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1957. The porch at Joy Farm, near Silver Lake, NH. Oil on canvas. 16" x 12". On the verso: "joy farm terrace." "m.m.c.," and "july 27, 57." No Binding.
Two original collages that served as the designs for the covers of Caterpillar Issue 8/9, 1969 by JESS [COLLINS] - 1969
by JESS [COLLINS]
Two original collages that served as the designs for the covers of Caterpillar Issue 8/9, 1969
by JESS [COLLINS]
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[San Francisco], 1969. In fine condition. Two original collages for the front and back covers, each measuring 5 x 6.75 inches. Illustration board with pictorial onlays from a variety of sources, the title lettering on front cover done by hand, cut out and applied on the back cover image, versos of each mount with printer or publisher's annotations about measurements and intended layout. Preserved in a custom folding case with a copy of the published issue of Caterpillar.
Caterpillar was edited and published by Clayton Eshleman in New York City and Sherman Oaks, CA from 1967 to 1973 in 20 numbers. In addition to poets such as Duncan, Rothenberg, Ginsberg, Creeley and Jackson MacLow, Caterpillar published visual artists and filmmakers, including Jess (whose work appeared on several covers), Carolee Schneeman, Nancy Spero, Wallace Berman, and Stan Brakhage, among others. TWO SUPERB ORIGINAL COLLAGES BY JESS. Several illuminating artistic symbols are worked into the cover: Jess adopted the initial capital 'C' from Hans Weiditz's Alphabet, circa 1520-21, which Weiditz made after designs from Albrecht Dürer. Weiditz's alphabet was popular from the time of its creation, and was copied by other woodcutters, and reproduced frequently after the rise of mechanical reproduction. It is clear from the cut that Jess used a reproduction of one of Weiditz's own original cuts, and its association with the mechanical figures (train tracks, gears) he adopted elsewhere in the two collages is an intriguing correspondence of the hand-printing (and hand-making, as with the figure of the woman with a spinning wheel) and mechanical ages. A similar dichotomy is found in Robert Duncan's essay included in the issue, "Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife," in which he contrasts the followers of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams with "the new gang of concrete or constructivist poets."
Caterpillar was edited and published by Clayton Eshleman in New York City and Sherman Oaks, CA from 1967 to 1973 in 20 numbers. In addition to poets such as Duncan, Rothenberg, Ginsberg, Creeley and Jackson MacLow, Caterpillar published visual artists and filmmakers, including Jess (whose work appeared on several covers), Carolee Schneeman, Nancy Spero, Wallace Berman, and Stan Brakhage, among others. TWO SUPERB ORIGINAL COLLAGES BY JESS. Several illuminating artistic symbols are worked into the cover: Jess adopted the initial capital 'C' from Hans Weiditz's Alphabet, circa 1520-21, which Weiditz made after designs from Albrecht Dürer. Weiditz's alphabet was popular from the time of its creation, and was copied by other woodcutters, and reproduced frequently after the rise of mechanical reproduction. It is clear from the cut that Jess used a reproduction of one of Weiditz's own original cuts, and its association with the mechanical figures (train tracks, gears) he adopted elsewhere in the two collages is an intriguing correspondence of the hand-printing (and hand-making, as with the figure of the woman with a spinning wheel) and mechanical ages. A similar dichotomy is found in Robert Duncan's essay included in the issue, "Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife," in which he contrasts the followers of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams with "the new gang of concrete or constructivist poets."
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Joy Farm Terrace
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Nude With Green Drape
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1950-05-11. Oil on cardboard. 16" x 20-1/4". No Binding.
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1974 Portfolio Project
by VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP
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Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1974. Title with a few soft creases and soil-marks, occasional light wear to corners, generally clean and fresh. Title and 29 photographs, prints, and mixed-media pieces, either full sheet or on mounts, each signed by the artist either on recto or verso. Each 14 x 11 inches (or smaller and mounted). Number 39 of 75 copies. The artists include Skip Atwater, L. Myers, S. Moore, Elsa C. Voelcker, Laddy Kite, F. Duffy, Paul Ginsberg, Gail De Loach, L. Blacklow, Joan Lyons, Jonathan Morse, Greg Taylor, David Greene, Eve Cohen, Steve Foote, Frank Pflaumer, J. Morse, Gunther Cartwright, Alan Winer, Erik Sundance, A, Rosen, Tad Goodale, and other artists. The Visual Studies Workshop was founded by Joan Lyons in 1971 and has been a crucible for experimentation ever since. The Workshop has published over 450 titles. Scarce: not in OCLC.
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Archive
by CARTER, John
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A fine archive of three original drawings by the English "mouth artist" John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter's Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 - 2 June 1850), an English mouth artist, together with a memoir and two autograph letters discussing Carter's work by William James Dampier, Carter's first biographer. The collection also includes a heliotype after a drawing by Carter as well as a list of subscribers to Dampier's memoir. The small collection was apparently presented by Dampier to one of his friends. Original drawings by carter are rare, as most "of his work, now widely dispersed and probably unrecognized, is of course only known from nineteenth century reproductions" (Trevor Disley) John Carter was born in Coggeshall, Essex, "of humble parents", as Dampier notes. At school "he showed a disposition to scribble the figure of a man, a horse, or a bird, upon his desk or copy…
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Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations
by CALDER, Alexander; Jean-Paul SARTRE, and James Johnson SWEENEY
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Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris that ran October 25 through November 16, 1946. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three balck-an-white plates reproduce photographs by Herbert Matter.
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Flowers In A Blue Jug
by CUMMINGS, E.E.
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1962. Oil on canvas. 15" x 20". No Binding.
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1974 Portfolio Project
by VISUAL STUDIES WORKSHOP
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Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1974. Title with a few soft creases and soil-marks, occasional light wear to corners, generally clean and fresh. Title and 29 photographs, prints, and mixed-media pieces, either full sheet or on mounts, each signed by the artist either on recto or verso. Each 14 x 11 inches (or smaller and mounted). Number 39 of 75 copies. The artists include Skip Atwater, L. Myers, S. Moore, Elsa C. Voelcker, Laddy Kite, F. Duffy, Paul Ginsberg, Gail De Loach, L. Blacklow, Joan Lyons, Jonathan Morse, Greg Taylor, David Greene, Eve Cohen, Steve Foote, Frank Pflaumer, J. Morse, Gunther Cartwright, Alan Winer, Erik Sundance, A, Rosen, Tad Goodale, and other artists. The Visual Studies Workshop was founded by Joan Lyons in 1971 and has been a crucible for experimentation ever since. The Workshop has published over 450 titles. Scarce: not in OCLC.
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Archive
by CARTER, John
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A fine archive of three original drawings by the English "mouth artist" John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter's Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 - 2 June 1850), an English mouth artist, together with a memoir and two autograph letters discussing Carter's work by William James Dampier, Carter's first biographer. The collection also includes a heliotype after a drawing by Carter as well as a list of subscribers to Dampier's memoir. The small collection was apparently presented by Dampier to one of his friends. Original drawings by carter are rare, as most "of his work, now widely dispersed and probably unrecognized, is of course only known from nineteenth century reproductions" (Trevor Disley) John Carter was born in Coggeshall, Essex, "of humble parents", as Dampier notes. At school "he showed a disposition to scribble the figure of a man, a horse, or a bird, upon his desk or copy…
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Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations
by CALDER, Alexander; Jean-Paul SARTRE, and James Johnson SWEENEY
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Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris that ran October 25 through November 16, 1946. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three balck-an-white plates reproduce photographs by Herbert Matter.
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The Litany of Ra
by [levy, d a, publisher] Edouard NAVILLE (translator)
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Cleveland, 1966. Faint toning. 11 x 8.5 inches. Title leaf of translucent paper with an original drawing by levy. Mimeographed. 12 pages, on rectos only. Stapled wrappers, front cover with original ink scarab drawing by the author mounted. One of 33 copies. A scarce publication by one of levy's unnamed presses, being Edouard Naville's translation of 'The Litany of Ra.' The large original drawing of a scarab on the cover is reflective of levy's interest in the symbol, which he used as the title of his collection 'Scarab Poems.' Though neither his name, nor that of one of his presses, appears in the text, this has all the hallmarks of levy's important mimeographed books, and appears less frequently on the market than others. Taylor & Horvath P-90.
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Art Collecting and Investing: The Inner Workings and the Underbelly of the Art World
by Pierce, Patricia Job & Marco Apollo
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Hingham, MA: Pierce Galleries, Inc., 2003. 204 heavyweight, glossy pages with color illustrations. From back: "An informative guide through the secretive art world; How to build a great art collection and investment portfolio; How to successfully gift, donate, loan and estate plan; Learning how to identify, examine and judge quality; Art world intrigue and scandal - the inside scoop; Cyberspace hazards and e-scams - buyer beware; Candid facts about forgers, fakes and fraud; Stolen art - thieves trafficking and recovery; Dealers, agents, appraisers, authenticators and experts; Greed, glamor (sic) and the art of the deal; Misrepresentations, recasts & reproductions; Auction contracts, fees and shady dealings; Warranties and verbal promises - who to trust; Security systems, fire alarms and self-defense; American painters' auction world records; The top 10 American paintings sold at auction." Light edgewear and slight curl to corners. We noted pink highlighting on at least three…
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Estampes-Dessins / Livres Illustres / Sculptures-Catalogue No. 13 (1962)
by Cramer, Gerald
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Geneva, Switzerland: Galerie Gerald Cramer, 1962 Book. 4. Wraps. Very good. Rubbing to front and back cover. Pages clean. Plastic separating from spine. 55 p. Includes illustrations. With cover illustration by Henry Moore and listings for 270 pieces of illustration and sculpture. Approx. 6.5 by 8.5 inches null.
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A History of American Art
by Daniel M. Mendelowitz
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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corner of the cover. There is some dog-earring on the right corner pages of the book. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "This is a history of the visual arts produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. Such a book is difficult to title. A History of United States Art sounds awkward and logically might even be construed to exclude the arts of the colonial period. Thus, with apologies to our northern and southern neighbors, I use the title A History of American Art, knowing full well that the terms America and the United States are not synonymous...." - Preface from A History of American Art
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The Art of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica: An Annotated Bibliography
by Berlo, Janet Catherine
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G K Hall, Boston, 1985. Apparent First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 272pp; More than 1500 annotated entries on the art made by native inhabitants of Mesoamerica in the 3000 years before the Spanish conquest in 1521; Embossed owners stamp on half-title page; I found a handful of checkmarks in the book; Otherwise pages are tight and clean; Cover is as new; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 081618562X. ISBN/EAN: 9780816185627. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 104211. . 9780816185627
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Oiseaux De Cage
by Viladas, Angel Bofarull
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Fernando Villaverde Ediciones, 2006. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by and presented to me in village of Riba-roja d'Ebre where the author resides. Many colour illustrations. No pagination. Some slight shelf wear. Raffles Bookstore Norfolk All orders normally dispatched within one working day. We will gladly supply further images or more information if required. Discounts available for multiple orders
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Beau James The Life and Times of Jimmy Walker
by FOWLER, Gene
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New York: The Viking Press, 1949. Second Printing Before Publication. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. Pp. 390. Illustrated with b&w photo reproductions. Index. Bound in scarlet cloth with cover design (top hat, walking stick), gilt lettering stamped on spine. A Fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket. A very well preserved copy, with only slight chipping to fresh, bright dust jacket. Bookseller inventory.
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"Ecstatic renovation!" : Street Art Celebrating Sierra Leone's 1992 Revolution
by Joseph A. Opala; Raymond Desouza George (forward)
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RARE! Freetown: Sierra Leone Adult Education Association, January 1994. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Interior pristine. Securely bound with two clean staples. Rubbing to covers. 39 pages.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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Christie’s Amsterdam: African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art from the Van Lier Collection
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Auction Catalogue, Tuesday 15 April 1997. Christie's Amsterdam: African, Oceanic and Indonesian Art from the Van Lier Collection. Amsterdam: Christie's Amsterdam, 1997. Softcover, measuring 8.25" x 10.50" in glossy photographic wraps, 98pp., photograph illustrations throughout. Staple binding, with slight tear on second leaf, otherwise in very good + condition. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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ELVGREN: HIS LIFE & ART
by Collins, Max Allan & Elvgren, Drake
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Portland, OR: Collector's Press, Inc., 1998. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book is in FINE condition - bright boards & sound binding. Dust jacket is in FINE condition - bright, intact & whole. FOLCAS 12/21
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