The Collection of First Editions of American Authors Formed by the Late Arthur Swann
Author : Arthur Swann
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 1956
Category : American literature
ISBN :
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Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Art
ISBN :
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Pedigree and Panache
Author : Shireen Huda
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1921313722
Book Description
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.
The Silver Canvas
Author : Bates Lowry
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2000-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892365366
Book Description
By the middle of the nineteenth century, the most common method of photography was the daguerreotype—Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s miraculous invention that captured in a camera visual images on a highly polished silver surface through exposure to light. In this book are presented nearly eighty masterpieces—many never previously published—from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s extensive daguerreotype collection.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1989-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892361433
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 16 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 16 includes articles written by Richard A. Gergel, Lee Johnson, Myra D. Orth, Barbra Anderson, Louise Lippincott, Leonard Amico, Peggy Fogelman, Peter Fusco, Gerd Spitzer, and Clare Le Corbeiller.
The Robert Lehman Collection
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Robert Lehman, one of the foremost art collectors of his generation, embraced traditional and modern masters. This work catalogues 130 nineteenth- and 20th-century paintings that are part of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum. It includes paintings by Ingres, Theodore Rousseau, and Corot among other early 19th-century artists. In addition to a group of early German drawings, this collection includes a Saint Paul from a series associated with Jan van Eyck and the famous Scupstoel from the circle of Rogier van der Weyden. It discusses all drawings, placing each in its art historical setting and complementing it with comparative illustrations of related works.
Jansen
Author : James Archer Abbott
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN :
Book Description
Documents the evolution of Maison Jansen, one of the most
Walt Kuhn, Painter
Author : Philip Rhys Adams
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN :
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American Naive Paintings
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521443012
Book Description
One of a series of systematic catalogues of the National Gallery of Art's collection, this comprehensive volume discusses in detail 310 objects that comprise one of the world's outstanding repositories of American naive paintings. Works by renowned folk artists such as Edward Hicks, Erastus Salisbury Field, and Ammi Phillips are represented in depth and placed in stylistic as well as historical context. This catalogue is an indispensable tool for historians of Amerian painting and folk art, and for students of American life and culture. Thorough documentation and commentary are provided for the first time on some of the most intriguing images produced in America in the past two hundred years.
American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley Family and Gilbert Stuart's portraits of the first five presidents. Numerous paintings, including Benjamin West's Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), are discussed from a new perspective, the result of information culled from letters, wills, and other previously unpublished documents. The author offers new interpretations of some works, among them Charles Willson Peale's portrait of the Baltimore couple Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming. The volume is richly illustrated, with carefully selected comparative illustrations.
