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Little Notes Concerning Watteau's Portal of Valenciennes

MUNHALL, EDGAR · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

New York, The Frick Collection. 1992. (ISBN: 912114-14-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 36 pages. The acquisition of the first Watteau painting by the Frick and its first purchase in 23 years. Very Good.

The Picture Frame: An Influential Art Form

HAMMING, ANNELETTE · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Paul Mitchell Limited. 1992. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Slim folio. 18 pages; color illustrated. Reprint from December 1992 Tableau Fine Arts Magazine bound in stiff card wraps; front panel faded unevenly. Very Good.

Tools and Technologies: America's Wooden Age

KEBABIAN, PAUL B.; WILLIAM C. LIPKE · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Burlington, Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont. 1979. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 111 pages; b&w illustrations. Papers presented at a lecture series and a symposium held concurrently with an exhibition. Essays by seven contributors: Kebabian, Ro...

Fauvism: The "Wild Beasts" and Its Affinities

ELDERFIELD, JOHN · 1976 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87070-638-1). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. 168 pages; 206 illustrations, including 24 color. Body of the text and plates are clean; neatly handwritten brief notes on the title page and in the bibliogra...

Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education

STAFFORD, BARBARA MARIA · 1994 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. 1994. (ISBN: 0-262-19342-6). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 350 pages; 197 illustrations, all b&w. ".. the replacement of an oral-visual culture in favor of a text-centered one." Clean throughout; a small bump at the base of the sp...

Journal of Glass Studies, Volume XVI

1974 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Corning, New York, The Corning Museum of Glass. 1974. (ISBN: 87290-016-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 164 pages; illustrated throughout. A variety of topics: "A Phoenician Glass Bowl from Nimrud"; "Lattimo- A Group of Venetian Glass Enameled on an Opaque-White Ground"...

Ghada Amer / Reza Earkhondeh: A New Collaboration on Paper

2008 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Singapore, Singapore Tyler Print Institute. 2008. (ISBN: 978-9810801434). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 70 pages; more than 3 dozen color reproductions in full-page format: editioned prints and monoprints. The artists from Egypt and Iran work in New...

American Silver Manufacturers

RAINWATER, DOROTHY T. · 1966 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Hanover, Pennsylvania, Everybodys Press. 1966. Cloth, 8vo. 223 pages. Approximately 1500 trademarks are illustrated and identified. The book focuses on 19th century manufacture of silver in the United States. Glossary and bibliography. Fine/Very Good.

Tintoretto: Deposition from the Cross

HOOD, WILLIAM; LEON WIESELTIER (ESSAYS BY) · 2004 · Ultramarine Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries. 2004. (ISBN: 1-58821-130-4). Printed Wrapper (softcover), Small 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 39 pages; color and b&w illustrations, including a color fold-out full view of the painting at the end of the book. Bibliography. Fine.

The Art of the Cross: Medieval & Renaissance Piety in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

CHONG, ALAN; GIOVANNA DE APPOLONIA; [ET AL] · 2001 · Ultramarine Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 2001. (ISBN: 0-914660-16-0). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 104 pages. 5 opening essays, including The Origins and Iconography of the Cross; Italian Metalwork Crosses from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century....

Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic, 1755-1828

(RICHARDSON, E.P.) · 1967 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Washington, National Gallery of Art. 1967. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 115 pages. Opening essay; 54 b&w illustrated portraits with adjoining essay and catalogue entry. Bibliography; Index of Sitters. Clean and tight; edges of the spine are worn. V...

The Folger Coffee Company Collection of Antique English Silver Coffee Pots

(FOLGER) · 1965 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Toledo, Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art. 1965. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 102 pages. numerous b&w photographic illustrations; essay. Coffee pots, salvers, creamers, other. Clean: no marks or writing found; small impression stamp of previous owner'...

Joods Historisch Museum / Jewish Historical Museum

BELINFANTE, JUDITH C.E. · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen Grafische Inrichting. 1978. (ISBN: 0907002408). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. Collection catalogue, 96 pages; b&w text illustrations; color illustrations in the collection catalogue. English and Dutch text. The last page corner is w...

Spanish Painters (1850-1950): In Search of Light

SAAVEDRA, SANTIAGO (EDITOR); ANA VÁZQUEZ DE PARGA (FOREWORD) · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

P.E.A.C.E. Programa Español de Accion Cultural en el Exterior. 1984. (ISBN: 84-85290-40-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 115 pages; 57 color plates. 24 artists represented. Essays by M.a Elena Gómez Moreno, Joaquín de la Puente, Francisco Calvo Ser...

John Singer Sargent in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

WEINBERG, H. BARBARA AND STEPHANIE L. HERDRICH · 2000 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 64 pages. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Spring 2000. 71 illustrations, mostly color; two b&w photos of Sargent at opposite ends of his career; bibliography. Very Good.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze - the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

THOMPSON, JAMES · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1989. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 52 pages; 46 illustrations, color and b&w. MMA Bulletin Winter 1989/90. Clean and tight. Very Good.

The Thracians / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

CASSON, LIONEL · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1977. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 80 pages; well illustrated. MMA Bulletin Summer 1977. Prelude to the exhibition Thracian Treasures from Bulgaria. Clean and tight, top outside corners bent. Very Good.

Decorative Arts of the Twentieth Century / the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

HUNTER-STIEBEL, PENELOPE · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 52pages. MMA Bulletin Winter 1979/80 as the Met renewed its initiative in building its collection of twentieth-century decorative arts; well illustrated in color and in b&w. Cl...

Picasso and Gertrude Stein / Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

GIROUD, VINCENT (A TERCENTENNIAL EXHIBITION PREPARED BY) · 2007 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2007. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 54 pages, generously illustrated in color and in b&w; many photographs. Celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of the creation of The Portrait of Gertrude Stein. MMA Bulletin...

Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood: How to Recognize Contemporary Artists' Prints

BROWN, KATHAN · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

San Francisco, Point Publications. 1992. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 61 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. A Handbook from Crown Point Press. The handbook accompanied an exhibition of which there is a checklist at the back of the book. It would seem that all manner of ...