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Down in the Garden.

Geddes, Anne, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

San Rafael, CA, Cedco, (1996). VG in VG DJ. Babies in startling garden photos.

Mary Cassatt.

Craze, Sophia, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

N. Dighton, MA, JG Press, (1990). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. A glorious copy. Full color pages in this oversized copy 10-1/2 by 14-1/2", robin's egg blue endpapers. In a Victorian age when most women were confined to the circumscribed world of marriage, homemaking and motherhood, C...

The Art of Andrew Wyeth.

Meryman, and E. P. Richardson, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, (1973). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. "I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills -. all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the b...

Wyeth at Kuerners.

Wyeth, Betsy, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A book about the artist by his wife that contrains 370 reproductions, 315 of which have never been reproduced before. It reveals a startlingly intimate view of Wyeth at work. Betsy explains that her husband begins with scor...

The Life and Work of Winslow Homer.

Hendricks, Gordon, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.47 | ¥27,945)

NY, Abrams, (1979). VG in VG DJ. A magnificent book. Homer captured the power and beauty of nature in a manner uniquely his own. A giant of American art.

Canyon Suite.

O'Keeffe, Georgia, introduction by Barbara J. Bloemink, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Braziller, (1995). VG lg sz PB. 28 previously unknown and unpublished watercolors painted by O'Keeffe between 1916-1918, the period during which she taught. in W. Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. When she left Canyon, O'Keeffe presented a student 28 watercolors...

Gustav Klimt.

Hofmann, W., · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society, (1971). VG in G DJ. One of Austria's three greatest modern artists. Behind his dazzling facade lay a passionate commitment not only to the. progress of painting but to its relevance for society. Hofmann's analysis of Klimt's art is only...

Storytelling Wedding Photography: techniques and images in black and white.

Box, Barbara, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Buffalo, NY, Amherst Media, (2001). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Outstanding candid images can bring an otherwise static, traditional album to life, how to shoot natural, unposed images.

Going through the Storm: the influence of African American art in history.

Stuckey, Sterling, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1994. 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. A compellng look at one of the world's richest cultural traditions. Stuckey traces the fertile legacy of African. American art from its roots in tribal myth, thru the blossoming in slave music and dance, to its fruition in the...

Walt Kuhn: an imaginary history of the west.

Center, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

np, Colorado Springs Fine Arts, (1964). VG lg sz PB. Color painting on ft cover. Gallery stamp to back cover, some soiling.

Andy Warhol 1928-1987: commerce into art.

Honnef, Klaus, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Taschen, (2000). VG lg sz PB. Some of his most famous art work plus some biographical info. "Contradictions seem to have been his life's elixir, the veiling. of biographical and other personal facts the means he used to create a mystery around himself. He had been trai...

Gauguin.

Goldwater, Robert, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Abrams, (1983). VG in VG DJ. Gauguin said he "painted and dreamed at the same time", in his work a strain of mysticism. Goldwater gives an absorbing. introduction to Gauguin's life and work, the struggles of the young artist in Rouen and Paris.

Augustus John: volume 2: the years of experience.

Holroyd, Michael, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London, Heinemann, (1971). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Signed by author. Tumultous years of experiment and discovery before WWI. As King of British Bohemia, John held court in. the Cafe Royal and in the Dorset and Hampshire countryside. Laid in article on John as a prodigious progeny...

Ingres.

Picon, Gaetan, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Skira/Rizzoli, (1991). 1st PB ed. VG lg sz PB. One of the foremost French painters and draftsmen of the 19th century, Ingres proved to be a great classicist and master of. line and form in the mainstream of European art. A handsomely illustrated study, eminent French autho...

A Guide to the Collecting and Care of Original Prints.

Zigrosser, Carl and Christa M. Gaehde, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

NY, Crown, (1973). 7th ptg. G PB. Sponsored by The Print Council of America. Few splotches on cover.

The Mural Project.

Wright, Peter and John Armor, selected and with an introduction by, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Santa Barbara, Reverie Press, 1989. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. During the years 1941-42, Ansel Adams was employed by the U.S. Dept of Interior to take a series of photos in the Western. national parks as part of the Mural Project, a series of decorative murals created for the Dept's...

Model Railroad Photography.

Garrison, Paul, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Summit, PA, TAB Books Inc., (1981). 1st ed. VG. Gray binding, gold design and lettering.

Van Gogh: the complete paintings: part I Etten, April 1881 - Paris, February 1888.

Walther, Ingo F. and Rainer Metzger, English translation Michael Hulse, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Koln, Taschen, (2002). VG. Book begins with a description of the chairs Van Gogh painted, his and Gauguin's, where they discussed art. Remainder mark.

The Bite of the Print.

Getlein, Frank and Dorothy, · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Bramhall House, (1963). 1st ptg thus. VG in G DJ. Satire and irony in woodcuts, engravings, etchings and lithographs. Many of the best printmakers in the history of. art have depicted the world with a jaundiced eye and caustic hand. The authors contend that the technique o...

Dali on Modern Art: the cuckolds of antiquated modern art.

Dali, Salvador, translated by Haakon M. Chevalier, · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Dial, 1957. G. Dali's unique view of modern art. Tan binding (soiled), black binding, facsimile signature of Dali in black on ft cover.