Search Results: Movements / Realism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Stockholm and Uddevalla: Nationalmuseum; Bohuslaningens Boktr., 1985. 351 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Essays in Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish, with summary in English. Catalogue portion in Swedish. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled, age toning. 1880-tal i Nordiskt Maleri = 1880s in Nordic Painting. CONTENTS: Nordiskt 80-tal: verklighet, luft och ljus, by S. Ringbom; Konstnarsrevolterna, by B. Lindwall; Sosial tendens-kunst, by K. Berg & O. Thue; Kunstnerkolonien pa Skagen, by H. Westergaard; Katalog; Kalendarium; Bibliografi, utstallningar; Summary in English; Svenska akademiska maleriet under 1850-1880-talen, by T. Gunnarsson.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. Cloth, 91 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with a slightly faded spine. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. Cloth, 91 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1931. Cloth, 54, [2] pages, illustrations (portrait), plates; 26 cm. Descriptive letterpress on versos facing plates. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to boards, with rubbing & wear to caps, tips. Expected browning.. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 4to.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. 181 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. "In this stylish work of imaginative nonfiction, Eunice Lipton re-creates a provocative figure out of nineteenth-century art history, Victorine Meurent, the mysterious woman who modeled for Manet's most famous paintings, Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'herbe. Was Meurent, as her contemporaries would have had us believe, simply a drunkard, a prostitute? Or was she - whose defiant gaze from Manet's canvas provoked a riot - an accomplished artist in her own right? Through the streets of Paris, an American art historian sets out on an inquiry into the life of Victorine Meurent. As the pieces of an untold story begin to accumulate, something unforeseen happens to her. Every step she takes to undo the erasure of Meurent's life brings her face-to-face with the boundaries of her own. Every day she loses herself a little more in the other… Read More

New York and Milan: McCall Publishing Company; Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1970. Pictorial boards, 91 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. Richly illustrated with colour plates. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some illustrations); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This lavishly illustrated book, surprisingly the first on the subject, explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility, and liveliness of the American realist tradition. Sixteen varied sections discuss and display the finest and most influential work of different groups, schools, and periodsbeginning before the Revolutionary War and including American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, Precisionism, American Scene painting, Urban Realism, Photorealism, and today's Postmodern Realism - and provide convincing proof that the American realist legacy occupies an unparalleled position in world art." "In this important critical synthesis, Edward Lucie-Smith discusses the work of the pioneering… Read More

New York and London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. 240 pages, illustrations (some illustrations); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps curling along foreedges. Small corner crease/front cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "An exploration of the American realist tradition. It discusses and displays the most important work of the different groups and schools, including American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, Precisionism and Urban Realism. Featured artists include Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York and Milan: McCall Publishing Company; Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1970. Pictorial boards, 91 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. NEW. 4to.

London: National Gallery of Art, 2006. 288 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery, London, 22 February to 21 May 2006; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 25 June to 24 September; and the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York, 16 October to 28 January 2007. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: "We'll always have Paris": Paris as training ground and proving ground, by Kathleen Adler; At home in Paris, by Erica E. Hirshler; Summers in the country, by H. Barbara Weinberg; Assimilation and resistance 1880-1900, by Rodolphe Rapetti; American art, American power at the Paris Expositions Universelles, by David Park Curry; American artists in France, French art in America, by Christopher Riopelle. Includes: John White Alexander, Cecilia Beaux, James Carroll Beckwich, Frank… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1994. xiii, 384 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. First paperback edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Directors' Foreword, by Philippe de Montebello, Jan Keene Muhlert; Sponsor's Statement, by Michael S. Egan, Alamo Rent A Car; Acknowledgments, by H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, David Park Curry; Catalogue, by H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, David Park Curry; Passionate Spectators; The Studio; The Country; Modern Painters in Landscape; The Country Retreat and the Suburban Resort; The City; The Urban Scene; Urban Leisure; The Home; The Painters: Biographies.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company; New York Graphic Society, 1987. Cloth, xii, 209 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 25 x 29 cm. Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "A collection of art by the Wyeth family accompanied by essays written by people closely associated with the Wyeth tradition. They give a balanced picture of this remarkable dynasty of artists, and of their work within the context of 20th century America." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

San Francisco and New York: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 x 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket with a sunned spine. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

San Francisco and New York: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 x 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Back board bumped on top edge. Dust jacket, with a faded spine, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1979. 350 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Reprint, 1980. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Prolegomena to the Nineteenth Century: Copley and the American Tradition; Washington Allston: An American Romantic Tradition; Thomas Cole: The Dilemma of the Real and the Ideal; Asher B. Durand: Hudson River School Solutions; Luminism: An Alternative Tradition; Fitz Hugh Lane: A Paradigm of Luminism; Martin Johnson Heade: Haystacks and Light; William Sidney Mount: Monumental Genre; George Caleb Bingham: Missouri Classicism; Winslow Homer: Concept and Precept; Thomas Eakins: Science and Sight; Albert Pinkham Ryder: Even with a Thought; William Harnett: Every Object Rightly Seen; The Painterly Mode in America; Epilogue: The Twentieth Century.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998. 195 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1978. 66 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Exhibition held April 8 to May 6, 1978 at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. 75 works reproduced.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Lamplight, 1975. Pictorial boards, 91 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, expected browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

Boston and Kansas City: Little, Brown and Company in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1995. Cloth, 168 pages, colour illustrations; 26 x 29 cm. A Bulfinch Press book. With commentaries by Andrew Wyeth as told to Thomas Hoving. Good+. Front board & front endpapers motheaten. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, slightly toned, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A look at six decades of paintings by Wyeth, who is one of America's favourite artists. Based on an exhibition originating in Japan, this book contains 138 works, including some recent work from 1994. The text contains Wyeth's comments, on the origins and events surrounding each work of art." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Oblong.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1987. Cloth, 208 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.