FS:Important Art Collections

[Nancy & Michael Feldman]

Blue Dutch Colonial Farms
Michael and Nancy Feldman
New York NY 10001

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April 16, 1996

IMPORTANT ART COLLECTIONS

19th & 20th Century European & American Paintings, Recent
Acquisitions
Hammer Galleries, NY, June 16-August 31, 1981 8 1/2" x
11,unpaged, 38 color
illus, all on beautiful paper.Hudson River School, the Luminists,American
Impressionism,
American Western Art. Cropsey, William Merritt Chase,Vuillard,
Utrillo,Laurencin, Renoir, Cross,
Grandma Moses etc. VG, slt rubbing of cvr, edgwear $20

African Sculpture- 31 Masterpieces of Michael Kan, text
Brooklyn Museum, 1973
6x9",63 pgs,masks, figures, saltcellar of African export art,b& w
photo on left page with the
rightpage describing the piece.Beautiful paper. Bibliography Vg, a few
bent pages, rt crnr cvr
bent $20

Americas The Decorative Arts in Latin America in the Era of the
Revolution Elizabeth Wilder
Weismann Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976 4to, 80 pgs,
presented in
conjunction with an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the National
Collection of Fine Arts,
October 19, 1976-April 3, 1977 75 b& w and color photos. Finest
examples of Latin
American Decorative art.Some wear, rubbing, a few sml tears $20

Art Collection of Sears Bank and Trust Company October
15 - November 21,
1980 8 1/2 x 10", unpaged. Many b& w and clr illus. Rauschenberg,
Stella, Jenkins,
Rosenquist, Rivers, Johns, Jack Lenor Larsen,etc.60 works. VG,
slight soil $20

Baroque in Bohemia, An exhibition of Czech art organized by the
National
Gallery, Prague Arts Council of Great Britain, 1969 7 1/4 x 9 1/2",
159 pgs,
foreward describing exhibition, architecture, sculpture, painting,
applied arts including beakers,
chausables, goblets, chalices.index of artists and lenders
bibliography,many plates VG, 1 sml
chip on cvr $25

Berlin Museums , Paintings from the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, 1948
Exhibited with the Dept of the US Army, 7x10",unpaged,150
masterpieces recovered by Gen.
Pattons's 3rd Army at Merkers, Germany in 1945, over 40 plates, 1
clr.European, 14-19th cent.
vg, cvr bnding rubbed, slt bend on back cvr. $50

Borghese Gallery in Rome Pergola, Paola, Della, Director
of the Gallery Florence Arnaud,
Publisher, 1968 6 1/2 x 9 1/2",unpaged, 25 plates in color, 36,
b&w,sculptures
and paintings,7pgs of text describing the history of the
gallery.Descriptions in English, French,
German and Italian.Heavy shiny paper.Titian, Correggio,, Raphael, etc.
VG. Cvr, sltly bent, a
bit soiled,name of owner on first page $20

Bruegel to Cezanne: Landscape Drawings and Water-colors Pierpont
Morgan Exhibition Jan.
- April 1953 31 pgs.Felice Stampfele wrote the 13 page intro.
Germany:
Wolfgang Huber, Hirschvogel,Eisheimer. Italy: Campagnola,etc. VG
$12

Carved and Modeled American Sculpture 1810-1940 Hirschl &
Adler Galleries,
exhibition inaugurating the Gallery's dept of Sculpture, April 20-June 4,
1982, for the
benefit of Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, a property of the National
Trust. 111pgs, 79 b& w and
color photos.Intro by Susan Menconi, 79 examples , acknowledment of
scholars and
lenders.Zorach, Lachaise, etc.etc. Some rubbing on spine $25

Cooper Union Museum: Illustrated Survey of the Collections for
the Arts of Decoration on the
Occasion of their Sxtieth Anniversary Cooper Union, May 1957 8
x 8
1/4",46 pgs, 46 b& w illus.Intro. by Calvin Hathaway.Medieval silks,
Chinese
ceramics.Furniture, textiles, bronzes, drawings and engravings,
etc.Pictorial survey of the
collections. VG. brned cvrs, they were white. $20

Cubism: 1910- 1912 The Climactic Tears in Cubism G.S. from
Jacques Seligmann &
Co. Unknown- but after 1941 Two page essay, Exhibition
catalogue of works
by Braque-4, Delaunay-2, Duchamp,Leger-2, Metzinger, Picasso-5,Villon-2.
Sculpture by
Brancusi and Duchamp- Villon.Bibliography 20 pages, pink-salmon
paper. Two drawings
$10

Diamond Jubilee Exhibition Masterpieces of Painting November
4-Feb 11, 1950-
1951 Philadelphia Museum of Art 6x9", 102 pgs, 102 plates,cvr the
Bathers,
Renoir, frontispiece, Roualt, The Old King in color.4 pg forward by Henri
Marceau describing
exhibition,index of artists. Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Braque, Cezanne,
Chardin, Degas, Duchamp,
Van Eyck, etc. vg, cvr has been glued, some rubbing on binding $20

Edmond Foulc Collection Special Renaissance number of the
Pennsylviania Museum
Bulletin, Feb, 1930 7 x 9 1/4",63 pgs,200 objects of early
Renaissance art,history of
Foulc collection,Italian sculpture of the 15th c.,French art of the
Valois,furniture and decorative
arts, bibliography.Many b&w illus. Important scholarly work. g,
wear,cvr sml tear, btm rt cvr
clipped off as are frist 11 pgs only on margin $30

Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude
Laughlin Chanler Grasselli,
Margaret Morgan National Gallery of Art, 1982 8 3/4x9 3/4",63pgs, 45
b&w,
several clr illus.25 18th C. drawings,.Foreword, acknowledgments, the
collection, notes, the
catalogue(fully detailed). Bibliography.
Boucher,Fragonard,Piranesi,Guardi, etc. VG, slt bend frt
cvr bttm rt $40

Fifty Masterworks from the City Art Museum of St. Louis
Wildenstein Gallery,NYC, Nov
6-Dec 13, 1958 8 1/2 x 11 1/2",68 pgs,46 b&w illus, History of museum by
Charles Nagel, Director of the gallery and Georges
Wildenstein..Description of work,whose
collection, bibliography.Tintoretto, Rubens, Frans Hal,Tiepolo,Boucher,
Fragonard etc. VG, sm
soil, rubbed edges,1 sml tear, repaired on cvr $25

Five Centuries of Drawing: Cooper Union Centenial Exhibition
Cooper Union Museum-Richard
Paul Wunder, Curator 1959-1961 For Centenial 100 out of 25,000
frames were
choosen.Italy, France,UK, Netherlands, Germany, US etc. are represented.
Something written
about each one. $12

Five Centuries of Print Making from the Collection of Lessing J.
Rosenwald
The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931 8 1/2 x 11",unpaged, 18
prints, some full
page,exhibition commencing with a woodcut dated 1466 to the present day.
Schongauer, Durer,
Holbein, Callot, Rembrant, Nanteuil, Tiepolo, Hogarth, Blake, Goya,
Manet, Whistler,
Cole.Catalogue VG, some drying of spine, has been glued $50

Footprints of the Buddha Japanese Buddhist Prints from American
and Japanese Collections
Baskett, Mary W. Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 23-Oct
26, 1980 7 1/2" x
11",123 pgs. B&W illus, sev clr tipped in, Lenders to the Exhibition,
history of Buddist
printmaking,chronology, 81 prints catalogued .Bibliography and List of
abbrev for works..
vg,binding rubbed, soil on bk cvr $20

French Drawings Post Neo-Classicism Colnaghi, London,
Feb20 -
March 27, 1975 7 1/4 x 9 7/8",265 pgs,160 b& w illus,fine paper,
catalogue of
160 drawings, Bertin, Boulanger, Charlet,Corot, DaubignyDelaunay,etc.
bibliography VG, cvr slt
foxing and stained, it's white $40

French Painting Before the Revolution Carroll, M. Le Frere &
Cavanah, Frances
Grosset & Dunlap, 1939 6 3/4 x 9 1/2",28 pgs,27 plates,7 clr.In
grey boards with painting
of Madame de Pompadour by Maurice-Quentin de la Tour on cvrCover says
"French Before the
Revolution",What museums to visit, who were the popular painters,
history. VG, slight wear on
spine. $30

French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century Sterling and
Francine Clark Art
Institute,Williamstown, Ma. undated, appears to be in 40's 6 1/2 x 9
1/2", unpaged, 3/4"
thick consisting of over 50 plates and Boudin,Corot, Courbet,etc. 158
paintings. Collections and
bibliography noted in every case. vg, notes on inside of bk pg,one
or two inside,
slt cvr soil, cvr rubbed $20

From Colony to Nation An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver
and Architecture from 1650
to the War of 1812 The Art Institute of Chicago, April
21-June 19,
1949 7 1/2 x 10",140 pgs.many b&w illus.includes much scholarly
text. Many
dominant men and women who made America, Cotton Mather, Robert Fulton,
Paul Revere,
Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, etc. Vg. Spine rubbed and
flaked, bk cvr soiled $30

German Drawings Masterpieces from Five Centuries A loan
exhibition sponsored by the
Federal Republic of Germany Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
May 10-June
10, 1956 7 1/2 x 10", 129 pgs,18 b&w illus,includes a German
drawings catalogue
supplement. and an article about the exhibit by Howard Devree.Calls it an
extraordinary show
made up of more than 150 drawings including 14 by Durer, the Cranachs,
the Holbeins, etc. VG
except for fading where the article by Devree has been all these
years.Some rubbing on spine.
$35

Indian Miniatures From the Collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer,
London editor, Nancy
Curtis Smithsonian Institution, 1963-1964 12 mo, unpaged , 80
paintings
described, over 40 b&w illus, color cvr a bit of soiling,return address
sticker of owner
on top rt copyright pg $15

Italian Masters lent by the Royal Italian Government
The Museum of Modern Art,
January to March 1940 7 1/2" x 10", 64 pgs,52 illus reproducing
everything in the
exhibition with many large details and 6 plates in full clr, with notes
on each work, brief
biographies, charts and chronologies.Donatello, Fran Angelico,
Botticelli, Bellini,Tintoretto,
Tiepolo etc. VG includes checklist and ballot from 1940 $50

Landscape Drawings Mainly French and Dutch, 17th to 20th C.
Exhibition: January 10-February
7, 1968 Lucien Goldschmidt, 1117 Madison Ave. NY, 1968 5 3/4" x
9".25 b& w drawings and paintings. 25 works including
Rousseau,Marechal,Signac & Vuillard,
etc. VG. Sml amt foxing on 1st page $15

Miniature Painting,Four Centuries from the Collections of The
A.J. Fink Foundations, Inc. and
A.J. Fink The Baltimore Museum of Art, Dec13,1958-Jan. 25,
1959 8x 10
1/4",69pgs, 70 b&w illus,Intro. by Dr. Wehle, Metropolitan Museum,
catalogued by country and
chronologically. Rare. High quality paper .Fragonard, Peale,
Field,Donaldson, etc. VG in
boards, a little sunning, binding edge has been glued,a bit dry.
$45

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark, a collectors taste, selections,
for the benefit of the Fresh Air
Association of St. John M.Knoedler and Company, NY Jan 12-30,
1954 7 1/2" x 10",unpaged, 24 b&w illus,Franz Hals, Rembrandt, Corot,
Manet,
Degas, Cezanne, Renoir, van Gogh, Seurat, Copley, Homer, Eakins, Ryder.
VG, slt trs on frt
cvr, some fading $15

Nineteenth Century American Paintings, Philadelphia Collection IV
Schwarz & Son, Phila. PA, Nov. 1-22 1977 7 x10",
unpaged,many clr &b&w illus.Adams,
Birney, Briscoe, Comegys, Curran, Daingerfield, Doughty, Enneking,
Forster, Fueschel, Genth,
Goodwin, Graves, Hamilton, Hansen, Herzog, Lambdin, Mayr, etc. VG, 1"
tear on bk cvr,
rubbing $15

Old Master Drawings Exhibition Mia N, Wiener, NY Jan
9-30,
1985 6 3/4" x 9",50 b&w and clr prints, some actual size. Altomonte,
Bertoia,Caracci,
Cantarini, etc..Mostly Italian.Provenance, notes, sizes VG $25

Old Master Drawings from the Albertina, Austria-America A
Bicentennial Celebration
The Pierpoint Morgan Library, March 8-May 26, 1985 5 1/2" x
8 1/2", 29 pgs,13 b&w
illus.Drawings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer, Cranach, Bruegel, Rubens,
Van Dyck,
Rembrandt, Poussin, Claude, Fragonard and many others. Vg, slt soiling,
bk cvr, slt bend
$10

Old Master Drawings Portfolio Piero Corsini, NY
Nov5-23,
1985 6 1/2 x 9" folio with 40 or more drawings, studies , b&w all
suitable for
framing.Memescardi,Piranesi,Tiepolo,Eisen,Creti,French School,
Netherlandish artist,
etc.Fishermen, Puttis, Satyrs, Canal scenes, etc. VG. Folio(white)
is a little
soiled, 1 stain $25

Olympia's Progeny French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
Paintings 1865-1905 Under
the patronage of the Ambassador of France etc. for the Association for
Mentally Ill Children in
Manhattan, Inc. Wildenstein Gallery, NY Oct 28-Nov27, 1965 8 1/2 x
10 7/8",87
pgs,celebrates the centennial appearance of Manet's Olympia (Louvre) in
the Paris Salon of
1865 .8pgs text.87 b&w and clr illus. of paintings by Monet, Manet,
Cezanne, etc. on beautiful
paper VG. Some edgewear on cvr, sml bend rt btom cvr.Painting of
Olympia by Manet
on cvr. $25

Paintings and Drawings of Persia and India from the collection of
John Frederick Lewis,
President of the Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts,
Dec 17-Jan 10, 1923-1924 7 x 10", 83 pgs,frontispiece, illus, Raga
Hindola, Rajput 18th
C.,illuminated manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Ethiopic, Sanscrit,,
Armenian, Hindi, Burmese,
etc. from the 15th-19th C.,8 pg intro,, 439 manus, many plates cvr, wrn,
soil, flaking
edges,complimentary printed on frnt cvr, o/w vg $50

Paintings and Drawings of Persia and India from the collection of John
Frederick Lewis,
President of the Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts,
Dec 17-Jan 10, 1923-1924 7 x 10", 83 pgs,frontispiece, illus, Raga
Hindola, Rajput 18th
C.,illuminated manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Ethiopic, Sanscrit,,
Armenian, Hindi, Burmese,
etc. from the 15th-19th C.,8 pg intro,, 439 manus, many plates cvr, wrn,
soil, flaking
edges,complimentary printed on frnt cvr, o/w vg $50

Paris Visits New York La Belle Epoque Exhibition for the benefit
of the Musicians Emergency
Fund Terry-Engell Gallery, 22 E. 76th St. April6-May26, 1983
7x9",
front cvr, Jean Francois Raffaelli, back cvr, Maurice Utrillo.Catalogue
of 47 works all in color.
Fine paper. Includes Beraud,Harpignies,Loir,Lecomte etc. vg
$20

Paul Mellon: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs.
Mellon Bruce National Gallery of Art, Wash. D.C. 1966 25th
Anniversary Exhibition of
National Gallery of Art. March 17-May 1, 1966, 252pgs, 246 pgs of
illus.,. Intro. by John
Rewald.Paintings , Bazille, Bonnard, Boudin, Cassatt,Cezanne, Corot,
Courbet, Degas, Gaugin,
Van Gogh, etc. Watercolor and drawings by Manet, Morrisot, Redon, etc.
Sm spine rubbing, tiny
amt of foxing $30

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 150th Anniversary
Exhibition January 15-March 13,
1955 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1955 7
1/2 x 10",
153 pgs.Over 100 illus,25 artists including Anshutz, Calder, Cassat,
Chase, Shinn, Sloan ,
Eakins, etc.Index to Artists and Authors, catalog, chronology, lenders,
etc. vg except for soil and
fxing on frnt and back cvr, owner's name o n cpyrigt pg and cvr.date of
attendance note on
flyleaf in pencil by owner $20

Philadelphia Nudes:The First Pose, Howard Roberts, Thomas Eakins,
& a Century of
Philadelphia Nudes Sellin, David Bulletin, Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Spring,
1975 7 1/2 x 9 1/2",56 pgs. 105 footnotes, An intellectual discussion
by Sellin who
discusses the title of this piece.Frontispiece, The Studio of Howard
Roberts, 1886. Many
plates. waterstn on frnt cover and bk cvr creased.Content is fine.
$20

Phillips Collection containing Catalogue and Notes of
Interpretation relating to a Tri-
Unit Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Feb-May 1928 62
pgs,calendar of
exhibitions, acquistions of the season of 1926-1927, listing of the
paintings in the main
gallery,Text by Duncan Phillips, contemporary critic Main Gallery,
Contemporary American
Painting, Twachtman, Weir, Robinson. American Old Masters, Lower
Gallery, A Survey
of French Painting from Chardin to Derain. Soiled, tears in cvr.
$15

Pre Raphaelite Collection Bancroft Collection: Samuel and
Mary Wilmington Society of
Fine Arts. 1962 History of Bancroft and their collection. Pre-
Ralphaelites covered.Sir. Edward
Burk Jones., Whistler, 22pages. $12

Titania's Palace, Illustrated Guide, American Edition, 1926
Major Sir Nevile Wilkinson,
K.C.V.O., inventor and maker of Titania's Palace This book
describes the
miniature Titania's Palace that was built by Major Wilkinson and
travelled on a world tour.In the
Palace rooms are a collection of tiny objects of art which was collected
all over the world.Many
illus 5x7 1/2",40 pgs. vg, sm soil, frnt cvr, sm tr, a few dog eared pgs
$50

Treasures from Poland, loan exhibition from the State Art
Collection of Wawel Castle; Cracow;
the Treasury of Wawel Cathedral; The Nat. Museum of Cracow The Nat.
Museum of Warsaw,
organized by the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago,
1966 7 1/2" x
10",unpaged,commemorates the Millennium of Poland,Polish art , dec.
arts11th-19th C.Polish
artists and foreign artists, Polish subjects. 127 illustrations, 127
treasures vg with g dj(includes
reprint of Reader's Digest reprint, "The Poles Among Us", 1955) $40

Treasures from the Royal Collection The Queen's Gallery
Buckingham Palace, 1962
Pictures, drawings, miniatures, porcelain, silver, furniture,
tapestry and armour that are found in
The Queen;s palaces and houses in GB form the largest and most splendid
collection of its kind
in the world. The first exhibition in this gallery. 61pgs, and 61 plates
depicting the
collection.Wrn, a few cracks and sml tears $20

Treasures of Tutankhamun The Trustees of the British
Museum, The Times & The Sunday
Times, 1972 A loan exhibit from the Dept. of Antiquities of the Arab
Republic of Egypt to
mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
100 pages including 60
or more photos b&w and color.50 pages on the history and the rest
on the 50 exhibits.
8vo, color cover, a little rubbed, one or two tiny stain $25

Venetian Paintings of the Eighteenth Century Finch
CollegeMuseum of Art,
Oct 31-Dec 16,1961 5 1/2 x 9", unpaged, 20 b&w illus,53
paintings,Guardi,
Tiepolo,etc. VG, sm fading $15

Vienna Treasures, An ARTnews Picture Book for the Exhibition
lent from the Vienna
Collections by the Austrian Government The Art Foundation, NY 1950 7
1/2 x 10",146
pgs, covers Rome & mediaeval Europe,Renaissance in Venice,Caravaggio,
Velazquez, Rubens
& Rococco, all explained, 4 or 5 pages of advertising in back. cvr, a
bit chipped $25
Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art The
Baltimore Museum of Art,
1958 8 1/2 x 10 3/4",46 pgs., many plates, on the cover, Pendant:
Anthropomorphic
figure, Panama, Veraguas style. Celebrates the opening of a permanent
gallery of Primitive
Arts.Map showing areas represented,notes on the collection,divided into
areas slt cvr soil and
wear $20

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