Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection
by Shoemaker, Innis H
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- ISBN 10
- 0876332165
- ISBN 13
- 9780876332160
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover navy blue cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine. New dust jacket. 4to. (11½ x 1 x 9¾) Clean text free of marks or underling. A collection of various artists work. Color photos on glossy paper. Includes an index to artist works. 336 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "In 1990 archaeologist Charles K. Williams II began seriously to acquire paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings by modern American artists, after about ten years of collecting 19th- and 20th-century American and European prints. Williams amassed an important collection that includes examples by most of the major American artists and movements of the early 20th century." This fully illustrated catalogue features entries on more than one hundred significant works by artists including Stieglitz Circle painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove; Precisionists Charles Demuth, Ralston Crawford, George Ault, and Charles Sheeler; and Philadelphia modernists Arthur B. Carles, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Earl Horter. Sculptures by Elie Nadelman, John Storrs, Alberto Giacometti, and Louise Nevelson are included. Of special note is Thomas Hart Benton's painting The Apple of Discord and a rare landscape drawing by American Regionalist Grant Wood.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "In 1990 archaeologist Charles K. Williams II began seriously to acquire paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings by modern American artists, after about ten years of collecting 19th- and 20th-century American and European prints. Williams amassed an important collection that includes examples by most of the major American artists and movements of the early 20th century." This fully illustrated catalogue features entries on more than one hundred significant works by artists including Stieglitz Circle painters Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Arthur Dove; Precisionists Charles Demuth, Ralston Crawford, George Ault, and Charles Sheeler; and Philadelphia modernists Arthur B. Carles, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Earl Horter. Sculptures by Elie Nadelman, John Storrs, Alberto Giacometti, and Louise Nevelson are included. Of special note is Thomas Hart Benton's painting The Apple of Discord and a rare landscape drawing by American Regionalist Grant Wood.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100896
- Title
- Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection
- Author
- Shoemaker, Innis H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0876332165
- ISBN 13
- 9780876332160
- Publisher
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Illustrations American artists, collection,
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