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The Eye and the Heart : Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle
by John Sandford
Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$10.37
The Protean Century: 1870-1970
by Hunter, Sam (Essay)
New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc, 1970. Paperback. VG (May be some discoloration to covers and shelfwear to wraps and text block). Grey wraps. [110] pp. 5 color, 58 bw plates. This exhibition was in honor of 200 years of education at Dartmouth. Ten-page introductory essay written by Sam Hunter. Many of the artists represented are American, and almost all the lenders were graduates of Dartmouth. Quite a nice selection of paintings, each annotated. Published to accompany the exhibition held in...
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$20.00
The Armand Hammer Collection: Four Centuries of Masterpieces
by _________________
Atlanta, GA: The High Museum of Art, 1977. 1st. Soft cover. Near Fine. 10.9x8.4x0.6in. light rubbing to extremities. The catalogue for the exhibition at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, November 20, 1977 - January 15, 1978. Profusely illustrated in color. 1.71lb 10.9x8.4x0.6in
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$10.00
Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960 - 1990
by T Victoria Hansen
1995. Hardcover. As New. Grey cloth, grey ill. DJ. 248 pp. 177 bw and color plates. Survey of graphic production in the US from 1960 to 1990. Works by Robert Blackburn, June Wayne, Tatyana Grosman, Sheila Marbain, Sam Gilliam, Romare Bearden, Grace Hartigan, Jennifer Bartlett, Lee Bontecou, Pat Stier and many others.Exhibition itinerary: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers--the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 23-June 18, 1995 [and others]./ Includes...
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$20.00
Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco
by Walker, Stefanie and Frederick Hammond (editors)
New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12.3x9.4x1.1in. dust jacket with tiny tears at foot of spine. Dust jacket in clear protector. The catalogue of an exhibition of the same name at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, March 10 - June 13, 1999, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 25 - October 3, 1999. 97 objects are described and illustrated in color. Numerous figures...
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$125.00
Remembrance Of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America 1609-1776
by Blackburn, Roderick H.; Piwonka, Ruth
Albany, New York: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 299 pages. Bibliography, Index, quatation sources. Illustrated throughout with color plates and black & white reproductions.
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$40.00
The Book of Nature: American Painters and the Natural Sublime
by Murphy, Francis
Yonkers, New York: The Hudson River Museum, 1983. Softcover. VG, (copy may have small label on cover or wrinkle to cover at spine). Cream & color illus. wraps. 112 pp. 16 color, 60 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1983-1984 exhibition of American landscape painting. With a lengthy essay by Francis Murphy (The Book of Nature: American Painters and the Natural Sublime). Also reprints an article by Thomas Cole (Essay on American Scenery) and an essay by Marsden Hartley (On the Subject of the...
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$20.00
Gary Hill: I Believe It is an Image:
by HILL, Gary. Contributions by Shizuko Watari and Stephen Sarrazin
Tokyo: Watari-Um, 1992. Signed by Artist Gary Hill on the title page. First edition / First printing. White paper-covered spine, charcoal paper-covered boards decorated in red with white text. Fine. Issued without dust jacket, a clear archival jacket is supplied.
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$115.00
The Distaff Side
by Simon, Joan
Sharon, CT: The Granary, 2014. Hardcover. As New. Grey cloth/boards with color-illustrated paste-downs to front and back; red lettering. 238 pp. with color illus. throughout. Catalogue resulting from an exhibition of the same title which opened at The Granary in 2013. "The catalogue is not only about an exhibition but also about a shared passion that has become central to our lives together. The Granary, the gallery in which The Distaff Side is displayed, is but an extension of our home, allowing us to...
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$30.00
From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson
by Sebastian Matthews
Catalogue for an exhibition held February 19 - June 12, 2010. Includes essays by exhibition curator Sebastian Matthews as well as Arthur Secunda, Julie J. Thomson, Kate Erin Dempsey, and William S. Wilson. 48 pages with color reproductions. Stapled in brown paper wrappers with hand-stamped title. New.
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$15.00
Holly Solomon Gallery: The First Two Years
by Solomon, Holly and Horace Solomon
New York: Holly Solomon Gallery, 1977. Paperback. G+. General shelf wear. Ex-library with usual marks. Edge tanning, but clean contents. First page is detached from binding, and other pages should be treated with care.. BW illustrated wraps, white spine with black lettering. [68] pp. Filled with BW photos. A catalogue of exhibitions spanning two years of the gallery's opening.
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$80.00
The Forty-First Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Miniatures
by Pennsylvania of Fine Arts
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1943. Paperback. VG- wear to edges and corners, including a rip at bottom corner, light discoloration to wraps.. Mint wraps with olive lettering. 48 pp. BW illustrations. Catalogue of the exhibition in Philadelphia from October 24th to November 28th, 1943.
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$29.97
Jack Lenor Larsen: A Weaver's Memoir. Inscribed to Designer David Weatherford
by LARSEN, Jack Lenor
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Signed on the half-title page: For David With Thanks Jack Larsen. First edition / First printing. Blue-gray cloth. Very fine in fine dust jacket. David Weatherford was a prominent Seattle interior designer and antiques dealer.
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$150.00
Realism & Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century New England Seascapes
by Sill, Gertrude Grace
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. Softcover. VG-. Covers and pages lightly tanned.. Oblong staped wraps, off-white with color illustration. 12 pp. 7 BW plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held September 15 to November 29, 1989. Catalogue lists 30 works. A very nice small catalogue on this topic. Includes works by Thomas Birch, William Bradford, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Harrison Bird Brown, James Buttersworth, Charles Codman, Michele Felice Corne, James G. Evans, Alvan Fisher, Charles B....
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$29.97
From Exploration to Conservation: Picturing the Sierra Nevada
by Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, Nevada: Navada Museum of Art, 1998. Softcover. VG, very slight wear to extremities.. Color illustrated wraps. 192 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition, Oct. 11, 1998 -Jan. 10, 1999 and organized by the Nevada Museum of Art and the Wilderness Society. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188).
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$30.00
Artistas Asturianos VII: Pintores VII
by Feas Costilla, Luis (editor)
Oviedo: Hércules Astur de Ediciones, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 13.7x9.7x1.5in. Volume 7 of the 11 volume series on Asturian Art and Architecture. With 273 photographs in color illustrating the work of 11 painters born 1955-1959: Francisco Velasco, José Pantaleón, Melquíades Álvarez, Miguel Galano, Vicente Pastor, Pelayo Ortega, Ricardo Mojardin, Avelino Mayo, Maria Álvarez, Antonio Gil Morán, and José Andrés Gutiérrez. Text in Spanish. 429pp 7.38lb 13.7x9.7x1.5in EXTRA SHIPPING...
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$195.00
Jim Dine: Oeuvres sur Papier 1978-1979
by Jim Dine
In very good condition, clean and unmarked.
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$25.00
Shanghai Museum Chinese Minority Nationalities' Art Gallery
by Shanghai Museum
Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 11.2x7.4x0.1in. 63 objects are described and illustrated in color. Text in Chinese and English. 32pp 0.35lb 11.2x7.4x0.1in
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$12.00
Messages from Home.
by Armstrong, Sara Garden
New York:: Sara Garden Armstrong,, 1994.. Edition of 40. 9" x 11.5" (22.86 x 29.21cm); 32 unnumbered pages. Interior pages of transparent film, translucent paper and coated laser paper. Bound in cover off vinyl sleeve with two screws at spine. Slipped in case of sandblasted plastic. Signed and numbered by the artist. Jon Coffelt, "Sara Garden Armstrong Threads and Layers": "This book is a catalogue for a solo exhibition that was cancelled. The images come from work scheduled to...
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$150.00
The Old Navy, 1776-1860: A Catalog of an Exhibit of Prints and Watercolors from the Naval Collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt
by _________________
Washington, DC: National Archives, 1962. 1st. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.4x11.0x0.2in. toning to fore edge of front and back covers. 88 works in the catalogue are described, of which 38 are illustrated, 4 in color. 56pp 0.52lb 8.4x11.0x0.2in
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$10.00
History and Descriptive Details of Middleton's Portraits of Mary, The Mother of Washington and MARY PHILLIPSE (Washington's Early Love). Also, of the Sharples Portraits of Washington, and Martha, His Wife; Robert Fulton and His Wife; and of Beautiful Women of The revolutionary Period
Boston: Frank Wood, Printer, 1886. Softbound. VG. Green printed wraps. 49 pp. no illustrations. This small collection was comprised of 15 works in all. It is not stated who brought them together, or for how long, or for what purpose, or where exactly they were exhibited. However, indications are that it was part of a promotional regimin for a new book published by Scribner's entitled "Memorials of Washington, and of Mary, His Mother and Martha, His Wife" by a Major James Walter.
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$85.00
The Portrait in the Renaissance
by Pope-Hennessy, John
New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 10.3x8.0x1.2in. dust jacket price-clipped and with small tears at head and foot of spine and at top of front fold. Dust jacket in clear protector. The twelfth volume of the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. With 330 illustrations. 348pp 3.13lb 10.3x8.0x1.2in
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$35.00
Vision Quest
by Connie Bostic
Catalogue for an exhibition held January 24 - May 17, 2014 at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, showcasing Homire's life drawing and poetry. Short introduction by exhibition curator Connie Bostic. 48 pages. Bound in semigloss pictorial wrappers. NEW. Cynthia Homire came to Black Mountain College to study pottery with David Weinrib and Karen Karnes, and later married fellow BMC alum Jorge Fick. They opened the Fickery in Santa Fe where she made utilitarian stoneware that he glazed. They held...
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$10.00
Ringling: The Art Museum
by Merling, Mitchell
Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2002. Soft cover. Fine. 10.0x8.2x0.7in. 192pp 1.79lb 10.0x8.2x0.7in
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$20.00
Running at Wolfe's Neck.
by Goodale, Rebecca
Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2022.. Edition of 3. Artist's book with mixed media silkscreen prints with collage, cloth bound accordion book, edition of 3 , 11.25 h x 7.75w x 1.75 d closed book, open 11.25h x 88 w x 7d in inches Rebecca Goodale: "Wolfe's Neck in Freeport, Maine is home to Wolfe's Neck State Park, several parcels of land preserved by the Freeport Conservation Trust, and also Wolfe's Neck Farm (aka Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment)....
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$1,700.00