Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980. first. Hardcover. Tan boards with brown cloth binding and black, color-illustrated dustjacket. xxvi, pp. 17-369 pp. 16 color, 33 bw repros. This landmark book has chapters on Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale and Gilbert Stuart. Includes a mammoth bibliography and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Hardcover. White cloth. 368 pp. 9 color, 152 bw plates. The most prominent aspect of early American art studied here is portraiture. Some engravings and early folk art as well. First edition. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st. Hardcover. Green cloth. 197, viii pp. Index following text. A small, easy to read account which covers the highlights of Stuart's career as a portrait painter, among other items. More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover. White cloth. xv, 139 pp. 32 bw repros. More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Burgundy boards, color-illustrated dust jacket with orange and white lettering. ix, 139 pp. 32 plates in color and BW. A study of a late - 18th-century American painter, John Singleton Copley. It describes the development of his distinctive style, and also the personal..... More
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. Hardcover. Tan cloth. 256 pp. 60 color, 170 bw plates. Chapter titles: A Dying Fall; Eddies Towards a Torrent; The Painting Scene Explodes; The Hudson River School; Scenes of Ordinary American Life; Naive Painting; The Wild West; Milestones on the High Road; The New..... More
Yonkers, New York: The Hudson River Museum, 1983. Softcover. Dark gray-brown paper wraps. 96 pp. 49 bw repros. Issued in conjunction with a 1983 exhibition featuring specific pieces rendered by American painter Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886). With an essay by James Thomas Flexner. The annotated catalogue addresses 129 prints and..... More
NY: Viking Press, 1941. Hardcover. Dull red cloth. 539 pp. Several bw plates. Signed by both authors. More
Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1987. Softcover. Beige wraps. xii, 112 pp. 12 color, 42 bw plates. Includes a foreword by Alan Fern; an introduction by James Thomas Flexner; a long article with 63 notes on the collection by Lillian B. Miller; a catalogue of the exhibition of 24 portraits..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1939. first. Hardcover. White cloth. 332 pp. 33 bw repros. This landmark book has chapters on Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale and Gilbert Stuart. Includes a mammoth bibliography and index at rear. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth. 169 pp. 11 bw repros. A re-working of material previously presented by this author. Index. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1954. 1st. Orange buckram. 306 pp. 102 bw repros. More
NY: Century Association, 1963. Softcover. Grey wraps. 24 pp. 11 bw plates. This address was delivered at the monthly meeting of The Century Association on March 7, 1963, whose purpose is to promote the advancement of art and literature. Flexner discusses some of their more famous paintings. More
Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1967. Softcover. Light grey wraps. 16 pp. 1 bw plate. Contains the text of a speech given by J.T. Flexner on the occasion of the exhibition of Bowdoin College's collection of colonial and federal portraits at Wildenstein Gallery in New York. The theme..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, white DJ. xxii, 406 pp. 30 bw ills. Study of the steamboat's inventors and its development. Primarily focuses on John Fitch, James Rumsey, and Robert Fulton. More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1962. reprint. Hardcover. White cloth. 407 pp. 110 repros. More
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. Hardcover. Green cloth, color DJ. 431 pp. 3 bw illus. Review of this first edition book pasted in the back. More
