Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay by Taube, Isabel L - 2012

Pittsburgh / London: Frick Art & Historical Center / D Giles Limited, 2012. 1st edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition, 2012. Near Fine. 4to., 224 pp., illustrated with full color reproductions. Bound in publishers red cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked, jacket shows very minor rubbing on back panel. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

London: Giles, 2012. Hardcover. VG/VG (minimal shelf wear to dust jacket, book is as new). Red paper with gilt spine lettering, brown & color illustrated dust jacket, 224 pp., profusely illustrated in color. Showcases attractive and accessible paintings of 19th and early 20th-Century interiors, with international interest.The go-to volume on the work of American painter Walter Gay (1856-1937), it will fill a yawning gulf in published scholarship on the artist. Presenting 70 works from public and private collections, this beautifully illustrated volume offers the opportunity to re-evaluate the American artist Walter Gay"s depiction of empty rooms, filled with furniture but with no human presence. Walter Gay was a highly accomplished artist, collector and tastemaker. He and his wife Matilda lived in Paris for much of their life and enjoyed a leading role in stylish society; many of the interiors that he painted, with their 18th-century French furnishings, were rooms in their own homes, or those of… Read More

GILES, 2012. Hardcover. Like New. 11x9x0. BRAND NEW. Still Sealed in Publishers Shrinkwrap.

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