Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950 (3 volumes)
New York: Random House, 1986. Hardcover. Three volume set: Volume One is turquoise cloth, volume two is green cloth and volume three is burnt orange cloth, all three have gilt page edges. Volume One: xvi, 399 pp. Volume Two: xviii, 369 pp. Volume Three: xxiii, 281 pp. Brown cloth clamshell slipcase with color-illustration laid in and gilt stamped lettering. 875 color plates. 118 text figures. Volume one contains commentaries, artist biographies, bibliography and index, volumes two and three are reproductions of paintings and calligraphies, respectively. Many of the illustrations are from Ellworth's extensive private collection. Very heavy and will require extra shipping. Volume three has some light fraying and wear to spine, slipcase is faded slightly at spine and has some stains on the spine (seems to have been handled by grubby fingers), color-ilustration on slipcase has a very small tear on it's left edge. Item #167360
ISBN: 9780394554631
Text in English with captions in Chinese. A culmination of decades of research on an underappreciated era of Chinese art. Contains beautiful reproductions of the 471 paintings that Ellsworth donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a gorgeous and unparalleled resource.
OCLC: 13093906
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