The Decorated Letter
New York: Braziller, 1978. First edition. Paperback. 40 pages. Forty-color plates, and eighteen black and white figures. Bibliography. With critical commentary on each color plate by the author. Owner notation. More
Painting
Hints To Young Practitioners in the study of Landscape Painting; Illustrated by Fine Engravings. Intended to show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint. To which are added, Instructions In The Art Of Painting On Velvet
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1820. Third edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23 x 15 cm. First published Edinburgh, 1804. Engraved title page. ABBEY LIFE 91. One colored aquatint, one etching, and three uncolored aquatints. New endpapers, covers rubbed, minor foxing and soiling. More
III Bienal De Arte Picotorico Cerveceria National De Panama
Panama City: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, 1996. First edition. Paperback. 86 pages. 10 x 9". Host of color plates -- photographs of excellent quality. Modern Panamian art, list of artists with biographies. Text in Spanish. More
Class Distinctions Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer; With essays by Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter. Marieke de Winkel, and Sanny de Zoete
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. 180 color plates, a reflection of the golden age of painting, portraits of an array of social strata rendered with erudtion by the scholarly articles herein. Artist Biographies. Index. More
Painters of Reality The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. First edition. Paperback. 257 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Abundantly illustrated: black and white and color plates. Bibliography. Index. More
Xu Beihong
Peking: 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 149 pages. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Text mostly in Chinese with a Preface in English, and a biographical sketch in English by Liao Jingwen, entitled "Xu Beihong: His Life in Art." The remaining English text in rear, Biographical Notes on Xu Beihong who is probably..... More
Three Eyes The Old Master painting from different view points
London: Heim Gallery, 1990. First edition. Paperback. 112 pages. 9 x 9". 39 color plates with detailed descriptive text. More
Mario Sironi
Milano: Edizioni Philippe Daviero, 1989. Sironi, Mario. First edition. Paperback. 107 pp. Voluminously illustrated. Exhibition May 4-June 10 at the Phillip Daviero Gallery. Biography. Exhibitions. More
George Chinnery 1774-1852 Artist of the China Coast; with Foreword by Alice Winchester
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 56 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. Signed presentation [both authors] copy to James S. Copley with his bookplate. 76 plates, many with multiple images per plate. Bibliography. An English painter who spent the major part of..... More
M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors and Drawings 1800-1875
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. More than 400 illustrations. Foreword by Perry T. Rathbone. Introduction by Henry T. Rossiter. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER L79. "Contains useful information for the study of 19th century American draughtsmen and watercolorists. Both volumes contain appendixes listing known artists represented, known sitters, places represented..... More
Charles Knight R.W.S., R.O.I.; with Preface by Sir William Russell Flint, R.A.
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1952. Knight, Charles. First edition. Hardcover. 116 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 225 of 300. Four tipped-in color plates and 52 in black and white. List of Subscribers. English water color painter. Flint called him" a good and important influence," in carrying..... More
English Art Series. London Buildings. London Paintings. London Sculpture
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. Hardcover. Three volumes in one, each with itsown Index and a list of illustrations in black and white. Approximately 300 pages in text total. Backstrip worn at joints and extremities with small tear at head. More
The Growth Of Canadian Painting
London: Collins, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Sixteen color plates and 64 black and white illustrations. With a Foreword by Eric Newton. Index. CHAMBERLAIN 1248. "Tries to give a chart of 20th century painting in Canada. Not an orthodox history of Canadian Art. Covers the work of 27 artists..... More
Lorenzo Lotto e la nascita della psicologia moderna
Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 335 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, more than 290 plates. Index of Names. Chronology of Lorenzo Lotto who was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator of the Venetian school who was active during the..... More
The Works of James McNeill Whistler
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1907. Whistler, James McNeill. First edition. Hardcover. 302 pages. Thirty-nine black and white plates. With an incomplete List of Whistler's Paintings in Oil and in Water-Colour, Pastels and Drawings. A List of Whistler's Etchings. A List of Whistler's Lithographs. Index. Extremities rubbed. FREITAG 10246. LUCAS p...... More
Marc Chagall Eighteenth Birthday Exhibition An American Tribute
New York: Beilin Gallery, 1967. First edition. Paperback. 32 pages. 4to, illustrated in color and black and white. More
Marc Chagall; Ausgewahlte Graphik
Munich: Haus der Kunst Munchen, 1978. Chagall, Marc. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. 217 entries. Exhibition catalogue [5 August to 15 October 1978], with eight loose plates of Chagall art in color, image size 17 x 14 cm., and plate size: 28 x 23 cm. Catalogue..... More
Early Dutch Painting Painting in the northern Netherlands in the fifteenth century
New York: Tabard Press, 1980. First edition. Cloth. 264 pages. 30 x 27 cm. 250 illustrations, forty-two in color. An important study in light of the many paintings destroyed in religious controversies. Catalogue herein completes this ground breaking study, listing almost all the significant paintings of the period under review..... More
Close Portraits; Lyons, Lisa and Martin Friedman (Text)
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1980. Close, Chuck. First edition. Paperback. 80 pp. Exhibitions September 28, 1980 - June 21, 1981. Illustrated in color and black and white. More
Georges Braque
New York: Abrams, 1980. Braque, Georges. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 168 pp. 121 illustrations; forty-eight tipped-in color plates. Bibliography. Index. Critical commentary on each plate. FREITAG 1027. More
Stanley Spencer A Biography
London: Harvill Press, 1962. Spencer, Stanley. First edition. Hardcover. 255 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Index. A standard work on Spencer. FREITAG 9093. More
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
New York: Abrams, 1966. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. Hardcover. 152 pages. 4to, fifty tipped-in colorplates. Bibliography. FREITAG 9540. LUCAS p.197. More
A Treatise On Landscape Painting and Effect In Water Colours: From The First Rudiments To The Finished Picture: With Examples In Outline, Effect, and Colouring
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pages in text. 28.5 x 46 cm. Second issue, 24 soft ground etchings, 16 uncolored aquatints, and sixteen hand colored aquatints, and sixteen hand colored etchings on gray backgrounds. Some pale foxing to the soft ground etchings, rubbing to backstrip..... More
Art In European Architecture
New York: Reinhold, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 228 pp. Preface by Le Corbusier. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and with color plates. Index. Le Corbusier notes, "Neither architecture nor urbanismhave as yet manifested themselves in terms of decisive and universally accepted realities." (Unlike painting and sculpture). Le Corbusier admires..... More