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October 22, 1996

 FS: Museum Catalogues, Guides and Assorted Art


        Americas The Decorative Arts in Latin America in the Era of the
Revolution      Elizabeth Wilder
Weismann        4to, 80 pgs, presented in conjunction with an exhibition
at the Renwick Gallery of
the National Collection of Fine Arts, October 19, 1976-April 3, 1977 75
b& w and color photos.
        Finest examples of Latin American Decorative art. Some wear,
rubbing, a few small tears
        Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976     $20



        Art in our Country Handbook             4 1/2 x 7
3/4".162pgs.Lots of photos of
museums and interiors of museums. The idea of this publication was to
show travelers who are
making a study of Art in America, where that art was. Listed are the
museums in various cities,
their holdings, in 1923.        VG. Owner's name and address on front
endpaper. Also lists
"Art in other places.   The American Federation of Arts, Wash. D.C.,
1923, First     $45

        Art Review A Survey of British Art in All Its Branches During
1949-1950       edited by Leonard
Richmond, G.M. Place    4to, 80 pgs, 16 color plates, Sutherland, Degas,
etc. Contents:
Art exhibitions, water colour, sculpture, stage and screen decor,
portrait painting, mural painting,
pastel, the graphic arts, illustration, fine art in the poster,
commercial      art, book jackets,
reproductions, art books, humorous art. This appears to be a very high
quality art magazine with
many art ads.   The Artist Publishing Co. Ltd, 1951  vg $20


        Art Treasures from the Vienna Collections (2 copies)    lent by
the Austrian
Government      6 x 9",unpaged,Dutch paintings, tapestries, armor, Greek
& Roman antiquities,
Renaissance bronzes,6 pgs of references, plates Bk cvr stained, edge bnt,
o.w.
vg      appeared in 7 museums including the Metropolitan,1949-1952
$20

        Carved and Modeled  American Sculpture 1810-1940        Hirschl &
Adler Galleries,
exhibition inaugurating the Gallery's dept of Sculpture, April 20-June 4
1982, for the benefit of
Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA, a property of the National Trust. 111pgs,
79 b& w and color
photos.Intro by Susan Menconi, 79 examples , acknowledgment of scholars
and lenders. Zorach,
Latches, etc.etc.       Some rubbing on spine   $25



Chester Dale:Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale
Collection      National Gallery
of Art  13pages and 23 illustrations.Chester Dale loans his paintings to
the National
Gallery. Follow the progression of his collection  in the National
Gallery catalogues of 1945,1952,
and 1965 .Cezanne, Corot, Daubigny, DegasDelacroix, etc.        Sm
staining and wear on cvr
        Washington, D.C. 1941   $15



Chester Dale: Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale
Collection
        1st printing . The larger part of his famous collection of 20th
century paintings. 69 pgs and
index,69 fullpage illustrations,Bonnard, Braque, DeChirico,Derain, Dufy,
Leger, Matisse,
Modigliani, Picasso etc.        Faded a little, sml tear on spine
National Gallery of Art 1952
        $20



        Chester Dale Collection:French Paintings from the Chester Dale
Collection
        6th ed,93pgs, 76 pgs of illustrations. The Chester Dale
Collection shows the development of in
the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist periods. This collection
includes 6 examples of Mary
Cassatt.        A little fading and spine wear  National Gallery of Art,
1953    $20



        Chester Dale,20th Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French
School .        Collection, National
Gallery of Art, Washington,     Chester and Maud Dale were among the
first American
collectors to appreciate the School of Paris. In the early 40's, when he
closed his NY apt, he sent
72 paintings to the Nat. Gallery. In 1965 all the rest of his paintings
were brought    to the National
Gallery. 104pages,101 full page illustrations from Bonnard to Vuillard.
with dates of exhibitions.
Intro by Maud Dale.Sm foxing    D.C., 1965      $20




        Diamond Jubilee Exhibition Masterpieces of Painting     November
4-Feb 11, 1950-
1951    6x9", 102 pgs, 102 plates,cvr the Bathers, Renoir, frontispiece,
Roualt, The Old
King in color.4 pg forward by Henri Marceau describing exhibition,index
of artists. Fra Angelico,
Botticelli, Braque, Cezanne, Chardin, Degas, Duchamp, Van Eyck, etc.
vg, cvr has been glued,
some rubbing on binding Philadelphia Museum of Art      $20




        Fifty Masterworks from the City Art Museum of St. Louis         8
1/2 x 11 1/2",68 pgs,46 b&w
illus, History of museum by Charles Nagel, Director of the gallery and
Georges
Wildenstein..Description of work,whose collection,
bibliography.Tintoretto, Rubens, Frans
Hal,Tiepolo,Boucher, Fragonard etc.     VG, sm soil, rubbed edges,1 sml
tear, repaired
on cvr  Wildenstein Gallery,NYC, Nov 6-Dec 13, 1958     $25



        FitzWilliam, The Annual Reports of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Syndicate & the Friends of the
Fitzwilliam Cambridge for the year      4to, 18 pgs including the gifts
received and the
names of the donors (amts. in pounds) , what the money will buy,
management and staff notes,
visitors included the Society of Scribes and    Illuminators etc. Sm soil
and exlibris notes on
front cover, some bent pages, 11 pages of plates        ending December
1969    $15




        French Painting Before the Revolution   Carroll, M. Le Frere &
Cavanah, Frances        6 3/4
x 9 1/2",28 pgs,27 plates,7 clr.In grey boards with painting of Madame de
Pompadour by
Maurice-Quentin de la Tour on cvr.Cover says "French Before the
Revolution",What museums
to visit, who were the popular painters, history.       VG, slight wear
on spine.       Grosset & Dunlap,
1939    $30



        Guide to the Rijksmuseum                8vo,48pgs,16pgs of
photos, line drawings
throughout, historical survey, arrangement of collections, general
information     a little worn
        appears to be 1934 (see p.7)    $7



        Hampton Court Palace    Ministry of Public Building and Works
Guide-Book      12mo, 36
pgs, 29 b&w &clr illus. including plan of Palace and grounds and state
apartments.History,
detailed description of galleries and gardens.Aerial view of Hampton
Court Palace. Minor soil,
bent cvr edge, 1 bent page      Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1963
$10



        Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.)
Mathias Komor, 31 East 51st St,
NYC     6 x 9 in, 26 pgs, including  9 b&w illus, introductions, 95
descriptions of
porcelains within their periods.        VG, slt rubbing and staining of
cvr     March 1951      $15




        Indian Miniatures From the Collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer,
London  editor, Nancy
Curtis  12 mo, unpaged , 80 paintings described, over 40 b&w illus, color
cvr     a bit of
soiling,return address sticker of owner on top rt copyright pg
Smithsonian Institution, 1963-
1964    $15





        Michaelango     printed in France, Distributed by Artext Prints,
Inc.    4 1/2 x 6" yellow folio with
the David on cover. An assortment (7) of cards, reproductions from the
original masterpieces: La
Pieta, Bacchus,Aurues,,David, Moise, etc.       postcards vg, folio, sm
soil, one bent crnr
        $5



        National Gallery of Art Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and
Sculpture
        Foreward discusses Mellon collection, Kress collection, and other
donors. This volume is a
prelinary catalogue containing brief biographies of all the artsts,
descriptions of  works of art,
biographical references, etc.   Cvr worn with fading    2nd ed, Dec,
1941, 247  pages,
16 plates       $20



        National Gallery Trafalgar SquareI llustrated Guide     Sir
Charles Holmes  105 pgs,
many b&w plates, index of painters with dates, has an unequalled series
of works by the great
Italian Masters of the 15th & 16th centuries.Includes the chief
benefactors of the Gallery,     A 1"
tear on top left cvr, another glued tear, a bit of wear.        Printed
for the Trustees,
London, 1926    $20



        Paul Mellon: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Mellon and    Mrs.
Mellon Bruce    25th Anniversary Exhibition of National Gallery of Art.
March 17-May 1, 1966,
252pgs, 246 pgs of illus.,. Intro. by John Rewald.Paintings , Bazille,
Bonnard, Boudin,
Cassatt,Cezanne, Corot, Courbet, Degas, Gaugin, Van Gogh, etc.
Watercolor and drawings by
Manet, Morrisot, Redon, etc. Sm spine rubbing, tiny amt of foxing
National Gallery of Art,
Wash. D.C. 1966 $30



        Phillips Collection containing Catalogue and Notes of
Interpretation relating to a Tri-
Unit Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Feb-May 1928        62
pgs,calendar of exhibitions,
acquistions of the season of 1926-1927, listing of the paintings in the
main gallery,Text by
Duncan Phillips, contemporary critic Main Gallery, Contemporary American
Painting,
Twachtman, Weir, Robinson.      American Old Masters, Lower Gallery, A
Survey of French
Painting from Chardin to Derain. Soiled, tears in cvr.          $15





        Picasso at the Tate Gallery     The Arts Council of Great Britain
Major retrospective of Picasso
exhibition. Introduction by Roland Penrose, catalogue notes,62 pgs, more
than 35 pgs of plates,
some color, bibliography, exhibition catalogues, work   divided into
periods, list of lenders. 8vo, a
bit rubbed, a few bends in cvr. May 1960        $25



        The Borghese Gallery in Rome    Pergola, Paola, Della, Director
of the Gallery  6
1/2 x 9 1/2",unpaged, 25 plates in color, 36, b&w,sculptures and
paintings,7pgs of text describing
the history of the gallery.Descriptions in English, French, German and
Italian.Heavy shiny
paper.Titian, Correggio,, Raphael, etc. VG.  Cvr, sltly bent, a bit
soiled,name of owner
on first page   Florence Arnaud, Publisher, 1968        $20


                The Metropolitan Museum of Art  A Guide to the
Collections     Part II European
and American Art, Mediaeval Art 5000 copies printed of this third
edition,
1937.154 pgs. Each section has an intro, an account of the scope and
arrangement of the
collection, and detailed floor plans. Most important objects selected for
comment.        Front cvr has
a 2 1/2" x 1" tear, also tear on rt  btm crnr of  cvrs, spine  wear
Renaissance and Modern Art,
The American Wing,      $10



        The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings   Bryson
Burroughs,      362pgs,35
illustrations,history of  Museum's collection of pictures,donors and
funds, catalogue of paintings
from Abbey to Wylie, artists arranged by schools,, list of portraits
arranged by subject,
classification by galleries     Cvr trs, the first few pages, sml tears
at spine , sm yellowing, cvr
tattered        Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917        $20



        The Vienna Treasures, An ARTnews Picture Book for the Exhibition
lent from the Vienna
Collections by the Austrian Government (3 copies)       7 1/2 x 10",146
pgs, covers
Rome & mediaeval Europe,Renaissance in Venice,Caravaggio, Velazquez,
Rubens & Rococco,
all explained, 4 or 5 pages of advertising in back.     cvr, a bit
chipped The Art
Foundation, NY 1950     $25





        The Wurtzburger Collection of Pre-Columbian Art         8 1/2 x
10 3/4",46 pgs., many
plates, on the cover, Pendant: Anthropomorphic figure, Panama, Veraguas
style. Celebrates the
opening of a permanent gallery of Primitive Arts.Map showing areas
represented,notes on the
collection,divided into areas   slt cvr soil and wear   The Baltimore
Museum of Art,
1958    $20



        Treasures from the Royal Collection The Queen's Gallery
Pictures, drawings, miniatures,
porcelain, silver, furniture, tapestry and armour that are found in The
Queen;s palaces and
houses in GB form the largest and most splendid collection of its kind in
the     world. The first
exhibition in this gallery. 61pgs, and 61 plates depicting the
collection.Wrn, a few cracks and sml
tears   Buckingham Palace, 1962 $20



        Treasures of Tutankhamun        The Trustees of the British
Museum, The Times &     A loan
exhibit from the Dept. of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt to
mark the 50th anniversary
of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. 100 pages including 60 or
more    photos b&w and
color.50 pages on the history and the rest on the 50 exhibits. 8vo, color
cover, a little rubbed,
one or two tiny stain   The Sunday Times, 1972  $25



        Victoria & Albert Museum Brief Guide    printed for Her Majesty's
Stationery      4to, 67
pgs,b& w photos, the Primary galleries and the Departmental collections.
Brief descriptions
        writing on back cvr top by owner, cvr wrn, sm sml trs   Office,
1973    $8



        Vincent van Gogh                7 1/4 x 9",15 pgs,an exhibition
of 68 paintings ,
the bedroom at Arles, 1889 with notes, the life of Vincent van Gogh,
Blooming almondbranch,
1889 with notes,Sunflowers with notes, etc. checklist of the exhibition
VG, slight soil
        Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb29-April 5, 1970 $15



        Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890     St. Louis, Philadelphia and
Toledo Museums,
1953-1954       6 1'2 x 9, unpaged, many color and b& w
plates,interesting charts about who he
met and what painters influenced him.,and commentary about painter,
detailed history in periods,
181 paintings and drawings catalogued   cvr has been glued, some tears,
on spine, soil
(cvr is white)  memorial to the centenary of his birth in 1853  $15



        Wallace Collection, A General Guide     printed for the Trustees
of Hertford     12mo,.a
room -to-room guide with supplementary notes on European  and Oriental
arms and armor, 126
pgs includes Administration, the founders, the line descends from Edward
Seymour.Includes
an      index of artists and craftsmen. For Anglophiles. drawings of
armor, visors and
swords,spine is rubbed .        Hertford House, London 1961     $20



        William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Handbook of the
        6"x9", 143pgs,beautiful
binding, part leather, tan cvrs and flyleaves.Belonged to a member of the
gallery;beautiful sticker
on inside cvr.Many photos, descriptions of galleries,maps, lists of
artists represented, history of
collection.     VG, slt  crnr wear, lst pg slightly foxed       Privately
published, Kansas
City, Mo, 1933  $35



Normal signs of wear such as chips, creases,  notations, and owner
inscriptions are to be expected.These catalogs
are used as  a direct source of information or for reproduction of
illustration


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