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Jean Michel Basquiat
by Pellizzi, Francesco / Vrej Baghoomian
Jean-Michel Basquiat Vrej Baghoomian, 21 October to 25 November 1989. Vrej Baghoomianm Inc., 1989 1st edition exhibition catalog printed 1989. 153 pages. Hardcover, Cloth binding with dust jacket. 10 x 12 inches. Color reproductions throughout. This book was published from an edition of 4,000 at the retrospective exhibition held in 1989 just over one year after the after the death of Basquiat. 69 key works are featured including CPRKR, Red Warrior, untitled Skull and Horn Players. Text by: Francesco...
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A$231.94
Art And Life In America
by Oliver W Larkin
Rinehart, 1949. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1949. 547 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge...
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A$48.96
American Art (Catalogue No. 31)
by Olana Gallery
Riverdale, NY: Olana Gallery, nd. Softcover. VG- (Slightly aged overall.). Light blue stapled paper wraps, unpaginated, 12 BW illus. A text list only of more than 1600 offerings from this gallery, at the time. Includes 12 BW illustrations of offered paintings. Catalogue no. 31.
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A$46.34
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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A$177.82
National Watercolor Society Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
Northridge, CA: California State University, 1978. Softcover. VG- with some minor cover wear and art lib. marks on back cover.. White glossy and stapled wraps, [48 pp.], BW illus. Issued in conjunction with two 1978-1979 exhibitions as part of this organization's annual event. Includes lists of award winners, illustrations of award-winning watercolors, lists of members (with street addresses), and more.
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A$46.34
Chicago Modern : Pursuit of the New, 1893-1945
by Kennedy, Elizabeth and others
Chicago: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004. Softbound. VG exlibrary with barcode on rear cover, stamp on title-page otherwise very clean. Illustrated glossy wraps. 175 pp. 18 bw, 135+ color plates. An astounding catalogue! Lists 88 works, each of which is annotated. Extensive biographical information for the different artists represented, as well as artist notes following the catalogue listing. A really worthwhile contribution to the history of Chicago art. COntains a significant section on Black art...
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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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A$15.46
Bulletin, Philadelphia Museum of Art: Annual Report, June 1, 1967 - May 31, 1968
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968. Paperback. VG-. General shelf wear. May have wear and/or some soiling/writing/sticker on covers. Clean contents, minor marginalia in some copies.. BW stapled wraps. Approx 62 pp. Approx 25 BW illustrations. Volume LXIII, No. 298, July-September 1968.
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A$30.93
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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A$61.85
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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A$54.12
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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A$15.46
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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A$193.29
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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A$18.56
Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness.
by BREATHED, Berke
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1986. Signed by the author on the first blank page following the front endpaper. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket The first hardcover publication of Bloom County strips.
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A$386.58
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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A$30.93
Bronzes of the American West
by Patricia Janis Broder
Abrams, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$12.76
Painted Gardens: English Watercolours 1850-1914
by Hobhouse, Penelope and Christopher Wood
New York: Atheneum, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 10.3x10.6x0.9in. dust jacket with small tear at top edge of back panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. With 118 illustrations in color. 208pp 2.84lb 10.3x10.6x0.9in
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An Exhibition of Nineteenth Century Virginia Genre
by Davis, Edward M. III
Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1946. VG, exlib w/ soiling to covers. White wraps. 21, [7] pp. 10 bw plates. Foreword by Edward M. Davis, III followed by the catalogue listing of 86 paintings and 27 prints, an index, and the plates. A treasure trove of names on artists active in Virginia in the 19th century. Published to accompany an exhibition he;d in Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 17 to Feb. 13, 1946.
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Pioneer Artists of Taos
by Bickerstaff, Laura M
Denver, CO; (1983): Old West Publishing Co. Octavo. 227pp. Revised and expanded edition, and twice as long as the 1955 edition. The revision and corrections bring the text up to date with four new chapters prepared especially for this edition. Illustrated with color and black and white illustrations, text, with footnotes. The first substantive study of the founders of the Taos art colony which was formed in 1915. Includes Blumenschein's original introduction and Bickerstaff's studies of the six founding...
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A$131.44
American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life
by Johns, Elizabeth
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Softcover. G+ Front cover torn at bottom of spine. Wear to wrap and page corners. Slight tanning to page edges. Otherwise clean and tight.. Tan wraps with color illustration and red lettering. 250 pp. 25 color, 55 bw plates. Johns presents a fresh look at the idea of why genre paintings were so popular, and what their social function might have been. Nice plates, 40 pages of explanatory notes at end, followed by index.
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Tiffany's 150 Years
by Loring, John
Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385242522 . Book has very slight fading along top edge of covers, front cover has very small curl; DJ has very light shelfwear, slight hint of fading to spine, slight toning to flap edges; photos; 191 pages .
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A$30.85
The Gesture: Movement in Painting and Sculpture
by Neuhoff Gallery, NY: September 17 to October 19, 2002
2002. Softcover. VG. White ill. wraps. 61 pp. Numerous color plates. Essay by Robert Morgan. Works by Mark di Suvero, Michael Goldberg, Wenda Gu, Franz Kline, Gabriela Machado, Fun Ming-chip, Jean Miotte, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, James Nares, Stacey Neff, Jungwook Grace Rim, Path Soong, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, and Bernar Venet.
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A$44.53
The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany
by Paret, Peter
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980. 1st. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.8x5.6x0.7in. light foxing to edges of text block. With 13 illustrations, 2 in color. 269pp 0.88lb 8.8x5.6x0.7in
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A$23.19
The Studio: A Bibliography, The First Fifty Years, 1893-1943
by Holme, Bryan
London: Sims & Reed Ltd, 1978. Paperback. VG. Minor shelf wear to covers. Clean and tight contents.. Olive wraps with black lettering and design. 142 pp. 12 pages of BW plates + a few BW illustrations. Contains an introduction by Bryan Holme; an essay entitled "The Studio"; The Catalogue: Special Numbers, Series, Annuals, and Magazines; Illustrations (plates); and Indices, including a general index, title index, and short subject index. A special guide to the magazine entitled The Studio, whose "policy...
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A$92.78
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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