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American Art Museums and
Galleries, An Introduction to Looking, by Eloise Spaeth. New York: Harpers Brothers, 1960. 12 mo 6 3/4x7 3/4 tall. Hardback, good condition; dust jacket in
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The American Artist and His
Times,
by Homer Saint-Gaudens. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. Third Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12"
tall. Cloth. Very Good. Name
of owner on first inside page, corners worn, with two, small faded spots
on backstrip. Color frontispiece and sixty-four halftone illustrations. 332 pp. with
index. |
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American Painting, by Donald Goddard. Italy: The Reader's Digest
Association, 1990. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover.
Fine/Fine. Introduction by Robert Rosenblum. 319 pp. History of painting in the
United States, from the Colonial era to the present day. Richly
illustrated with reproductions all in color.
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The Art Institute of Chicago, by John Maxon. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970. Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾
- 9¾” tall, 288 pages. Very Good/Fair.
Inside
text as new, but with large corner crease on frontispiece; dust jacket is
worn. A thorough survey of
its AIC collections and some of people who made them possible.
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The Art Institute of Chicago, by John Maxon.
London:
Thames and Hudson, 1970. Trade
paperback of the hardback version listed above.
Very good, with some wear on the covers.
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Caroline Durieux: Lithographs of the Thirties and
Forties. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1977.
4to - over 9¾"
- 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Slight dent on bottom
hard cover, otherwise fine; some smudging and shelf wear on cover, mylar
over cover. Fifty-eight lithographs in three sections:
Latin
America, New Orleans, and Tragic Spirit. Introductory text before each
section, with biographical data and analysis of her style and satire. |
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Everett Shinn, 1876-1953, A
Figure in His Time,
by Edith DeShazo. New York:
Clarkson N.
Potter, Inc., 1974. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Bookplate on inside cover; dust
jacket has repaired tear, covered in mylar. Biography of Ashcan School painter Everett Shinn.
Painter, decorator, playwright, and cinema art director, was married four
times and had an interesting circle of friends, including Rudolph
Valentino. Numerous illustrations and color reproductions, with chronology
and listing of written works.
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The Good and Simple Life:
Artist Colonies in Europe and America, by Michael Jacobs. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. First
Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good/Very Good. 192 pp. Narrative of everyday life in the colonies, in France,
Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Britain, and the US, which provides
a fresh and highly entertaining insight into the history of late
nineteenth-century art.
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Historic Annals of the National Academy of Design
(1825-1865), by Thomas Cummings. New
York: Kennedy Galleries and Da Capo Press, 1969.
8 vo - 7 3/4 x 9 3/4" tall. Near Fine. Cloth (mock
leather), 364 pages. An
unabridged republication of the first edition published in 1865.
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History of the National
Academy of Design 1825-1953, by Eliot Clark. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954.
4to - over 9¾" -
12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket has some rubbing,
with three chips on top front; covered in mylar. 296 pp. History of the oldest art
institution in the United States governed and controlled by artists also
reviews the important developments in American art. Includes a
complete membership list, including associates.
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The Image of America in
Caricature & Cartoon. Fort
Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1975. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Book has small tear
on the upper edge of the back cover, but inside clean and tight.
Dust jacket has three tears on edge of back cover, with shelf wear front
and back. Accompanied an art
exhibit tracing the development of American history and culture through
more than two centuries in caricature and cartoon. Color and b/w
reproductions.
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The Last Mountain:
The Life
of Robert Wood,
by Violet Sigoloff Flume. Brookline Village, Massachusetts:
Branden Press, Inc., 1983. 8vo - over 7¾"
- 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Chronicle of artist's
ninety years, from early days in England to his years in Texas and
California. Includes personal photos, reproductions of many of his color
canvasses, and a section on how he painted.
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Mexican American Artists,
by Jacinto Quirarte. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1973. 4 to - over 9 12x12" tall. Very Good/Fair. Large inscription on title
page signed by artist Joel Tito Ramirez. Dust jacket shows
wear around the edges, with tears on the bottom edge and backstrip. 149
pp. No. 2
in John Fielding and Lois Lasater Maher Series. Antecedents for
the art and architecture of Mexican America discussed and illustrated in
Part One, including US works of Mexican muralists. Part two covers work of
US-born Mexican Americans from 1900 through the 1940s. Color and b/w
reproductions throughout.
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Seth Eastman's Mississippi:
A Lost Portfolio
Recovered, by John Francis McDermott. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1973. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good/Fair. Dust jacket front has a river scene; tear on back
cover and spine. Seventy-nine watercolors of the Upper Mississippi in its wilderness state,
1846-48, when towns were just beginning to appear. B/W reproductions.
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Stark
Young, A Life in the Arts, Letter, 1900-1962. John Pilkington, ed.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.
2 vol., in slipcase, 1454 pages.
Very Good/Fair. Slipcase
with pictured bust of Stark Young. Inside
pages as new. Painter,
teacher, long-time NYT drama critic, theatre director, playwright,
novelist and essayist. A
UT professor for ten years (1905-1915), he frequently painted in Austin
throughout his life. Listed in Texas
Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists.
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