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Impressionism 2009 Calendar

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Heart Nouveau

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Impressionism 2006 Calendar

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Four Seasons 2006 Calendar: The Art of Hiroshige Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Vintage French Fashion 2005 Calendar

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Theodore E. Stebbins; Gilles Mora; Karen E. Haas; Karen Haas; Charles Sheeler

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New England Silver & Silversmithing, 1620-1815: 1620-1815

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Gerald W.R. Ward; Jeannine Falino; Colonial Society of Massachusetts

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F. Holland Day

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Pam Roberts; Edwin Becker; Anne E. Havinga; Verna Posever Curtis; F. Holland Day; Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum; Museum Villa Stuck

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Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Horst; Terence Pepper; Robin Muir; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.

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Impressionism 2002 Calendar

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Vincent Van Gogh; Judy Sund; Lauren Soth; Joseph J. Rishel; Detroit Institute of Arts; Roland Dorn; George T. M. Shackelford; Philadelphia Museum of Art; George Keys

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Monet in the 20th Century

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Claude Monet; Paul Hayes Tucker; George T. M. Shackelford; Maryanne Stevens; London Royal Academy of Arts

This richly illustrated book examines for the first time the extensive body of work that Monet completed from 1900 until his death in 1926, a period during which he was enormously productive, increasingly wealthy, and ever more venerated. 155 illustrations, 130 in color.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

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Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Antony Decaneas; Bradford Washburn

Traveling the world for eight decades, mountaineer, explorer, cartographer, and aerial photographer Bradford Washburn has documented the landscape from the Grand Canyon to the Alps, from Mount McKinley to Mount Everest....In BRADFORD WASHBURN: MOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPHY, one hundred large format mountain photographs, selected from more than 10,000 images, take the reader through Washburn's lifetime of accomplishments. Aerial images of high mountains, looking more like bold relief maps, are captured in extreme raking light. There are picture essays of early Alaskan expeditions striking modern still lifes of supply caches and situations encountered along the way. Additional aerial photographs reveal, in breathtaking clarity, the workings of the earth, continuously transformed by upheavals and erosions, and the slow march and retreat of glaciers.

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The Prints of Michael Mazur: With a Catalogue Raisonne 1956-1999

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; T. Victoria Hansen; Lloyd Schwartz; Barry Walker; Trudy V. Hansen; Michael Mazur; Clifford S. Ackley

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American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Carol Troyen; Charlotte Emans Moore; Priscilla Kate Diamond; Charlotte M. Emans; Rita Albertson

-- Represented are major holdings or works by John Singleton Coplay, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. -- The Collection ranges from Colonial portraits to works by Hopper, Stella, O'Keeffe and Pollock. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, owns one of the nation's preeminent collections of American paintings. Every painting in the Museum's collection - more than 1,600 in all - is recorded and illustrated in this book, the first comprehensive catalogue of the collection to appear in nearly thirty years. The American holdings at the Museum grew by gift and purchase, and this catalogue and its introductory essay trace the evolution of the collection from an important gathering of local artists to its present status as a truly encyclopedic representation of American art. Extensive new research, resulting in a significant number of changed attributions and titles (summarizes in the book's five indices), make this catalogue an indispensable tool for scholars and American art enthusiasts alike.

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Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten Nefertiti Tutankhamen

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Few figures in history evoke the curiosity or command the attention that Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamen do. Pharaoh Akhenaten founded the city of Amarna 3,500 years ago. In this millennial exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the fascinating Amarna Period of ancient Egypt comes to life through more than 250 beautiful works of sculpture, architectural elements, ceramic ware, jewelry, clothing, tools, and furniture from renowned international collections. Essays by leading Egyptian scholars describe this time of unprecedented change in Egyptian art and architecture, technology, the role of women, and religion, specifically the transition from polytheism to monotheism. Pharaohs of the Sun is a rare opportunity to explore and understand the beauty of Amarna culture, a time that captures the imagination as no other period of Egyptian antiquity has.

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Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Theodore Stebbins; Karen E. Quinn; Edward Weston; Leslie Furth; Karen Quinn; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art

This third and culminating volume in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' outstanding series on Edward Weston (1886-1958) examines Weston's role in the modernist movement. Comparative illustrations of work by Picasso, Brancusi, O'Keeffe, Pollock, and other artists are included to provide a deeper understanding of these influence's. Following an introduction by Theodore Stebbins, three sections of photographs with accompanying essays demonstrate the entire range of Weston's work: still lifes, work from the Mexican period, his landmark work with shells and peppers, small-format portraiture and fragmentary nudes, the classic 1930s series of nudes and dunes, and his late, abstract landscapes. This catalogue features many previously unpublished photographs from the renowned Lane Collection. Vintage prints -- all printed by Weston himself -- were used to create the exquisite tritone reproductions in this masterful book.

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Martin Johnson Heade

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Theodore E. Stebbins; Jim Wright; Karen E. Quinn; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Janet L. Comey; Martin Johnson Heade

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) had the longest career and produced perhaps the most varied body of work of any American painter of the nineteenth century. His prolific oeuvre ranges from American coastal marshes and marine landscapes to the lush tropical splendor of South and Central American landscapes, birds, and flowers. An independent thinker as well as a world traveler, Heade developed a singular approach to landscape and still life painting, adapting some elements of the style and practice of the Hudson River School to his own more Darwinian vision. While Heade had only a minor reputation in his own day and was completely forgotten for many decades after his death, he is now rightly regarded as an artist of great significance and originality, and as the only American whose landscapes and still lifes are equally important. In this elegantly illustrated book, the catalogue for the second major retrospective of Heade's work in thirty years, Theodore Stebbins and his collaborators focus on the major themes of Heade's work: seascapes, salt marshes, landscapes, tropical landscapes, the "gems" of Brazil (as hummingbirds are known), passion flowers, orchids, and his late work in Florida. There are also chapters on Heade's critics and the development of Heade's painting technique.

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John Singer Sargent: The Male Nudes

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; John Singer Sargent; John Esten; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Assembled for the first time Sargent's uninhibited male nudes, long considered too shocking for public view. Published on the occasion of the major Sargent retrospective in 1999 traveling to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, JOHN SINGER SARGENT: The Male Nudes brings to light a fascinating portion of Sargent's work long hidden from the public eye.

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French Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Artists Born Before 1790

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Eric M. Zafran; Eric Zafran; Sydney Resendez; Katherine Rorhkopf

'What colors! what variety! What richness of objects and ideas!' So the great philosopher and art critic Diderot wrote in 1761 about Francois Boucher's enormous painting Halt at the Spring, exhibited that year in Paris and the Salon of the Royal Academy. This is but one of the nearly 90 paintings included in French Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Volume 1, Artists born before 1790. Incorporated in this volume are the paintings of the sixteenth through the first part of the nineteenth centuries. In addition to Boucher, such notable artists as Poussin, Claude, Le Sueur, Largilliere, Greuze, Watteau, Vigee-Lebrun, Lancret, Baron Gros and Prud'hon are included. The MFA's French painting collection is one of America's greatest, and this catalogue marks the first scholarly publication of many of its highlights. Each work is fully illustrated (many in color), and each entry includes a full bibliography and provenance as well as text discussing the work's significance. An introductory essay also provides background on the history of the collection's formation from the acquisition of the Boucher in 1871 to the present day.

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French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Sue Welsh Reed; Alvin L. Clark; National Gallery of Canada; Mona Bismarck Foundation

Experience the life of seventeenth-century France through close-up views of life during the reign of Louis XIII in this handsomely produced exhibition catalogue. An astonishing amount of visual documentation of this period was captured in prints, yet many of them are rare and the artists little known. French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 21, 1998 - January 10, 1999) provides a picture of the diversity of printmaking in France between 1610 and 1660. It includes 126 works by 50 printmakers arranged by topic - genre, current events, landscapes, portraits, religious subjects and allegories. Among the painter-etchers are Jacques Bellange, Claude Lorrain, Laurent de La Hyre and Simon Vouet, while graphic artists include Jacques Callot and Abraham Bosse. Less familiar image makers such as Richelieu's architect Jacques Lemercier, portraitists Jean Morin and Robert Nanteuil and the inventive Pierre Brebiette will be a revelation to the American public. There is no other book in the English language as extensive on this subject.

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Cal 98 Impressions of Venice

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Cal 98 American Impressionists

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Picasso--The Early Years, 1892-1906

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Pablo Picasso; Marilyn McCully; National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

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Impressions of France: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Their Rivals

Boston Museum of Fine Arts; John House; James F. McMillan; Ann Dumas; Jane Mayo Roos; John Landscapes of France House

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