Category: Art American General

History of Water Color Painting in America

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Reinhold

Seller ID: 181622

ISBN: B001MXQCFQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Contemporary Collecting Contemporary Collecting)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago : December 2011

Seller ID: 119446

ISBN-13: 9780300175745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Art Institute of Chicago, although renowned for its holdings of works by the French Impressionists, also houses a wealth of superb examples by American proponents of this distinctive style. The breadth of the museum's collection of American Impressionism is rich, with a substantial body of paintings and watercolors by Winslow Homer, who is seen today as a precursor to Impressionism, as well as impressive portfolios of work by Americans living in Europe, such as James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent, and the only American who was officially part of the French group, Mary Cassatt. I...
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Visions of the West: The Corporate Art Collections of Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated and Gulf Canada Resources Limited

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers : September 1999

Seller ID: 20749

ISBN-13: 9780879058548

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

American Folk Painting

By: Black, Mary & Lipman, Jean

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mary Black : 1966

Seller ID: 94799

ISBN: 281BPO1007602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Bolger, Doreen, Wayne, Mary Fritzsche

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York : December 1989

Seller ID: 95198

ISBN-13: 9780810918955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

American Images: The Sbc Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art

By: Fahlman, Betsy, Baigell, Matthew, C., Susan Larsen, C., William Agee, Ashton, Dore, Plagens, Peter, Sandler, Irving, R., John Clarke, King-Hammond, Leslie, Quirarte, Jacinto, Beardsley, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harry N Abrams : September 1996

Seller ID: 103290

ISBN-13: 9780810919693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century.
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Open Secrets : Seventy Pictures on Paper 1815 to the Present

By: FRAENKEL, JEFFREY, MARKS, MATTHEW, GALLERY, FRAENKEL (COR), (COR), MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc : June 1997

Seller ID: 88019

ISBN-13: 9781881337034

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Imagine the ultimate collection of works on paper from the last two centuries: an ink drawing by Brice Marden, a callotype by Muybridge, a Rauschenberg collage, a Degas charcoal, a Friedlander gelatin-silver print and perhaps 65 pieces of comparable quality. This is the wonderful treat that Fraenkel and Marks have put together for us in the exhibition Open Secrets and the accompanying volume of 70 works on paper in a wide range of media from 1815 to the present. What the works have in common is that they are all "pictures that function as the visible evidence of thinking." Elegantly produced, ...
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American Impressionism

By: Gerdts, William H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Artabras : August 1991

Seller ID: 161665

ISBN-13: 9780896600010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Mariner's Fancy: The Whaleman's Art of Scrimshaw

By: Hellman, Nina, Brouwer, Norman

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Balsam Pr : December 1992

Seller ID: 18591

ISBN-13: 9780295972121

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California

By: Hoy, Van, Justin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ammo Books : October 2012

Seller ID: 88158

ISBN-13: 9781934429099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This title highlights work by contemporary artists who are aesthetically and regionally joined through a variety of mediums and demographics. By showcasing unknown and emerging artists alongside established icons who all call California home, it recognises the fact that region and lifestyle directly influence the working process.
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California Impressionists

By: Landauer, Susan, Stern, Jean, D., Donald Keyes

Price: $16.00

Publisher: University of California Press : July 1996

Seller ID: 5673

ISBN-13: 9780915977253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California. American Impressionism grew in popularity as artists from across the nation migrated to the Golden State. There they created a remarkable style, often referred to as California "plein-air" painting, combining seve...
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American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Galllery, Accompanied By Literary Portraits

By: Lewis, R.W.B.,Lewis, Nancy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : January 1999

Seller ID: 177500

ISBN-13: 9780300079456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Looking North: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Illustrations : The Potlach Collection

By: Marling, Karal Ann

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Afton Historical Society Pr : May 2003

Seller ID: 149455

ISBN-13: 9781890434564

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From 1931-70, a struggling Minnesota paper company ran a Mountie-themed ad campaign that became one of the longest-running and best-known. Marling (art history, American studies, U. of Minnesota) provides artistic and historical context on the work of 16 noted commercial artists in this series of il
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Dictated by Life: Marsden Hartley's German Paintings and Robert Indiana's Hartley Elegies

By: McDonnell, Patricia, Plante, Michael

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum : June 1995

Seller ID: 94816

ISBN-13: 9781885116017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

By: Pastan, Amy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications : April 2000

Seller ID: 20483

ISBN-13: 9780823001934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Tracing the transformation of the colonies into nationhood between the 1760s and the Civil War, this volume's classic paintings from America reveal the traits, ideals and ambitions of a young people. Early Federal portraits, serene landscapes and genre paintings document an ever-expanding range of issues, including the impact that industrial issues had in altering the American landscape. Works by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, Elihu Vedder, Jasper Cropsey, Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers, Samuel Colman and others are also shown.
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Visions of Adventure : N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists

By: PYLE, HOWARD, EDWARD, JOHN DELL, C., N. WYETH, REED, WALT

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns : May 2000

Seller ID: 91008

ISBN-13: 9780823056088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

As famous in their day as the authors whose stories they illustrated, Wyeth and his gifted colleagues added their unique talents at narrative depiction to numerous fictional works of a century ago, brought back to life in these pages.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life

By: Trapp, Kenneth R.

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Abbeville Press : January 1993

Seller ID: 95197

ISBN-13: 9781558593930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This work focuses on the rich artistic and social history of the arts and crafts movement in California, as well as describing the highly collectable objects which the movement has produced. The period covered ranges from about 1895 to 1930. Artists include Julia Morgan and Dick van Erp.
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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

By: Warren, Frank

Price: $14.50

Publisher: William Morrow : December 2005

Seller ID: 55926

ISBN-13: 9780060899196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"A fascinating public airing of private thoughts--some dark, others funny, endearing or disturbing--written on homemade postcards. . . . The range of efforts (meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous) will astound you." --TIME.comA fascinating, addictively compelling look at people's deepest secrets, told through anonymously submitted postcards.Frank Warren is the founder and curator of the PostSecret project. For the project, which was started in October 2004, Warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. He then displayed selected c...
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San Francisco: Arts for the City: Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932-2012

By: Wels, Susan

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Heyday : April 2013

Seller ID: 46055

ISBN-13: 9781597142069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Category: Art American General