Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't do. And when the author happens to be a visual artist, the results can be both intimate and transcendent. This book is a testament to those occasions, a compilation of personal letters by some of America's most revered artists, each one adorned with ...
This is a monograph on the American painter, Maurice Prendergast. Working in the last decade of the 19th century and first decades of the 20th, he experimented in pattern and texture and in atmosphere and light to perfect his distinctive style.
The authoritative work on traditional French architectural ironwork designs, this book traces the successive styles of decorative French ironwork over its 700-year development. Concise explanations accompany intricate illustrations to reveal the complex fabrication techniques and myriad elaborate motifs employed by the craftsmen.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Rutgers University. Art Gallery
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. 8vo very good stapled wraps, cover shows some age spotiing/discoloration, text and plates are fine, Notes: Text by Richard J. Wattenmaker, director, University Art Gallery. "The art of William Glackens; observations at random": viii p. laid in, Subjects: Glackens, William J., 1870-1938. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Art Gallery of Ontario
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780919876071ISBN:0919876072
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. xxvi, 198 p. : ill. (some col. ); 28 cm. Includes Illustrations. Includes bibliographical references. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Amsterdams Historisch Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario
Date Published: 1977
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Collectible. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. SIGNED Cloth, 272 pp., illus. (part col. ), biblio., index; 26 cm. Text in English and Dutch. Exhibition at Amsterdams Historisch, Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author of the Introduction, Richard J. Wattenmaker, with a personalized inscription. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Gallery
Date Published: 1974
Description: As New. Text pristine & unmarked, tight to the spine-Text in English and French. 224 pp. With 271 ills. On 179 pls. (31 col. ). 24 x 18 cm. read more
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