Richie Havens' art portfolio from the 1960s
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[New York]: c. 1960s. Richie Havens' art portfolio from the 1960s. Richie Havens (1941–2013) was an American musician... Read More about Art Archive
Price: $30,000
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Illustrated by Newell, Inscribed by Shakespeare
A House-Boat on the Styx. Being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Newell, Peter. First Edition. Illustrated by Newell, Inscribed by Shakespeare. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper, “To Col. J.H. Amman / with the best wishes of Wm. Shakespeare / per J.K.B. / May 3: 1896”, Shakespeare's signature being in his usual shaky hand. Read More about A House-Boat on the Styx. Being some account of the divers doings of the associated shades
Price: $150
Collection of mostly Barker & Co., Auctioneers (13 catalogues, including Henry Prose Cooper Collection, James E. Vail. Jr. Collection, The...
New York: Barker Art Gallery 47 & 49 Liberty St, 1880s. Catalogues owned and annotated by E.F. Patchen of Patchen Bros. 51 New Street of NYC. Their firm was in mining One December,1883 catalogue has Georges Jules Victor Clairin's [misspelled Clarin in Barker catalogue](French, 1843-1919) painting Frou Frou which brought..... Read More about Collection of mostly Barker & Co., Auctioneers (13 catalogues, including Henry Prose Cooper...
Price: $500
Portrait Photograph of Albert C. Barnes.
Marion, PA: September 17, 1937. Barnes, Albert C(oombs): Pharmaceutical manufacturer and art collector. He obtained a medical degree and later studied in Germany. In 1902 he made a fortune with his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol. After building a mansion in Merion, Pa., in 1905, he began to collect art..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Albert C. Barnes
Price: $750
Baseball Sports Caricature, Philadelphia, Ca. 1905
Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca. 1905.
Philadelphia [?]: Ca. 1905. Baseball Sports Caricature, Philadelphia, Ca. 1905. The subjects, two dapper young men seated in third base line box seats, are identified as Bill Reynolds and Tommy O'Keefe. Both are nattily dressed, with diamond stickpins in their ties; Tommy wears a straw boater with a hatband labeled..... Read More about Caricature of two sporting gents watching a Philadelphia Athletics baseball game, ca. 1905
Price: $750
Ars Anatomica. A Medical Fantasia.
New York: Medina Rara 185 madison Avenue, 1972. No. 325 of a signed, numbered edition limited to 2500 copies printed for members of Editions Medicina Rara. Read More about Ars Anatomica. A Medical Fantasia
Price: $175
Joe Beeler Portfolio.
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1978. One of a hundred numbered portfolios, this being number 46. The prints show various scenes of cowboy life. Read More about Joe Beeler Portfolio
Price: $800
Typed Letter, signed (“Ludwig”), to Viking editor Marshall Best, “here comes some weird nightmusic again” with obscene self-caricature.
New York: [n.d., ca. 1947-48]. A bizarre and notable letter from artist/author Ludwig Bemelmans in the late 1940s when for a time his relationship with Viking was on uncertain terms, and with a remarkable self-caricature: “here comes some weird nightmusic again — I withdraw ‘Holdiady in Europe’ for a very..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Ludwig”), to Viking editor Marshall Best, “here comes some weird...
Price: $3,750
Original drawing of a Tea Pot heightened in white.
George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example. Read More about Original drawing of a Tea Pot heightened in white
Price: $550
Original ink drawing in pen and ink of a electrical lighting fixture.
George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example. Read More about Original ink drawing in pen and ink of a electrical lighting fixture
Price: $100
Original ink drawing in pen and ink of wall elctric light fixture witgh 3 bulbs.
George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example. Read More about Original ink drawing in pen and ink of wall elctric light fixture witgh 3 bulbs
Price: $100
Original ink drawing of elaborate covered bowl.
George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example. Read More about Original ink drawing of elaborate covered bowl
Price: $350
Original ink drawing of standing three bulb electric light fixture.
George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example. Read More about Original ink drawing of standing three bulb electric light fixture
Price: $100
Card signed "Frank W. Benson"
N. P: n.d. [1904]. American Impressionist and Sporting artist. From the autograph collection of Harry P. Kuhn Jr. Read More about Card signed "Frank W. Benson"
Price: $400
Portrait photograph of Thomas Hart Benton.
New York: April 16, 1935. Read More about Portrait photograph of Thomas Hart Benton
Price: $1,350
Autograph inscription and signature “Sincerely yours / Albert Bierstadt” New York, May 16, 1884.
New York: 1884. Boldly signed by the great painter of the American West. Read More about Autograph inscription and signature “Sincerely yours / Albert Bierstadt” New York, May 16, 1884
Price: $350
THE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY
Life of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings.
London: Macmillan, 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. THE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY. The original prints - three from the woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus..... Read More about Life of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings
Price: $2,500
Blake's Pencil Drawings Second Series.
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1956. Number 728 of 1440 copies printed on Dutch mould-made paper. Read More about Blake's Pencil Drawings Second Series
Price: $250
George Caleb Bingham. The Evolution of an Artist. Volume Two: A Catalogue Raisonné.
Berkeley & Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1967. First edition. Read More about George Caleb Bingham. The Evolution of an Artist. Volume Two: A Catalogue Raisonné
Price: $200
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Modern Art.
New York: Hudson Hills Press, [1981]. First edition. A photographic survey of Rockefeller's expansive modern art collection, much of which was gifted to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With an introduction by Rockefeller himself and an essay by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the first director of that..... Read More about The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Modern Art
Price: $75
Autograph letter signed ("Carl) to Western artist Ed Borein, discussing the situation in Europe.
Göteborg, Sweden: 3 February 1940. Reading in part, "I am goingto try to get over to Finland soon if they have any use for me there. Everybody is scared to help them. Here in Sweden we do all that is possible... Mr Roosevelt doesn't want to do anything. he is..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Carl) to Western artist Ed Borein, discussing the situation in Europe
Price: $550
"FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT" The complete set of six hand-colored aquatint portraits, with engraved titles, each signed in pencil "R.L....
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. First (and only) edition, limited to 250 proofs only. An extremely handsome and decorative set of American sporting notables. The six portraits, each set in an appropriate background, are of: SAMUEL MORRIS, ESQ., Foxhunter, first president of the Gloucester Foxhunting Club, America's oldest; COL..... Read More about "FATHERS OF AMERICAN SPORT" The complete set of six hand-colored aquatint portraits,...
Price: $5,000
Where the Blue Begins.
New York: Sea Cliff Editions, 1985. de Kooning, Elaine. First Edition, Number 29 of 120 copies, signed by both author and artist. Read More about Where the Blue Begins
Price: $600
Original Paul Bransom Drawing
Vandergo Monkey.
N.d. Original Paul Bransom Drawing. A strong and attractive portrait. Paul Bransom (1885-1979), a native of Washington, D.C., received early training in mechanical drawing which led him to analyze and record the individual characteristics of each of the animals he drew. He had a long and distinguished career as an..... Read More about Vandergo Monkey
Price: $750
Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm
FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL DRAWING, “THE STRAIN UPON PENT EMOTION REACHED ITS CLIMAX”, FROM THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, signed at...
Ca. 1910. Brehm, Worth. Published by Harper & Brothers in their edition of 1910. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A moment of high drama, as Tom, in the courtroom witness chair, testifies against Injun Joe. During his testimony he is asked, “What did you take [with you to..... Read More about FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL DRAWING, “THE STRAIN UPON PENT EMOTION REACHED ITS CLIMAX”, FROM THE...
Price: $6,000