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An American Pulse: the lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.

Atkinson, D. Scott and Charlene S. Engel, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

San Diego, CA, San Diego Museum of Art, 1999. VG lg sz PB. "You know, you call that art. I call it a hell of a punch.".

George Lloyd Paintings: the Maine years (exhibition Ogunquit Maine 2001).

Culver, Michael, curator, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Ogunquit, ME, Ogunquit Musem, (2001). VG PB. Paintings completed by Lloyd since his arrival in Maine are his most original and mature works. His current art is a synthesis. of painterly abstraction in the style of Willem de Kooning and Hans Hofmann and of the classic tradition...

Ceramics Art and Perception: issue 58 2004.

Mansfield, Janet, editor, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Australia, Ceramics art, (2004). VG lg sz PB.

Miller's Art Glass: how to compare & value.

Luther, Louise, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, Octopus Pub, (2002). VG in VAG DJ. Covering both American art glass and European ware highly sought after by American collectors. A master class in. appraising art glass. Luther is the former director of the art glass dept at Skinner, the Boston auction and appraisal c...

The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: drawings from the Boston Public Library.

Conway, Robert, Guest Curator, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Trust for Museum Exhibitions, (2007). VG lg sz PB. Modernists found Bellows did not rely on his intuition but on prescribed aesthetic systems, lack of subjective sentiment.

Frederic Church's Olana: architecture and landscape as art.

Ryan, James Anthony, introduction by Franklin Kelly, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Hensonville, NY, Black Dome Press Corp, (2001). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Single most important artistic residence in the U.S. and one of the most significant in the world. Rarest, most profound, and. most moving beauty and complexity, a place that must be experienced to be fully u...

The Landscape of Art and Culture in 19th-century Maine.

Codman, Charles, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 2002. VG lg sz PB. "The real pioneer of art in this city." Codman's origins are obscure. He was apprenticed to a clockmaker in Roxbury where. he did nothing but paint clock faces. After this he worked for a sign painter of Boston, Penniman.

A Solitude of Space.

Crotty, Thomas, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,034)

Camden, ME, Down East Books/Portland Mus, 2003. VG in VG DJ. Thomas Crotty's primeval Maine, sparsely settled open spaces, picturesque islands, and magnificent rocky shorelines. Deeply. respectful of nature, Crotty uses dazzling technique to create romantic yet realistic paint...

Mucha: the triumph of Art Nouveau.

Ellridge, Arthur, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Paris, Terrail, (1992). VG in VG DJ. Alphonse Mucha born in Bohemia in 1860 led the itinerant life typical of young Central European artiss at the time: Vienna,. Munich, and then Paris in 1890, where he studied at the Academies Julian and Colarossi. In 1897 Sarah Bernhardt fel...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters.

Greenough, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Washington,, D.C., Natl Gallery of Art, (1987). G in VG DJ. Exquisitely reproduced color plates carefully chosen from the very best of O'Keeffe's paintings and drawings, flower paintings. cityscapes and landscapes, still lifes, figure studies, many rarely seen. Stain at bottom...

Selected Etchings: in three languages side by side.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Taschen, (2002). VG PB. Etchings by Piranesi with accompanying text in English, German and French.

George Bellows: American artist.

Oates, Joyce Carol, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Hopewell, NJ, Ecco Press, (1995). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Bellows remains as much an enigma to his successors as to his contemporaries. Best known for his gritty, impressionistic. depictions of underground boxing and the lower east side of NY, Bellows was also influenced ...

George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting.

Braider, Donald, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, (1971). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Bellows was a baseball shortstop, a very good basketball player, and may well have been the only American artist whose. mother wanted him to become a Methodist bishop. "He was a great artist. He had a magnificent ability to convey.the...

George Bellows: painter of America.

Morgan, Charles H., · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Reynal, 1965. G in G DJ. Morgan art department head at Amherst College has written this first full length biography of the great modern American realist. painter. Born in the Midwest in 1882, Bellows came to immediate prominence in NY and was featured among Americans at th...

Georgia O'Keeffe.

O'Keeffe, Georgia, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Viking, (1985). VG lg sz PB. First full color collection of her work with text written by O'Keeffe. She writes about her work and her evolution as a. painter, because "no one else can know how my paintings happen". Slight tanning of cover.

The American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Davidson, Marshall B. and Elizabeth Stillinger, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985. VG in VG DJ. Home of America's most important and wide-ranging collection of the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts that have. flourished in our country since our earliest days. Here for the first time presented in a book that encomp...

Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Duncan, Alastair, Martin Eidelberg and Neil Harris, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Abradale Press/Abrams, (1993). VG in VG DJ. Tiffany excelled in a far greater range of mediums than masterworks of glass. 72 full color plates of superb enamels,. jewelry, bronzes, ceramics, mosaics, paintings, and even works in wood as well as his glass designs.

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: the art of identity.

Danly, Susan, introduction by Barbara Buhler Lynes, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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New Haven, Yale Univ Press/Portland Mus, (2008). VG lg sz PB. Laid in note cards on Steiglitz and O'Keeffe, "her work a manifestation of her sexuality". "One of first Americans to explore abstraction as a mean of expressing personal ideas & feelings.something looked the way sh...

The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Castro, Jan Garden, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Crown, (1985). VG lg sz PB. O'Keeffe has become a legend in her own time, yet the origins of the myths about her have never been explored. A closer. study of the visual aspects of her art, her way of seeing, her deep appreciation of nature synthesized in works of art is un...

Seven Days in the Art World.

Thornton, Sarah, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Norton, (2008). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A time capsule of a remarkable period in which contemporary art became a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description. and for some a kind of alternative religion. Based on hundreds of hours of participant observation an...