Movements / Realism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Santa Barbara, CA: Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Westmont College, 2016. Cloth, 159 pages, colour illustrations; 26 x 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A lavish production. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Santa Barbara-based philanthropist Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree was a notable collector of French landscape paintings by Corot and members of the Barbizon… Read more about this item

Boston: MFA Publications; Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Edward Hopper" organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 6, 2007 to August 19, 2007;… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1969. 78 pages, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Wraps soiled, something blacked-out with marker pen on the flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. ix, 565 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Thomas Eakins was misunderstood in life, his brilliant work earned little acclaim, and hidden demons tortured and drove him. Yet the portraits he painted more than a century… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1923. xvi, 100 pages (chiefly illustrations); 26 cm. Klassiker der Kunst. Text in German/Text Deutsch. SEHR GUT. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. Half-title page lightly nicked on the foreedge. A monograph on the German artist Fritz von Uhde (1848-1911), associated with painting in a Realist or Impressionist style. Uhde: Eine Auswahl… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "A sense of stillness and silence pervades Manet's painting. His flattened, sometimes fragmented forms appear to exist absentmindedly in a world removed from speech. It is this silence that James Rubin explores in a book that shows us Manet as we see him--naturally, in… Read more about this item

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. x, 237 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A brilliant historian's reconstruction of the life of an American painter. Thomas Eakins, a native of… Read more about this item

Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1979. Cloth, 80 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: National Academy of Design, 1987. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Academy of Design, New York, December 11, 1987 to February 22, 1988; the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., April 14 to May 22, 1988; the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Ark., September 18 to October 30,… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company; A John Macrae/Owl Book, 1997. xxiii, 438 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear. . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1975. xxx, 322 pages, 8 leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. D377. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: What is super realism?: The real thing, by G. Henry. Rent is the only reality; or, The hotel instead of the hymns, by I. Karp. The… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Cloth, xxvi, 350 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In the saga of American art's coming-of-age, Robert Henri (1865-1929) and John Sloan (1871-1951) stand tall among those in the vanguard of the campaign. These two major American artists… Read more about this item

Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1967. Red cloth, 187 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition shown at the Brooklyn Museum October 3 to November 19, 1967; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, December 11, 1967 to January 14, 1968; and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, February 17 to March 31, 1968. Withdrawn from library… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. xxii, 505 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "This text examines Manet's relationships with his parents, with his secret adopted son and with his wife and lovers. Also covered are his friendships with Beaudelaire and Zola. He emerges as a complex and contradictory… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1955. Cloth, 246 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Boards lightly soiled, with a little handling wear to the paper label on the spine. Expected browning. "Intimate study of Sloan's life and work by a close friend, and an interpretation of the flowering of realism and artistic integrity in… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1988. 283 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, July 2 to September 18, 1988, Portland Museum of Art, October 8 to December 18, 1988, and the Amon Carter Museum, January 7 to March 12, 1989. Firm binding,… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1901. 42 pages, illustrations; 15 cm. To which is added a sketch of the life of Millet by Frederick Keppel. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 24mo.

New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1907. 40, [3] pages, illustrations; 15 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Written on the occasion of an exhibition of etchings and drawings by Daubigny." "Etchings by Daubigny": pages 33-40.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 24mo.

New York: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1905. 54 pages, illustrations; 15 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 24mo.

Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980. 109 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Exhibition held at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, November 16, 1980 to January 11, 1981. Sponsored by Senator fur Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Back cover scraped (with an… Read more about this item