Search Results: Art and Artists (General) from Arroyo Seco Books

Florence: Bonechi Editore, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 155 Pp + 2 Pp Index At End. Stated First Edition, June 1967. There Is A Paragraph Describing The Losses At The National Central Library, Situated Next To The River Arno (Apparently No Other Land Available In Italy). The Library Was Founded In 1714 When Scholar Antonio Magliabechi Bequeathed His Entire Collection Of Books, Encompassing Approximately 30,000 Volumes, To The City Of Florence. By 1743, It Was Required That A Copy Of Every Work Published In Tuscany Be Submitted To The Library. Originally Known As The Magliabechiana, The Library Was Opened To The Public In 1747. Its Holdings Were Combined With Those Of The Biblioteca Palatina Lorenese In 1861, And By 1885, The Library Had Been Renamed As The National Central Library Of Florence, Or The Bncf. Since 1870, The Library Has Collected Copies Of All Italian Publications. Since 1935, The Collections Have Been Housed In A Building Designed By Cesare Bazzani And V.… Read More

Bounty Books, 1974. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 176 Pp. Very Large Format Spiral-Bound Card Covers. Revised And Enlarged Edition, 1974, Inscribed By John Robinson To Friends.

Pasadena/ Stuttgart: Pasadena Art Museum / Wurttenbergerischer Kunstverein, 1970. First American Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +/Good Jacket. 8 3./4" Square. Color and B/W Plates. 365Pp Catalog Of The Pasadena Showing Of This Exhibit. Clean, No Names Or Marks.Very Good + In Good Only Dj With Edge Wear And A 31/2" Tear Down Front Top Spine Edge.

New Canaan Ct: Silvermine Guild Of Artists, 1957. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 24 Pp. Descriptions Of All 55 Works With Biographies Of The Artists. Soft Cover. Covers With Browning And Dust, But Almost No Wear, And Contents Fine. Scarce; Worldcat Locates Only One Institutional Holding, At Syracuse. Emily Genauer (1911 - 2002) Was An American Art Critic For The New York World, The New York Herald Tribune, And Newsday. She Won The Pulitzer Prize For Criticism In 1974. She Was Born On Staten Island In 1911, To A Delicatessen-Owning Father Who Was An Amateur Sculptor. After Studying At Hunter College And Columbia University's Graduate School Of Journalism, She Went To Work As A Writer For The New York World, Eventually Becoming A Critic In The 1930S. After She Married Frederick Gash, She Retained Her Maiden Name As Her Byline. She Was Instrumental In Introducing Modern Artists To Her Readers, Championing Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera And Pablo Picasso. She Quit The Newspaper (Which Had Become The… Read More

Sofia Bulgaria: T. F. Tschipeff / Cipev, 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 56 Drawings In B/W, 4 In Color. 31 Cm. Red Card Covers Printed In Black And Grey. First And Only Edition. Very Scarce, Worldcat Locates Only One Institutional Copy, In Slovenia. This Copy Inscribed At Length By Beshkov And Dated In 1950 In Sofia; From The Collection Of American Social Artist William Gropper. Ilia Beshkov Dunov (Bulgarian: ???? ?????? ?????; 1901 - 1958) Was A Bulgarian Painter, Graphic Artist, Comics Artist, Caricaturist, Cartoonist, Illustrator, Writer And Pedagogue. Beshkov Was Born In 1901 In Dolni Dabnik, Nowadays A Small Town Near Pleven In Pleven Province, Central Northern Bulgaria. In 1918-1920, He Studied At The Faculty Of Law Of Sofia University And Briefly Returned To His Native Dolni Dabnik As A Teacher. In 1921, He Enrolled In Painting At The National Academy Of Arts, In The Class Of Prof. Nikola Marinov. He Graduated In 1926. As A Student, Beshkov Published Caricatures In The Maskarad,… Read More

Indian Hills Co: Falcon's Wing Press, 1955. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Xvi, 236 Pp. Red Cloth Spine, Gray Boards. First Printing. Near Fine In Very Good Price Clipped Dust Jacket.

New York City: New York World's Fair / Pavilion Of Spain, 1964. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Single Sheet Folded Twice Into Six Pages, With Illustrations Of 8 Works.

Los Angeles Ca: Otis Art Institute Of Los Angeles County, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Exhibition Brochure, Short Artist Biographies, No Illustrations.

Taipei: National Taiwan Arts Center. First Edition . Cloth. Good. 830 pp. Massive catalogue of the exhibit, illustrated profusely with b/w plates. A worn copy, spine edges splitting at top.

Minneapolis Mn: Walker Art Center, 1943. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 29 Illustrations. 27 Pp. Exhibition Catalog; Works For Sale; Commentary By Hudson Walker.

Rutland Vt: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Color And B/W Illustrations Throughout. 149 Pp. Beige Cloth Lettered In Brown And Green, Illustrated Endpapers. First Printing 1957. Fine. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Light Usage, But With Fraying And Short Tears Around Top Of Spine.

Leningrad Ussr: Izogiz, Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelstvo Izobrazitelnykh Iskusstv, 1937. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 123 Pp. Grey Cloth, Beveled Edges, Title In Red. First Edition, One Of 4000 Copies. Light Wear, No Marks, Hinges Tight, Bumping To Lower Corners. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka (Russian: ?????????? ?????????????? ????????; 1899 -1969) Was A Soviet And Russian Painter, Graphic Artist And Sculptor, Regarded As One Of The Most Important Russian Modernist Figurative Painters Of The First Half Of The 20Th Century. His Collective Farmer On A Bicycle (1935) Has Been Described As Exemplifying The Socialist Realist Style.Deyneka Was Born In Kursk And Studied At Kharkov Art College (Pupil Of Alexander Lubimov) And At Vkhutemas. He Was A Founding Member Of Groups Such As Ost And Oktyabr, And His Work Gained Wide Exposure In Major Exhibitions. His Paintings And Drawings (The Earliest Are Often Monochrome Due To The Shortage Of Art Supplies) Depict Genre Scenes As Well As Labour And Often… Read More

New York City Ny: John A. Fox, 1956. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 355 Lots, All Varieties Of The Same Two Stamps.

Long Beach Ca: Professors Mini Publishiong, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 104 Pp + 3 Pp Appendix. Orange Wrappers. A Few Hand Corrections, Possibly By Author.Light Wear.

Corpus Christi / Victoria / Lubbock Tx: Art Museum Of South Texas / Nave Museum / The Museum (Texas Tech University), 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Large Format Squarish Catalog Of The Exhibit At Three Souh Texas Venues. Light Wear, No Marks.

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown, 1973. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Plates. 224 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. First American Printing. Book Is Fine But Has Light Brown Splash Marks In Lowerquarter Of Foredge Of Text Block, No Staining Elsewhere, Pages Clean And Bright. Dust Jacket Priced $17.50 On A Little, Brown Price Sticker On Front Flap.

New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. 404 Pp. Black Cloth. First Printing. One Of 1675 Copies. Very Good +, Light Wear, No Fraying, In A Fair To Good Dust Jacket With Chips And Tears, Including Loss Of Two Letters On Spine. Inscribed To Charles Sheeler, (1883 - 1965), Who Was An American Painter And Commercial Photographer. He Is Recognized As One Of The Founders Of American Modernism, Developing A "Quasi-Photographic" Style Of Painting Known As Precisionism And Becoming One Of The Master Photographers Of The 20Th Century. He Went To Italy With Other Students, Where He Was Intrigued By The Italian Painters Of The Middle Ages, Such As Giotto And Piero Della Francesca. Later, He Was Inspired By Works Of Cubist Artists Like Picasso And Braque After A Trip To Paris In 1909, When The Popularity Of The Style Was Skyrocketing. Returning To The United States, He Realized That He Would Not Be Able To Make A Living With Modernist Painting. Instead, He Took Up… Read More

New York: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 404 Pp. Black Cloth, First Printing, One Of 1675 Copies, This One Inscribed To Architect Edmund R. Purvis, Aia, With A Unique Typewritten Sheet Tipped On To P. 401 Updating Armitage's Autobio (In Brief) To 1958, Also Signed By Armitage. Near Fine, Bump To Lower Front Tip; Dj Clean And Unfaded, Small Edge Tears, A Few Minute Losses. Edmund R. Purves (1897-1964) Was Born In Philadelphia And Graduated From The Germantown Friends School In 1914. His Career At The Univeristy Of Pennsylvania, Which He Entered In 1914, Was Interrupted By World War I; But He Received Is B.S. In Architecture In 1920. After Graduation Purves Returned To France, Where He Attended The Atelier Gromort From 1920 To 1921. Upon His Return To Philadelphia, Purves Joined The Firm Of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, Where He Remained Through 1927, Only Spending 1925 With Willing, Sims & Talbutt. In 1927 Purves And Another University Of Pennsylvania… Read More

1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dummy For A Projected Second Volume Of His 1944 Autobiography. Grey Cloth, Handwritten Cover, Hand Drawn Double-M Design On Front Free Endpaper, " Merle Armitage Books / Author-Designer" With Another Double-M Design Tipped In, Pencil "Foreword Or Article And Design" In Pencil On Verso; "Design Only" In Pencil On Verso Of Next Leaf; Doubler-Page Title With Paste-On Of Figure From His Bookplate; Two Inserted Leaves With His Alternative Double Title Page, With Sub-Title "Aspects Of A Transitional Period As The United States Reached For Culture". First Chapter Heading Is "Edward Weston", But Entire Book Is Otherwise Blank. Unique.

Tuttle Publishing, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Color Illutrations Throughout. 164 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. Color Illustrations Of Artwork With Some Text By Each Actor-Artist. Inscribed By Phyllis Diller To Hollywood Agent/Producer Frank Lieberman. Fine In Fine Dj, No Wear But Price Clipped.