Pittura e disegno

The Painter As Historian. Mythological, Religious, Secular: Paintings of the XV to XIX Centuries

ANONYMOUS · 1962 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Wildenstein. 1962. Printed Wrapper (softcover), Small 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue, 69 pages; 42 b&w plates. Preceding the plates an essay on each places the painting (i.e. the subject of the painting) in its historical context. The exhibition was for the benefi...

The Liberal Arts Studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

RAGGIO, OLGA; ANTOINE M. WILMERING · 1996 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1996. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 56 pages. Illustrated in color and in b&w. Met Bulletin Spring 1996. "A masterpiece of fifteenth-century Italian intarsia, the studiolo, or private study, of Frederico da Monte...

Klee and America

HELFENSTEIN, JOSEF AND ELIZABETH HUTTON TURNER (EDITED BY); WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JENNY ANGER; VIVIAN ENDICOTT BARNETT; MICHAEL BAUMGARTNER; [ET AL] · 2006 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Houston / Ostfildern, Germany, The Menil Collection / Hatje Cantz. 2006. (ISBN: 0939594625). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 316 pages; 7 essays; 97 catalogue color plates, 84 b&w text illustrations. Chronology, Exhibitions in America, Bibliography. T...

The Treasury of Basel Cathedral

HUSBAND, TIMOTHY; JULIEN CHAPUIS (WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY) · 2001 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press. 2001. (ISBN: 0300088493). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 182 pages; 150 illustrations, including 105 color. The fascinating story of 14th-century Basel; its cathedral; the gold, silver, bejewelled, enameled treasury of...

The Isles of Shoals Remembered : A Legacy from America's First Musicians' and Artists' Colony

MASON, CALEB (INTRODUCED WITH TEXT) · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston, Charles E. Tuttle. 1992, First Printing. (ISBN: 0804817766). Decorated cloth boards, Square 4to. not paginated. A daybook, or diary remembering the original 1901 daybook created for and presented to musician William Mason as a Christmas gift by his musical and artistic...

Lithopinion 15

SWAYDUCK, EDWARD; LUIGI BARZINI; GEORGE GALLUP; [ET AL] · 1969 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Local One, Amalgamated Lithographers of America. 1969. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Periodical, 88 pages; numerous illustrations. Opening essay by Swayduck could have been written in 2010: bankers & socialism. Six essays on Italy, including one by Barzini, ano...

The First Century of Printmaking, 1400-1500

MONGAN, ELIZABETH AND CARL O. SCHNIEWIND (CATALOGUE COMPILED BY) · 1941 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

The Art Institute of Chicago. 1941. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 152 pages; 138 prints catalogued; more than 40 are illustrated. The Preface suggests that many of the prints are unique, the only one known in existence. Clean throughout; the front c...

The Angel Tree : The Loretta Hines Howard Collection of Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Crèche Figures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

HOWARD, LINN; MARY JANE POOL · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0394726480). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 80 pages; numerous full-page color photographs, one 4-panel color photo displaying the entire tree and surround. Clean throughout, binding tight. Very Good.

The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion

FRANCIS, MARK AND MARGERY KING; HILTON ALS; [ET AL] · 1997 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Boston, Little, Brown / Bullfinch Press. 1997. (ISBN: 0821225294). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 304 pages; numerous color illustrations and reproductions. Published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name as the book. Very Good.

Thomas Eakins' Artistic Training, 1860-1870

MILROY, ELIZABETH LAMOTTE CATES · 1986 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ann Arbor, U.M.I. 1986. Unbound facsimile, 8.5" x 11". dissertation, 425 pages.A dissertation. Endnotes; Bibliography. Several pages of illustrations are very poor, dark, in the facsimile. Yellow highlighting, otherwise clean throughout, pages flat and n very good condition. G...

Mednyánszky

VARIOUS · 2003 · Ultramarine Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Budapest, Ungarische Nationalgalerie / Kossuth Verlag. 2003. (ISBN: 9637432884). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 416 pages; more than 450 color reproductions; color and b&w text illustrations; 19 essays; bibliography. German text. Fine/Fine.

The Future Must Be Sweet --- Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years

KUSHNER, MARILYN S. · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Lower East Side Printshop. 2008. (ISBN: 9780966750591). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, not paginated. More than 30 prints reproduced in color . Light imperfection to the top edge of the last four pages and the back panel. Very Good.

Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969

CELANT, GERMANO AND CLARE BELL (ORGANIZED BY AND ESSAYS BY) · 1999 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Guggenheim Museum. 1999. (ISBN: 0892072156). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 246 pages; 155 color reproductions; b&w photo-illustrations. Essays, Interview, Dine's Writings, Chronology, Bibliography. Clean throughout, unmarked. Fine.

Paul Klee at the Guggenheim

KAGAN, ANDREW (ESSAY); LISA DENNISON (INTRODUCTION) · 1993 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Guggenheim Museum. 1993. (ISBN: 0892071079). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 206 pages; 77 color plates in the Catalogue; color and b&w text illustrattions. Paintings and works on paper, the collection spans Klee's entire output: landscapes ...

Katalog Der Neuen Staatsgalerie. Amtliche Ausgabe 3. Auflage

ANONYMOUS · 1925 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

München, 1925. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 7.25"x5". Not paginated. An apparent list of the gallery's holdings; about 120 b&w photo-illustrations of paintings and sculpture; sculpture includes many busts. In the back 32 pages of advertisements, most are for galleries. Clean t...

Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy

BASSHAM, BEN L. · 1998 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Kent, Ohio, The Kent State University Press. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0873385934). Cloth, 4to. 328 pages; 20 color plates, 134 b&w. Chapman sketched the Civil War scene while on duty with the Confederacy. Some notable sites and persons were drawn by him. He dies in 1910: hi...

Manet / Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting

TINTEROW, GARY AND GENEVIÈVE LACAMBRE ; DEBORAH L. ROLDÁN; JULIET WILSON-BAREAU; [ET AL] · 2002 · Ultramarine Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York; New Haven, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press. 2002. (ISBN: 1588390403). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Thick 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 592 pages; 500 color text illustrations; 226 works in the Catalogue, each with a thumbnail illustration and fu...

In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830 / Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition

COOPER, WENDY A. · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1980, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0394509943). Cloth, 4to. 280 pages; 52 color plates; 308 b&w illustrations. Reaping the fifty years of scholarship since the famous Girl Scouts Exhibition put American antiques in a limelight. Clean throughout. In...

The Pieced Quilt an American Design Tradition

HOLSTEIN, JONATHAN · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society. 1973, First Printing. (ISBN: 08212053410). Cloth, 4to. 192 pages; 96 color plates, most full-page; 59 b&w illustrations. A celebration of "the skilled hand and the practiced eye" of this "feminine art". Clean throughout; dustja...

Needlepoint from America's Great Quilt Designs

DAVIS, MARY KAY AND HELEN GIAMMATTEI · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Workman Publishing. 1974, First Printing. (ISBN: 0911104410). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Ill.: Elizabeth Meyer. 170 pages; "Over fifty classic patterns to needlepoint, each with full-color and b&w photographs and large stich-by-stich diagrams". Clean through...