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Art Reference

Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900, by Robert Taft.  New York:  Bonanza Books, 1953.  Reissue.  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.  Hard Cover.  Very Good/Good.  400 pp.  Dust jacket has small tear on front, two in the back; covered in clear plastic.  Cover shows wear on top and bottom edges, some on backstrip.  Biographies of forty-three artist and illustrators, with seventy-one pages of black/white illustrations of their works.  DJ has small tear in front, two in the back; covered in clear plastic.  Covers show wear on top and bottom edges.

Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works, by Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton.  2 vols.  Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879.  First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.  750 pp.  Decorative Cloth.  Good/No Jacket. Gilt-stamped covers are worn, especially on the backstrip and four corners.  Some early pages in Volume I have chips on outside edges, with two cracks in front hinge, but otherwise clean and tight.  Volume II, pages clean and tight, but inside cover and second page taped to mend tears to the front hinge; two pages have a small piece missing on upper, right-hand corner.  An international directory, with 2050 biographical sketches and 26-page introduction that gives an account of the more important academies and schools in Great Britain, Europe, and the U.S.  General index, artist index, place index.

California Artists, 1935-1956, by Dewitt Clinton McCall, III. Published and distributed by deRu’s Fine Art Books.  First edition, 1981. 4to – over 9¾-12” tall.  Very Good.  Name of prior owner and a date on inside cover; sticker residue on title page, otherwise as new.  Leather-like cover with color inset.  212 pp.  Alphabetical listing of artists and 96 pages of illustrations, mostly black and white, a few in color.

Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, by Paul Cummings.  New York:  St. Martin 's Press, 1988.  Fifth Edition.  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.  Hard Cover.  Near Fine.  Ex-Library.  738 pp.  Biographical dictionary of 900 artists.  Lists where the artists studied and taught; their addresses, dealers, one-man exhibitions, retrospectives; where their collections can be found.  Includes some illustrations.

Dictionary of Marine Artists, by Dorothy E.R. Brewington.  Mystic, Connecticut:  Mystic Seaport Museum, 1982.  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.  Cloth.  Very Good/Good.  Dust jacket has some chipping on top and bottom edges, backstrip.  431 pp.  Mostly Western artists (American and European), but also five pages of Chinese and Japanese artists.

Encyclopedia of the Arts, by Dagobert D. Runes and Harry G. Shrickel.  New York:  Philosophical Library, 1946.  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.  Cloth.  Good/Good.  Book is worn at the outside corners, but inside as new; dust jacked is lightly chipped, covered with mylar.  1064 pp.  Comprehensive survey of all the arts, from archaeology to interior architecture and decoration, of all times and all places.  A reference book, history of the arts, and handbook of techniques and materials.

A History of Sculpture, by George Henry Chase and Chandler Rathfon Post.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925.  8vol. - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.  Cloth. Ex-Library.  Very Good.  Library bookplate in back, stamps in front, with hand-written professor's name inside; minor shelf wear.  Otherwise, very clean and tight.  582 pp. with glossary and indexes.

Mexican Painters:  Rivera, Orozco, Sisquieros, and Other Artists of the Society Realism School, by MacKinley Helm.  New York:  Dover Publications, Inc., 1968.  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.  Trade Paperback.  Very Good, with minor shelf wear.  205 pp.  Unabridged republication of 1941 book.

The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1565-1860, by George C. Groce and David H. Wallace.  New Haven :  Yale University Press, 1957.  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.  Cloth.  Very Good.  759 pp.  Well documented biographical dictionary of painters, draftsmen, sculptors, engravers, lithographers, and allied artists, either amateur or professional, native or foreign-born, who worked within the continental US.

New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, by Henry Geldzahler.  New York:  E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1969.  First Edition.  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.  Trade Paperback.  Very Good, but with chipped and worn edges on cover; penciled notes on front and back (blank) pages.  Foreword by Thomas P.F. Hoving, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Artist biographies; reproductions in color and black and white; contemporary criticism by Harold Rosenberg, Robert Rosenblum, Clement Greenberg, William Rubin, and Michael Fried.  Artists include Avery, Pollock, Warhol.

North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Jules and Nancy G. Heller, eds.  New York:  Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.  Trade Paperback.  612 pp.  Very Good.  Slight crease on back cover, minor chipping.  Biographical dictionary with index and 96 b/w reproductions of artists' works.

Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers, by Clara Erskine Clement.  Boston:  James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.  Eighth Edition.  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.  Very Good.  681 pp.  Gilt-stamped cloth.  Backstrip darkened with frayed edges on top and bottom, some darkening on covers; two small tears in front hinge.  Biographical entries plus illustrations and monograms, with an accounting of European art schools and a chronology of their principal masters.

Texas Quarterly:  Image of Mexico I and II.  Austin :  The University of Texas, 1969.  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.  Trade Paperback.  Very Good.  Minor soil on Vol. I cover, minor chipping on Vol. II cover, with crease on right front cover and first few pages.  667 pp.  Reproductions in black/white of the drawings and prints in the General Motors of Mexico Collection, with photographs of the artists and their biographies.  In Spanish and English.

Who was Who in American Art, Peter Hastings Falk, ed.  Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1985.  4to - 9¾ - 12” tall.  Hardcover. Very Good. White tape extends over onto inside cover from front flyleaf due to hinge tear, approx. 80 middle pages dampstained on top edges .  A highly useful reference book of biographical listings of American artists active from 1898-1947.   

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