A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

Howat, John K.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975 pps. 165-244; well illustrated, in color and in b&w; paintings and decorative arts. MMA Bulletin Winter 1975/1976. Clean and tight, nearly as new

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"...The Second Greatest Show on Earth: The Making of a Museum"

(art).

Boston:: Museum of Fine Arts Boston,, 1977. 4to. 20 pp. "An exhibition of works of art, documents, & photographs, sponsored jointly by the Archives of American Art -- Smithsonian Institution & the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston November 8, 1977 - January 15, 1978." Inscription on front cover. Covers lightly edgeworn, curled corners. Very Good.

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"A Man of Genius", The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843).

Gerdts, William H. & Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1979 sm. folio. 255 pp. 67 b/w figures in the text, 100 b/w illus. bibliography. fine in dj.

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"A Share of Honour," Virginia Women, 1600-1945.

Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Nov. 10, 1984 to Jan. 6, 1985, two other dates.

1984 Color wraps. 167 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition organized by the Virginia Women's Cultural History Project. VG, some slight fading and wear..

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"ALL-AMERICAN GIRL": The Art of Cole Phillips.

Schau, Michael.

NY 1975. Illus, 12x9", cloth, 176pp, remainder mark on bottom edge, price clipped dw else good. FIRST PRINTING.

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"And We're Still Here" 100 Years of Small Town Jewish Life an Exhibition Sponsored By the East End Arts and Humanities Council

Gerard, Helene (compiler)

Remsenburg: Hier Publications, 1982 49 pages; Foreword by David A. Brener of the American Jewish Historical Society and Introduction by Christopher R. Vagts Suffolk County Historian; with black and white photo-portraits illustrating the lives of Long Island's East End Jewish families and their histories, with amusing and poignant anecdotes about the past; bound in illustrated printed paper wraps binding; some light wear; in very good condition, good small town Suffolk County Jewish community & Long Island history and biographical, genealogical information. Very Good. F.

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"ANNOUNCING EXHIBITION AND SALE"

Butterfield, Fred R.

Early small broadside for the still in business auction company. No year, but firm was at 1244 Sutter St. with phone number of Ordway 1362 in San Francisco. Folded else ok. Auction was for furnishings and works of art of European, Chinese and American Origin, etc. (circa 1930's?).

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"Barbed Wire" and "On Bicycles," one poem and one short story in an unnamed "arts" magazine published by Cranbrook and Kingswood

Leithauser, Brad.

np (Cranbrook and Kingswood Schools: Bloomfield Hills, MI), nd (c 1970) Illustr, 9 x 6, pict stapled wraps, 45pp+, covers worn and soiled, contents good. EARLY (EARLIEST?) PRINT APPEARANCE BY FAMED AMERICAN POET BRAD LEITHAUSER. Leithauser also is first on the list of staff.

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"DIGNITY AND MOTHER WIT" [original screenplay based on the life of Berry Gordy Sr.]

Meitzenheimer, Randolyn.

np (Detroit? Los Angeles?), 1974 Three orig ink and watercolor illustr inserted (no artist given), 11 x 8, gilt colored boards with plastic comb spine, 57 pp printed on rectos only + illustr, covers edge worn with small stain on front cover, extremities bumped, front cover with indent along bottom left side, minor wear to contents, orig illustr with glue stains along edges from attaching to larger card stock sheets. With Motown Inter-Office Memo from Janet Hubbard (signed "Janet") to Berry Gordy [Jr., founder of Motown] dated March 27, 1974: "Enclosed is a screen narrative treatment . . . Based on The Berry Gordy Sr. Memoirs . . . We are currently typing the final draft of the [m]emoirs manuscript." The introduction to the screenplay calls the story ". . . A black story beyond compare" and suggests the screenplay be produced as a 90-minute TV movie targeted for Afro-American History Week. The screenplay, the writer says, is unique because it deals with "the various differences in opinion among black people in opinion themselves. . ." among other reasons. We include a copy of the First Edition of MOVIN'S UP, Pop Gordy Tells His Story, by Berry Gordy Sr., published in 1979 (the manuscript mentioned in the memo). Motown moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s, in part to move into the movie business. Their first film production was LADY SINGS THE BLUES, starring Motown diva Diana Ross. Janet Hubbard is credited with being a researcher on LADY SINGS THE BLUES, and an associate producer on other Gordy productions, BINGO LONG and SCOTT JOPLIN. This is a fantastic, one of a kind item that was probably very important to Motown founder Berry Jr. (he kept his father on the Motown payroll for years as a consultant). Berry Sr. might even have been associated with this project since he was alive when it was written. It is not often that something so personal to the Motown legend is offered.

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"Interview with Mr. Jesse L. Lasky, Thursday June 25, 1953, at 650 N. Bronson, Hollywood, California [cover title, carbon copy o

Lasky, Jesse L. and Orin Borsten.

Hollywood, CA, 1953 11 x 8.5, wraps bound with metal binder clasp, 39 leaves printed on one side only plus mimeographed brochure plus 7 page carbon copy of typescript bio of Lasky, covers soiled and worn, brochure with foredge tear, otherwise a good used copy. Orin Borsten interviews Lasky regarding Lasky's next project, a movie entitled, "The Big Brass Band," which would feature the first All American High School Band, which Lasky was helping to organize, and the interview reflects this aim. Lasky, of course, produced the first feature film made in Hollywood with his brother-in-law Sam Goldwyn and friend CB DeMille; Lasky went on to produce hundreds of other movies over the years. THE BROCHURE IS INSCRIBED "Be sure and read this" AND SIGNED "JESSE" BY JESSE L. LASKY. The film was never made.

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. The Nature Of Space, A Metaphysical And Aesthetic Inquiry.

Pereira, I. Rice.

Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery Of Art., 1968 8vo. 62 pp. fine. This is a reprint of the 1956 edition.

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100 Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors.

(No Author Listed)

New York: YKUF Art Section, 1947 Lg. 4to. xv,207,ixpp. Mottled tan cloth with brown lettering on cover and spine. The 100 artists were chosen by an Editorial Committee consisting of seven artist-members of the YKUF. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of artist's portraits as well as one of their paintings or sculptures. Artists include Nahum Aronson, Max Band, George Beline, Theresa Bernstein, Boris Deutch, Maurice Glickman, Chaim Gross, Lily Harmon, Frank Horowitz, Jack Levine, Saul Raskin, Moses Soyer, Max Weber, and many others. Includes small biography of, as well as thoughts on art by each artist. Essay by Louis Lozowick. Corners bumped and rubbed. Some rubbing on head and tail of spine. Bottom right corner of pages bumped throughout. Hinges starting. Text in English and Hebrew. Binding in good+, interior in overall very good condition.

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100 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1862-1962.

Townsend, Benjamin R.

Buffalo:: Albright-Knox ArtGallery, 1962. 144 pp. 368 plates with ten incolor. The pictorial history of the fourth oldest urban art gallery in the United States, the monograph also traces the evolution of public taste in theU.S. during the past century. One of 4000 copies. Orig. blue and white cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition.

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105th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Philadelphia: PAFA, Jan. 23 to Mar. 20, 1910.

1910 Wraps. 104, xvi pp. 32 bw plates. Lists 495 paintings and 112 sculptures by 370 artists. Good. Some light chipping, a little loose.

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11 Abstract Painters.

Text by Sidney Janis.

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1963 4to. 28 pp. illus. in b/w. fine.

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11 Charles Wood Architectural Catalogues.

[Reference]. Wood, Charles.

Boston: Charles Wood, varying Cat 56--Arts Crafts & Trades (636 books, 19th cent); Cat 57--Bibliotheca Architectonica (1985, 578 books); Cat 77--Architecture Books (630 books); cat 79--Conservation & Science of the Book (313 bks); cat 86--Four collections and 150 Rare Books(150 bks); Cat 89--Trade Catalogues (311 Books); Cat 91--Recent acquisitions/125 Rare Books; Cat 104--Trade Catalogues, Furniture Pattern Books, Fairs and Expositions (266 books); Cat 110--Rare Architectural Books 1516-1966 (297); Cat 115--Nineteenth Cent American Architecture (390); Cat 117--Architecture Sixteenth-eighteenth Centuries (186). Include topics of architecture (specifically 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th-century American), trade catalogues, exposition, world fair, furniture pattern books, rare books, arts and crafts, conservation, and material culture. As New. Limited.

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111th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Philadelphia: PAFA, Feb. 6 to Mar. 26, 1916.

1916 Greenish wraps. 128 pp. 65 bw plates. Lists 439 paintings and 216 works of sculpture. An unusually rare year. VG.

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112th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Philadelphia: PAFA, Feb. 4 to Mar. 25, 1917.

1917 Brownish wraps. 110, xvi pp. 65 bw plates. Lists 445 paintings and 205 works of sculpture. An unusually rare year. VG.

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118th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Philadelphia: PAFA, Feb. 4 to Mar. 25, 1923.

1923 Wraps. 62, 100, xii pp. appx. 98 bw repros. Lists 565 works. VG.

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12 Great Quilts from the American Wing

Bordes, Marilynn Johnson

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974 Nine quilts are illustrated in good color, full page, others in b&w; accompanied by curator's comment.

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