Ryder Gallery (4 results)

Wrappers. Condition: Good. Ryder Publisher (Ryder Gallery), 667 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, [No date: circa 1972]. Wraps, 16 pp.; 28 cm; staple bound; illustrated with fifteen black-and-white reproductions of color etchings by Lee Waisler, each captioned with paper type, edition size, and paper and image dimensions; with a black-and-white studio photograph of the artist. In Good condition. Cream textured paper wraps with sage-green title block on front cover. Light bumping to edges and corners; mild to moderate shelf wear and faint surface soiling to covers; some smudging and a small dark spot at upper right of back cover. Staple binding tight. Pages lightly toned but unmarked.Catalog of color etchings published by Ryder Publisher, the print-publishing arm of the Ryder Gallery on the Los Angeles gallery row at 667 North La Cienega Boulevard, featuring early work by the California painter and printmaker Lee Waisler (b. 1938). The fifteen reproductions document signed and numbered editions on Rives BFK and Murillo papers, with edition sizes ranging from 12 to 40 impressions: Dream, The Child, Flight, Woman, Spectator, Friends, Pisces Portrait, Artist and Model, Superstar, Windows, Little Girl, Woman in Movement, Heroes and Clowns, Triptych, and Lovers. The catalog identifies five distributing galleries (The Ryder Gallery, Los Angeles; The Phyllis Lucas Gallery, New York; The Welna Gallery, Chicago; The Corwith Gallery, San Francisco; and La Nouvelle Gravure, Paris) and notes "Prices on request. Dealers invited." A black-and-white studio photograph shows the artist young and bearded.The catalog bears no printed date. Waisler's first solo exhibition was held at the Ryder Gallery in 1968 and featured a series of figurative color etchings, and the present contents correspond to that early figurative etching production; the multi-gallery distribution network reflected here, however, together with the consistent 1972 dating of individual Waisler etchings on the secondary print market, places this publication most likely circa 1972. Waisler is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), and the National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi).

Condition: VG. Signed by the author. Black wraps. 24 pp. 2 bw, 5 color plates. Introduction by Herschel B. Chipp. Essay by Erle Loran (Hans Hofmann and His Work). The included plates highlight the University's holdings of Hofmann's work, which at this time numbered 45. Hofmann taught at Berkeley when he was obscure and always held it in high regard; hence the donation of these pictures and money to build a wing with his name on it. In the essay, the story of the exhibition and an explanation of the works is provided.

Condition: Good. 4to. 23 pp. Soft cover. Very Good. Illustrated paper wraps. Staple binding. Minor shelf wear. Color plates throughout. Stamp of the SF MoMA library on free end paper, and small library sticker on bottom left of front wrap. Scarce.Collection from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Condition: Good. 4to. 11 pp. Soft Cover. Very Good. Stiff illustrated paper wraps. Staple binding. Shelf wear and rubbing on wraps. B&W plates throughout. Extremely Scarce.Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-77). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright.