THE PORTRAYAL OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN PAINTING
Brunswick, Me.: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1964, Designed by Leonard Baskin. Illus. with b/w reproductions. Small 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated . 1st ed. Very good. .... more information
Price: 22.50 USD
AFRICAN SCULPTURE LENT BY NEW YORK COLLECTORS
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1958, Illus. with photos. 4to. Wraps. Unpaginated . Very good. .... more information
Price: 22.50 USD
African Folktales and Sculpture.
New York:: Pantheon Books,, 1966. Very Good. Folio. 351 pp. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn. Light foxing to covers. Otherwise book is very fresh and clean. With five parts: The Universe and its beginnings, The animal and his world, The realm of man, Man and his fate, and African Negro Sculpture. Many 187 full-page b/w plates. .... more information
Price: 27.00 USD
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AFRICAN ART AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO.
Chicago, The Art Institute (Museum Studies, 23: 2),, 1997. pp 99-200, maps, color plates, photos, wrps, 4to .... more information
Price: 31.80 USD
African Arts, November 1983, Volume XVII, Number 1
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fine. 88 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: African Art In The Baltimore Museum Of Art, Kingship Succession Rituals In Benin Part 1 - Becoming A Crown Prince, Kuyu Sculpture At The Powell-Cotton Museum, Ozo Title-Taking Insignia In Onitsha, and others. Magazine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
African Arts, February 1985, Volume XVIII, Number 2
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fine. 104 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: African Art At The Field Museum, Leopard Society Masquerades - Symbolism And Diffusion, The Lantern Festival In Sierra Leone, The Lantern Festival In Senegambia, Ovia Idah And Eture Egbede - Tradional Nigerian Artists, Akuma - Carving The Masks At Takum, Obasinjom Among The Ejagham, The Center For African Art, The Art Market In Southern Oceania, and others.Magazine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
African Arts, May 1985, Volume XVIII, Number 3
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fine. 100 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: Cosmos Cosmetics And The Spirit Of Bondo, African Art At The Haffenreffer Museum, The Arts Of Southern Africa, The San Artistic Achievement, Ndebele Mural Art, The Soapstone Birds From Great Zimbabwe, Southern African Beer Pots, Pedi Mural Art, The Textile Prints Of The Phuthadikobo Museum, The Venda Model Hut, and others. Magazine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
African Arts, Novermber 1989, Volume XXIII, Number 1
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fine. 104 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: Beyond Symmetry In Middle African Design, Woodcarvings Of The Limba Of Sierra Leone, The Role Of The Gods In Afro-Brazilian Ancesstral Ritual, Uli Painting And The Igbo World View, Yoruba - Nine Centuries Of African Art And Thought, and others.Magazine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
African Arts, January 1991, Volume XXIV, Number 1
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Good. 104 pp, 8 ½" x 11", spine has a ding near the top. This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: The Trade In West African Art, King Glele Of Danhome - Part Two - Dynasty And Destiny, Art As Information - The African Portfolios Of Charles Sheeler And Walker Evans, Zulu Bead Sculptors, The Ikere Palace Veranda Posts, and others. Magazine. .... more information
Price: 18.00 USD
African Arts, July 1991, Volume XXIV, Number 3
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fine. 96 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: On Artifact And Identity At The Niger-Benue Confluence, Prestige Ornaments - The Use Of Brass In The Zulu Kingdom, Self-Decoration And Religious Power IN Dangme Culture, Completing The Circle - Notes On African Art Society And Religion In Oyotunji South Carolina, and others. Magazine. .... more information
Price: 18.00 USD
African Arts, November 1982 Volume XVI, Number 1
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fair. 84 pp, 8 ½" x 11", copy has some minor rippling from improper storage. This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on Age Grades Masquerades And Leadership Among The Northern Edo, The Pickaback Motif In The Art And Initiation Rites Of The Rovuma Area, and many other articles.Magazine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
African Arts, July 1978 Volume XI, Number 4
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Very Good. 96 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on African Art At The New Orleans Museum Of Art, The Holy Place - Twelve Apostles Healing Gardens, Gurensi Wall Painting, and many other articles.Magazine. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
African Studies Review Volume 42, Number 2
African Studfies Association, 1999 Fine. 182 pp, 9" x 6", copy appears to be unused and is in near-MINT condition. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
African Studies Review Volume 42, Number 1
African Studfies Association, 1999 Fine. 214 pp, 9" x 6", copy appears to be unused and is in near-MINT condition. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
African Studies Review Volume 41, Number 3
African Studfies Association, 1998 Fine. 214 pp, 9" x 6", copy appears to be unused and is in near-MINT condition. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
African Studies Review Volume 41, Number 2
African Studfies Association, 1998 Fine. 216 pp, 9" x 6", copy appears to be unused and is in near-MINT condition. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
African Studies Review Volume 42, Number 3
African Studfies Association, 1999 Fine. 274 pp, 9" x 6", copy appears to be unused and is in near-MINT condition. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
Museum of Primitive Art, 1958 Good. 11" x 8 1/2", 30 pp, copy is in about average used condition, illustrated in bw throughout. .... more information
Price: 8.00 USD
African Studies Review Volume 40, Number 1 April 1997
African Studies Association, 1997 fine. 9" x 6", 205 pp, copy appears to be unread and is in MINT condition. .... more information
Price: 5.00 USD
African Arts, Summer 2000 Volume XXXIII, Number 1
Los Angeles, CA: African Studies Center, UCLA, Fine. 96 pp, 8 ½" x 11". This issue of African Arts magazine contains articles on: The African Collection of the Wereldmuseum Rotterdan, Hip-Hop Assemblage, Art and Oracle, and Artists' Reputations. .... more information
Price: 18.00 USD
Ketterer Kunst München: Catalogue 168: Afrika Ozeanien / Oceanic Art
Hamburg, Germany: Ketterer, 1991 Very Good. 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", 188 pp, copy is crisp and unread with a bumped corner, profusely illustrated in color & bw throughout, catalog of the auction held December 14, 1991, text in German. .... more information
Price: 16.00 USD
Art News January 1968 Volume 66, Number 9: Special Issue: Museum of Primitive Art
Art News, 1968 Very Good. 9" x 12", 74 pp, copy is in excellent condition with minor page toning, focus of issue is the Museum of Primitive Art, profusely illustrated in black and white throughout plus 8 pp colorplate section. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY
New York: Publishers Co., (1967) Near Fine in Good dustwrappers with tears and fading. First Edition. An incomplete set (5 of the 10 volumes) of this useful reference with volumes on African-Americans in Medicine, the Civil War, Music and Art, and the Theatre, as well as a volume of biographies. A library stamp inked out on the pastedowns, otherwise no markings. The dustwrappers state "Library Edition." .... more information
Price: 250.00 USD
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African Folktales & Sculpture.
New York: Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books, 1952 Very good. First edition. 355 pp. Very good with like dust jacket. Black and white plates. Dustjacket has been clipped on inside, front, upper corner. Some wear, minor creases and minor tears to edges of dust jacket. Slight age toning to fore edges. A clean copy. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
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American Indian and Ethnographic Art including Eskimo, African and Pre-Columbian artifacts.
San Francisco: Butterfield & Butterfield, 1981 Auction catalog. Thin square octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled gray, black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed and creased. There are tiny nicks, or indentations in the top edges of the covers and pages. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Tallahassee: Florida State University Department of Art History, 2002 VG. Pictorial wraps. 115 pp. Profuse bw plates Art historical journal featuring the scholarship of the university's graduate students. A partial listing of articles includes: "Representations of Others in Early Christian and Byzantine Art," "Gardens and Grottoes in Later Works by Mantegna," "Moreau le Juene and the Monument du Costume," "The 1914 Werkbund Debate Resolved: The Design and Manufacture of Frank O. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao," and "Bakongo Afterlife and Cosmological Direction: Translation of African Culture into North Florida Cemeteries." .... more information
Price: 18.00 USD
The Thomas D. Slater Collection of Traditional African Sculpture.
Indianapolis, IN: Thomas D. Slater, 2003 VG. BW illustrated wraps. 88 pp., profusely illustrated in bw Includes a letter/brochure dated March 2004 wherein Mr. Slater implores the readers and viewers to approach him with reasonable offers, as it is his desire to liquidate everything. Very nicely illustrated. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Masterpieces of Primitive Art.
Boston, MA: Museum of FIne Arts, Boston, 1958 VG, small label on front cover. Black cut-out wraps. Unpaginated, about 48 pp. Well-illustrated in bw Catalogue features 207 works, divided by country or region. Includes Africa, Asia, Polynesia, Central America and other locations. .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
African and Oceanic Art: The Collection of John Law Robertson.
Scranton, PA: Everhart Museum, 1945 VG. BW illustrated wraps. [16] pp., 10 bw plates showing more than 10 items Introductory essay by Mrs. John Law Robertson. Catalogue lists 150 items loaned for this early exhibition .... more information
Price: 60.00 USD
African Art At Yale (Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2005).
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2005 As New. Color illustrated wraps. 223 pp., many color and bw plates In addition to the normal entries and headings found in an Annual Bulletin, this issue has 6 well-written and lengthy illustrated articles focusing on the African Art Collections at Yale. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
1970-2006 VG+. See description This run contains the following issues: Vol. 3, No. 2 (loose), Volumes 6 (1972) through Volume 28 (1995) are uniformly bound in dark red library buckram. Loose issues as follows: Vol. 29 (1,2,4). Vol. 30 (1,2,3,4). Vol. 31 (1,2,3). Vol. 32 (1,2,3,4). Vol. 33 (1,2,3). Vol. 34 (1,3,4). Vol. 35 (1,2,3,4). Vol. 36 (1,2,3). Vol. 37 (Summer, 2006 #2). A substantial set, essential reference. .... more information
Price: 1250.00 USD
The Arts of Black Africa (Issue of Sabena Revue).
1974 VG. Color pictorial wraps. 96 pp. + 8 pp ads. Profusely illustrated Multi-lingual text. Spine says this is volume 1 of Sabena Revue 1974. Not meant as a catalogue, but more as a tribute to the art of Black Africa. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Basel, Switzerland: Galerie Beyeler, 1958? VG (Usual library markings). BW pictorial stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 32 pp.; 26 bw plates Introduction in French by Jean Dubuffet; Catalog listing in German; Accompanied an exhibition at Galerie Beyeler and includes masks, fetishes, and bronzes among other pieces .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
New York, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1944 Good (Pencil markings; Wear to edges of covers). Yellow wraps; 72 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw plates From the auction held May 11, 1944; Includes works by Corot, Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Dufy, Kandinksy, Maurer, Pascin, Seurat, and many others; African sculpture also included; 108 items listed .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Ben Soloway: A folder full of promotional and ephemeral material.
1998-2004 VG. Contains one issue each of Bucks County Town and Country Living [and] Art matters, Philadelphia edition (each with a lengthy article about Ben Soloway) in addition to gallery announcements, invitations, notecards all with his images on them. A nice collection of material on this Bucks COunty, Pennsylvania artist. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
The Harmon Foundation Presents an Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists at The Art Center.
New York, NY: Harmon Foundation, 1931 Good, small orange label along the top of the cover. , museum stamp at base of title page. Tan illustrated wraps. 48 pp., 34 half-tone illustrations Front cover illustration is Chester by Sargent Claude Johnson. Back cover illustration is by Edwin Augustus Harleson. Some Historical Reflections by A. A. Schomburg. The African Legacy and the Negro Artist by Alain Locke\; Art and the Public Library by Ernestine Rose; A university Art Service, by James V. Herring. Lists about 125 works by 50 artists. .... more information
Price: 475.00 USD
Collection de Mr F. Rambaud et a divers amateurs: Art Negre, Oceanie.
Paris: Maitres Laurin, Guilloux, Buffetaud, Tailleur, 1994 VG (Ink marking on front cover). Color illus. wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 30 pp.; 26 figures, 20 bw, 6 color Text in French; From the auction of the collection of Mr F. Rambaud; Includes 43 lots of African and Oceanic art from Mali, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Zaire, Nepal, and more .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Catalogue of Casts and Other Sales Material.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, no date given (1940s?) VG. Red illus. stapled wraps; 54 pp.; Profusely illustrated with 100+ bw figures A catalogue of plaster cast reproductions of objects in the museum's collections, including African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian art, as well as pieces from China, Persia, Palestine, and more; Errata sheet laid in .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Paris: Francois de Ricqles, 1994 VG. Color illus. stapled wraps; 36 pp.; 35 color and bw photos Text in French; From the auction of several collections of primitive art, most pieces coming from the Arman Collection; 88 lots listed; Includes masks, figures, furniture, and more from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, and other areas of Africa; Auction held the 5th of December 1994 .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Drawing: The International Review Published by The Drawing Society.
New York: The Drawing Society, 1998 VG tight and clean;. White stapled wraps with punch holes; 40 pp. with numerous bw illustrations; Articles about Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptors, West African artists, and more. .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
International Review of African American Art.
1977 - 2006 VG. Condition varies but generally Very Good (backstrip worn on a few issues). The first 5 volumes were titled Black Art; an International Quarterly and were published by Black Art, Ltd. in Jamaica, NY. The name change begins with Vol. 6, No. 1. Vol. 6-9 were published in Los Angeles by the Museum of African American Art in Santa Monica, CA. Vols. 10 and subsequent have been published by the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, VA. The Index was compiled by Karen C. Costa and published in 1993. Includes issues as follows: 1:2,3,4; 2:1,2,3,4; 3: 2,3,4; 4:1,2,3,4; 5:2,3,4; 6:2,3; 7: 1,2,3,4;.... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
Afrikanische Kunst: Tribal Art.
Zurich: Galerie Koller, Kunst & Antiquitaten Auktionen, 2005 VG, clean and tight; one copy has museum lib. marking on title page. Glossy black pictorial wraps with red lettering; 62 pp. catalogue text and color images Text in German. Descriptions and expected prices (in Swiss Francs and Euros) of each of the 168 items in the auction held June 25, 2005. Nearly all items are pictured in color. A beautiful catalogue. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Serie Noire: Art Colon et Style Tribal.
Paris: Binoche et Godeau, 1987 Very nice, clean and tight with a few light marks to covers. Glossy black and yellow boards; 72 pp. with bw illustrations throughout Text in French. Catalogue for the auction held March 8, 1987. With 320 items described and expected prices listed in French francs. .... more information
Price: 32.00 USD
Zurich: Galerie Koller, Kunst & Antiquitaten Auktionen, 2003 VG, clean and tight but for museum library stamp on ffep. Glossy black pictorial wraps with red lettering; 34 pp. catalogue text and color images Text in German. Descriptions and expected prices (in Swiss Francs and Euros) of each of the 90 items in the auction held December 6, 2003. Nearly all items are pictured in color. A beautiful catalogue. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Arts Primitifs, Art Precolombien: Collection Bitran, Collection Paul Chardourne.
Paris: Etude Tajan, 1996 VG. Black pictorial wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 48 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw and color photos Text in French; From the sale held November 8, 1996 at the Hotel Drouot; Includes African and Oceanic art from the collections of Paul Chardourne, as well as Bitran and Servarie; Masks, statuettes, vases, and more .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
New York: Phillips, 1987 VG. Off-white pictorial stapled wraps; 38 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw photos From the sale held April 9, 1987; 233 lots listed, including masks, statuettes, mats, boxes, cups, and more .... more information
Price: 18.00 USD
Paris: Etude Tajan, 1995 VG, clean and tight. Glossy pictorial wraps with white lettering; 38 pp. with 3 color and numerous bw illustrations throughout Text in French. Catalogue for the auction held December 6, 1995. 134 items listed, mostly African, with expected prices. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Arts Primitifs, Océanie, Afrique, Amérique du Nord.
Paris: ADER PICARD TAJAN, 1988 Clean and tight but with glossy layer lifting from back cover. Color-pictorial wraps with 36 pp.; numerous pieces illustrated in bw and a few in color Text in French. Catalogue from the sale of 101 items held 16 June, 1988 under the expert direction of Guy Montbarbon. Includes many beautiful masks and sculptural pieces. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Art d'Afrique, d'Oceanie, d'Asie du Sud-Est: Importantes Collections.
Paris: Sotheby's, 2008 Good+ with some wear to covers and marks on title and contents pgs.; o/w very good, clean and tight. Color-pictorial wraps with white spine; 284 pp. with 187 color images Descriptions mostly in French, but each description of the 187 items for auction has a very brief English description. This is the catalogue from the auction held December 4, 2008. There is some informative introductory essay material in both French and English at the beginnings of some sections, with illustrations. All in all, a very beautiful catalogue, with exquisite photographs and an extensive bibliography. .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
The Kuhn Collection of African Art.
New York, New York: Sotheby's, 1991 VG (Very light wear to extremities of dj.). Black cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; Unpaginated, approx. 100 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color photos From the auction held November 20, 1991; 141 items listed with annotations, including pieces from Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Angola, and Eastern and Southern Africa; Sale results laid in .... more information
Price: 40.00 USD
