314 pages; 48 color plates, 225 b&w illustrations. Considered within the historical context are history painting, landscape painting, portraiture, caricature, book illustration, and the advent of realism. A handsome book; condition as new. View More...
328 pages; b&w illustration. Among movements of the time, (Expressionis, Cubism, Dadaism, Impressionism, etc.) searching for the core of that creativity. Clean throughout; tight binding; as new. View More...
69 pages; 42 b&w plates. Preceding the plates an essay on each places the painting (i.e. the subject of the painting) in its historical context. The exhibition was for the benefit of two French-American organizations. Wrappers worn and soiled; clean throughout within; lengthwise fold down the middle of the catalogue. View More...
295 pages; more than 150 color illustrations but the text is the thing: 32 contributed essays in this series. This is the first in a 3-volume, History of British Art series. Clean and bright throughout. View More...
32 pages; 10 pages advertisements. 8 color illustrations; many b&w illustrations. Articles as in the title, also, Edvard Munch, Norway's Genius; The Cook Collection; London Commentary; A Goodwill Exhibition of American Art. Clean, tight binding; small chip on the front cover. View More...
352 pages. "an exhilarating journey through the Crescent City's turbulent past." First published in 1895. The author was lawyer, teacher and journalist. He had been planning a series of books on Louisiana history but had completed only this when he died. His obituary in the New Orleans Picayune is printed on the final two pages. Previous owner's name on the title page. Otherwise clean and bright throughout; tight binding. View More...
384 pages; 243 illustrations, including 50 color. Women as artists from the Middle Ages to the present; the aesthetics and ideology that have shaped their relationships to the visual arts. View More...
103 pages; numerous color illustrations of Washington, his portraits, his contemporaries, the various owners of the Landsdowne portrait and others. This book was motivated by the celebrated purchase of the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait which was given as a gift to Marquis of Landsdowne, a British aristocrat. The portrait ever since known as the Landsdowne portrait. Informative history of Washington and Washington's portrait. Previous owner's name, otherwise in fine condition: clean throughout, tight binding. View More...
202 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done, enjoyably readable primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new". View More...
163 pages; b&w illustrations, usually portraits. Profiles of 75 artists represented by this very fine gallery that specialized in representing American artists. Includes a selected bibliography, "Readings in American Art". Clean and tight, nearly unblemished. View More...
139 pages. 60 b&w text illustrations; color frontispiece with glassine cover. Boards and text clean, bright and tight throughout. The dustjacket repaired at the joints; loss of material at head and tail of the spine; darkened at spine and edges; now in a Brodart protective cover. View More...
200 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new". View More...
102 pages; numerous illustrations. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name. Inscribed by the curator on the title page: "much love ! John". View More...
190 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done, enjoyably readable primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new". View More...