[Winston-Salem, NC]: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), 1996. Antin, Eleanor. First edition. Soft cover (die-cut cover). [48]p, many ills. Printed on translucent paper. With three texts: "Artist and the Community" by SECCA staff, "Inventing the Past" by Antin, and "Ghosts" by Henry Sayre. The illustrations include stills from Antin's..... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1999. Schwarcz, June. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 40 large color plates. Text by enamelist/jeweler William Harper. Survey of the artist's work, chiefly vessels of electroformed copper foil and enamel. With short statements by the artist inserted in the chronology..... More
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
N.p. [Redding, CA?]: Colleen Barry, 1996. Barry, Colleen. Three-dimensional object. Unique mixed-media book object. Ca. 10 inches high, 7 inches wide, and 5 inches deep including the door knob. Â Signed and dated. Purchased from the artist in the year of its creation, 1996. Photos are too light; colors are..... More
N.p. [Dorchester, MA?]: Unpublished, 1932. Original photographs. Unbound photographs. Two sepia-toned photographs showing nine women posing in 19th-century dress in a formal parlor. They are grouped differently in each photo. One is costumed as a man. "Bartlett Sisters 1932" is written in ink in the lower right of each photo..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, n.d. [1992-93]. First edition. Unbound sheets. Folded card plus 2 loose sheets. Printed by offset in two colors. Ca. 4 x 5 1/2 inches. Publisher's prospectus. One sheet reads, "A gentle reminder to let friends, collectors, and book lovers everywhere know that Carol's nifty new alphabet..... More
Memphis, TN: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1957. Lewis, Jeannette Maxfield. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet, 1 ill. Ex-lib. (ink stamp, shelf label). Checklist of 41 works, with a short biography and quotes from reviews. When she wasn't traveling, Lewis worked in her native California. The cover shows the..... More
New Haven: Jenny-Press, 2023. Lorenz, Angela. First edition. Soft cover. 200p, many color ills. "With essays from over 70 scholars, collectors, librarians, curators, and journalists on Lorenz's work from 1989 to 2022. Includes a reflection from Angela on her juvenilia from 1982 to 1988. Color images of all works plus..... More
Camden, NJ: A.J. Milliette Printing & Publishing Co., 1893. First American edition (1st pub. in France 1860). Hardcover. 330p + 7 plates (photos of the Acropolis and Parthenon horsemen). No jacket, probably as issued. Roberts was encouraged to do the translation by her friend Emily Sartain. Romanticized conversations among a...... More
Santa Monica, CA: Robert Berman Gallery, 2001. Wosk, Miriam. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, 18 color ills. + color covers. Exhibition catalogue. Clothier's essay is titled "Miriam Wosk: From the Heart's Eye," and the heart and other anatomical images are featured in the works here. Wosk created the memorable 8-blue-armed..... More
Annadale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, 2002. Sze, Sarah. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, many photos, mostly large and in color. Survey of Sze's recent multi-media installations, published in connection with a 2001 exhibition, though book is copyright 2002. With texts on her "plastic fantastic landscapes," "the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 123p, many ills., many in color. Exhibition catalogue of 81 items made by New York artists, or for New York clients or consumption--furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, etc. Grouped into the categories Using the Past, Modern Art, Urban Life, Promoting..... More
Miami, FL: Miami Museum of Modern Art, 1962. Gillespie, Dorothy. First edition. Soft cover. 26p, ca. 20 ills., 2 in color + color covers. Ex-museum lib. (cover label, ink stamp inside). One of 2000 copies. Catalogue of about 20 abstract oils, gouaches, and drawings. With 2 photos of the artist..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 165p, many line ills. printed in brown + 10 color plates. Designed by Lance Hidy; typeset in Dante and Centaur by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Jacket is age yellowed, as usual. Eighty poems by Dickinson, sensitively illustrated..... More
Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University, 1991. Vargas, Eugenia. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet of card stock, 6 ills. (1 in color). Ex-museum lib. (ink stamp). Documents the site- and time-specific installation "Aquas." "During the course of its presentation, each of the color photographs will slowly..... More
Washington DC: Phillips Collection, 1965. MacIver. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, several ills. Ex-museum lib. (cover label, ink stamp inside). Loan exhibition of 30 paintings from institutional and private owners, with checklist. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948. Frissell, Toni. First edition. Hardcover (pictorial boards). 94p, many photos. In very worn acetate jacket (original?). Copyright code reads H-X, i.e. August 1948. A well-loved collection of dozens of nursery rhymes, many illustrated with Frissell's photos of children romping in the country and at..... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, no ills. Ex-museum-lib.: small ink stamp, pencil accession note. Reproduced typescript, as issued. Photo 2 shows the start of the paintings checklist. Account of "the most ambitious project so far to implement the East-West cultural exchange agreement..... More
Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1974. Beaux, Cecilia. First edition. Soft cover. 126p, over 80 ills., many in color. Retrospective exhibition, organized jointly with the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Includes a catalogue by Goodyear and Bailey of 78 paintings and drawings (chiefly portraits). Beaux, an acclaimed portraitist, was..... More
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New York: Catherine Viviano, 1953. Glasco, Joseph. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 2 ills. + cover ill. Ex-museum-lib. (ink stamp and ink name on the front cover). Text by Goyen plus checklist of 30 paintings and 3 sculptures, and mention of 12 drawings in the exhibition. One of Glasco's early..... More
Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University, 1990. Simpson, Lorna. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet of card stock, ca. 10 ills. Ex-museum lib. (cover label, ink stamp). Exhibition publication of Simpson's photographs and their signifying texts. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, ca. 100 ills. (ca. 60 in color). Large exhibition catalogue featuring the work of 20 mid-century painters, among them John McLaughlin, Peter Krasnow, Oskar Fischinger, Rico Lebrun, Helen Lundeberg, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, and June Wayne. Good survey... More
Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. Krieger, Margarethe. First edition. Soft cover. [36]p, 16 large pls. Signed by Krieger. Exhibition catalogue of powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Berthold Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
N.p. Christine Burgin, 1991. Lincoln, Paul Etienne. First edition. Unbound. One large sheet, folded 4 times to make 9 sections, many ills. Ca. 9 1/2 x 13 inches, folded. Issued in a poster format. Photo 1 is cropped at bottom and on right. Photo 2 is cropped at bottom. The..... More
New York: Sidney Janis, 1980. Levitt, Helen. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, 8 ills. Short excerpts from writings by Livingston and Agee. Ex-museum lib. (cover label, interior ink stamp, gift notation). 137 photos were exhibited, but there is no checklist of titles. No other copies currently online. Can be sent..... More
