FS: ART BOOKS & CATALOGUES
John Sievers
ART BOOKS
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Barron, Stephanie: German Expressionist Sculpture ; (Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, 1983). Catalog of an exhibit organized by the
Los Angeles County Museum Stiff pictorial paperwraps Tall 4to.
224pp. In color and duotone throughout . German Expressionist
Sculpture during the first part of this century. More than 150
sculptures represented in bronze, wood, stone, plastic and porcelain by
33 artists including Archipenko, Max Beckmann, Kathe Kollwitz,
Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele and many others. Biographies of each artist.
Index. Condition is VG. US$20.00
Barrow, Terence. THE ART OF TAHITI and the neighbouring
Society, Austral and Cook Islands. London: Thames & Hudson 1979.
Small 4to, 96 pages. Over 50 color plates, color, b/w, painting
exhibition catalogue. Price: $12.00
Bazin, Germain. A History of Art From Pre Historic Times To The
Present. NY: Bonanza Books 1959. Hardback, 8vo, illustrated, index,
574 pages, dj shows light wear, o/w VG Price: $10.00
Bullard, E. John Mary Cassatt: Oils and Pastels :NY, Watson-Guptill,
1976. 4th printing. Paper wraps, 88 pages, 10 1/2 by 11 inches, 32 full
color plates, bibliography, chronology, index. Very good.
Price:$15.00
Cassou, De Jean(Preface by) MATISSE. Paris: Les Editions Braun &
CIE1947. hardback measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches, 24 full page color
illustrations, paintings & Drawings. Front inner hinge cracking light
age darkening to boards, top & bottom spine rubbed. Price: $15.00
Catherine Viviano Gallery NY. MAX BECKMANN IN AMERICA.
NY: 1969. Foreword by Walter Barker. 31 pages, 14 repos, wrappers.
Work from 1947-1050. Personal invitation card to opening is also
included. VERY GOOD. Price: $10.00
Covarrubias, Miguel INDIAN ART OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL
AMERICA .Color Plates And Line Drawing By The Author. N.Y.
1971. Third Printing., A. A. Knopf Inc., 360pp; xvii pp. small
4to.Illustrated. V.G. D/W- a couple of small tears. Price:$35.00
Clark, Kenneth (Intro) Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, E. P. Dutton, 1970. 1st
Edition. HB cloth. VG+/G, 8vo, 336pp. Many PLATES, FULL PAGE
COLOR PLATES AND BLACK AND WHITE 402 masterpieces
from Metropolitan museum with encyclopedic guide for general reader
and reference for researcher. Price:$10.00
Davies, Arthur with a recollection by Walter Pach. ARTHUR B.
DAVIES [1862 - 1928] A Centennial Exhibition. Wrappers, catalogue
for the exhibition that traveled(Whitney, Rochester, and Munson
-Williams- Proctor, St. Louis, etc.) through 1962 - 1963. b/w repros.
VERY GOOD. Price: $10.00
Demenikos Theotokopoulos(El Greco). EL GRECO. By Legendre &
Hartmann. Paris: Hyperion 1937. Wrappers, spine & covers in poor
condition, contents VG. 280 b/w plates. This was an attempt to
publish all of the known paintings, as well as some of uncertain origin.
8vo, 512 pages, 32 page introduction. Price: $20.00
Du Bois, Guy Pene. JOHN SLOAN(American Artists Series) Whitney
Museum of American Art (1931) red cloth, 8vo, dj in good condition
except for spine fading, 58 page commentary on Sloan, followed by 1
« page biography, then followed by bibliography and 20 repos.
Owner's bookplate on inside front cover o/w in VERY GOOD
condition. Price: $25.00
Du Bois, Guy Pene. WILLIAM GLACKENS(American Artists Series)
Whitney Museum of American Art 1931 red cloth, 8vo, dj with small
tears and faded spine , 16 pages of text, followed 20 full-page
illustrations. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover o/w in VERY
GOOD condition. Price: $35.00
Elderfield, John. THE "WILD BEASTS" FAUVISM AND ITS
AFFINITIES. MOMA1976. 167 pages, 24 color, 182 b/w
illustrations, wrappers, bibliography small 4to. A fine scholarly study.
In VG condition. Price: $12.00
Elsen, Albert E. RODIN. NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1963.
Hardcover, 229 pages, dj lightly worn, bookplate removed front fly,
o/w VG.. Illustrated with 4 color, 159 b/w reproductions. Price:
$12.00
[Exhibition Catalogue] RENOIR, DEGAS: A LOAN EXHIBITION
OF DRAWINGS, PASTELS, SCULPTURES. NY: Charles E. Slakin
Gall. 1958; quarto, approximately 60 pages, b/w reproductions, paper
wrappers, very good. Price: $7.00
Fagg, William.: Yoruba Sculpture of West Africa. ; NY: Knopf, 1982.
First edition, softcover. descriptive catalogue by Pemberton; edited by
Holcombe. Concentration on the 19th-20th centuries An important
study of Yoruba art and culture. 209pp; 70 full-page illustrations, 35 of
which are in color; an extensive bibliography. A major work by a
major authority. Good or better condition. US$20.00
Felix Landau Gallery. NORMAN ZAMMITT: RECENT WORK. LA:
Landau Gallery 1969. Wraps, 24 pages. No listing of works or
description. Just b/w plates of what appear to be works in progress.
Price: $10.00
Fine, Elsa Honig: The Afro-American Artist. ; 1973, "North America",
art, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 310 pages, good, wrappers 342
illustrations in color and b&w. US$20.00
Fischer, Wolfgang Georg. EGON SCHIELE 1890-1918. Exhibition
Catalogue from the Institute of Contemporary Art of Boston.
Illustrated, 12mo, pictorial wrappers. Name of previous owner(1st
director of U. of Ill. Art Gallery) on title page, o/w VG. Price: $15.00
Fourcade, Francois(Text by) ART TREASURES OF THE PEKING
MUSEUM. NY: Abrams (1965). Folio, cloth, chronology of painters,
covers major areas of painting and ceramics from 3rd century B.C. to
contemporary times. 87 hand tipped-in color plates are accompanied
by individual commentaries sketching the lives of the artists &
significance of individual pieces. In dust jacket(which is in protective
plastic jacket) and in VERY GOOD condition. Price: $40.00
Helm, MacKinley. Modern Mexican Painters. NY: Harper 1941 b1st
ed. This is a richly & uniquely informative study of one of America's
schools of modern art. Artists covered: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros,
Ruiz, Dr. Atl, Merida, Galvan, Cantu, Tamayo, Lozano, Izquierdo,
Meza, Ledesma, Diaz de Leon, and many others. 205 pages in chipped
dust jacket, book plate, VG. Price: $50.00
Harwood, June. CARMEAN. Pub. By Harry Carmean LA 1974. 144
pages, seven page essay precedes color plates, one page essay precedes
b/w plates. Book consists entirely of figure studies & paintings. 4to,
143 pages in dj with small tears and small water stain in one corner
and effecting a few of last pages. Price: $15.00
Hess, Thomas B. WILLIAM DE KOONING. NY: Museum of Modern
Art, 1968. Wraps, 170 pp, 16 color, 99 b/w reproductions. Name of
previous owner(founder of Univ. Art Gallery at U. of Ill.) On front fly
page, o/w Good condition. Price: $15.00
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Kokoschka, Oskar, compiled by Malborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc.
Oskar Kokoschka(Catalouue of a exhibition at Marlbprough-Gerson
Gallery in NY, Oct.-Nov. 1966) NY: Malarbough Graphics 1966.
Wrappers. Well illustrated, 14 color, approximately 100 b/w
reproductions, catalogue of 133 works in exhibition. Spine lightly
soiled, o/w VG. Price: $15.00
LEENHARDT, Maurice Folk Art of Oceania Paris & New York: Les
editions du Chene /Tudor Publishing Co., (1950) Illustrated with 124
black and white illustrations, four color plates, 6 text figs.
and eleven maps by Emmanuel Sougez. Small 4to. cloth 150 p., d.j
worn. .Price: $15.00
Mekhitarian, A: EGYPTIAN PAINTING ; Mekhitarian, Arpag.
EGYPTIAN PAINTING. Quarto. NY: Skira/Rizzoli, 1978. 165 pgs
with bibliography & index. 94 color illustrations. Pictorial black
wrappers. VG condition. US$15.00
Newton, Douglas(text by) Photos by Lee Boltin. THE NELSON A.
ROCKEFELLER COLLECTION: MASTERPIECES OF PRIMITIVE
ART. NY: Knopf 1978 1 st ed. 4to, 262 pages, profusely illustrated ,
color & B/w. 254 color illustrations. In dust jacket in protective
plastic cover, condition is VG. Price: $25.00
Pennell, Joseph. ETCHERS AND ETCHING. NY: Macmillan 4th ed
1936. Chipped dust jacket in protective plastic cover, o/w VG. An
exceptional reference book, 55 full page b/w reproductions, 343 pages.
Price: $50.00
Phillips, Duncan. With note by H. G. Dwight. THE LEADERSHIP OF
GIORGIONE. Washington: The American Federation of Arts 1937.
Xiii, 197 pages, throughly illustrated with over 100 illustrations, small
folio, catalogue raisonne, bibliography & index. VERY GOOD
CONDITION price: $30.00
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills. WILLEM de KOONING April
3-29, 1961. 24 pages, wrappers(lithographed covers), 5 color, 11 b/w
reproductions. Introduction by Clifford Odets. Previous owner
(founder of Art Gallery at U. of Illinois), otherwise VERY GOOD.
Price: $12.00
Post-Impressionism: Cross-Currents in European and American
Painting 1880-1906 ; Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1980. VG.
Softcover., 4to, 248, With numerous illustrations in color and b/w.
Foreword by J. Carter Brown. Introduction by Alan Bowness. Notes to
Users., Chronology. Select Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index of
Artists. US$10.00
Regler, Gustav. WOLFGANG PAALEN. NY: 1946-1st Nierendorf.
4to. Edition limited to 1050 copies. Color frontis, b/w text
illustrations. Abstract modern art. Name of previous owner(founder
of art gallery at U. of Ill.), o/w VG condition. Price: $35.00
Richter, George Martin. ANDREA DAL CASTAGNO. Chicago: U.
Chicago Press 1943. 4to, 27 page plus 71 full-page b/w plates. Small
article about author pasted to copyright page o/w this hardback is in
VG condition. Price: $35.00
Roethlisberger, Marcel: The Claude Lorrain Album in the Norton
Simon, Inc. Museum of Art: Los Angeles, [1971]. 60 drawings(tinted,
full-page) by 17th century French-born Roman artist Claude Gell‚e,
better known as Claude Lorraine. Heavy Linen colored cloth cover,
oblong quarto, fine Unnumbered pages. Excellent prints in full detail,
high glossy finish. Presents works which span Lorrain's entire life,
showing his depth and growth as an artist. w/ extensive notes. 60
drawings first published in 1962 under the title "THE
WELDENSTEIN ALBUM" This is the rewritten work.: Price:$20.00
Singerman, Howard ed. INDIVIDUALS A SELECTED HISTORY
OF CONTEMPORARY ART. New York Abbeville Press 1986. First
edition. Binding is Wraps. 371 pp. contain 160 color and 45 b&w
illustrations representing the work of more than eighty artists. Essays
by Kate Linker, Donald Kuspit, Hal Foster, Ronald J. Onorato,
Germano Celant, Achille Bonito Oliva, John C. Welchman, and
Thomas Lawson. VG. Price: $18.00
TAMMUZ, BENJAMIN and MAX WYKES-JOYCE (Editors) Art in
Israel 336 pp. with 288 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth.
London, Allen, 1966. Price:$45.00
Wark, Robert R. :Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson In The
Huntington Collection. Description: San Marino, California,
Huntington Library, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardback. V.G.+/V.G.+. 398
pages. More than 500 illustrations. Index of Works by Rowlandson
Catalogued or Mentioned. General Index. Inscribed by Wark. A
charming landscapist and genre artist as well as a portraitist. This book
shows the range of his work.. The Huntington collection of drawings
by Thomas Rowlandson is generally regarded as the largest and most
comprehensive at present in a public museum. Price:$30.00
Wight, Frederick S. Milestones of American Painting In Our Century
New York, Chanticleer Press, 1949. wraps. Lightly soiled boards o/w
VG. 135 pages Introduction by Lloyd Goodrich, essay by Frederick S.
Wight. Lists 50 works by 50 artists, biographical data on each artist.
Accompanies an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in
Boston. Artists include Luks, Sloan, Bellows, Kenneth Hayes Miller,
Kuhn, Dove, Demuth, Preston Dickinson, Weber, Feininger, Kantor,
Marin, Knaths, Sheeler, Hartley, Stuart Davis, Hopper, Burchfield,
Marsh, Benton, Wood, Curry, Shahn, Gropper, Siporin, Rattner,
Grosz, Levine, Hrsch, Bohrod, Avery, Bloom, Blume, Lebrun,
Maciver, Pereira, Gottlieb, Graves, Karfiol, Mattson, Watkins,
Kuniyoshi, Tchelitchew, Berman, Stuempfig, Zerbe, Eilshemius,
Kane, Hirschfield and Pippin. Price: $20.00
Woldering, Irmgard. THE ART OF EGYPT. NY: Greystone Press
1963. 256 pages, 8vo, line drawings, color plates. Owner bookplate
on fly page, dust jack edges show wear, o/w in very good condition.
Price: $12.00