Art - American - General

Sidebar

Availability

Price

$
to
$

Product type

Format

Author

Show all
Filter
  • 10
  • 15
  • 20
  • 25
  • 30
  • 50
  • Featured
  • Best selling
  • Alphabetically, A-Z
  • Alphabetically, Z-A
  • Price, low to high
  • Price, high to low
  • Date, old to new
  • Date, new to old
Sort

Sort by:

  • Featured
  • Best selling
  • Alphabetically, A-Z
  • Alphabetically, Z-A
  • Price, low to high
  • Price, high to low
  • Date, old to new
  • Date, new to old
  • Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic by Brownlee, Peter John
    Peter John Brownlee

    Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

    As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identities. Picturing...
    $65.00
    $65.00
    $65.00
  • The Civil War and American Art by Harvey, Eleanor Jones
    Eleanor Jones Harvey

    The Civil War and American Art

    A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography in the 19th century The Civil War redefined America and forever changed American art. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists...
    $50.00
    $50.00
    $50.00
  • William Merritt Chase, Volume 2: Portraits in Oil by Pisano, Ronald G.
    Ronald G. Pisano

    William Merritt Chase, Volume 2: Portraits in Oil

    The great American artist William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) completed a wide variety of portraits over his long career. Among his subjects were presidents, businessmen, celebrities, New York luminaries, and members of his family as well as a number of self-portraits. Chase's ability to capture...
    $85.00
    $85.00
    $85.00
  • William Merritt Chase: The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints by Pisano, Ronald G.
    Ronald G. Pisano

    William Merritt Chase: The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints

    The first in a beautiful four-volume complete catalogue of all known works by the beloved American artist William Merritt Chase A perennial favorite of museum visitors, the works of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) embody the quintessential characteristics of American Impressionism: outdoor landscapes, a colorful...
    $92.00
    $92.00
    $92.00
  • Quilts and Health by MacDowell, Marsha
    Marsha MacDowell

    Quilts and Health

    Name an illness, medical condition, or disease and you will find quiltmaking associated with it. From Alzheimer's to Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lou Gehrig's Disease to Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, and for nearly every form of cancer, millions of quilts have been made in support of personal...
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • The Art of George Ames Aldrich by Greenhouse, Wendy
    Wendy Greenhouse

    The Art of George Ames Aldrich

    A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects...
    $35.00
    $35.00
    $35.00
  • Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe by Patterson, Karen
    Karen Patterson

    Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

    Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and...
    $48.00
    $48.00
    $48.00
  • Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Cooke, Lynne
    Lynne Cooke

    Outliers and American Vanguard Art

    Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers whom...
    $65.00
    $65.00
    $65.00
  • Truly Mindful Coloring by Marks-Tarlow, Terry
    Terry Marks-Tarlow

    Truly Mindful Coloring

    Color out the stress.Color in the calm, focus, and curiosity . . .Unique from other adult coloring books, this activity & coloring book is grounded in science and decades of clinical experience, and contains mindfulness exercises and imagery designed to reduce stress, find peace...
    $24.95
    $24.95
    $24.95
  • George Catlin's American Buffalo by Harris, Adam Duncan
    Adam Duncan Harris

    George Catlin's American Buffalo

    Presenting forty major oil paintings by George Catlin from the mid-late 1830s, this volume re-examines the legacy of this complex artist. Many of Catlin's paintings were produced following his 1832 expedition down the Missouri River, past the prairie lands of Oklahoma, where he witnessed...
    $49.95
    $49.95
    $49.95
  • First Class: America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps by Craig, David Cobb
    David Cobb Craig

    First Class: America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps

    Every picture tells a story--even one on a postage stamp. Presented enormously enlarged, the 128 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office...
    $39.99
    $39.99
    $39.99
  • Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio by Haggerty, S. T.
    S. T. Haggerty

    Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio

    In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first...
    $31.95
    $31.95
    $31.95
  • Peter Saul: Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Sammlung Falckenberg/Deichtorhallen Hamburg by Saul, Peter
    Peter Saul

    Peter Saul: Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Sammlung Falckenberg/Deichtorhallen Hamburg

    I prefer a doomsday mood and I love to laugh at bad news«It was arguably during the 1960s that painting got caught up in the loop of permanent rehash and constant transformation, which--in contrast to the hypothesis of progress--forms the working principle of postmodernism....
    $59.95
    $59.95
    $59.95
  • All-American Ads of the 40s by Heimann, Jim
    Jim Heimann

    All-American Ads of the 40s

    Out of the blackout, into the boom years: Tracing 1940s America through ads The aftermath of World War II brought unprecedented pride and prosperity to the American people. From Western Electric communication tools (for "the modern battle") to Seagram's whiskey (for "Men Who Plan...
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • Mid-Century Ads, 2 Vol. by Heiman, Jim
    Jim Heiman

    Mid-Century Ads, 2 Vol.

    Mad for ads: Advertising for the space Age--Zoom back in time to the 50s and 60s Gleaned from thousands of images, this companion set of books offers the best of American print advertising in the age of the "Big Idea." At the height of...
    $60.00
    $60.00
    $60.00
  • Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 by Rachleff, Melissa
    Melissa Rachleff

    Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965

    This enlightening and thought-provoking look at New York City's postwar art scene focuses on the galleries and the artists that helped transform American art. While the achievements of New York City's most renowned postwar artists--de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Franz Kline-- have been studied in...
    $75.00
    $75.00
    $75.00
  • LA/SF: A Sketchbook from California by Schellewald, Christian
    Christian Schellewald

    LA/SF: A Sketchbook from California

    From the creative director of Over the Hedge and Shrek 2, the author has taken time away from the world of entertainment design to create vignettes that capture his everyday observations of living in California, specifically Los Angeles and San Francisco.Author: Christian SchellewaldISBN-10: 1933492104ISBN-13:...
    $29.95
    $29.95
    $29.95
  • Copley and West in England 1775-1815: John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West in England 1775-1815 by Staley, Allen
    Allen Staley

    Copley and West in England 1775-1815: John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West in England 1775-1815

    A lavishly illustrated study of two preeminent eighteenth-century American artists. This book offers the first serious investigation of the relationship between eighteenth-century American Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. For a brief span of time, the two expatriates had a close working relationship--which we...
    $45.00
    $45.00
    $45.00
  • James Howell by Rider, Alistair
    Alistair Rider

    James Howell

    First monograph on a leading American Minimalist artist whose career is undergoing critical re-evaluationJames Howell (1935-2014) was an American abstract artist who used infinite variations of the color gray to explore the fundamentals of light, space, time, and [kinesthetic] perception. He appreciated the color's...
    $75.00
    $75.00
    $75.00
  • Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America by Gallati, Barbara Dayer
    Barbara Dayer Gallati

    Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America

    Named after a series of charity shows held by the New York social elite during the 1890s, Beauty's Legacy examines the remarkable resurgence of portraiture in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. It features over fifty paintings, including works by...
    $49.95
    $49.95
    $49.95
  • Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum by Sherry, Karen A.
    Karen A. Sherry

    Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum

    The first survey of the Brooklyn Museum's world-class collection of drawings, Fine Lines highlights more than one hundred masterworks by some of the most important names in American art from the last three centuries. Among more than seventy artists included are John Singleton Copley,...
    $59.95
    $59.95
    $59.95
  • And There Was Sculpture: Jacob Epstein's Formative Years 1880-1930 by Gilboa, Raquel
    Raquel Gilboa

    ...and There Was Sculpture: Jacob Epstein's Formative Years 1880-1930

    This is a comprehensive introduction to the young Epstein, a study of his personality, his art, his culture, his milieu, his domestic menages, his Jewishness, his unJewishness, his vision, his lovers and again his art, for Epstein lived, starved and suffered all for his...
    $30.00
    $30.00
    $30.00
  • Bernadette of Lourdes: Paintings by Greg Tricker by Vann, Philip
    Philip Vann

    Bernadette of Lourdes: Paintings by Greg Tricker

    Greg Tricker is a stone carver and painter whose profound and simple style is deeply rooted in a mystical tradition of art. Qualities of myth, an innocence of spirit akin to the folk art tradition, and a powerfully theatrical element feature in his work....
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • Travelers by Wiesenfeld, Aron
    Aron Wiesenfeld

    Travelers

    Aron Wiesenfeld, a former WildStorm artist, has been creating works of fine art since the early 2000's. Travelers is a curation of his latest pieces from 2014-2020, published in a stunning softcover collection. Features an introduction by New York based art critic Kimberly Powers....
    $30.00
    $30.00
    $30.00
  • The Purple Blanket by Owings, Cindy
    Cindy Owings

    The Purple Blanket

    From Montana, steeped in cowboy outdoor culture, comes the story of one woman's struggle to realize her dream of creating colorful, whimsical wool coats. Cindy Owings' story is not one of rags to riches but one of determination and stamina in the face of...
    $36.00
    $36.00
    $36.00
  • Treasures of the English Church: A Thousand Years of Sacred Gold and Silver by Schroder, Timothy
    Timothy Schroder

    Treasures of the English Church: A Thousand Years of Sacred Gold and Silver

    A foreword by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and twelve essays by distinguished authorities will illustrate aspects of evolving liturgy and Church history, alongside a beautiful display of the 250 gold and silver objects spanning the history of the church which...
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • Eighty Drawings: Including the Weaker Sex: The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor by Gibson, Charles Dana
    Charles Dana Gibson

    Eighty Drawings: Including the Weaker Sex: The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor

    American graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) found enduring fame as the creator of the Gibson Girl -- the beautiful, independent, and socially confident young woman who embodied the spirit of a new era at the turn of the twentieth century. This affordable volume...
    $14.95
    $14.95
    $14.95
  • Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York by Langa, Helen
    Helen Langa

    Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York

    During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic expression, prints came close to realizing the ideal of...
    $85.00
    $85.00
    $85.00
  • C. Curry Bohm: Brown County and Beyond by Kraft, Daniel
    Daniel Kraft

    C. Curry Bohm: Brown County and Beyond

    C. Curry Bohm was a talented and highly regarded landscape artist who is most commonly associated with Brown County, Indiana. Most consider him a leader of the second generation of Brown County painters. However, Curry's career and success expanded well beyond the borders of...
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes--Late Works 1985-2015 by Rooks, Michael
    Michael Rooks

    Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes--Late Works 1985-2015

    Robert Barnes has been called the "most famous unknown painter in America." Picking up where his 1985 mid-career retrospective left off, this gorgeous catalog surveys Barnes's work from the past 30 years. Often identified as a Chicago School artist because of his training at...
    $25.00
    $25.00
    $25.00
  • Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California by Van Hoy, Justin
    Justin Van Hoy

    Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California

    Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California highlights new work by contemporary artists who are aesthetically and regionally joined through a variety of mediums and demographics. By showcasing unknown and emerging artists alongside established icons who all call California home, Milk and Honey recognizes...
    $39.95
    $39.95
    $39.95
  • American Made: Paintings & Sculpture from the Demell Jacobsen Collection by Heuer, Elizabeth B.
    Elizabeth B. Heuer

    American Made: Paintings & Sculpture from the Demell Jacobsen Collection

    A fascinating survey of exceptional American painting and sculpture from the late 18th century to the present day.The DeMell Jacobsen Collection of paintings and sculpture--an assemblage rich in American cultural heritage--parallels the development of art in the United States. American Made features some of...
    $74.95
    $74.95
    $74.95
  • Land Art in the U.S.A.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States by Malpas, William
    William Malpas

    Land Art in the U.S.A.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States

    LAND ART IN THE U.S.A. A study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day. This book explores all of the major American land, environmental...
    $52.49
    $52.49
    $52.49
  • Land Art in the U.S.A.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States by Malpas, William
    William Malpas

    Land Art in the U.S.A.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United States

    LAND ART IN THE U.S.A. A study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day. This book explores all of the major American land, environmental...
    $29.99
    $29.99
    $29.99
  • Brice Marden by Garrard, Laura
    Laura Garrard

    Brice Marden

    BRICE MARDEN The American artist Brice Marden (b. 1938) is one of the great contemporary painters. Brice Marden's first works were the Minimalist monochrome panels of the 1960s, large, austere, 'implacable' oil and wax paintings characterized by a precise coolness. In 1975 Marden had...
    $17.99
    $17.99
    $17.99
  • Brice Marden by Garrard, Laura
    Laura Garrard

    Brice Marden

    BRICE MARDEN The American artist Brice Marden (b. 1938) is one of the great contemporary painters. Brice Marden's first works were the Minimalist monochrome panels of the 1960s, large, austere, 'implacable' oil and wax paintings characterized by a precise coolness. In 1975 Marden had...
    $29.99
    $29.99
    $29.99
  • Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence by Davis, Julia
    Julia Davis

    Mark Rothko: The Art of Transcendence

    MARK ROTHKO Mark Rothko (1903-1970, born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia) is one of the great 20th century American artists. A huge amount of material that has grown up around Rothko. Like Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Leonardo da Vinci, Mark...
    $29.99
    $29.99
    $29.99
  • Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada by Fox, William L.
    William L. Fox

    Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada

    Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded...
    $29.95
    $29.95
    $29.95
  • The Negro in The American Rebellion by William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown

    The Negro in The American Rebellion

    This documents the participation of both free blacks and slaves during the Civil War, as well as a background of African American participation in the Revolution and War of 1812. From the preface: "Feeling anxious to preserve for future reference an account of the...
    $23.00
    $23.00
    $23.00
  • The San Francisco Bay Note Card Box by Killion, Tom
    Tom Killion

    The San Francisco Bay Note Card Box

    These lovely note cards beautifully reproduce the amazing woodcut prints of the California landscape that Tom Killion created over the past four decades. Each box contains twelve blank cards printed on fine white stock and twelve white envelopes. The San Francisco Bay Note Card...
    $22.00
    $22.00
    $22.00
  • All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora by Caputo, Andrea
    Andrea Caputo

    All City Writers: The Graffiti Diaspora

    The title, All City Writers, describes a vast research on the Writing movement, focusing particularly on the process of its exportation from New York to all of Europe during the '80s. The first part of the research analyzes how graffiti in media such as...
    $49.95
    $49.95
    $49.95
  • The Great American Paint In(r): Artists Sharing Their Pandemic Stories by Weinaug, William C.
    William Weinaug

    The Great American Paint In(r): Artists Sharing Their Pandemic Stories

    The first book to document the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of American artists in all 50 states Includes contributions from at least one celebrated artist from every U.S. state, plus several from Canada Cover artwork created by Mary Jane Volkmann "We are living...
    $50.00
    $50.00
    $50.00
  • Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022 by Meisel, Louis K.
    Louis K. Meisel

    Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022

    The abandoned and forgotten landscapes of rural southwestern towns are the favored subjects of Rod Penner's paintings. His deft use of contrasts in his images--despondency and hope, isolation and nostalgia--evokes memories of The Last Picture Show and elicits complex responses from viewers. "I'm interested...
    $65.00
    $65.00
    $65.00
  • 50 Contemporary Artists by Sanders Smith, Terrence
    Terrence Sanders Smith

    50 Contemporary Artists

    50 Contemporary Artists is my response to publishers, critics and curators who systematically regurgitate the same list of contemporary artists every season. Being an Artist, Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine and the Curator of Artvoices Art Books, I view thousands of artists and their works...
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023 by Sansom, Andrew
    Andrew Sansom

    The Art of Texas State Parks: A Centennial Celebration, 1923-2023

    In 2023, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department marks the 100th anniversary of the state park system. From its inception in 1923, the Texas park system has grown to 95 sites, covering more than 627,000 acres and comprising 74 state parks, 13 historic sites,...
    $40.00
    $40.00
    $40.00
  • On Island Time: A Traveler's Atlas: Illustrated Adventures on and Around the Islands of Washington and British Columbia by O'Leary, Chandler
    Chandler O'Leary

    On Island Time: A Traveler's Atlas: Illustrated Adventures on and Around the Islands of Washington and British Columbia

    Dream of escaping to an island, for the slower pace and stunning views? This illustrated love letter to the Pacific Northwest's iconic islands--focusing on Puget Sound, the San Juans, and Canada's Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island--charms and educates travelers, locals, and armchair adventurers alike....
    $24.95
    $24.95
    $24.95
  • Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting by Hartel Jr, Herbert R.
    Herbert R. Hartel Jr

    Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

    This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing...
    $180.00
    $180.00
    $180.00
  • Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses by Wilmerding, John
    John Wilmerding

    Lens on American Art: The Depiction and Role of Eyeglasses

    A reflection of American art's most iconic portraits that feature eyeglasses, and their significance to the artists--from Grant Wood to Alex Katz--through the lens of renowned art historian John Wilmerding. This book celebrates and interprets eyeglasses in American art through painting, prints, folk art,...
    $50.00
    $50.00
    $50.00
  • Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963 by Butt, Gavin
    Gavin Butt

    Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948-1963

    In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots--in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey's controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia--discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated...
    $26.95
    $26.95
    $26.95
  • Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States by Dimaggio, Paul
    Paul Dimaggio

    Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States

    Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding...
    $37.95
    $37.95
    $37.95

Recently Viewed Products