Search Results: Art History from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: The Metopolitan Museum of Art, 1972. Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. LAID-IN: Order form. Vintage 1972 Christmas catalogue of gifts from by the Metropolitan Museum of Art --- Christmas cards, jewelry, sculpture, glass, silver, ornaments, address books, and engagement calendars.

New York, NY: Random House/Richard H. Childers Production, 1979. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed white boards/NF; strong & sound w/light corner wear, and, trace paint smudges to front. DJ/None. Illustrated endpapers; closed tear to rear endpaper. A history and a gallery of prime examples of the airbrush art. Contents are: 1, Introduction; 2, History; 3, Portfolios; 4, Science Fiction: Fact & Fantasy; 5, Retouching; 6, Technical Illustration; and, 7, Behind the Scenes. Strong copy.

Chicago, IL: Towertown Press, 1966. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Paperback. BRAND NEW Copy. Author's signature pasted on title page. Sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Compilation of statues honoring native Americans. Sienna photo illustrations are augmented facts and vignettes. Rear Index gives location by state. Fine copy.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Dept of Transportation, 1982. Volume 58, No 4, April 1982 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Vintage 1982 Edition, Vol 58, No. 4. Stapled softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. COVER ART: "Lake Powell", photo, Jerry Jacka. This April 1982 issue is the story of Lake Powell --- 2nd largest (behind Lake Mead in terms of size) artificial reservoir, planned by US Bureau of Reclamation in the 1940's to 1950's, completed in 1964. Named for naturalist John Wesley Powell's classic 1869 river exploration in 3 wooden boats. 48 pgs, w/photos, the articles & authors are: 1, Powell in Perspective (Bill Waters); 2, Playground on the Colorado (Virginia A. Greene); 3, A Song of Silence (Jack Foster); 4, Houseboating on Lake Powell (Pam Hait); 5, Merril Mahaffey: A Profile (Kay Mayer); and,6, The Last Outposts (Virginia A. Greene).

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Dept of Transportation, 1981. Volume 57, No 10, October 1981 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace rubs to spine. Oct 1981 Issue. COVER ART: "Betatakin ruin, Navajp Nat'l Monument", photo, David Muench. This Oct 1981 issue examines the past (300 BC to AD 1450) of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and the Anasazi peoples. The essays are: The First Southwesterns (Carl Hodge); On the Road to Ruins (Maggie Wilson); and, Old Riddles, New Tools (Carl Hodge).

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highways, 1975. Volume LI (51), No 3, March 1975 . Soft Cover/Magazine. Near Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace rubs to leading edges of stapled softcover & light discoloration to upper front edge. COVER ART: Indian Jewelry; photo collage. This March 1975 issue features: 1, "Red Gold": Coral in Indian Jewelry (excerpt; Basilio Liverino); 2, A Century of Indian Traders & Trading Posts (Marjel De Lauer); 3, Old Pawn ... the Real, Real, Real Indian Jewelry (Joseph Stacey); 4, The New Traders: New Art Forms, New Silversmiths, New Markets (Joseph Stacey); and 5, The Turquoise Ostrich (Joseph Stacey).

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1971. Volume XLVII (47), No 3, March 1971 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace cover wear. COVER ART: "Moonlit Trail", Olaf Wieghorst. This March 1971 issue highlights Danish-born artist of the American West, Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988), who painted in the vein of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. Also included is a look at Easter ceremonial rites of Yaqui Indians. Historical resource

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Dept of Transportation, 1981. Volume 57, No 10, October 1981 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1981 Arizona H'Ways, Vol. 57, No. 10. COVER ART: "Betatakin ruin, Navajp Nat'l Monument", photo, David Muench. DJ/NF; trace rubs to edge & faint creasing to upper front corner tip. This Oct 1981 issue examines the past (300 BC to AD 1450) of the Hohokam, Mogollon & Anasazi peoples. 48 pgs, the essays are: 1, The First Southwesterners (Carl Hodge); 2, On the Road to Ruins (Maggie Wilson); and, 3, Old Riddles, New Tools (Carl Hodge).

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highways, 1976. Volume LII (52), No 2, February 1976 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Stapled softcover/VG; w/trace rubs to stapled spine edges & shipping label removal scar to front. COVER ART: "Raccoon", tempera, Larry Toschik. Special Issue on the Animals of Arizona by Larry Toschick (1922 - 2012); much admired artist for his paintings of waterfowls. This issue testifies to the greater breadth of his art and interests.

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1971. Volume XLVII (47), No 3, March 1971 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Olaf Wieghorst (archival Paintings); Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1971 Edition, published when Jack Williams served as the Governor of Arizona. Softcover/Fine w/trace shelfwear. COVER ART: "Moonlit Trail", Olaf Wieghorst. This March 1971 issue highlights Danish-born artist of the American West, Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988), who painted in the vein of Frederic Remington & Charles Russell. Volume also includes color photos are Yaqui Indian Easter pageantry of ceremonial rites spanning 40 days & 40 nights. Historical resource. 49 pgs featuring: 1, Yaqui Easter Ceremonial (A unique, exciting Passion Play), and Olaf Wieghorst (The man and his art).

Newton, MA: Henry Holt & Co., 1912. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New w/faint soiling to pgs 66, 67, & 141 - 143. Vintage 1912, First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/rubs to leading edges, chiefly to corner tips & upper/lower spine edges. PO name on fEP. Study of the development of Christian art from the time of Constantine through the works of Michelangelo. Premise being, barring Moorish art in Spain, themes the 4th to the 16th century European art were primarily developed in the service of the Christian religion.

Kalispell, MT: Art West, 1978. Vol I, Issue III, Spring 1978 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace softcover wear. COVER ART: "Young Boy, Mexico"; pastel, Ramon Kelley. This Vol I, Issue III, Spring 1978 issue features essays: 1. Tribute to Ace Powell (Van Kirke Nelson); 2, Clark Bronson: Wildlife in Bronze (Anne Thomas); 3, Ramon Kelley portrait (Laurel Andrews), and 4, Navajo rugs (David Cross), among others.

Kalispell, MT: Art West, 1983. Vol VI, Issue 5, July/August 1983 . Soft Cover/Magazine. Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge rubs, marked soiling to surface and black marker note to back. Cover art: The Ropers, oil, by George Marks (1923-1983). Feature articles include essays on Jodie Boren, Jam Daly, Harry Jackson, George Marks, Mark Miller, and Don Stivers. Strong copy with lesser soft cover.

Kalispell, MT: Art West, 1983. Vol VI, Issue 3, March/April 1983 . Soft Cover/Magazine. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/VG; sound w/faint coffee cup ring mark to front, and wear/soiling to surface. COVER ART: "The Magic Hour", oil, by Roger Cooke. Feature articles include essays on Roger Cooke, Jay Doolittle, Carolyne Hawley, and Fred Machetanz. Fine copy despite flaws.

Chicago, IL: Ohio Univ Press/Sage Books, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. BRAND New 3-VOLUME SET. Vol I, ISBN 0-8040-067-5, 1st Edition, 2nd printing of 1980; Vol II, 0-8040-0352-1,1st Edition, First Thus; and, Vol III: 0-8040-0851-5; and Vol III, 0-8040-0851-5, 1987 reprint. Uniform dust jackets. Volume III carries an Index to all three volumes. All artists included were born before 1900, born in various countries --- amateurs or professionals, trained or untrained, were part of the milieu of America's West (roughly the 17 states west of the 95th meridian). Their world was the West of Indians & trappers, cowboys & longhorns, troopers & forts, pioneers & wagons, mining & agriculture, lumbering & railroad building, mountains, valleys, and deserts. Their depictions are records of the new and fresh of those years, with a viable place in art history as well as invaluable visual historical documentation. Doris Dawdy also assembled The Annotated Biography of American Indian… Read More

New York, NY: Dover, 1982. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/light edge wear, faint creasing to lower back corner, & showing trace soiling. First published 1970 under the title: The Art-Makers of Nineteenth-Century America; this is the Dover unabridged, slightly corrected, republication. Learned and readable account chronicling the spirit of a dynamic and inventive era in 19th century American art. Text supported by some 211 illustrations. Fine copy in less soft covers.

Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 1980. First Edition. First Thus . Hard Cover/Stitched. Near Fine/Near Fine. COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Thus.Text/Bright, cleans, & Near New. Beige linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/short nips, chips, closed tears & losses to edges & light surface rubs; under mylar. Endpaper map to Selcted Art Centers of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Monograph. Study of artistic accomplishments of the Northern Rockies chronicling the past, the contemporary scene, and projections of the its future. Author signed with a note of admiration to Bob Wolf, whose work, Wings of Summer (Red-Tailed Hawk) appears as Plate 18 in the volume, and inspires in the author as sense of "freedom of the wild.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf; Univ of Utah; & Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1978. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. Erte. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Vintage 1978, First Edition, First Thus. Softcover/Fine. Vintage 1978 First Edition, First Thus. Signature works of Russian-born, French artist Erte (Romain de Tirtoff, 1892 - 1990) from the Golden Age of Art Deco in the 1920s through its revival in the 1960s. The prize collection carries a brief 1977 preface penned by Erte from Paris (his home since 1912 after St Petersburg) --- saying "I cannot wish for a better life than the one I have ... This book illustrates in a large part some of my theatrical designs, as well as some designs for Harper's Bazaar ... I hope they make up for my scarcity of words." 104 pgs, 48 works in archival full color photos dating from 1911 thru 1975.

Milano, Italty: Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza Electa, 1989. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy.1989 Museum Catalog. Cover Art: Wassily Kadinsky, 1908, The Church of St Ludwig in Munich. Catalogue for exhibitions held at National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., (Nov 1989 - Jan 1990); Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, TX (Jan - Mar, 1990); and, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA (Apr - Jly, 1990). Professor Peter Vergo of the Univ of Essex, UK prepared the catalogue essays & notes. 3 essays precede catalogue proper: 1, German Expressionism: A Personal Choice (Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza); 2, Acknowledgements (J. Carter Brown, Edmund Pillsbury, & Harry S. Parker III); and, 3, Expressionism & Its Heritage: German Paintings from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Color plates of 34 major works. Exhibition assembled by Andrew Robinson, Senior Curator of the National Gallery. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Harrison House, 1987. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed taupe linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price clipped else Fine. Gitf dedication to fEP. First published 1973 by Abrams. Collection of the masterful art work of Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909), literally made possible by the friendship and shared interests in the art of American frontier. 26th President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) said of Remington's work, "The soldier, the cowboy and rancher, the Indian, the horse and cattle of the plains, will live in his pictures, I verily believe, for all time."; and so it has. Remington's paintings were often large in scale as was the expanse of the west; many are reproduced in fold-out format. Fine copy.