Four Art Exhibition Catalogues Museum of Modern Art, New York [1960s]
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1958 - 1967. Stapled Wraps.
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New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1958 - 1967. Stapled Wraps.
Amsterdan: Rijksmuseum, 1963. Soft cover. Catalogue in Dutch with 72 pages of text. 100 pages of b/w prints. Light handling wear. Bindings firm. 8.75 inches tall.
Branson, Missouri: Self Published, 1968. Illustrated Stapled Wraps. Rose Cecil O'Neill was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She rose to fame for her creation of the popular comic strip characters, Kewpies, in 1909, and was also the first published female cartoonist in the United States.
New York: The Hyperian Press, 1945. Good in a Good Dust Jacket. François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and.....
New York: George Braziller, 1970. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. The Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford as MSS. Douce 219–220, is a splendid example of a book of hours following the Dominican Rite. Crafted in Ghent during the late 1470s or.....
Mass: Yale University Press. 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A versatile artist influenced by the French Rococo style, he achieved some note during the 1740s through decorative paintings executed for the supper boxes at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. Hayman was also a successful portraitist and history painter.Francis Hayman RA.....
New Yorl: Guggenheim Museum, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie's work, is the first to gather all of the artist's key projects to date in.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Ellis Lane Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race.
New York, New York, U.S.A. Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1989. A Fine Soft cover. Providing a new viewpoint of contemporary American printmaking, this illustrated volume surveys the work of a number of painters and sculptors whose contribution to printmaking is widely known.The artists discussed include Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg and.....
Simon and Schuster, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Peter Arno, was an American cartoonist. He contributed cartoons and 101 covers to The New Yorker from 1925, the magazine's first year, until 1968, the year of his death.
Spain: Dosde, 2018. The Spanish painter Salvador Dali remains one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. Over the last few decades, Salvador Dali has gradually come to be seen, alongside the likes of Picasso and Matisse, as a prodigious figure whose life and work occupies.....
Italy: Florence Art Gallery, 1964. Alfredo Serri was an Italian painter born in Florence, Italy, in 1898. Before focusing on painting, Serri was a music professor who gave violin, guitar, and piano lessons. Serri also played the violin and performed with the orchestra of the Teatro Della Pergola. He died.....
New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1985. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Charles Wysocki delights in his native land and portrays the joys of its early days so lyrically that he has become the country's leading painter of Americana. The text by Betty Ballantine perfectly embellishes his sense of time and place.....
USA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. A Fine Hardcover. Dancing around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968) and four of the most important American postwar artists: composer John Cage (1912-1992), choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009).....
New York: H. S. Nichols, 1920. Limited Edition of 500. A Very Good Hardcover. The drawings are considered forgeries probably by Nichols and one of his associates according to Beardsley experts. In a style very like Beardsley's, though perhaps a bit less stylish in implementation. Cf. Aubrey Beardsley / A.E......
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. In the years between 1936 and 1943, some 300 murals (also sculptures and stone reliefs) were installed in federal buildings throughout the South.This examination, done with humor, perseption and a storyteller's sensibility.....
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The offers a delightful time capsule of wit and humor, showcasing the best of that era's satire and storytelling. A charming read, nostalgic and entertaining.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the 20th century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this handsomely illustrated second edition of The Life of.....
USA - Europe: Birken-Halde Verlag, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Brazilian-born and Miami-made, Romero Britto has made it to the top and is considered today the number 1 living visual artist worldwide.Britto uses vibrant, bold and colorful patterns to reflect his optimistic view of the world.....
Beverly Hills CA: Hanson Galleries, 1989. Illustrations by Peter Max. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Black's critical text that traces Max's various styles throughout his career.
New York: Holmes & Meier Pub, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Matthew Cullerne Bown's fascinating and often provocative analysis focuses on the art of the Stalin era, from 1932 to 1953, and includes discussion of the pre- and post-Stalin years.The author illuminates the.....
New York: Chartwell Books, 1994. Photography by Yukichi Watabe. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A compilation of illustrations enhances this history of stained glass that covers its evolution, historical tradition, techniques, materials, and modern developments.This text provides an outstanding and comprehensive historical review of.....
California: Chronicle Books, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Vibrant with color and image on virtually every page, this handsome volume includes unusually clear explanations of fine-art printmaking techniques and entertaining stories about the artists and their working habits. An engaging consideration of the creative process, Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood.....
Seattle: Museum of Art, Washington State University, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. traces the evolution of her work from the obsessively beaded and extravagantly patterned taxidermy heads to the more subdued and haunting figurative paintings and doll sculptures. The work is intensely alive.....
Columbia: Univ of South Carolina Press, 1984. Second Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.