Category: Art-America -U.S. & Canada

Everett Shinn, 1876-1953 - A Figure in His Time

By: DeShazo, Edith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter : 1974

Seller ID: 004420

ISBN: no

Binding: quarter-cloth and paper boards

Condition: Very Good

236 pages; numerous illustrations most b&w, about 20 color. Painter, mural painter, "designs women's hats, decorated the Belasco's Theatre, does wood carving, makes furniture, has written successful plays, been an actor, an engineer, an editor, and enough other things ...." A biography, including New Jersey hometown, four wives, four divorces, painter friends, non-painter friends, style. Appendices: Important paintings by location; life chronology; exhibitions; plays and other writings; book and magazine illustrations; bibliography; index. Clean throughout; tight binding. Head of spine lightl...
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Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage

By: Dippie, Brian W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass., University of Nebraska Press : 1990

Seller ID: 003274

ISBN-13: 9780803216839

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

553 pages; 125 b&w text illustrations; 16 color plates. The exploration of how George Catlin made a living from his work: the web of "artists' relationships with government officials, members of Congress, businessmen, antiquarians and literati, kings and queens, and the Indians themselves." Clean throughout.
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Federal Furniture

By: Dunbar, Michael

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Newton, Connecticut, The Taunton Press : 1986

Seller ID: 004405

ISBN-13: 9780918804488

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

184 pages. Numerous illustrations, all b&w, detailed photographs of construction methods with full captions and measured drawings of 20 pieces of Federal-period furniture. Dunbar is a cabinetmaker; he provides substantial text about each piece. Light wrinkles on the bottom margin of the front cover. Otherwise fine condition : clean throughout; tight binding; pages crisp and flat.
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Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life

By: Evans, Martha M.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ohio / New York, Columbus Museum of Art / Hudson Hills Press : 2004

Seller ID: 003415

ISBN-13: 9780918881557

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

143 pages; 60 illustrations, most are large color plates; Chronology; Catalogue of Known Works, which contains many color illustrations; Bibliography. Preface by Barbara Novak. The author curated the exhibition and wrote her Columbia Univ. doctoral thesis on Hirst. Ex-Library: small ink stamp on the half-title page with 'withdrawn'. No other marks, books is otherwise in fine condition.
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Painting Summer in New England

By: Fairbrother, Trevor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Salem, Mass. / New Haven, Peabody Essex Museum / Yale University Press : 2006

Seller ID: 002428

ISBN-13: 9780875772042

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

134 pages; 89 color plates; bibliography. Paintings seemingly represent every major artist who has ever painted Connecticut and north. After the plates "A Selection of Poems" by Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Lowell, Marsden Hartley, Fairfield Porter, and others.
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Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement

By: Ferber, Linda S. and Barbara Dayer Gallati

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Brooklyn Museum of Art : 1998

Seller ID: 002860

ISBN-13: 9781560985723

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

224 pages; 150 works reproduced in color; additional b&w illustrations. Chronology of the American Watercolor Movement; Index of Artists in the Exhibition; Index.
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Norman Rockwell's America

By: Finch, Christopher

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1975

Seller ID: 002944

ISBN-13: 9780810904545

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

314 pages; 659 illustrations, including 129 color. Illustrations include a pictorial review of the Saturday Evening Post covers. Index to Illustrations. Bright red cloth-covered boards with white and blue titles. Jacket protected in a poly cover.
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Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search

By: Flam, Jack

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hudson Hills Press : 1998

Seller ID: 003389

ISBN-13: 9781555951504

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

168 pages; 48 color plates; numerous b&w text illustrations. Chronology; Collections; Bibliography. The life of the artist and the development of her cultural loves: painting, music, writing. Clean throughout
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John Marin: New York Sketches

By: Fleischman, Martha J.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Kennedy Galleries : 1990

Seller ID: 003836

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

32 black-and-white sketches reproduced full-page. Most are downtown New York: a fascinating ensemble akin to a journal, the sites that caught Marin's eyes and the development of his ideas. Clean throughout.
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Raphael Soyer, Drawings and Watercolors

By: Foster, Joseph K.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Crown : 1968

Seller ID: 003087

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

26 pages followed by 124 plates: 52 watercolors in color; 72 drawings in b&w. Soyer drew for many years before he turned to painting. The front free endpaper has a full-page original drawing of a nude inscribed by Soyer to friends. The jacket is chipped at the spinehead and reinforced from the back with tape. Soyer's NYTimes obituary is laid-in loosely at the back.
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John Storrs

By: Frackman, Noel

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art : 1986

Seller ID: 003057

ISBN-13: 9780874270518

Binding: Paper covered boards

Condition: Very Good

143 pages; 145 illustrations; chronology; exhibiton list; bibliography. The early twentieth-century artist and sculptor of abstract, geometric and architectural Modernist forms.
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The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion

By: Francis, Mark and Margery King; Hilton Als; [et al]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown / Bullfinch Press : 1997

Seller ID: 003738

ISBN-13: 9780821225295

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

304 pages; numerous color illustrations and reproductions. Published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name as the book.
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William Merritt Chase - Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890

By: Gallati, Barbara Dayer

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Brooklyn Museum of Art : 1999

Seller ID: 003797

ISBN-13: 9780872731400

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

192 pages; 54 color plates, 70 b&w text illustrations. Gallati's text is thorough. Much covers Chase's painting in Brooklyn and Manhattan: The Brooklyn Navy Yard; Coney Island; Brooklyn seascapes; Central Park Bibliography.
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An American Collection: Paintings and Sculpture from the National Academy of Design

By: Gerdts, Abigail Booth (curator)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, National Academy of Design : 1989

Seller ID: 005263

ISBN: no

Binding: Red cloth

Condition: Fine

208 pages.full-page color plates with essays on the works. The end page is an Index of Atists and Titles . Clean throughout, tight binding.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Natural Issues, 1918-1924

By: Goethals, Marion M.; Charles C. Eldredge (essay)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Williamstown, Mass, Williams College Museum of Art : 1992

Seller ID: 004801

ISBN-13: 9780913697085

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

43 pages with 15 text illutrations followed by the catalog of 13 plates. The Skunk Cabbage series of paintings. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Three Centuries of American Art

By: Goodrich, Lloyd

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Praeger : 1966

Seller ID: 002938

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

156 pages; 130 illustrations, 40 in color. Goodrich was Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; "the book is based on the large historic exhibition marking the opening of the new home of the Whitney." A small white spot on the tail of the spine.
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Winslow Homer

By: Goodrich, Lloyd

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art : 1973

Seller ID: 003408

ISBN-13: 9780821205273

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

143 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Homer's development from childhood; his printwork, including his wood engravings for Harper's Weekly, watercolors and oils. Edges of covers are lightly worn; clean and tight within.
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Richard Pousette-Dart

By: Gordon, John; Lloyd Goodrich (Foreword)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art : 1963

Seller ID: 004959

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

55 pages; 39 plates, color and b&w; Catalogue list of 43 works; Chronology; Selecterd Bibliography."For over twenty years (artist) has been an important figure in the development of abstract painting in the United States. ... this monograph published on the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition of the artst's work ...."(Foreword) Clean, flat and tight; edges rubbed.
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Portraits of Poets

By: Graubart, Rose

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Martin, Tennessee Poetry Press : 1970

Seller ID: 003410

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

24 portraits of as many poets in charcoal, pencil or black ink. Foreword by poet, Stephen Mooney. Biographical sketch of Graubart.
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Thomas Anshutz: Artist and Teacher

By: Griffin, Randall C.; William Innes Homer (Preface)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Seattle, Heckscher Museum w/ University of Washington Press : 1994

Seller ID: 002949

ISBN-13: 9780295974132

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

144 pages; 30 color plates; b&w text illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition, The Art of Thomas Anshutz. Endnotes; Bibliography; Checklist; Index.
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Category: Art-America -U.S. & Canada