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The American
West, by Larry
Curry. New York: The Viking Press, in association with the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, 1972. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Trade
Paperback. Very Good. 198 pp. Some wear on all edges. Foreword by Archibald Hanna.
Exhibition catalog of Western painters from Catlin to Russell. 135 color
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Cities on
Stone: Nineteenth Century Lithograph Images of the Urban West,
by John W. Reps. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum,
1976. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover.
Good.
Shelf wear, plus tear on lower backstrip and ballpoint mark on cover. Clean and tight inside.
Accompanying catalog for traveling exhibition: Fort Worth, San Antonio,
Omaha, Ithaca, and Oakland. History of lithography of early western towns,
with 50 full-page plates, most in color. |
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Great Painters and
Illustrators of the Old West, by Harold McCracken.
New York: Dover
Publications, 1988. 8
vo-over 7¾ - 9¾” tall. Soft Cover. Very good. Minor wear on upper and
lower edges of cover, small tear on backstrip; clean and neat inside.
Includes biographical check list of Western Artists.
Illustrated throughout. |
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Independent
Spirits, Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945,
Patricia Trenton, ed. University
of California Press, 1995. Trade
Paperback. 4to
– over 9¾ - 12” tall. Near fine, but with some wear on the covers.
304 pages. Richly
illustrated, with essays on women artists by regions within the West
(Northern and Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Rocky
Mountains, Great Plains).
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Legacy of the West,
by David C. Hunt.
Omaha, Nebraska: Joslyn Art Museum, 1982. First
Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade Paperback.
Very Good. Slight wear around the edges, with light crease on lower front
cover. Presented for the first time the core of the Joslyn Art Museum's
Western American paintings and works of art on paper collections,
including ethnographic works. Essay by David C. Hunt on "The Artists'
Legacy of the West" and 43 artist biographies. |
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Masterpieces of the American
West, Selections from the Anschutz Collection, by Elizabeth
Cunningham and Gorge Schriever. Denver, Colorado: A.B. Hirschfield Press, 1983.
4to - over 9¾" -
12" tall. Trade Paperback. Good. Color reproductions by James O. Milmoe and Malcolm Varron, with
biographical sketches of artists, including Catlin, Hennings, Remington,
Reiss, Blumenschein. Some chipping on cover, inside pages immaculate.
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Paintbox on the Frontier, The Life and Times
of George Caleb Bingham, by
Alberta Wilson Constant. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell
Company, 1974. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good/Fair. Foxing on top edge of dust jacket. Biography of Missouri artist
(1811-1879), one of the first American painters to paint everyday people
of the American frontier. Includes color and b/w reproductions of his
work.
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The Peter Hurd Mural. Lubbock, Texas:
West Texas Museum Association, 1957. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Trade Paperback. Fine. The Museum Journal, Vol. I. History of the
people in the mural (banker, minister, cowboy, et al.) and of its
execution in the rotunda of the West Texas Museum at Texas Tech
University, Lubbock. Color reproductions.
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Prints of the West: Prints
from the Library of Congress, by Ron Tyler. Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994.
4to - over 9¾" -
12" tall. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 197 pp. Highlights the colorful lives of
the artists, the art of the print, and the role printmakers played in the
proliferation of images of the West, beginning in 1819. Fifty full-color
and fifty b/w reproductions.
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(Natural History) A Soldier-Scientist in the
American Southwest, by Michael J. Brodhead. Tucson: The Arizona
Historical Society, 1973. Historical Monograph No 1. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Trade
Paperback. Very Good. Wrapper shows slight wear around edges, but inside
is tight and clean. A narrative of the travels of Elliott
Coues, Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army, with his observations upon natural
history in Kansas, territories of Colorado and New Mexico, Arizona, and
the coast of California, 1864-65. Includes four color reproductions.
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Stark Museum of Art:
The Western Collection 1978, by Julie
Schimmel. Orange, Texas: Stark Museum
of Art, 1978. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade Paperback.
Very Good.
Slight chipping at bottom front cover. Color and black/white
reproductions from the collection, plus full catalog of the collection and
artists' biographies. Artists include Audubons, Bierstadt, Hennings,
Miller, Onderdonk, Russell, and Stanley.
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William Raney: Painter of
the Early West,
by Francis S. Grubar. Corcoran
Gallery of Art, 1962. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth.
Good. Blue covers faded, some fraying on head and tail of backstrip.
Ex-libris. 80+ pp catalog accompanied first retrospective of artist's
work. Includes 51 full-page, b/w reproductions, plus 2 in color.
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William Robinson Leigh: Western Artist, by D. Duane Cummins. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1980. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very
Good. Dust jacket has small tear on back cover. Second volume in the
Gilcrease-Oklahoma Series on Western Art and Artists. Foreword by Fred A.
Myers.
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