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Published by National Gallery of Art & Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., 1989
Seller: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperbound. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Larger Table Book, [9.75 by 12 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 210. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates, &tc Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . The National Gallery's blurb notes: "Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 4, 1826, the only son of a wealthy businessman. Although his father hoped he would become a physician or enter the world of business, Church persisted in his early desire to be a painter. In 1842-1843 he studied in Hartford with Alexander H. Emmons (1816-1879), a local landscape and portrait painter, and Benjamin H. Coe (1799-after 1883), a well-known drawing instructor. In 1844 Church's father, at last resigned to his son's choice of a career, arranged through his friend, the art patron Daniel Wadsworth, two years of study with Thomas Cole. Church was thus the first pupil accepted by America's leading landscape painter, a distinction that immediately gave him an advantage over other aspiring painters of his generation. From the first, Church showed a remarkable talent for drawing and a strong inclination to paint in a crisp, tightly focused style. In 1845 he made his debut at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York, where he would continue to show throughout his career. Two years later four of his paintings were shown at the American Art-Union, and by that point he was established in New York as one of the most promising younger painters. In 1849, at the age of twenty-three, he was elected to full membership in the National Academy, the youngest person ever so honored. During the late 1840s and early 1850s Church experimented with a variety of subjects, ranging from recognizable views of American scenery, to highly charged scenes of natural drama, to imaginary creations based on biblical and literary sources and much indebted to Cole. Gradually, however, he began to specialize in ambitious works that combined carefully studied details from nature in idealized compositions that had a grandeur and seriousness beyond the usual efforts of his contemporaries. Church traveled widely in search of subjects, first throughout the northern United States and then, in 1853, to South America. Inspired by the writings of the great German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, he spent five months in Colombia and Ecuador. His first full-scale masterpiece, The Andes of Ecuador (1855; Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem), was a four-by-six-foot canvas depicting a vast tropical mountain panorama that astounded viewers with its combination of precise foreground detail and sweeping space. Two years later Church's reputation as America's most prominent landscape painter was secured with the exhibition in New York, London and other cities of Niagara (1857; National Gallery of Art, Washington). A second trip to South America took place that same year and resulted two years later in his most famous painting of the tropics, Heart of the Andes (1859; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).".
Published by National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0894681362ISBN 13: 9780894681363
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Condition: Good. Good condition. (art, paintings, frederic edwin church) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Published by Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts; Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1978
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 48 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, March 31 to August 13, 1978. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Size: 4to.
Published by Smithsonian Institution Press for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC, 1975
Seller: Maya Jones Books, Cerrillos, NM, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Roll to spine, spine and wrapper edges rubbed, corners bumped. 64 pp., 133 items, b/w illus. Size: Folio.
Published by Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts By the Smithsonian Institution Press, City of Washington, 1977
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Folio 11 3/4" x 9". 36 pages printed on slick paper. Softcover. Published on occasion of the exhibition of the Renwick Gallery at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. March 18 - Nov. 6, 1977. 53 numbered examples with photo and accompanying text grouped together by style. Fine condition.
Published by Oxford University Press/National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Oxford and Washington, D.C., 1948
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Brown 1/4 cloth, blue buckram, lettered in gold foil. Minor wear, text block edges typically tanned by age. Front endpaper illus. book plate and signature of former owner, Pennsylvania Dutch artist Olive G. Zehner, with some penciled notes and light soiling to several pages in the plates index, otherwise unmarked. [vi],30 pp. + 60 captioned plates offering details from notable Renaissance paintings. 1st ed. Dust jacket lacking upper third of front panel, with several other chips, dampstaining, etc., in mylar. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.
Published by Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1974
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 29.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. Tan wrappers. 93pp. Exhibition catalogue. 80 different containers illustrated in black and white, some with multiple photographs. Light rubbing to the spine. Smithsonian Institution Press publication number 5177.
Published by Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1978
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 48pp. Illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Owner name and information penned on front fly, foxing on page edges, wrappers worn with corners and spine creased, else very good. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, March 31 to August 6, 1978.
Published by Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1998
ISBN 10: 1560988061ISBN 13: 9781560988069
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Book First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback. Foreword by Elizabeth Brown. 191pp, color ills throughout, chronologies of the Renwick Gallery, and of the James Renwick Alliance, artists' biographies. Illustrated light card cover. The book was published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Rnewick Gallery. Size: 4to.
Published by Cithy of Washington D.C.: The Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. Fine wraps/paperback. Rubber stamped name (3/4 inch by 1/8 inch) of previous owner on front cover. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use, primarily to fore-edge and fore-edge corners.
Published by Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1974
Seller: Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, I.O.B.A., Durham, NC, U.S.A.
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First Edition
First edition. Washington: Published for the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. 93 pages. The catalog (beginning on p. 33) is illustrated throughout with photographs; additional photographs and a map appear with the text. Original illustrated stiff paper wraps. [29.6 cm.] Near fine. Some very slight evidence of soiling to wraps, head of spine just a trifle bumped, still an excellent copy. Ownership inscription of Richard Eugene Lyons and his wife Marjorie on the front free endpaper. Lyons (1920-2000) was a poet and longtime professor of English at North Dakota State University. FIRST EDITION. A catalog of an exhibition held at the Renwick Gallery, Nov. 13, 1973 - Nov. 9, 1975. Introduction by Sturtevant. Several prefatory essays include, "Functions of the Containers," by Ira S. Jacknis and "Structure and Design," by Bill Holm.
Published by National Gallery of Art / Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 087474458XISBN 13: 9780874744583
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 4to, hardcover. Near fine condition in vg+ dj. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket; covers and contents crisp, clean, unworn, no marking or writing, binding square and tight. 211 pp., color illus. 19th, American, Century, History, Landscape, Painting, 087474458X.
Published by New Haven ; London : Yale University Press in association with San Antonio Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and El Museo de Barrio, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300106270ISBN 13: 9780300106275
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Condition: Sehr gut. 3ß2 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Introduction. Marion Oettinger Jr. -- Mirror image : portraiture in Latin America and the United States. Carolyn Kinder Carr -- Overview through time and space -- From Prehispanic to post-romantic : Latin America in portraits, 500 B.C.-A.D. 1910. Miguel A. Bretos -- Faces of Precolumbian society -- Varieties of Precolumbian portraiture. Elizabeth P. Benson -- Moche portraits : masterpieces from ancient Peru. Christopher B. Donnan -- Portraiture during the Viceregal Era (1492-1810) -- Portraiture in Viceregal America. Mari a Concepcio n Garci a Sa iz -- Monjas coronadas : the crowned nuns of Viceregal Mexico. Kirsten Hammer -- Jose Campeche : portrait painter of an Epoch. Teodoro Vidal -- The nineteenth century : independence and national identity (1810-1910) -- Portraiture and the age of independence. Miguel A. Bretos -- Portraits in the modern period : point and counterpoint (1910-1980) -- Tradition and Avant-Garde : the portrait in modern Latin American painting. Luis-Marti n Lozano -- Diego Rivera's portraits. Renato Gonza lez Mello -- Contemporary portraiture (1980-present) -- Antiquity and modernity of the portrait. Luis Pe rez-Oramas. ISBN 9780300106275 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag.
Published by National Gallery of Art/Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1989
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Church, Frederic (illustrator). 1st. 211pp.incl.index; HB green w/gilt; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ color pic.cover w/yellow; slight rub w/spine sunned. "This stunning volume, featuring forty-nine of his most significant paintngs, investigates the artistic, scientific, and philosophical influences upon Church's greatest creations." Catalog of exhibitions held Oct.8, 1989 - Jan.28, 1990 @ National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. illus. isbn 087474458X.
Published by Washington, D.C. Published for the Renwick Gallery of the the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press 1975, 1975
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, Raymond Loewy on the front cover above a reproduction of his 1939 design of a bullet train: ÒTo Ruth Ellen Taylor with warm wishes, Raymond Loewy, April 1978.Ó The catalogue of the SmithsonianÕs exhibition of AmericaÕs most famous and influential industrial designer, the creator of a vast array of designs, from the Lucky Strike cigarette pack to the Avanti motor car as well as the look of Air Force One and the Nabisco Shredded Wheat box. Paperbound. Illustrated. Fine.