The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture

Modern Painting, the Impressionists and the Avante-Garde of the Twentieth Century. Hardcover book. First edition published in 1998 by Barron's. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 399 pages.

The Story of Painting, the Essential Guide to the History of Western Art. By Sister Wendy Beckett, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hardcover book wi...

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Charles S. Moffett. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 1985 by The Metropolitan Museum o...

The Italian Paintings Before 1800 at The Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, by Peter Tomory. Hardcover book published in 1976 by The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Il...

Italian drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles. Published in Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket The third in a series of scholarly catalogs on the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, this book focuses on the museum's important holdings of Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The catalog contains comprehensive entries on over 700 drawings, including preliminary studies for major compositions, cartoons, modelli, independent drawings, and copies after Renaissance and Mannerist masters. Featured are major works by some of the most significant artists of the time: Baccio Bandinelli, Federico Barocci, Fra...

Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, by Sarah Lees. Published by Clark Art Institute, 2013 2 Volume 1st Ed with dust jackets and sl...

Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design by Georgia Museum of Art and Perri Lee Roberts. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog. 2017, Un...

by Jennifer Hawkins Opis This is a comprehensive catalogue of the Scandinavian Ceramics and Glass collection at the V&A, showing comparative material from all four Scandinavian countries. The history of the many ceramics and glass factories, their artists and designers is outlined against a changing social and political background. Scandinavian design, from the 1950s to the 1970s, was a by-word for modernism. Scandinavian style was the style to which all other designers aspired during that time and the Nordic designers were awarded all the major prizes. Earlier, during the 1920s and 1930s Scandinavian designers were establishing influential design concepts, and ceramics and glass production attracted many of the key artists. Masterworks are included: from Alvar Aalto's "Savoy" vase to Tapio Wirkkala...