alvord L. Eiseman, and Sherman E. Lee; a valedictory by Marsden Hartley; a gallery of..... More
A Catalogue of Rare Chinese Jade Carvings
Palm Beach, Fl: House of Jade, 1940. Hardbound. Green cloth covers with fading gilt embossed titles. 185 pp. 44 bw plates. 162 items are presented. 44 of them are illustrated in large, crisp bw plates, each of them being well-annotated. A very fine reference. More
The Snipe Art Collection of William S Brewster
Boston, MA: Copley Fine Art Auctions, 2008. Softcover. Color pictorial stapled wraps. 79 pp., profusely illustrated in color. Auction lots 200-245 of "The sporting sale."/ Includes index./ Place of sale: Plymouth, Mass. Date of sale: July 22-23, 2008. A good number of these pictures are by American Artists, and may..... More
Hiroshi Murata Exhibition
Japan: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Tokyo Central Museum Annex, 1990. Softcover. textured, navy blue wraps w/ gilt printing. 40 pgs w/ 16 color plates. Text primarily in Japanese w/ plate description in limited English; introduction has English translation. A very nice catalogue of dual exhibitions held at Aichi..... More
The Private Collection of Frederic Fairchild and Julia Munson Sherman: A Memorial Exhibit
Springfield, MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery, 1941. Softcover. Tan wraps. [44] pp. 28 bw plates. Catalogue listing of 161 works from the collection of influential critic and publisher, Frederic Fairchild Sherman. Artists include Ralph Albert Blakelock (2), Ann Brockman, William Merritt Chase (1 illustration), Eliot Candee Clark (1)..... More
The Eight
NY: Owen Gallery, 2005. BASEMENT. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 120 pp. with 48 large color plates. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Owen Gallery, New York, Oct. 25-Dec. 20, 2005. Artists represented (and number of works) are: Arthur B. Davies (4), William Glackens (6), Robert Henri (7), Ernest Lawson..... More
W.H.D. Koerner and Montana; an exhibition arranged by the Montana Historical Society in association with Ruth Koerner Oliver
1971. Cream wraps. iii, 28 pp., color and bw plates. Catalogue slists 55 paintings and 16 drawings, though the catalogue numbers indicate the works were drawn from a much larger collection. More
Le Cabinet du Duc d'Aumont: A facsimile reprint of the 1870 edition recording the auction of 1782
NY: Acanthus Books, 1986. Reprint, limited edition, No. 511 of 520 copies. Hardcover. Navy cloth/boards, gilt spine lettering; [xxvii], [5], [xxxii] 203 p.; 34 bw plates. From the introduction: Some seven months after his death, a sale of the fifth Duc d'Aumont's collection took place at the magnificent town house..... More
The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall, the Discoverer of Gold in California
San Francisco: George Fields, 1935. Hardbound. Green paper covered boards. xvi, {2}, 144 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 2 folding plates, folding color map. One of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. More
Tom Phillips: Works and Texts
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. 294 pp. 415 color, 85 bw plates. Extensive survey of artist's work. More
Antiques: A Popular Guide To Antiques for Everyone
Octopus Books, 1973. Hardbound. Pumpkin cloth with color-illustrated dustjacket. 144 pp., 180 mostly color plates. More
Beatrix Potter Letters to Children
Harvard College LIbrary, 1966. Hardcover. Blue cloth with original clear plastic wrap.48 pp., some facsimile pages along with text. A very nice copy. Nine letters reproduced in facsimile plus the author's original pen drawings.. More
Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
Washington, DC / New York: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution / Rizzoli, 1991. Softcover. Blue and color illus. wraps. 255 pp., 190+ color and bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Sept. 13, 1991 to Mar. 1, 1992. This..... More