American Art
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by Armstrong, Sara Garden
New York:: Sara Garden Armstrong,, 1997.. Edition of 25. 4" x 12.5" (10.16 x 31.75cm); pages. Case of sandblasted plastic. Cover and inside of paper fiber, rust, transparency film in Vinyl sleeves. Plastic screw post binding. Jon Coffelt, "Sara Garden Armstrong Threads and Layers": "This book consists of layers of photographs printed on acetate and pulp sprayed on plastic, inserted into double folded vinyl sleeves. Images superimpose as the pages are turned to create deep yet...
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$375.00
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art (with the Lois Orswell/David Smith Correspondence)
by Cohn, Marjorie B. et al
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2002. Hardcover. NF/VG. Pale grey cloth/boards; silver lettering. Grey dj with sculpture illus. and bw/red lettering. Image of Lois Orswell's personal bookplate on FEP. 387 pp. with 85 color and 117 bw illustrations. Lois Orswell was a pioneering collector of abstract expressionist art and modern sculpture in a time when men dominated the art world. Her collection focused on sculpture and drawings, especially those of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning,...
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$24.99
Charles Arnoldi / Laddie John Dill
by Butterfield, Jan
Fullerton, California: California State University, 1983. Paperback. Good+ clean and tight but with general shelf wear to covers; light bumps to corners.. Black wraps; white lettering. 54 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition held September 1983 at Main Art Gallery, Cal State Fullerton. Intro and bios on both artists by Jan Butterfield. Includes a catalogue and chronology for each artist. With an essay on materials and process by Laddie John Dill.
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$24.99
Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art
by BERMAN, Avis
New York: Atheneum, 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof in plain wrappers. Near fine with light browning to spine, publisher's correction made on front cover.
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$20.00
America Restored
by Highsmith, Carol M. & Ted Landphair
Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 320 pages. Large 4to, plethora of color and black and white plates view 102 sites, two in every state and the District of Columbia -- glorious restorations arecaptured in color.
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$35.00
New Mexico: Voices in an Ancient Landscape
by Hall, Douglas Kent
NY: Holt, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Douglas Kent Hall photos. 1st, oblong 4to, gray boards/black cloth spine, vg+ (light bump at bottom of spine; yellowing to edges of pages) in vg+ though price-cl. dj. 267 pp. SIGNED by the photographer/author on the title page.
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$50.00
San Francisco Then And Now
by Yenne, Bill
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in matching fine slipcase. 144 pages. 24 x 28.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates on glossy stock. Index.
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$25.00
Oldenburg Six Themes
by Friedman, Martin
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig.illustrated wrappers. Very good. Oldenburg, Claes. 100 pp. Square 4to, copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Interview with Claes Oldenburg. Bibliography.
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$20.00
Joseph Cornell; May 3 - 31, 1975
by Cornell, Joseph
New York: ACA Galleries, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. blue paper wrappers with front cover cutout. Very good. Cornell, Joseph. 48 pages. 25.5 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated exhibition catalogue with introduction by John Bernard Myers, containing 39 illustrations, 3 in color. Spine rubbed. second copy spine rubbed. VG.
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$40.00
With Ray
by William S. Wilson
Black Mountain College Dossiers #4: Ray Johnson. Original publication of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, documenting the works of former students and faculty of the college. Text by William S. Wilson and Mary Emma Harris; foreword by Mary Holden; design by Jon Jicha. v, 83 pages with color and b/w reproductions. Light brown paper wrappers with French flaps. Stamped by hand with BMC logo on front cover. Fine with tight binding.
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$25.00
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935
by Corn, Wanda M
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG- (Dust jacket shows some soiling. Clean contents). Blue cloth with red lettering on spine, color dust jacket, yellow spine with blue and black lettering. xxiii; 447 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. "Wanda M. Corn's long-awaited book proposes a remarkable revisioning of the history of American modern art between the two world wars. Moving away from issues of style and abstraction, she bases her work on a broad examination of culture...
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$24.99
27th Annual Iowa Artists Exhibition
by Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1975. Paperback. VG- ex-library copy with stamps, bookplate, and call number label.. Aqua wraps with blue lettering. 23 unnumbered pages. BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from May 4 through June 8, 1975 at the Des Moines Art Center.
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$24.99
Richard Misrach: Pictures of Paintings.
by MISRACH, Richard
New York: Power House Books / A Blind Spot Book, 2002. First edition / First printing. Ivory cloth with picture tipped to front board in chipboard slipcase. Very fine in very fine slipcase.
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$100.00
Orozco
by Reed, Alma
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. Orozco, Jose Clemente. 308 pages. Thirty-two half-tone illustrations, including reproductions of a few of Orozco's less well-known works and several early photographs of the artist which have never been printed. FREITAG 7166.
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$50.00
30th Iowa Artists Exhibition
by Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1977. Paperback. VG- ex-library copy with stamps, bookplate, and call number label.. Maroon and white wraps. 24 unnumbered pages. BW and 1 color illustration. Catalogue of an exhibition from May 14 through June 14, 1978 at the Des Moines Art Center.
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$24.99
Berthe Morisot Impressionist
by Stuckey, Charles & William P. Scott with the assistance of Suzanne G. Lindsay
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Berthe Morisot. 228 pages. 28.5 x 23.5 cm. 123 color plates plus 116 black and white illustrations.
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$25.00
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Miniatures Painted in America, 1720-1850
by Wehle, H.B
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927. Softcover. VG-, small label on front cover; light cover wear and art museum book plate inside front cover. Green wraps with black lettering, 75 pages, 2 leaves including frontispiece portraits 40 bw plates. Three-page introductory essay by H.B. Wehle. 58 known artists and possibly 15 unknown miniature painters represented by at least 200 examples. A ground-breaking exhibition. Brief biography of each artist given. From the exhibition of March - April 1927....
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$30.00
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Farr, Finis
New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. yellow cloth. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 293 pages. 21 x 14 cm. 49 Illustrations. Index. Clean, fresh copy.
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$25.00
The Whitney Studio Club and American Art, 1900-1932
by Goodrich, Lloyd
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975. Softcover. VG, some soiling, may have some signs of former library ownership.. Color wraps. [24] pp. 51 bw plates. Catalogue lists appx. 80 works by 71 artists, and 13 pieces by 12 sculptors. Main essay on the Whitney Studio Club by Lloyd Goodrich. Great source of information. Published to accompany the exhibition which was held at NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, May 23 to Sept. 3, 1975.
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$24.99
Boston Days of William Morris Hunt
by Shannon, Martha H
Boston: Marshall Jones, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick dark gray boards and black cloth. Teg. Very good. Hunt, William Morris. 165 pp. 20 illustrations in black and white. Limited edition, copy 1080 of 1500. Hunt painted and taught in Boston, and was a vital force in the development of American art. FREITAG 4530. Extremity chipping.
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$75.00
Steve Wheeler: The Oracle Visiting the 21st Century
by Wheeler, Steve
New York: David Findlay, Jr. Gallery, 2012. Softcover. VG. Color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. Unpaginated, color illustrations. Catalogue from the exhibition of December 1-21, 2012. Selections from the work of Robert Barrell, Tom Burckhardt, Peter Busa, Leonard Edmondson, Luke Gray, Keith Haring, Ynez Johnston, Margrit Lewczuk, Elizabeth Murray, and Baker Overstreet, all who share the strategy of the pursuit of highly articulated abatraction to extract meaning from the fragmenting rhythms of...
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$24.99
Joan Snyder & Pat Steir
by Baker, Kenneth
Boston, Massachusetts: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1974. Softcover. VG (slight corner wear, slight bend to back cover). Brown stapled paper wraps, [28 pp.], 6 BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a1974 exhibition of artwork by American painters Joan Snyder (b. 1940) and Pat Steir (b. 1940). With individual artist essays penned by Kenneth Baker. Includes chronologies, exhibitions histories, and a few examples of each artist's work. Uncommon.
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$24.99
The Bending Of The Bow; A version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey
by Dine, Jim & Neil Curry
London: Enitharmon Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine and beige basked weave cloth with front cover paper label inset. Fine in fine matching green slipcase.. 63 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 71 of 75 signed by Neil Curry, with a signed and numbered [71 of 75] original etching by Jim Dine laid-in. With four in text photogravure plates and lithographic frontispiece. Text set in 14 pt Monotype Baskerville, hand-printed on Canaletto fine paper, and bound and slipcased...
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$1,250.00
Jim Dine: Gemalde, Aquarelle, Objekte, Graphik
by Jim Dine
Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. 1971, Softcover. Illustrated. Text in German and English. Very Good. Rare Jim Dine exhibition catalog. Clean contents. Light soil to wraps.
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$60.00
Jennifer Bartlett: Air: 24 Hours
by Bartlett, Jennifer. Deborah Eisenberg, text
New York: Abrams, 1994. First edition / First printing. Pink cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$100.00
