Monographs, Exhibitions, other Art Books, 1917-1950's
Nancy & Michael Feldman
Art in our Country Handbook The American Federation
of Arts, Wash. D.C.,
1923, First 4 1/2 x 7 3/4".162pgs.Lots of photos of museums and
interiors of museums.The
idea of this publication was to show travelers who are making a study of
Art in America, where
that art was. Listed are the museums in various cities, their holdings,in
1923. VG. Owner's
name and address on front endpaper. Also lists "Art"in other places.
$45
Art Review A Survey of British Art in All Its Branches During
1949-1950 edited by Leonard
Richmond, G.M. Place The Artist Publishing Co. Ltd, 1951 4to, 80
pgs, 16 color plates,
Sutherland, Degas, etc. Contents: Art exhibitions, water colour,
sculpture, stage and screen
decor, portrait painting, mural painting, pastel, the graphic
arts,illustration, fine art in the poster,
commercial art, book jackets, reproductions, art books, humorous
art. This appears to be a
very high quality art magazine with many art ads. $20
Art Treasures from the Vienna Collections lent by the
Austrian Government appeared in 7
museums including the Metropolitan,1949-1952 6 x 9",unpaged,Dutch
paintings, tapestries,
armor, Greek & Roman antiquities, Renaissance bronzes,6 pgs of
references, plates bk cvr
stained, edge bnt, o.w. vg $20
Chester Dale:Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale
Collection National Gallery
of Art Washington, D.C. 1941 13pages and 23 illustrations.Chester Dale
loans
his paintings to the National Gallery. Follow the progression of his
collection in the National
Gallery catalogues of 1945,1952, and 1965 .Cezanne, Corot, Daubigny,
Degas,Delacroix, etc.
Sm staining and wear on cvr $20
Chester Dale: Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale
Collection
National Gallery of Art 1952 1st printing . The larger part of
his famous collection of 20th
century paintings. 69 pgs and index,69 fullpage illustrations,Bonnard,
Braque, DeChirico,Derain,
Dufy, Leger, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso etc. Faded a little, sml tear
on spine $20
Chester Dale Collection:French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection
National Gallery of Art, 1953 6th ed,93pgs, 76 pgs of
illustrations. The Chester Dale
Collection shows the development of in the Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist periods. This
collection includes 6 examples of Mary Cassatt. A little fading and spine
wear
$20
Chester Dale,20th Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School .
Collection, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965 Chester and Maud Dale
were among the first
American collectors to appreciate the School of Paris. In the early 40's,
when he closed his NY
apt, he sent 72 paintings to the Nat. Gallery. In 1965 all the rest of
his paintings were brought to
the National Gallery. 104pages,101 full page illustrations from Bonnard
to Vuillard. with dates of
exhibitions. Intro by Maud Dale.Sm foxing $20
City Art Museum of St. Louis Handbook of the Collections
City Art Museum of St. Louis,
1953 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 272 pgs,historical info, the building, the
staff,Oriental rugs,
miniatures,prints, chinese ceramics, period rooms, chinese bronzes,
persian and indian
miniatures etc. Pictorial survey of the Museum's collection. with
accession no's., VG, cvr slt
wear $30
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
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
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
Guide to the Rijksmuseum appears to be 1934 (see
p.7) 8vo,48pgs,16pgs
of photos, line drawings throughout, historical survey, arrangement of
collections, general
information a little worn $7
Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.)
Mathias Komor, 31 East 51st
St, NYC March 1951 6 x 9 in, 26 pgs, including 9 b&w illus,
introductions, 95
descriptions of porcelains within their periods. VG, slt rubbing
and staining of cvr $15
Leon Karp Memorial Exhibition May 3 to June 1st, 1952
Philadelphia Museum of Art in
collaboration with the Pa. Academy of the Fine Arts 7 1/4 x 10",
plates, halftones,
color plates,discussion, exhibitions, one-man shows, awards,
representation in
museums,catalog, dimensions of paintings. Beautiful tribute. VG,
except for minor soil,bent
btm edge cvr,and some spine wear $20
Metropolitan Museum of Art A Guide to the Collections Part II
European and American
Art, Mediaeval Art Renaissance and Modern Art, The American Wing,
5000
copies printed of this third edition, 1937.154 pgs. Each section has an
intro, an account of the
scope and arrangement of the collection, and detailed floor plans. Most
important objects
selected for comment. Front cvr has a 2 1/2" x 1" tear, also tear on rt
btm crnr of cvrs,
spine wear $20
Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings Bryson
Burroughs,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917 362pgs,35
illustrations,history of Museum's
collection of pictures,donors and funds, catalogue of paintings from
Abbey to Wylie, artists
arranged by schools,, list of portraits arranged by subject,
classification by galleries Cvr trs, the
first few pages, sml tears at spine , sm yellowing, cvr tattered
$25
Morris Davidson, Feb 2-Feb 28, 1959 Kleemann
Galleries, 11 East
68th St, NY, 21, NY 5 1/2" x 6 3/4",unpaged,catalogue, plates,
biographical notes,
photo of Davidson vg $5
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Catalogue of Paintings Illustrated
Supplement
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1925 6x9 1/4".32 pgs. 32 pgs
of plates. Italian,
Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, English, American. The more
important of the 955
paintings in the Catalogue of Paintings of the same year. vg, slt
soil $25
National Gallery of Art Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and
Sculpture
2nd ed, Dec, 1941, 247 pages, 16 plates Foreward
discusses Mellon collection, Kress
collection, and other donors. This volume is a prelinary catalogue
containing brief biographies of
all the artsts, descriptions of works of art, biographical references,
etc. Cvr worn with fading
$25
National Gallery of Ireland Catalogue of Oil Pictures in the
General Collection
Stationery Office , Government Publications, Dublin, 1932 6
x 9 1/2", 143 pgs,preface with
history and note by Director. important references to specifiic pictures
which have appeared in
periodical literature. Ref to all known replicas, vanriants, to be found
elsewhere.Provenance and
biographies. wrn,soil,few sml trs, notes on lst blnk pg.bk cvr , 1" tr
$30
National Gallery Trafalgar Square Illustrated Guide Sir
Charles Holmes Printed for
the Trustees, London, 1926 105 pgs, many b&w plates, index of
painters with dates, has an
unequalled series of works by the great Italian Masters of the 15th &
16th centuries.Includes the
chief benefactors of the Gallery, A 1" tear on top left cvr,
another glued tear, a bit
of wear. $20
Norsk Folkemuseum, a short Guide with plan Norwegian
Folk Museum,
1939 5 x 7", 16 pgs,with attached map, 10" x11",Many photos,
descriptions .
Describes characteristic buildings as well as "The Market Square",
reached through the City
Gate, an exact replica of that of Bergen from the year 1628. Vg, slt
wear, soil, one bent btm
crner $20
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 (2 copies) $50
Paintings from the Berlin Museums 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
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1959-60
5 x 8 1/2", unpaged.Calendar school year, history, officers,
director, faculty,instruction
coordinated programs, prizes for 58-59,scholarships, prizes, admission,
membership. vg, soil
and frnt cvr tear, sml $7
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. containing Catalogue and
Notes of Interpretation relating
to a Tri-Unit Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Feb-May 1928
62 pgs,calendar of
exhibitions, acquisitions 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
Pontypool and USK Japan, Guide to the Collections
National Museum of Wales,
Cardiff, 1926 5 1/2 x 8 1/2",28 pgs.The factories of japanned ware at
Pontypool and USk
provide an interesting local example of the intrusion of oriental
influences into western arts &
crafts during the 18th c. Preface, Pontypool Japan, Usk Japan,Museum
collection , paper
mache, bibliography, catalogue, many plates. VG(includes letter 1961)
$30
The 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
The 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
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
Vienna Treasures, An ARTnews Picture Book for the Exhibition
lent from the Vienna
Collections by the Austrian Government (2 copies) 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
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890 St. Louis, Philadelphia and
Toledo Museums,
1953-1954 memorial to the centenary of his birth in 1853 6 1'2 x
9, unpaged, many color
and b& w plates,interesting charts about who he met and what painters
influenced him.,and
commentary about painter, detailed history in periods, 181 paintings and
drawings catalogued
cvr has been glued, some tears, on spine, soil (cvr is white)
$15
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Handbook of the
Privately published, Kansas
City, Mo, 1933 6"x9", 143pgs,beautiful binding, part leather, tan cvrs
and flyleaves.Belonged to
a member of the gallery;beautiful sticker on inside cvr.Many photos,
descriptions of
galleries,maps, lists of artists represented, history of collection.
VG, slt crnr wear, lst pg slightly
foxed $35
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