Search Results: Patronage / Museums & Foundations from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Philadelphia: Pew Fellowships in the Arts, 2002. 47 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 x 27 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Bend on spine, tiny chip off tail edge/front cover. ISSN 1068-5138.. 1st. Paperback. Good. Oblong.

Philadelphia: Pew Fellowships in the Arts, 2003. 51 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 x 27 cm. Includes: Music CD in sealed envelope. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Ingrid Schaffner's essay is on "An Ecology of the Art World.". 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Washington D.C.: National Association of Private Art Foundations, 1987. 182 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner lightly bumped. Robert Stoetzer's contribution is entitled "A Conservation Viewpoint.". 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969. 76 pages, chiefly illustrations; 22 x 23 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 15 to May 5, 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Includes a foreword by John I. H. Baur and biographical sketches of the 45 sculptors whose works were exhibited. Assembled by the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Houston, TX: Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1985. 231 pages, colour illustrations; 22 x 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Los Angeles: Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, 2007. Cloth, xxviii, 270 pages, colour illustrations; 33 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Billie Milam Weisman; Preface, by Richard Koshalek; Frederick R. Weisman Biography; A Tour of the Estate; ENTRY HALL: Constantine Brancusi; Paul Cezanne; Arshile Gorky; Adolph Gottlieb; Wassily Kandinsky; Paul Klee; Franz Kline; Giorgio Morandi; Clyfford Still; LIVING ROOM: Willem de Kooning; Sam Francis; Diego Giacometti; Anselm Kiefer; Henry Moore; Barnett Newman; Isamu Noguchi; Pablo Picasso; Mark Rothko; LANAI: Francis Bacon; Roy Lichtenstein; Ad Reinhardt; DINING ROOM: Giorgio de Chirico; Max Ernst; Naum Gabo; Alberto Giacometti; Fernand Leger; Rene Magritte; Joan Miro; Yves Tanguy; Mark Tobey; STAIRWAY: Alex Katz; Frank Stella; Tom Wesselmann; TV ROOM: Arman; Jean (Hans) Arp; Duane Hanson; Allen Jones; Nam June Paik;… Read More

New York: Truman Talley Books; Dutton, 1985. xi, 468 pages; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author in silver pen, with a personalized inscription. Expected browning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. SIGNED. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1981. 111 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition organized by the University Art Museum, Berkeley. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Julia Arts Foundation, 1992. 32 pages; illustrations; 28 x 21 cm. Firm binding. Previous owner's blind stamp and a few pencil marks. Includes: Matthew Abbott, Polly Apfelbaum, L. C. Armstrong, Christine Borland, Christopher Borrok, Karen Caldicott, Richard Caldicott, Fieroza Doorsen, Barry Hylton, Siobhan Liddell, Simon Patterson, Charles Spurrier and Lauren Szold.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1990. Cloth, 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A history of the growth of the J. P. Morgan collections and an examination of the quality of Morgan's eye and the impulses behind his purchases. More than 130 illustrations present a survey of Morgan's treasures, which include the Fragonard panels and Vermeer's A lady writing." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. ix, 380 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Scarce. "The histories of great American dynastic fortunes, such as those of the Rockefellers, DuPonts, and Guggenheims, have been told repeatedly as family stories. They have been tales of the passions, jealousies, distinguished achievements, and eccentricities among generations of parents and children, brothers and sisters. The essays in this book, developed from the perspectives of contemporary anthropology and cultural studies, establish a different field of vision for understanding private concentrations of great wealth and their legacies in the late twentieth-century United States. Over time, a family becomes dynastic by growing into an organization with a massive store of wealth rather than kinship at its center. A dynasty then takes on a set of values and a mystique that depends on a diverse range of experts, institutions, mass media, and ordinary middle-class people to empower it. The mature dynasty is as much… Read More

London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. 432 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The first ever biography of James Smithson, the Englishman who bequeathed his fortune to establish Washington's Smithsonian Institute -- the largest museum and research complex in the world -- without ever having set foot in the United States. In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift -- a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.' The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson… Read More

New York: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1998. 78 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Saint-Paul, France: Maeght Editeur, 2003. 205 pages, illustrations (some colour), map, portraits; 22 cm. English Edition. Tight, clean copy. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Montrouge: The Marguerite and Aime Maeght Foundation, 1994. 207 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. English Edition. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

New York: Random House, 2002. 517 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author David Rockefeller on the title page, no dedication. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "David Rockefeller was born in 1915, the youngest child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., one of the richest men in the United States, and the great patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He graduated from Harvard College in the depths of the Depression, when the capitalist order, which his grandfather had helped to create, was under relentless attack. He studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D. He worked briefly for New York City s flamboyant mayor Fiorello La Guardia before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942. His service as an intelligence officer in North Africa and France brought him into contact with many of the individuals who would soon dominate European politics and gave him a unique perspective on the events… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970. Cloth, 383 pages, illustrations, plates, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Illustrated with 68 Photographs.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Charles Letts and Company, Limited, 1978. 128 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Charles Letts and Company, Limited, 1982. 144 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. New Edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Charles Letts and Company, Limited, 1978. 128 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.