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John Singleton Copley: In America 1738-1774; In England 1774-1815.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. A substantial monograph on one of the first important American artists. Read More about John Singleton Copley: In America 1738-1774; In England 1774-1815
Price: $250
Print of Man Salmon Fishing from shore, guide and boat behind, fish hooked and jumping.
Number 457 of 950 signed in pencil by artist, lower right. Read More about Print of Man Salmon Fishing from shore, guide and boat behind, fish hooked and jumping
Price: $400
Winter landscape.
[Roslyn, New York: 1942]. Ernest Cramer (1892-1980) was an American artist known for his focus on New York subjects. Read More about Winter landscape
Price: $600
Deerstalking in Scotland in the 1870s: Crealock’s magnum opus
[Deerstalking Portfolio, comprising:] Among the Red Deer, Sketches from Nature in the Forest [and:] The Happy Hunting Grounds of Loch...
London: Published by George Hogarth Turner, [1870-1874]. Only edition. Deerstalking in Scotland in the 1870s: Crealock’s magnum opus. A superb set of the rare deerstalking albums of career soldier Henry Hope Crealock (1831-1891), who served in Crimea, India, China, and in the war in Zululand. His sketches from the field..... Read More about Deerstalking Portfolio, comprising:] Among the Red Deer, Sketches from Nature in the Forest...
Price: $5,500
Fine Cruikshank Watercolor Illustration
A highly finished pencil and watercolor drawing of a kitchen scene.
Fine Cruikshank Watercolor Illustration. The drawing, very carefully rendered in pencil with multi-colored washes, shows, in a kitchen setting, a middle-aged woman to whom a younger one is presenting her visitor, a towering Guardsman, who stands at attention, saluting. They stand by a table on which reposes bread and cheese..... Read More about A highly finished pencil and watercolor drawing of a kitchen scene
Price: $750
Crumb’s ‘Nightmare’, one of 75
The Nightmare [Original signed print].
[San Francisco: n.d., early 1970s]. No. 67 of 75, numbered and signed by the artist (“R. Crumb”) in pencil beneath the image. Crumb’s ‘Nightmare’, one of 75. Striking and characteristic R. Crumb image, the great American underground cartoonist’s hommage to Fuseli’s celebrated painting of the same title, rendered in a...... Read More about The Nightmare [Original signed print
Price: $900
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
London: Printed for William Tegg, and Co, 75, Cheapside, 1848. Read More about The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Price: $175
Written on the occasion of unveiling Wilson MacDonald's statue of General George A. Custer, Aug. 30th, 1879, at West Point...
[New York: 1879]. Rare broadside poem by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Field, 1814-1893. The poem's opening line begins: "Among these hills his youth was spent ... " Read More about Written on the occasion of unveiling Wilson MacDonald's statue of General George A. Custer, Aug....
Price: $250
"What no soup?" Original pen and ink drawing of a Civil War soldier walking into a barber shop where two...
nd. The soldier is quite dishevelled and his uniform is in tatters; he is being looked upon with great distaste by the men in the barber shop, all of whom are quite foppish. On the back is a clipped piece of paper with the title above a parenthetical line "..... Read More about "What no soup?" Original pen and ink drawing of a Civil War soldier walking into a...
Price: $1,000
Original Floyd Davis Portrait of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
Original pencil portrait of Alfred Eisensteadt, inscribed, “To Alfred”, signed and dated March 1945.
Original Floyd Davis Portrait of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. A fine sympathetic full-face drawing of the photographer, undoubtedly done from life. Floyd MacMillan Davis (1896-1966) began by doing advertising art, and in the 1930s began illustrating southern rural scenes and people forthe works of William Faulkner, MacKinlay Kantor and others. During..... Read More about Original pencil portrait of Alfred Eisensteadt, inscribed, “To Alfred”, signed and dated...
Price: $650
In Dust Jacket
Cuba in War Time.
New York: R.H. Russell, 1897. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about Cuba in War Time
Price: $950
Ransom's Folly.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [July], 1902. Remington, Frederic. First edition. Read More about Ransom's Folly
Price: $50
Inscribed to the Proprietor of the Anglers Roost
Watercolor on paper, Salmon Fly, inscribed by the artist “To Jimmy Deren, Charles De Feo”.
New York. Inscribed to the Proprietor of the Anglers Roost. Read More about Watercolor on paper, Salmon Fly, inscribed by the artist “To Jimmy Deren, Charles De Feo”
Price: $450
"Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant" series, without title-page.
Colorado Spring, Colorado: 1945. Dehn, Adolf. Number 15 of an edition of 250 copies, executed in the Summer and Autumn of 1945 and printed on handmade paper by Lawrence Barrett, each Lithograph has been numbered and signed by the artist. Read More about "Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant" series, without title-page
Price: $1,250
Beauford Delaney: A Retrospective.
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978. First edition. Catalog for the exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem, April 9th - July 2nd, 1978. Read More about Beauford Delaney: A Retrospective
Price: $250
[Autograph Manuscript, signed:] Fishes of the East Coast and interior fresh waters of the U.S. [And:] West Coast fishes collected...
[Massachusetts, etc.? ca. late 1890s to 1924]. Sherman Foote Denton (1856-1937), a Massachusetts native and the child of an abolitionist and a radical feminist, was an accomplished artist from his youth. He travelled the world, collecting and illustrating natural history specimens. Denton was adept at preserving specimens, especially butterflies and..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed:] Fishes of the East Coast and interior fresh waters of the U.S....
Price: $1,250
Original drawing for the frontispiece of "A Tomato Can Chronicle": "From the box he extracted a spinner", depicting an angler...
Published in "A Tomato Can Chronicle", 1937. Ralph L. Boyer was one of the small group of artists most closely associated with the Derrydale Press. He was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and his work as an illustrator was widely published. Connett published several series of prints..... Read More about Original drawing for the frontispiece of "A Tomato Can Chronicle": "From the box...
Price: $1,250
A FINE GROUP OF 6 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (“JACK”) FROM A.B. FROST'S ARTIST SON JOHN TO EUGENE V. CONNETT, A....
N.p: 1930s. Frost, John. A fascinating and frequently moving group of letters, in which Frost discusses his work (“I just finished a canvas from memory of that Maryland country...Everything I've done up to this has been a flop as I've been pressing and overworking--but I think I've gotten hold of..... Read More about A FINE GROUP OF 6 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (“JACK”) FROM A.B. FROST'S ARTIST SON JOHN TO...
Price: $1,000
Société Anonyme, Inc. Membership Report.
[New York]: Société Anonyme, Inc, [ca. 1927]. With a two-page introduction SIGNED "Katherine S. Dreier, President," detailing underutilized aspects of the collection, and petitioning help for expanding the Société's ventures, as well as a four-page report detailing all receipts and of expenses from the 1924-5, 1925-6, and 1926-7 seasons. Scarce..... Read More about Société Anonyme, Inc. Membership Report
Price: $1,000
First report of the Société Anonyme – Duchamp, Stella, Hartley, Man Ray, et al
Société Anonyme, Inc. (Museum of Modern Art). Report 1920 – 1921.
[New York]: Societé Anonyme, Inc, [1921]. First edition. First report of the Société Anonyme – Duchamp, Stella, Hartley, Man Ray, et al. The first annual report of the Société Anonyme, founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Henry Hudson and Andrew McLaren, listing members (including Duchamp..... Read More about Société Anonyme, Inc. (Museum of Modern Art). Report 1920 – 1921
Price: $1,500
Isadora Duncan in Her Dances. With an Introduction by Maria-Theresa, Carl Van Vechten, Mary Fanton Roberts, Shaemas O'Sheel and Arnold...
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, [1945]. Inscribed on the title-page "With my compliments to Percy Mackay from Abraham Wolkowitz April 19, 1948." Signed also on the front cover and with a note with Wolkowitz's address on it. Read More about Isadora Duncan in Her Dances. With an Introduction by Maria-Theresa, Carl Van Vechten, Mary...
Price: $250
Diary of William Dunlap. The Memoirs of a Dramatist, Theatrical Manager, Painter, Critic, Novelist, and Historian.
New York: Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1930. First edition. One of 100 copies. Read More about Diary of William Dunlap. The Memoirs of a Dramatist, Theatrical Manager, Painter, Critic,...
Price: $275
Asking Durand to Paint a Landscape
Autograph Letter, Signed, to Charles Leneman, Esq.
New York: Feby 11, 1847. Asking Durand to Paint a Landscape. Reading in part: “ I have a good anecdote for you. Bishop Doane has written me a letter 'would you do me the favour to ask Mr. [Asher B.] Durand [1796-1886] to panel a landscape for me.'” Duyckink, editor..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed, to Charles Leneman, Esq
Price: $400