American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945 from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1996. viii, 136 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held aty Williams College Museum of Art, April 6 and June 9, 1996, and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. CONTENTS: Kahn's graphic modernism, by Michael J. Lewis; Sketching abroad, by Eugene J. Johnson; In the… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. xix, 340 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Foreword by Floyd Coleman; new introduction by Mary Jane Hewitt. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "Samella Lewis has brought African American Art and Artists fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. Cloth, xxviii, 271 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with a corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio.

Boston, New York, London: Little, Brown and Company; A Bulfinch Press Book, 2002. 303 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's rich heritage of vernacular art out of the… Read more about this item

New York: Di Donna, 2019. Pictorial boards, 202 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Di Donna, New York, from October 25 to December 13, 2019. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York and Chicago: Thames & Hudson; Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010. Pictorial boards, 174 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Exhibited as: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 26 to October 17, 2010; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, December 11 to March 6, 2011; Orange… Read more about this item

Boston: MFA Publications; Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Edward Hopper" organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 6, 2007 to August 19, 2007;… Read more about this item

San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1981. Cloth, 96 pages, illustrations (partly colour); 29 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Catalogue complementing the exhibition held June 18 to October 18, 1981 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slipcase in fine condition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS:… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001. Cloth, xxi, 213 pages, colour illustrations; 34 cm. With introductions by Camille O. Cosby and William H. Cosby, Jr.; biographies by Rene Hanks. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. A beautiful, large-format book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Comedian Bill Cosby assembled an extraordinary… Read more about this item

Washington D.C. and New York: Smithsonian Archives of American Art; Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. Cloth, xxiii, 245 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City, UT: Ancient City Press, 2006. xi, 188 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. "Richly illustrated, Artists of the Canyons and Caminos traces the lives and work of painters who settled in Santa Fe in the early years of the twentieth century. Under their influence, Santa Fe grew from a… Read more about this item

London, New York, and Washington D. C.: Robert Hale in association with Callaway Editions and the Phillips Collection, 1993. Cloth, 143 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., December 12, 1992 to April 4, 1993 and at three other museums. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE!… Read more about this item

Philadelphia and New York: Running Press in cooperation with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989. Cloth, 351 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Originally published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, October 14, 1976 to May 1, 1977, and at other museums. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light… Read more about this item

Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1972. 96 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held May 5 to June 4, 1972, at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; June 20 to July 10, 1972, Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and September 1 to October 1, 1972, at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Good+. Firm binding,… Read more about this item

Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Distributed by University Press of New England, 1988. 112 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 x 25 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, June 4 to August 28, 1988. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE!… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Petersen Galleries, 1990. Leatherette, 100 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. American mid-20th-century modern artist painting in a Fauvist manner. Features landscapes and (perhaps more notably) portraits of African-American subjects. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. xii, 305 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Stated First Edition. "Between 1935 and 1942, photographers for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured in powerfully moving images the travail of the Great Depression and the ways of a people confronting radical social change. Those who… Read more about this item

New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2017. viii, 434 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1983. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Drawing on memoirs, etiquette books, contemporary novels, and popular histories of the musical and theatrical stage, Lois W. Banner chronicles how women looked (and how they felt about how they looked)… Read more about this item

Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1961. Cloth, 193 pages, illustrations (part mounted colour), portrait; 27 cm. Text in German/Text Deutsch. Good+. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges & endpapers moderately soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Berlin: Kunst und Kunstler seit 1870; Anfange und Entwicklungen = Berlin: Art and Artists since 1870; Beginnings and Developments. .… Read more about this item