Search Results: American Art from Canadian Art Books

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010. Hardcover. Fine. New. Beginning in mid-1940s, under the aegis of Alfred H Barr, Jr, works by then little-known American artists including Pollock, de Kooning, Smith, Arshile Gorky and Adolph Gottlieb began to enter the Museum of Modern Art's collection. This book celebrates the Museum's holdings from this epochal moment in the history of art and the institution. 128 pages, 120 illustrations, 100 in colour.

Hudson Hills, 2009. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. When Irving Sandler published "The Triumph of American Painting" in 1970, this groundbreaking study quickly became the canonical account of Abstract Expressionism. Now, nearly 40 years later, Sandler, the preeminent chronicler of postwar American art, returns to the subject with this new study. Sandler focuses on two new aims: first, to present the fresh conclusions about Abstract Expressionism that he has arrived at since 1970, and second, to counter what he sees as the distorted interpretations of the movement offered by some younger art historians. This new study focuses on the decade (1942-1952) when the Abstract Expressionists matured as artists and created their most important works and also identifies the distinctly American character of Abstract Expressionism, in particular the painters Sandler sees as the movement's most important figures: Jackson Pollock and Clifford Still.

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Balint Zsako: Drawings from the Bernardi Collection with additional work from the collection of the artist Zsako, Balint Published by Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2008 ISBN 10: 0969854773ISBN 13: 9780969854777 Condition fine with the exception of a gift inscription on title page in black ink.

Harry N Abrams Inc, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Betty Parsons: Artist, Dealer, Collector

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2008. Soft cover. Fine. Breaking the Mold focuses on paintings from a pivotal time, one of transition from postwar abstract expressionism to new artistic developments. It includes works on paper, paintings, and sculpture by fifty artists including Josef Albers, Richard Diebenkorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, and Marcel Duchamp. The Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA) was founded in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1961, to increase the national and international attention given to contemporary art in the nation's capital, with an expressed purpose to exhibit and collect contemporary works of art. In 1968, the museum's collection was sold to the Oklahoma Art Center. This historically important collection from the former Washington gallery played an important role in the collection and cultivation of contemporary American art movements from the 1950s and 1960s, including late abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism, and pop art.

NYC: Knopf, 1984. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. D. V. Diana Vreeland "An evening with D.V. is almost as marvelous as an evening with D.V. [herself]-same magic, same spontaneity and, above all, never a boring moment." -Bill Blass D.V. is the mesmerizing autobiography of one of the 20th century's greatest fashion icons, Diana Vreeland, the one-time fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue, whose incomparable style-sense, genius, and flair helped define the world of haute couture for fifty years. The incomparable D.V. proves herself a brilliant raconteur as she carries the reader along on her whirlwind life-from English palaces to the nightclubs of Paris in the 1930s to the heart of New York high society, hobnobbing with everyone who was anyone, from Queen Mary to Clark Gable to Coco Chanel. Pervious owners inscription on title page in ball point.

New York: Emil Alvin Hartman, 1933. No Binding. Fine. A very fine original mixed media drawing for the cover of Emil Alvin Hartman's Fashion Academy in house publication The Fashionist, first number October 1922. Image size 20 x 14 in. Plus a copy of The Fashion Academy promotional book from 1933. Emil Alvin Hartman, was the founder and director of the Fashion Academy, NYC, founded in 1917 it was the premiere fashion school in America at the time. The school was famous for the Fashion Academy Gold Medal Award handed out each year to companies whose products featured exceptional design; winners included United Airlines, General Electric, Firestone, Ford & The Chicago Tribune.

Hudson Hills, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hans Hofmann Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S., United States, 1998. Hardback.English. Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures of postwar American art, for both his own abstract paintings and his influence as the legendary teacher of generations of artists in Germany, New York, and Provincetown. His presence in New York, a link to Wassily Kandinsky, the Cubists, and Fauves, catalyzed the movement ultimately known as Abstract Expressionism, whose influence still pervades the aesthetic categories and practices of art today. This volume features essays on Hofmann's life and work by Helmut Friedel and Tina Dickey; excerpts from Hofmann's own statements; full documentation of his career (including chronology, selected bibliography, and comprehensive list of solo and group exhibitions); and thirty-two large colorplates of works from 1942 to 1965 by this supreme colorist, his finest paintings from European and American… Read More

Sothebys , 2017. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New. Iconoplastic: 100 Years of De Stijl Nancy J. Troy Exhibition Sotheby's S/2, New York 2017 First Edition. cloth, hard cover. Fine condition. 192 . 60 lots, paintings, drawings, mixed media, furniture and prints by international roster of artists of de stijl. illustrated

Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover. As New/As New. My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing."-Jasper Johns, 1965 Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores the synergy between continuity and change in the development of the artist's work through 2014. The text is enlivened by the voluminous insight Bernstein has gained over decades of knowing the artist, and she incorporates Johns's own unique manner of talking about his art through interviews and public statements. Each chapter is focused on a specific time period and its prevailing themes in Johns's paintings and sculptures, and throughout the book related drawing and prints are referenced as contributions to an advanced understanding of the work. The… Read More

MFA Publications, 2003. Soft cover. Near Fine. Julien Levy: Memoir of An Art Gallery MFA Publications; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2003. Paperback. 320 pp., illus., index; First edition thus, Julien Levy famously promoted Surrealist art in his New York gallery. Very small remainder mark to bottom edge.

New York Graphic Society, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s Marice, Foreword by Tuchman,

New York School Press, Limited, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists: A Complete Documentation of the New York Painting and Sculpture Annuals; 1951-1957 Marika Herskovic ISBN 10: 0967799406 / ISBN 13: 9780967799407 Published by New York School Press, Limited, 2000 Spine of jacket has minor nicks. May require extra postage due to weight. NO SHIPPING OUTSIDE OF USA OR CANADA.

Douglas & McIntyre, 2017. Soft cover. Fine. The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market Don Thompson ISBN 10: 1771621524 / ISBN 13: 9781771621526 Published by DOUGLAS & MCINTYRE, Canada, 2017 Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby's and Christie's New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on contemporary art. Non-taxed freeport warehouses around the globe are stacked with art held for speculation. One of Jeff Koons' five chromium-plated stainless steel balloon dogs sold for 50 percent more at auction than the previous record for any living artist. A painting by Christopher Wool, featuring four lines from a Francis Ford Coppola movie stenciled in black-on-a-white background, sold for $28 million. In The Orange Balloon Dog, economist and bestselling author Don Thompson cites these and other fascinating examples to explore the sometimes baffling activities of the high-end contemporary art market. He examines… Read More

Buffalo, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. A near very good copy bound in finely woven black cloth stamped brightly in red and white lettering along the spine and red lettering at the top of the front boards.No dust jacket. 33 splendid color plates of Still's art. Clyfford Still (1904 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation ofAbstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately followingWorld War II. Still has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as his shift from representational to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942, earlier than his colleagues likeJackson PollockandMark Rothko, who continued to paint in figurative-surrealiststyles well into the 1940s. 31 of these paintings were donated by the artist to the Albright-Knox Gallery in 1964

Marborough Gallery, 1971. Soft cover. Fine. Seymour Lipton : Recent Works. Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, 1971, Exhibition catalogue. 40 p. 29 ill. (14 color) of 24 sculptures.

Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005. Soft cover. As New/As New. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario Canada, 2005. Wrappers. Condition: Fine 120 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. Artists included in the exhibition are Peter Halley, Polly Apfelbaum, Morris Louis, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Frank Stella, Sol Lewitt, and more.

Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Roy Lichtenstein. The life of the great Pop Art painter Roy Lichtenstein, illustrated with his most famous artworks. In the newest of Abrams' award-winning line of picture book biographies of artists, Susan Goldman Rubin evocatively explores Roy Lichtenstein's work and life and his groundbreaking influence on the art world. In Roy's long career as a teacher, artist, and innovator, he changed the way that people thought about art and how artists thought about their subjects, challenging people to see familiar sights with new eyes. Classically trained in painting and drawing, Roy found inspiration from cartoons, newspaper comics, and children's books?images most people didn't consider "serious" art. He also chose to paint, in meticulous detail, the building blocks of painting?a single brushstroke or the back of a canvas?drawing attention to the way that artists use these tools. Roy and the other Pop… Read More

Harry N. Abrams, 2000. Hardcover. As New/As New. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2000. Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Numerous colour and b&w photographs throughout (98 plates, including 71 in full colour). "This unique book, written and photographed by Edvard Lieber, who worked for the artists Willem and Elaine de Kooning during the 1980s, provides a rare opportunity to visit this remarkable couple in their own environment and to hear them tell anecdotes about their lives. The author's intimate photographs of Bill de Kooning in his studio offer a visual counterpart to the text by showing the artist at work on the last great paintings of his career, demonstrating the extent of his creative genius even to the end." Bound in original blue boards with yellow lettering to front board & spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket, yellow endpapers. 137p

Ameringer McEnery Yohe, 2013. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 148pp with Chronology of the artist's life. 61 full color plates. Published on the occasion of an exhibition in June-July 2013.