Brief Survey Of Modern Painting

A brief survey of modern painting by Barr, Alfred Hamilton, 3 Notes by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director ISBN: B00085T8JQ

Gray-blue pamphlet, 8vo. Notes by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director of the Museum of Modern Art, on the Museum's Circulating Exhibition of Color Reproductions of Modern Paintings. 24 pages, stapled. Contains brief statements, about French and American artists, including Daumier, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Homer, Eakins et al. Also contains a list of paintings in the exhibition, without illustrations (as issued). Light wear and faint browning at edges, else a very good copy.

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Berecz, Agnes: Gyorgy Roman: A Survey, Janos Gat Gallery New York 2002
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Softbound 8vo 53 pp. Catalogue of an exhibition of the paintings of Hungarian artist Gyorgy Roman (1903-1981) held at the Janos Gat Gallery in New York from September 19 to November 9, 2002. Includes an introductory essay by Agnes Berecz, a brief biography of Roman (a fascinating life), and 46 black and white reproductions of the paintings. For each painting there is a detailed provenance, exhibtion history and bibliography. Black and white photograph of the artist included.; 1st

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Thailand Culture Series (First 17 pamphlets) Bangkok, Thailand The National Culture Institute 1956

Hard Cover The first seventeen pamphlets in the Thailand Culture Series bound in a hardback cover, with the former owner's last name embossed in gold on the bottom right corner. Spine shows a little wear; pamphlets are in condition (Note: light water-wrinkles on bottom of pages of some of the pamphlets, but pages are not stuck together or damaged). No 1: The Cultures of Thailand; No. 2: A Brief Survey of Cultural Thailand; No. 3: Thai Literature and Swasdi Raksa; No. 4: Thai Architecture and Painting; No. 5: Loy Krathong and Songkran Festival; No. 6: Chao Thi and Some Traditions of Thai; No. 7: Phra Cedi; No. 8: Thai Music; No. 9: Thai Images of the Buddha; No. 10: Thai Buddhist Sculpture; No. 11: The Khon; No. 12: The Nang: No. 13: The Story of Thai Marriage Custom; No. 14: Modern Art in Thailand; No. 15: The Preliminary Course of Training in Thai Theatrical Art; No. 16 Life in Bangkok; No. 17: Thai Language. G

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HARDING, James Duffield (1798-1863) after Clarkson STANFIELD (1793-1867): Barnbougle Castle,

[London: Published by E. Gambart & Co. and Joseph Hogarth, 1854]. Tinted lithograph with additional hand-colouring and touches of gum arabic, mounted on card in the manner of a watercolour. Lithographed by Harding after a work by the celebrated marine painter Clarkson Stanfield. Signed in pencil by Stanfield in lower right corner and title written in pencil in lower left-hand corner. Very good condition apart from some minor foxing in the image, a bit of light soiling on the mount and a small water stain at the edge of the top margin. 10 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches. (of card) 17 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches. A beautifully coloured plate from the rare, deluxe edition of 'Scotland Delineated', a comprehensive series of lithographs of Edinburgh and its environs. Published between 1847 and 1854, Scotland Delineated was essentially a picturesque visual survey of Scotland assembled by Harding and the historical writer John Parson Lawson, who resided in Edinburgh. It was comprised of a number of plates engraved by various artists after the works of prominent artists including J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Nash, Thomas Creswick, and George Cattermole. Born in Deptford in 1798, the landscape painter and lithographer J. D. Harding was renowned for his prolific works as well as the pioneering innovations he introduced to the mediums of lithography and watercolour. Harding began his artistic training at an early age and exhibited his first drawings at the Royal Academy at age thirteen. After a brief apprenticeship with the engraver Charles Pye, he began working with watercolours and regularly exhibited his landscape paintings at the Society of Painters in Watercolours after 1818. He started experimenting with the medium of oil painting in 1843, and after years of exhibiting at the Royal Academy and attempting to become an academician, was reinstated as a member of the Watercolour Society in 1856. In addition to being a successful artist, Harding was a respected instructor, and he published numerous educational handbooks that were extensively used as textbooks in England and Europe. His untraditional practice of using bodycolour as well as conventional transparent colours (a technique derived from Turner) significantly influenced the course of modern watercolour painting and was widely adopted by the artists of the period. Harding also excelled in the art of lithography, and he published several popular series of plates including Sketches at Home and Abroad (1836), The Park and the Forest (1841), and Scotland Delineated (1847-1854). His works were extremely well received, and his introduction of the 'lithotint' technique and innovative use of tinted papers of various textures, which later became known as 'Hardin's paper', were extremely influential. Cf. Abbey, Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland, 1770-1860, #493; cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

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