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Fourteen-Century Italian Altarpieces.

Christiansen, Keith, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1982). VG lg sz PB. Readers of Edith Wharton may recall the protagonist of False Dawn, Lewis Roycie, who brought home such painters as Giotto,. Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, and Carpaccio. He opens a gallery of Christian art. Only two ge...

The Mystery of Form: April 6 through 29, 2000.

Magee, Alan, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Hollis Taggart Galleries, (2000). VG lg sz PB. "We are symbols, and inhabit symbols, workmen, work, and tools, words and things, birth and death, all are emblems: but we. sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know t...

Gallerie of Women Artists: special focus on contemporary quilts: issue #9.

Gallerie, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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N. Vancouver, BC, Canada, Gallerie Publications, 1990. VG lg sz PB. Women artists from across North America discuss their art, their lives, and their ideas in this beautiful and thought-. provoking publication.

Paintings 1966-1977.

Cleve Gray, essay by Thomas B. Hess, foreword by Robert T. Buck, Jr., · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Buffalo, NY, Albright Knox Art Gallery, (1976). VG lg sz PB. Begining photo shows Gray seated in the Threnody installation at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase. Gray paints on raw cotton duck roughly 8 feet square. He graduated from Princeton Summa Cum Laude in 1940 and i...

The Tattoo in European and American History.

Caplan, Jane, edited by, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ Press, (2000). VG PB. Wearing the Universe: symbolic markings in early modern England, Godna: inscribing Indian convicts in 19th century. Remainder mark bottom fore-edge.

How to Draw Dogs.

Foster, Walter, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$31.00 (€28.13 | £23.47 | ¥4,950)

Tustin, CA, Artists Library, (1985. VG lg sz PB. How to draw differrent breeds of dogs, their muscles, shape of their heads and bodies, and their coloring.

A Portfolio of Eight Paintings reproduced for framing.

Grandma Moses, with appreciation by John Canaday, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Art in America Publications, nd. VG in large box. Includes biographical note on Grandma Moses with small photo.

Four Seasons reproductions.

Wyeth, Andrew, introduction by Lloyd Goodrich, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$165.00 (€149.71 | £124.90 | ¥26,348)

NY, Art in America publication, Various. VG light tweed binding, in large box with worn edges..also hand color engraving by Anas Boschas of Mallard Duck and Trumpeter Swan. Large box with paper title on front cover. label.

A Souvenir Album of Faberge from the Royal Collection exhibition 1985.

Queen Elizabeth, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Buckingham Palace, Queen's Gallery, 1985 catalog. VG PB. First page clipped at top corner.

Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings: Text, listing of his art, paintings, drawings.

Van Gogh, Vincent, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, (1966). G PB. Exhibition catalog. Van Gogh made about 800 drawings and 800 paintings during his ten years between 27 and 37 years of age. when he died. The first two years he drew only, then he started to paint. Through painting he liberated his mi...

Drawing on the Artist Within.

Edwards, Betty, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Fireside Books, (1987). 1st PB ed. VG PB. An inspirational and practical guide to increasing your creative powers. All people can draw well just as they can. read well. Edwards has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and...

Prints and Their Creators: a world history.

Zigrosser, Carl, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Crown, (1974). 2nd revised ed. VG in VG DJ. A complete revision of The Book of Fine Prints. A superb anthology of the world's finest printed art meticulously. updated by the author, curator emeritus of prints, drawings, and illustrated books at the Philadelphia Museum of A...

Paintings of Maine.

Skolnick, Arnnold, edited by, introduction by Carl Little, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

NY, Clarkson Potter, (1991). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. More than 80 of Maine's most memorable of Maine's landscapes and seascapes, masterpieces of American art. Maine has played an impressive role in the history of American art, its rugged natural beauty has attracted the H...

African Art: colour library of art.

Duerden, Dennis, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Hamlyn, (1971). VG in VG DJ. Genuine African art comes almost exclusively from south of the Sahara Desert. For the makers of the artifacts, their meaning. lies in the part they play in the ceremonies for which they are created and in which they are related to the kindred a...

Robert Vickrey: artist at work.

Vickrey, Robert (signed by author), · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$125.00 (€113.42 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

NY, Watson-Guptill, (1979). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Inscribed by author Vickrey. One of the leading egg tempura painters, his techniques, imaginative paintings much admired. Inscribed "To Janet Robert Vickrey" Examples from his One Man Show. Born in New York. a graduate of the BF...

Picasso Lithographs.

Picasso, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dover, (1980). VG lg sz PB. His achievement in wash on zinc and lithopaper. Picasso came late to lithography (aged 58) and had no prolonged lithographic. period until age 65 but mastered the new medium on his own terms and left a richer, more varied craft behind him.

Jim Dine: January 11-February 9, 1980.

Mellow, James R., · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NYC, Pace Gallery, (1980). VG PB catalogue..there should be some way of writing about the experience of art - of viewing a painting or a piece of sculpture which would. relate it to the context of one's daily life.".

Moore, Henry: Complete Graphic Work 1972-1974 catalogue.

Henry Moore, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Wildenstein, 1974. VG lg sz PB. "It was my wife who reminded me that I had told her I wanted to make drawings of the elephant skull and who suggested I should. make etchings instead.The first day I drew the whole skull.to find out its general construction, gradually I beca...

The California Years: 1969-1978.

Raffael, Joseph, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, (1979). Lg sz PB. (Includes gallery prints from Nancy Hoffman Gallery 1996.) Owner inscription.

Jackson Pollock: maning and significance.

Cernuschi, Claude, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.31 | ¥7,026)

NY, Harper Collins/Icon, (1992). 1st ed. VG. Survey of Pollock's life and work and an understanding of his paintings - their origins, meanings, and influence. Broadly interpretive with discussion and explanation of his concerns and meanings. A survey of his work with particula...