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(ADAMS, ANSEL #A6366)
ADAMS, ANSEL. Letters and Images 1916-1984. 402 pp., 115 illus.
Fine text as well as nicely printed photos. Stout sq. 4to,
cloth, d.j. First ed. Boston, NYGS, 1988. Fine, in fine d.j.
$60.00.
(AVERY #A3962)
Hobbs, Robert. MILTON AVERY. 264 pp., 120 color & b&w illus.
Intro. by Hilton Kramer. Square folio, cloth, d.j. New York,
Hudson Hills, 1990. New. (Pub. at $85.) $75.00.
(AVERY #A7347)
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. MILTON AVERY: A Singular
Vision. 54 pp. exhib. cat., 40 color plates, notes. Text by Bert
Chernow. Substantial catalogue. 4to, stiff wrps. 1987. About
fine. $25.00.
(AVERY #A7338)
Milwaukee. David Barnett Gallery. MILTON AVERY: A Retrospective
of Forty-Eight Oils, Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings, Monotypes,
and Original Prints. Unpag. (32 pp.) exhib. cat., 48 illus., 24
in color (many full-page), chronol., collected comments by
critics and artists. Foreword Sally Avery, text by Gerald
Nordlund. Oblong 4to, wrps. 1984. Short closed tear lower edge
rear cover, else near-fine. $25.00.
(AVERY #A1032)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. MILTON AVERY. 224 pp.
exhib. catalogue, 147 illus., many in color. Large 4to, cloth,
d.j. 1982. Near-fine/Near-fine. $120.00.
(BENTON #A8141)
Annandale-on-Hudson. Edith C. Blum Art Institute. THOMAS HART
BENTON: Chronicler of America's Folk Heritage. 80 pp. exhib.
cat., 50 illus. (20 in fine color, including coverplate), exhib.
checklist. Intro. Linda Weintraub; scholarly texts by Matthew
Baigell, Archie Green, Alan Buechner. 4to, stiff wrps. 1984.
Fine. $35.00.
(BENTON #A8156)
Fath, Creekmore. The Lithographs of THOMAS HART BENTON.
Catalogue Raisonne of 93 works, all full-page illus. (15 works
added to first ed. catalogue), with Benton's hand-written
comments on eighty-six of the works, xxii, 223 pp., new
introduction, chronol., bibliog., list of titles. Oblong 4to,
cloth, d.j. Expanded ed. 2nd printing. Austin, Univ. of Texas
Press, 1990. Mint copy. $75.00.
(BENTON #A8139)
Larson, Sidney, intro. THOMAS HART BENTON's Illustrations from
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life
on the Mississippi. 64 pp., 52 full-page illus. (8 in color, 20
sepia), full catalogue of 160 works. 4to, wrps. Kansas City,
Mid-America Arts Alliance, 1976. About fine crisp copy. (Faint
bit of rubbing to one corner tip, and to one spot along upper
edge rear cover.) $40.00.
(BENTON #A3826)
Marling, Karal Ann. TOM BENTON and His Drawings: A Biographical
Essay and a Collection of His Sketches, Studies, and Mural
Cartoons. 224 pp., 203 drawings illus. in full color. Large
oblong 4to, cloth, d.j. Columbia, Univ. of Missouri Press, 1985.
Fine/Fine. $35.00.
(BENTON #A4969)
Yeo, Wilma and Helen K. Cook. Maverick with a Paintbrush: THOMAS
HART BENTON. 125 pp. biography, b&w and 8 color illus. 8vo,
cloth, d.j., pictorial endpapers. First ed. New York, Doubleday,
1977. Crisp near-fine copy, in V.G. d.j. (price clipped, some
scuffing, rear fold rubbed.) $17.00.
(BISHOP #A6379)
Yglesias, Helen. ISABEL BISHOP. 180 pp., approx. 300 illus.,
nearly 100 in color, anthology of drawings; exhibs., colls.,
awards, bibliog., index. Foreword by John Russell; memoir by
Linda Weintraub. Sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Rizzoli, 1988.
Fine/Fine. $35.00.
(BOLOTOWSKY #A1036)
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. ILYA BOLOTOWSKY. 133 pp.
exhib. catalogue, 94 plates, 10 in color. Extensive interview
with artist, chronol., exhibs. 4to, wrps. 1974. Some sunning to
spine, else crisp fine copy. $100.00.
(BOURKE-WHITE #A5659)
Goldberg, Vicki. MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE: A Biography. 426 pp., 54
illus., notes, index. Fine detailed biography of this underrated
American photographer. Stout 8vo, wrps. First printing. Addison-
Wesley (Radcliffe Biography Series), 1987. As new. $14.95.
(BOURKE-WHITE #A5249)
Goldberg, Vicki. MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE: A Biography. 426 pp., 54
illus., notes, index. Fine detailed biography of this underrated
American photographer. Stout 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New
York, Harper and Row, 1986. Fine/Fine (Corner of flap creased).
$22.50.
(BRUCE #A1466)
Agee, William C. and Barbara Rose. PATRICK HENRY BRUCE, American
Modernist. 225 pp., approx 100 illus, 35 in color. Catalogue
Raisonne. Oblong 4to, wrps. New York, MOMA, 1979. Worn, but
clean copy. $20.00.
(BRUCE #A2849)
Agee, William C. and Barbara Rose. PATRICK HENRY BRUCE: American
Modernist. 225 pp., approx 100 illus, 35 in color. Catalogue
Raisonne. Small oblong 4to, cloth, d.j. Reprint of 1979 ed. New
York, Museum of Modern Art. New. $40.00.
(BURCHFIELD #A4934)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. CHARLES BURCHFIELD.
Exhib. cat. of 114 works, 54 illus. in b&w and color, biog.,
exhibs., bibliog. Text by John I. H. Baur. Small 4to, stiff
wrps. 1956. Near-fine. $12.50.
(CADMUS #A7971)
Eliasoph, Philip. PAUL CADMUS: Yesterday and Today. 128 pp.
exhib. cat. of 119 works, all illus., 14 color plates, 25 addit.
text illus., chronol. Foreword by Lloyd Goodrich, essay by
Eliasoph. 4to, wrps. Oxford (Ohio), Miami Univ. Art Museum,
1981. V.G. (very minor soiling rear cover, else bright nice
copy.) $30.00.
(CALDER #A5531)
New York. M. Knoedler & Co. ALEXANDER CALDER Stabiles. 20 pp.
exhib. cat., 8 illus., 2 in color. Small 4to, stapled wrps.
1983. Cover lightly scratched, else near-fine. $12.50.
(CORNELL #A1057)
McShine, Kynaston. JOSEPH CORNELL. 296 pp., 294 b&w, 32 color
plates, 5 critical essays, bibliog. Large 4to, cloth, d.j.
Reprint of 1980 MOMA exhib. cat. Munich, Prestel and MOMA, New
York, 1990. Fine/Near-fine. $65.00.
(CURRY #A5607)
Kendall, M. Sue. Rethinking Regionalism: JOHN STEUART CURRY and
the Kansas Mural Controversy. 164 pp., 101 b&w illus., 8 color
plates, notes, bibliog., index. Large 8vo, cloth, d.j.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Press, 1986. Fine/About Fine.
$30.00.
(DAVIS #A5390)
New York. Grace Borgenicht Gallery. STUART DAVIS Sketchbooks.
Beautiful facsimile of three sketchbooks made in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, the basis for later drawings and paintings. Ed.
Earl Davis. Small 4to, cloth spine, papered boards with printed
paper label, in cardbd. slipcase with printed paper label. Ed.
of 1500. 1986. Mint, in near-fine slipcase. $110.00.
(DAVIS, S #A4890)
Wilson, William. STUART DAVIS's Abstract Argot. 88 pp., 55
illus., 36 in color. Sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. San Francisco,
Pomegranate, 1993. Fine/Fine. (Pub. at $21.95). $17.50.
(DEMUTH #A1907)
American 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors
and Sculpture. Special feature: A Collection of Drawings &
Watercolors by CHARLES DEMUTH (55 works). Auction catalogue
#3913, 238 lots, all illus., 20 in color. Square 4to, wrps. New
York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Oct. 28, 1976. Date stamp front
cover, else v.g. $75.00.
(DEMUTH #A6019)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. April 1965. Contains
article on DEMUTH and JOHNS: "Numbers in Time: Two American
Paintings" by Henry Geldzahler. Large 8vo, stapled wrps. V.G.
(light wear to spine edge.) $12.50.
(DEMUTH #A2057)
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. CHARLES DEMUTH. 96 pp. exhib. cat.,
well illus. in b&w, 2 color plates. Bibliog. 4to, boards. No
d.j. New York, MOMA, 1950. Ex libris. Spine worn, chipped, 2"
tear. Library card pocket rear free endpaper. Good+ reading
copy. $10.00.
(DEMUTH #A3087)
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. CHARLES DEMUTH. 96 pp. exhib. cat. of
158 works, 85 illus., 2 in color, chronol., bibliog. Small 4to,
papered boards. New York, MOMA, 1950. Missing d.j. Corners and
spine ends worn, scuffed with edges sunned. G.+. $20.00.
(DEMUTH #A1070)
Weinberg, Jonathan. Speaking for Vice, Homosexuality in the Art
of Charles DEMUTH, Marsden HARTLEY, and the First American
Avant-Garde. 260 pp., 75 b&w illus, 13 color plates, extensive
bibliog. Uniquely important text. 4to, cloth, d.j. New Haven and
London, Yale Univ. Press, 1993. Fine/near-fine. $40.00.
(DILLER #A1480)
Haskell, Barbara. BURGOYNE DILLER. 180 pp., 163 illus., 71 in
color. Exhibs, chronol., bibliog. Square 4to, wrps. New York,
Whitney Museum, 1990. Near-fine. $35.00.
(GEE #A5983)
Storrs. William Benton Museum of Art. The Paintings of YUN GEE.
72 pp. exhib. cat. of 72 works, 37 illus. and photos, 8 full-
page color, exhibs., chronol., notes. Text by Yun Gee's wife.
Intro. and catalogue by Joyce Brodsky. Modernist color painter
and Chinese expatriate who worked in Paris (in the Stein circle)
during the 20's, and in New York WPA circles in the 30's. Sm.
4to, wrps. 1979. Near-fine. $22.50.
(GRAHAM #A7508)
Allentuck, Marcia Epstein, ed. JOHN GRAHAM's System & Dialectics
of Art. xxi, 213 pp., a few illus. Contender for most
influential art book of the 1940's. 8vo, cloth, d.j. Reprint ed.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1971. Fine/Fine. $45.00.
(HARTLEY #A4641)
Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. MARSDEN HARTLEY. Unpag. exhib. cat.
listing 73 works, 36 photos and illus., 2 in color (including
cover illus.). Text by Elizabeth McCausland. Small 4to, wrps.
1960. V.G.+ (tiny tear lower edge of spine) $22.00.
(HARTLEY #A1114)
Halifax. Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery. MARSDEN
HARTLEY and Nova Scotia. 181 pp., 27 plates, some in color, and
many b&w photos and reproductions of drawings. Essays by Gail R.
Scott, Ronald Paulson; Letters, Journal entries and other
writings by Marsden Hartley. 8vo, wrps, d.j. 1987. Dent in front
upper left corner, else near-fine. $25.00.
(HARTLEY #A8713)
Hokin, Jeanne. Pinnacles & Pyramids: The Art of MARSDEN HARTLEY.
xxii, 166 pp., color and b&w illus., appendices containing one
essay and two long poems by Hartley, notes, bibliog., index.
4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico
Press, 1993. Fine crisp copy in near-fine d.j. $44.00.
(HARTLEY #A1116)
Ludington, Townsend. MARSDEN HARTLEY, The Biography of an
American Artist. 325 pp., 11 color plates, 16 pp. of b&w plates
and photos. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First edition. Boston, Little,
Brown & Co., 1992. As new. $45.00.
(HARTLEY #A4145)
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Art Museum. MARSDEN HARTLEY
1908-1942: The Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection. 58 pp.,
numerous plates including 8 in color. Essay by Lyndel King,
chronol. 4to, stapled wrps. 1984. Near-fine. $45.00.
(HARTLEY #A1118)
New York. Museum of Modern Art. LYONEL FEININGER/MARSDEN
HARTLEY. 96 pp., essays by Alois J. Schardt, Alfred H. Barr,
Jr., ed. by Dorothy C. Miller, statements by both artists,
chronol., bibliog. Small 4to, wrps. 1944. Minor soiling, spine
edge worn and chipped, some foxing. Good+ reading copy. $18.00.
(HARTLEY #A1121)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. MARSDEN HARTLEY. 224
pp. exhib. cat., 109 plates, 41 in color, many b&w photo illus.
Text by Barbara Haskell, chronol., bibliog. Large 4to, cloth,
d.j. 1980. Fine/Fine. $125.00.
(HARTLEY #A2512)
Robertson, Bruce. MARSDEN HARTLEY. 144 pp., 102 illus., 52 in
color (most full-page), chronol., selected bibliog., index.
Large 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Abrams in assoc. with The
National Museum of American Art, 1995. New. $39.95.
(HARTLEY #A1122)
Scott, Gail R. MARSDEN HARTLEY. 187 pp., 152 illus., many in
color, chronol., bibliog., exhibs. Large 4to, cloth, d.j. New
York, Abbeville, 1988. Fine/Fine. $110.00.
(HOPPER #A6527)
Kranzfelder, Ivo. EDWARD HOPPER 1882-1967: Vision of Reality.
200 pp., richly illus. in color and b&w. 4to, wrps. Cologne,
Taschen, 1995. As new. $20.00.
(LANGE #A4791)
Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of DOROTHEA LANGE. 132 pp., 85
tri-tone plates, accompanied by excerpts from Lange's writings;
notes and sources. A lovely book. 4to, cloth, d.j. New York,
Abrams, 1995. New. (Pub. at $35.00). $31.50.
(LANGE #A4756)
Mullins, Gerry and Daniel Dixon. DOROTHEA LANGE's Ireland. 120
pp., 108 photos of recently discovered work in the collection of
the Oakland Museum, biog., bibliog. Memoir by Lange's son Daniel
Dixon who accompanied her on her trip to Ireland in 1954. Square
4to, papered bds., d.j. First printing. Washington, Elliott and
Clark, 1996. New. (Pub. at $29.95). $27.00.
(MANDELMAN #A2715)
Hobbs, Robert. BEATRICE MANDELMAN, Taos Modernist. 191 pp.
exhib. cat., 17 b&w, 52 color plates, chronol., bibliog., index.
A long overdue appreciation of this artist. Small square 4to,
wrps. First edition. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico Press,
1995. New. $30.00.
(MARIN #A8318)
Benson, E. M. JOHN MARIN: The Man and His Work. 112 pp., 50 b&w
illus. plus frontis photo by Stieglitz, biog. note, note on
Marin's palette, colls. 8vo, lettered cloth. No d.j. Washington,
American Federation of Arts, 1935. Near-fine. $45.00.
(MARIN #A6150)
Los Angeles. County Museum of Art. JOHN MARIN 1870-1953. 103 pp.
exhib. cat. listing 157 works, approx. 90 illus., a dozen in
color, two photographs of artist, notes, index of works,
bibliog. Text by Larry Curry. 4to, pictorial cloth. 1970. V.G.
(Slightly musty.) $45.00.
(MASON #A2628)
Johnson, Una E. ALICE TRUMBELL MASON: Etchings and Woodcuts. 60
pp., 21 b&w, 14 color plates, exhibs., colls., bibliog. Text by
Una E. Johnson. Important publication on this geometric
abstractionist and founding member of the American Abstract
Artists. Small square 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Taplinger,
1985. Fine crisp copy, in v.g. scuffed d.j. with a few short
tears at edges. $25.00.
(MULLICAN #A6020)
Los Angeles. Municipal Art Gallery. LEE MULLICAN: Selected Works
1948-1980. Unpag. (79 pp.) exhib. cat., 37 illus., 9 full-page
color, chronol. with exhibs., colls., checklist. Frontis photo
of artist by Mimi Jacobs. Text by Jascha Kessler. Important
American modernist of the Southwest, worked and exhibited with
Paalen and Gordon Onslow Ford in the 40's, in San Francisco, and
New York. 4to, stiff wrps. 1980. About fine. $25.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A5419)
Bloemink, Barbara J. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Canyon Suite. 104 pp., 28
beautiful color plates, 8 b&w text illus., notes, list of
illus., bibliog. Substantial essay. Small sq. 4to, wrps. Kansas
City, Kemper Museum of Contemp. Art and Design, 1995. New.
$20.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A1470)
Bry, Doris and Nicholas Callaway, eds. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: In the
West. 7 pp. text, 98 lavish full page color plates and 1 fold-
out. Oblong folio, cloth, d.j. New York, Knopf, 1989. Mint
condition. $90.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A1481)
Bry, Doris and Nicholas Callaway, eds. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: The New
York Years. 129 pp., 91 oversized color plates. Essay by B.
Dijkstra. Folio, cloth, d.j. New York, Knopf, 1991. Mint
condition. $110.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A1525)
Eisler, Benita. O'KEEFFE & STIEGLITZ: An American Romance. 546
pp. with numerous b&w photos, notes, bibliog., index. Extensive
study of the professional, public, private, and artistic
relationship between O'Keeffe and Stieglitz. Stout 4to, cloth,
d.j. First edition. New York, Doubleday, 1991. Fine/Fine. (Pub.
at $29.50). $27.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A2243)
Goodrich, Lloyd and Doris Bry. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. 195 pp., 121
beautifully printed illus., 12 in color. Chronol., exhibs.,
bibliog. 4to, wrps. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art,
1970. Spine creased, else bright near-fine copy. $50.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A4274)
Hogrefe, Jeffrey. O'KEEFFE: The Life of an American Legend. 376
pp. biography, 43 b&w illus. and photos, bibliog., index. Small
4to, cloth, d.j. New York, Bantam Books, 1992. Fine/Fine. (Pub.
at $25.00). $22.50.
(O'KEEFFE #A2908)
Lynes, Barbara Buhler. O'KEEFFE, STIEGLITZ and the Critics,
1916-1929. 376 pp., 23 b&w illus., includes invaluable reprints
of concurrent reviews (142 pp.), brief bios. of critics, notes,
bibliog., index. Important new feminist and cultural context for
the reception of O'Keeffe's work. Stout 8vo, wrps. Ann Arbor,
UMI Research Press, 1989. As new. $17.50.
(O'KEEFFE #A1814)
Montgomery, Elizabeth. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. 128 pp., over 100
illus., 97 full-page color, some double-page. Attractive
inexpensive picture book on O'Keeffe. Small folio, wrps. New
York, Barnes and Noble, 1993. Fine. $12.95.
(O'KEEFFE #A3473)
O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. Approx. 240 pp., 2 b&w
photos of artist, 108 superb color plates (mostly full-page).
Chronol., text, layout and design by O'Keeffe. Folio, cloth,
d.j. Loving reprint of scarce 1976 edition. New York, Black Dog
& Leventhal, n.d. Mint. $32.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A1469)
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'KEEFFE: The Early Years. 397
pp. biog., 162 illus., 40 in color. Bibliog., index. Important
new critical biography. 4to, cloth, d.j. First edition. New
York, Abbeville, 1991. Fine/Fine. $36.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A1732)
Pollitzer, Anita. A Woman on Paper: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE. 290 pp.,
many b&w illus. Includes many previously unpublished letters
from the artist to A. Politzer. 4to, cloth, d.j. First edition.
New York, Touchstone, 1988. Slight cover warp, remainder stamp
bottom edge; d.j. some wrinkling, else v.g.+ clean copy. $16.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A2466)
Robinson, Roxana. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: A Life. 634 pp., 94 illus.,
bibliog., index. The largest and most detailed of the O'Keeffe
biographies. Stout 4to, cloth, d.j. First edition. New York,
Harper & Row, 1989. As new. $30.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A4713)
Washington, D. C. National Gallery of Art. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Art
and Letters. 306 pp., 120 color plates, photos. Texts by Jack
Cowart, Juan Hamilton, artist's letters ed. by Sarah Greenough,
chronol, bibliog. Folio, wrps. 1987. About fine. $30.00.
(O'KEEFFE #A1197)
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Art
and Letters. 306 pp., 120 color plates, photos. Texts by Jack
Cowart, Juan Hamilton, artist's letters ed. by Sarah Greenough,
chronol, bibliog. Folio, cloth, d.j. NYGS, 1987. Mint. $60.00.
(QUINN #A2672)
WASHINGTON, D.C. Hirshhorn Museum. The Noble Buyer: JOHN QUINN,
Patron of the Avant-Garde. 198 pp. exhib. cat. Text by Judith
Zilczer. Full catalogue entries (illus. in b&w and color),
checklist of Quinn Collection, index of buyers at 1927 sale,
bibliog. An important reference work. 4to, stiff wrps. 1978.
V.G. Covers rubbed, spine crease, spine edges worn with a touch
of dust soiling. $30.00.
(RIEBE #A8575)
RIEBE, ERNEST. Mr. Block: Twenty-Four IWW Cartoons, with the
Original 1913 Introduction by Walker C. Smith. 36 pp., 24 pp.
cartoons, song by Joe Hill. Text by Franklin Rosemont.
Underground radical comics from the Industrial Worker (1912-
1913). 8vo, stiff wrps. Reprint of 1913 pub. Chicago, Kerr,
1984. Fine. $9.00.
(RIIS #A6139)
RIIS, JACOB A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the
Tenements of New York. xiv, 233 pp., 100 b&w photographs from
the Riis Collection plus 17 other illus, appendix. Unabridged
replication of 1901 edition with new preface by Charles A.
Madison. Oblong 4to, wrps. New York, Dover (1971). Near-fine.
$15.00.
(RUSSELL #A1415)
Kushner, Marilyn S. MORGAN RUSSELL. 219 pp., 139 b&w illus., 42
color plates. Intro. by William C. Agee. Folio, cloth, d.j.
First edition. New York, Hudson Hills in association with the
Montclair Art Museum, 1990. Fine/Fine. $85.00.
(SCHWABACHER #A3243)
Webster, Brenda S. and Judith E. Johnson. Hungry for Light: The
Journal of ETHEL SCHWABACHER. 304 pp., 33 illus., 16 in color.
Ed. Brenda S. Webster and Judith Emlyn Johnson. 8vo, cloth, d.j.
Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1993. Fine/About fine. $12.00.
(SHAHN #A6769)
Montclair. Montclair Art Museum. The Vanishing American
Frontier: BERNARDA BRYSON SHAHN and her historical lithographs
created for the Resettlement Administration of FDR. Unpag. (57
pp.) exhib. cat., 17 full page illus., 9 text illus., notes,
bibliog. Text by Jake Milgram Wien. Oblong 4to, wrps. Ed. of
1750. 1995. Near-fine. $18.00.
(SHAHN #A6951)
Pohl, Frances K. BEN SHAHN with Ben Shahn's Writings. 168 pp.,
hundreds of illus., most in color, extensive bibliog. of Shahn's
writings, illustrations, exhibitions, etc., index. Excellent
text. 4to, stiff self-wrps. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1993.
Fine. (Pub. at $35.00). $30.00.
(SHAHN #A6336)
SHAHN, BEN, illus. Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher. Unpaginated
(approx. 40 pp.). A beautiful artist's book: the text is
handcopied by Shahn, embellished with twelve chapter headings
and eight full page watercolor illus. Intro. by Shahn. Nice
facsimile of Paris 1967 limited ed. of 240. 4to, cloth, d.j., in
pub.'s protective slipcase. New York, Grossman - Trianon, 1971.
Mint, in near-fine d.j. with two short closed tears lower edge,
light rumpling at some spots along upper edge. $45.00.
(SHAHN #A5386)
Shahn, Bernarda Bryson. BEN SHAHN. 353 pp., 345 illus., 154 in
color, biog. with photos, awards, degrees, bibliog., including
artist's writings, book illus., index, list of drawings in the
text. Lavish serious monograph by the artist's wife. Includes
short text by artist. Large square folio, red linen with gilt
illus., d.j. New York, Abrams, n.d. Near-fine, in V.G.
dustjacket. (D.j. is a bit worn at corners and folds, but no
significant chips or tears). $235.00.
(SHAHN #A5981)
Soby, James Thrall. BEN SHAHN. 20 pp. text, plus 32 full-page
illus., 16 in color. Oblong 8vo, wrps. Drayton (UK), Penguin,
1947. V.G.++. $9.50.
(SHEELER #A1596)
Friedman, Martin. CHARLES SHEELER, Paintings, Drawings,
Photographs. 224pp., 118 b&w, 48 color plates. Exhibs, chronol.,
bibliog. Folio, cloth, d.j. First edition. New York, Watson-
Guptil, 1975. Clean v.g.+ in somewhat worn, spotted d.j. with 1
1/2" chip back edge of d.j. $125.00.
(SHEELER #A2262)
Lucic, Karen. CHARLES SHEELER and the Cult of the Machine. 167
pp., 70 illus., approx. 20 in color. Chronol., bibliog. 8vo,
wrps. First paperback edition. Cambridge (Ma), Harvard Univ.
Press, 1991. Rear cover slightly rubbed, else fine. $15.00.
(SHEELER #A3116)
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian. CHARLES SHEELER. 156 pp., 159
illus., 3 in color, chronol., bibliog., exhibs. Artist's
writings and substantive essays by Charles Friedman, Bartlett
Hayes, Charles Millard. Oblong 4to, wrps. 1968. V.G. Covers
rubbed, rear corner creased. $27.50.
(STEICHEN #A2131)
Longwell, Dennis. STEICHEN: The Master Prints 1895-1914, The
Symbolist Period. 180 pp., 73 illus., 6 in color. 4to, cloth,
d.j. New York, MOMA, 1978. Fine in near-fine d.j. with minor
edge rubbing, one tiny abrasion, price clipped. $85.00.
(STEIGLITZ #A4880)
Szarkowski, John. ALFRED STIEGLITZ at Lake George. 112 pp. 109
illus., 64 tritones, 45 duotones, checklist of exhibition. Over
half of the works are published here for the first time. Small
sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. New York, MOMA, 1995. Mint. (Pub. at
$35.00). $31.50.
(STETTHEIMER #A3477)
Bloemink, Barbara J. The Life and Art of FLORINE STETTHEIMER.
303 pp., 124 illus., approx. 50 color plates, notes, index.
Excellent new exploration of Stettheimer's multi-faceted
personality, life and production of poetry and painting. Small
4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. New Haven and London, Yale Univ.
Press, 1995. New. $45.00.
(STETTHEIMER #A2677)
McBride, Henry. FLORINE STETTHEIMER. 55 pp. exhib. cat., 30 b&w
illus., 4 color plates, bibliog. Small 4to, papered boards.
First printing. New York, MOMA, 1946. A few spots of foxing &
soil to cover, h-t page, and last page; lower edge worn, else
V.g $17.50.
(STETTHEIMER #A4310)
Tyler, Parker. FLORINE STETTHEIMER: A Life in Art. 194 pp.,
numerous illus. in b&w and color, photos of artist, index. The
first major monograph on Stettheimer. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed
New York, Farrar, Straus and Co., 1963. Crisp near-fine with
minor edge yellowing, in V.G.+ dustjacket (price clipped, faint
blue lines of discoloration parallel to edges caused by old
lined Brodart dustjacket protector!). $80.00.
(STIEGLITZ #A3526)
Frank, Waldo, L. Mumford, D. Norman et al. America & ALFRED
STIEGLITZ, A Collective Portrait. 339 pp., 120 illus., appendix
with chronol. and exhibs. arranged by Stieglitz, bibliog.,
index. A great classic. Texts by Sherwood Anderson, Dorothy
Brett, Demuth, Dove, Hartley, Marin, Mumford, Norman, G. Stein,
P. Strand, W.C. Williams, et al. Illus. include 40 photos by
Stieglitz and others, and illus. of art he showed in his
gallery. Stout 8vo, cloth, d.j., t.e.c., side edge uncut. True
first edition. New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934. Lower
edge shelfworn, corners rubbed, faint soiling to endpapers, else
nice clean v.g., in scuffed d.j. with small chips along edges,
small surface abrasion rear panel, minor yellowing. $42.00.
(WEBER #A7382)
Weber, Max. MAX WEBER. Text by artist, 52 b&w illus., one color
plate, chronol. 12mo, bds., cloth spine, paper spine label.
American Artists Group (Monograph 4), 1945. V.G.+. $27.50.
(WESTON #A5488)
New York. Museum of Modern Art. EDWARD WESTON. 36 pp., 24
photos, and portrait of Weston by Ansel Adams, chronol.,
exhibs., bibliog. Text by Nancy Newhall. Small sq. 4to, cloth.
1946. Missing d.j. Faintly musty, else near-fine. $42.00.
(WOOD, B #A3419)
Smith, Lindsay, ed. I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of
BEATRICE WOOD. 181 pp., richly illus., chronol., index. Intro.
Francis Naumann. The wonderful autobiography of this
painter/actress, friend of Duchamp, and now acclaimed
ceramicist. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Rare thus. Square 4to, wrps. First
editioin. Ojai, Dillingham Press, 1985. V.G.+. Spine crease,
corner and spine edge rubbed. $75.00.
(ZORACH #A3429)
ZORACH, WILLIAM. Art is My Life: The Autobiography. 205 pp., 85
b&w illus., index. Wonderfully unpretentious account of a life
shared with fellow artist Marguerite Zorach. Small 4to, cloth,
d.j. Cleveland and New York, The World, 1967. V.G./G+.
Dustjacket is scuffed, chipped, with numerous tears. $30.00.
(ZORACH #A4552)
ZORACH, WILLIAM. ZORACH Explains Sculpture: What it Means and
How it is Made. 308 pp., over 250 illus. and technical drawings,
index. Considerable attention to casting techniques as well as
carving and modelling; brief chapter on welding by Winslow
Eaves.Topical how-to approach with examples from Mexican stone
carving, Greek bronzes, Chinese jades to Rodin, Lipchitz, Moore
and Zorach's own work. A book for sculptors by a sculptor. 8vo,
cloth. New York, Tudor, 1960. Missing d.j., minor faint soiling
to covers. V.g.+. $30.00.
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