Pattison James William Editor (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. FINE ARTS JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO THE FINE AND DECORATIVE ARTS, HOME BUILDING AND ADORNMENT. Volume XXVI, Number Four (April 1912), softcover journal, original wraps, B/W illustrations and advertisements. MAGAZINE CONDITION: very good. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears. There is no bookplate nor signature of previous owner. Not a library periodical. The 3-staple binding is in good condition. The illustrated wraps are in especially good condition for a magazine over 100 years old (some chipping and wrinkling along edges). The staples (both heads and ends) lightly show their presence on the wraps, front and back, near the spine. The spine has two small tears. 11 x 8, 78 pages [including ads], 10 ounces. XX [From Wikipedia] THE FINE ARTS JOURNAL, published in Chicago from 1899 to 1919, was an art magazine devoted to the fine arts and increasingly to the arts in the broadest sense. The editor to 1905 was Marian A. White, who sought to make the journal a vehicle "to promote and foster a love for art American in type and the work of the American artist in particular" but resigned when she felt the publisher was insisting that it be a "write-up periodical". From 1907 it was adopted as the official publication of the National Art Society, also based in Chicago. XX Principal contents of this issue: The Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Art of Gennaro Fava - The Venetian Process of Tempera Painting, A Collection of Antique Ceramics from Noted English Potteries, An Idealization by Bouguereau, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Swedish-American Artists, A New Message in Sculpture - The Art of Jo Davidson, Lorado Taft's Latest Work.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. FINE ARTS JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO THE FINE AND DECORATIVE ARTS, HOME BUILDING AND ADORNMENT. Volume XXV, Number Five (November 1911), softcover journal, original wraps, B/W illustrations and advertisements. MAGAZINE CONDITION: very good. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears. There is no bookplate nor signature of previous owner. Not a library periodical. The 3-staple binding is in good condition. The illustrated wraps are in especially good condition for a magazine over 100 years old (some chipping and wrinkling along edges). The staples (both heads and ends) lightly show their presence on the wraps, front and back, near the spine. The spine has two small tears. 11 x 8, 79 pages, 10 ounces. XX [From Wikipedia] THE FINE ARTS JOURNAL, published in Chicago from 1899 to 1919, was an art magazine devoted to the fine arts and increasingly to the arts in the broadest sense. The editor to 1905 was Marian A. White, who sought to make the journal a vehicle "to promote and foster a love for art American in type and the work of the American artist in particular" but resigned when she felt the publisher was insisting that it be a "write-up periodical". From 1907 it was adopted as the official publication of the National Art Society, also based in Chicago. XX Principal contents of this issue: A Collection of Contemporary French and Dutch Art, Zelma Baylos - American-Hungarian Portrait Painter, The Evolution of Travel from the Chariot to the Electric [Automobile]. The advertisements for the electric cars are especially interesting.…

Softbound. Condition: VG. Printed wraps. pp. 701-750 +ads at front and rear. Major articles in this magazine include "The Twenty-Six Annual Exhibition of American Art" with 15 bw plates; Important Pictures In New York Galleries" with 4 bw plates; "A Study of Simplicity In Silver" (Towle Manufacturing Company) with 10 bw plates; "Art Tiling-It's Place In Architecture and Design" with 13 bw plates. Includes illustrated works by Gari Melchers, Lawton Parker, Frederick C. Hibbard, Giovanni B. Troccoli, Oliver dennett Grover, Arthur B. Carles, Edward Redfield, Fred G. Gray, Louis Kronberg, Helen Turner, Karl A. Buehr, Cecilia Beaux, Vaclav Vytlacil.…

Softbound. 12 loose issues in original brown-paper wraps. All 12 issues from 1912. Cover subtitle of this periodical is "Devoted to the fine and decorative arts, home building and adornment." The January issue includes an article on the art of Prince Pierre Troubetzskoy, which is continued into the February issue and must be one of the premier sources of information on this artist with its many illustrations. This particular periodical is rich and dense with original information on American artists, their exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere; it is richly illustrated with photographs of contemporary works. It is thus a vital research tool. VG (uniformly, each issue is clean and lacking in defects, except for some edge wear.). CAVE (illustrator).…