T. Wilson 1987, nos. 137, 136; Rackham 1940, nos. 375, 376. 5. T. Wilson 1987, no. 138. This piece was in the Rattier collection with the National Gallery plate, and the cataloguer in the 1859 Rattier sale considered them to be by the ...
Works by the American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.
Examines Indian sculptures in color photographs and detailed explanations.
The celebrated American poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) began photographing in the late 1940s when he purchased a small, second-hand Kodak camera. For the next fifteen years he made intimate and...
American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century
The energy and optimism of the new nation are abundantly apparent in this catalogue. It features some of the icons of American art, such as John Singleton Copley's The Copley...
Printmaking exploded with creative energy at the end of the nineteenth century in France. Artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon were...
"An indispensable addition to the literature, this informative publication is not only one of very few books available in English on the subject, but it also reproduces for the first...
"This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects such as coffins, tombs, masks, jewellery, papyri, sarcophagi and...
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue
"The artists who created the flower still lifes included here conveyed the delicacy of blossoms and captured the fragile beauty of flowers and the sense of hope and joy they...
Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Siméon Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house...
Along with Russian Constructivism and Surrealism, Dada stands as one of the three most significant movements of the historical avant garde. Born in the heart of Europe in the midst...
The Woodner family collection, founded by the collector Ian Woodner, presents European drawing from its first flowering in the early Renaissance to the early years of the 20th-century.
"Presenting for the first time complementary holdings from the internationally renowned drawing collections of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, and the Kupferstichkabinett, Basel, this volume is a singular overview of drawings from...
An exhibition to be held at the National Gallery of Art, Feb. 10-June 15, 1980.
Asmat Art features the world-renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea. Working with stone adzes, bone, and bits of shell, early...
William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902
For many today, the art of the late nineteenth century is equated with impressionism and post-impressionism. This book with its insightful essays and remarkable works of art presents us with...
The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds