Arts and Crafts of the Cherokee
Land-of-the-Sky Press, 1970. Hardcover. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Small sticker scar on front free endpaper.
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Etruscan Sculpture
Phaidon Editions. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 119 pages. 34 pages of text. 129 B/W plate illustrations. 10.5 x 14.3 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth covers with title in brown on front cover and spine. Cover slightly tanned. Edge and.....
Autograph Letter Signed (ALS)
1868. Ephemera. Single sheet folded to create 4 pages 3.9 x 6.25 inches when folded. Written on 3 sides. John Rogers Herbert (1810-1890 was an English painter and notable precursor to Pre-Raphaelitism. ALS, headed Ramsgate, June 22, 1868, addressed 'My dear Sir' thanks adressee for the invitation which he cannot.....
Autograph Letter Signed (ALS)
n.d. Ephemera. Single sheet 5.1 x 8 inches. In French. Paul DelaRoche (1997-1856) was a French painter famous for his scenes from French and English history. ALS in French, not dated, addressed 'Monsieur' approximately 40 words, signed Paul DelaRoche. Letter previously folded in half.
Japanese Emblems and Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive)
Dover Publications, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Renowned for its superb invention, ingenuity, and sense of pattern, Japanese design has long been admired in the West. One specific kind of ornamentation, known as mon, is especially recognized for its unusually rhythmic and engrossing patterns. Originally designed to serve as family emblems.....
Edvard Munch Masterpieces of Art
Flame Tree Publishing, March 2015. Hardcover. A beautiful new gift art book all about Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist behind the first truly Expressionist picture The Scream. Absorbed by such motifs as love, life, death and anguish, Munch's paintings captured the psychological feelings evoked by man. Beginning with a fresh.....
Vermeer and the Dutch Masters (Masterworks)
Flame Tree Illustrated, October 2018. Hardcover. A must-have book for anyone interested in Dutch masters and the Dutch Golden Age. - Timeless Travel Magazine Today we marvel at the shimmering light, the detail and hidden significances within the subtle techniques of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Frans Hals and their compatriots.....
Common threads: Pueblo and Navajo textiles in the Southwest Museum
Southwest Museum, January 1998. Trade Paperback.
Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials
Watson-Guptill, August 2004. Trade Paperback. Utilizing the combined experience of three traditional artists turned digital imaging pioneers, "Digital Art Studio" champions combining traditional art techniques with digital media. From their unique position as artists, educators, and technology consultants, the authors provide a wide range of ways to integrate digital processes.....
Word As Image: American Art 1960-1990
Milwaukee Art Museum, December 1990. Trade Paperback.
Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel
University of California Press, November 1997. Trade Paperback. The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship.....
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (The MIT Press)
The MIT Press, July 1986. Trade Paperback. Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally.....
Perceptible Processes: Minimalism and the Baroque
Eos Music Inc, July 1997. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with a 1997 New York concert program at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, this collection of essays and visual materials examines the affinities between Bach-era Baroque and such minimalists as John Adams, Steve Reich, and John Cage. John Adams does not.....
Reproductions en fac-simile des dessins de H. Holbein, Durer du Musee de Bale (63 of 80 plates)
Braun & Co., n.d., ca. 1920. Hardcover. 63 loose B/W plates on sheets 15.25 x 21.6 inches with 1 sheet listing plates. Text in French. In green and black cloth cover folder with cloth flaps protecting the sheets. Cover title 'H. Holbein.' First edition thus. Plates are near fine with.....
Anthony Caro: Duccio Variations, Gold Blocks, Concerto Pieces : 11 January-9 February 2001
Marlborough Gallery, 2000. Trade Paperback. 39 pages. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated in color. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Stuart Davis Memorial Exhibition, 1894-1964
National Collection of Fine Arts, 1965. Trade Paperback. 98 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Connie Fox: Paintings
Brenda Taylor Gallery, 1997. Trade Paperback. 46 pages. Illustrated in color. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Techniques of Drawing from the 15th to 19th Centuries: With Illustrations from the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum, June 1999. Trade Paperback.
Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art through the Ages
Tuttle Publishing, April 2006. Trade Paperback. This fourth revised edition of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs, first published in Shanghai in 1941, features an introduction by Dr. Terence Barrow, has been completely reset and now uses the Pinyin pronunciation of Chinese names and words. The Eight Immortals, the five elements.....
Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection
Philadelphia Museum (PA), September 1989. Trade Paperback.
Crooked Beak of Heaven: Masks and Other Ceremonial Art of the Northwest Coast, (Index of art in the Pacific Northwest No. 3)
University of Washington Press, 1972. Hardcover. 96 pages. Photo reproductions in black-and-white. A fine copy in a scuffed dust jacket with a chip to the top edge of the cover.
Andre Masson
Kestner-Gesellschaft, et al. n.d., ca. 1954. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. 14 B/W illustrations of shown work. Text in German. Masson (1896-1987) was a surrealist artist. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Covers mildly soiled, Some spotting on pages.
Gruppo Phases
Galleria Schwarz, 1961. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. Exhibition catalogue of work by surrealist artists. Catalogue in Italian. Comment in English and Italian by E. Jaguer. A near fine copy in illustrated blue-green wrappers (paperback).
Emerson Woelffer: Recent Paintings Inspired by 'Girl Before a Mirror'
Manny Silverman Gallery, 1993. Unknown. Single sheet trifolded to create 8 pages. 3 full-page color illustrations plus color illustrated cover page. Emerson Woelffer (1914-2003) taught at the Chournard Art Insitute for many years and was a leading abstract expressionist artist. First edition (first printing). A fine copy. Includes folded card.....
William Doherty: June 19, 1940 - Nov. 11, 1972 (catalogue)
Ohio Silver Gallery. Printed by Jeffries Banknote Company, Los Angeles, 1973. Trade Paperback. 11 full-page B/W photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in black wrappers (paperback). Wrappers are scuffed.