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

168 pages; 80 color plates; additional text illustrations. The retrospective of Ellis the painter of marines , landscapes and travel pictures in the Low Country of Georgia and Souyh Carolina, Martha's Vinyard and worldwide places. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding.
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The New Nation: The Creation of the United States in Paintings and Eyewitness Accounts . The Art of Mort Künstler

By: Lengel, Edwaed G.; David Hackett Fischer (Foreword)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Sterling : 2014

Seller ID: 005163

ISBN-13: 9781454907732

Binding: Blue cloth boards

Condition: Fine

196 pages; numerous color reproductions of Künstler's paintings. While Künsler has been described as the greatest painter of America's Civil War this book focuses on the War for Independence. Excellent descriptive text joins the paintings. Clean and bright throughout.
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Theme & Improvisation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde - 1912-1950

By: Levin, Gail and Marianne Lorenz

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown : 1992

Seller ID: 003390

ISBN-13: 9780821219270

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

236 pages; 84 color plates; b&w text illustrations; Checklist; Exhibitions. Kandinsky's rising light in Europe; American's such as Marsden Hartley in Europe; Kandinsky's popularity and influence spreading to inland America; American Abtraction; Abstract Expressionism. Discreet ink-stamp of previous owner inside the front cover; text body and plates are clean throughout.
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Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham & the River

By: Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette; Claire Barry; Nancy Heugh; [et al]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fort Worth / St. Louis, Amon Carter Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum : 2014

Seller ID: 005128

ISBN-13: 9780300206708

Binding: Gray cloth with gilt titles

Condition: Fine

200 pages; 60 color plates; numerous text illustrations. Traders and boatmen on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding.
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The Paintings of Charles Burchfield - North by Midwest

By: Maciejunes, Nannette V. ; Michael D. Hall; [et al]

Price: $165.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1997

Seller ID: 002980

ISBN-13: 9780810931480

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

280 pages; 9 essays by as many authors; 255 illustrations, including 153 color.
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The Art and Science of William Bartram

By: Magee, Judith

Price: $65.00

Publisher: University Park, PA. / London, The Pennsylvania State University Press / Natural History Museum : 2007

Seller ID: 003017

ISBN-13: 9780271029146

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

264 pages; numerous color illustrations. An exploration of Bartram's writings and artwork; all sixty-eight Batram drawings owned by the Natural History Museum are brought together for the first time. Works by other eighteenth and nineteenth century natural history artists are included.
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Liquid Light: Exhibition of Three Large Scale Yellow-Based Paintings

By: Marioni, Joseph (Painter)

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Houston, Wade Wilson Art : 2007

Seller ID: 003388

ISBN-13: 9780979193125

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

24 pages. Full-page color reproductions, close-ups and studio shots. Frontispiece photo-portrait of the artist. Clean throughout.
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Lilla Cabot Perry, an American Impressionist

By: Martindale, Meredith; Pamela Moffat; Nancy Mowll Mathews

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Washiington, D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts : 1990

Seller ID: 002765

ISBN-13: 9780940979147

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

164 pages; 55 catalogued works illustrated in color; 5 essays. Perry (1848-1933) was a modernist American painter influenced by impressionism partly due to artists friendships, especially with Claude Monet. Memoirs and correspondence are included. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Isles of Shoals Remembered : A Legacy from America's First Musicians' and Artists' Colony

By: Mason, Caleb (Introduced with text)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles E. Tuttle : 1992

Seller ID: 003765

ISBN-13: 9780804817769

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Fine

not paginated. A daybook, or diary remembering the original 1901 daybook created for and presented to musician William Mason as a Christmas gift by his musical and artistic friends associated with the Isles of Shoals Colony. 53 of the original 365 creations are reproduced. Each month is lined and days numbered over a few pages interleaved with the reproductions, but days of the week are not named. Thus it works for any year.
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A.H. Maurer

By: McCausland, Elizabeth

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, A.A. Wyn for the Walker Art Center : 1951

Seller ID: 002977

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

290 pages; b&w illustrations. Maurer made his debut at Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession Gallery at 291 Fifth Ave, New York on March 31, 1909, sharing the stage with John Marin and getting the better of it from critics. Inscribed by the author to her book's editor and designer, Abe Lerner, and his assistant. Also, typed and signed on letterhead to 'Abe' thanking him for his "loving care in bringing the Maurer book into physical being". The letter, loosely inserted. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Marsden Hartley: American Modern

By: McDonnell, Patricia

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Minnesota, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum : 2005

Seller ID: 003376

ISBN-13: 9781885116123

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

84 pages; 53 color plates, many full-page in this large format; text illustrations in the essay and in the chronology. The paintings are "Selections from the Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection". The Walkers were donors of all the Hartley works, 61 paintings and 54 works on paper. This is the second catalogue for the second tour of this exhibition; it is not identical to the 1997 catalogue. Clean throughout, no marks or tears.
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Guide to the Thomas Eakins Research Collection with a Lifetime Exhibition Record and Bibliography

By: Milroy, Elizabeth (Edited); Douglass Paschall (Contributions)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art : 1996

Seller ID: 002985

ISBN-13: 9780876330944

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

56 pages.
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Thomas Eakins' Artistic Training, 1860-1870

By: Milroy, Elizabeth Lamotte Cates

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, U.M.I. : 1986

Seller ID: 003735

ISBN: no

Binding: Unbound facsimile

Condition: Good

425 pages.A dissertation. Endnotes; Bibliography. Several pages of illustrations are very poor, dark, in the facsimile. Yellow highlighting, otherwise clean throughout, pages flat and n very good condition.
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Shaping an American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt

By: Morgan, Keith N.; [et al]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Hanover, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College : 1995

Seller ID: 000081

ISBN-13: 9780874517057

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

pp.xiii; 199. Very well illustrated. Platt was etcher, painter, architect and landscape designer. He helped define the American Renaissance at the end of the 19th century.
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Coincidence of Memory

By: Mortensen, Viggo

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA, Perceval Press : 2004

Seller ID: 003151

ISBN-13: 9781889195490

Binding: Pictorial Paper Boards

Condition: Fine

66 pages; numerous illustrations of paintings or photographs interspersed with poems and short essay. Inscribed by Mortensen on the title page.
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The Selected Writings of John Marin

By: Norman, Dorothy (Edited and Introduction)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy : 1949

Seller ID: 002975

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

242 pages; b&w illustrations, mostly photographs, including the frontispiece, which is a photo-portrait of Marin. Inscribed by Marin on the front free endpaper to Ruth & Philip Wittenberg. Wittenberg was a copyright and civil rights lawyer: he represented several artists and writers and was the author of several books on literary property. Ink spot on pages 2 &3; jacket soiled and shelf worn, but whole.
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Taveler's Guide to America's Art

By: Norman, Jane and Theodore

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Meredith Press : 1968

Seller ID: 002468

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

436 pages. Jacket shelf-rubbed.
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Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society

By: Olson, Roberta J.M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York - London, New York Historical Society with D Giles, Limited : 2008

Seller ID: 005344

ISBN-13: 9781904832348

Binding: Green Faux Linen

Condition: Fine

448 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Huge work from New Amsterdam to 20th Century New York. Clean throughout; tight binding. As new.
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Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in Southern Art

By: Pennington, Esrill Curtis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Spartanburg, South Carolina, Saraland Press : 1989

Seller ID: 002986

ISBN-13: 9780934601924

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

200 pages; numerous color images. "Cultural historian (Pennington) has drawn together prevailing ideas on Southern art, lifestyle, and literature to capture the spirit of a place ...." Previous owner's small rubber stamp on the front pastedown, otherwise fine condition.
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Category: Art-America -U.S. & Canada