Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People by Harry T. Peters

Mallette Dean, a Printmaker and His Art by John Hawk. Book Club of California, 2018. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. He was a major figure in the hist...

A Guide to American Pewter by Carl Jacobs. NY: The McBride Company, 1957. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 216 pp. A guide to pewter for the c...

American Furniture, the Federal Period by Charles F. Montgomery. New York: Crown Publishing, 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket. 496 pp. A large reference book on American federal period furniture...

American Furniture, The Federal Period by Charles F. Montgomery. New York: The Viking Press, 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket. 496 pp. A large reference book on American federal period furniture...

The peoples of North America, the Japanese Americans. Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Japanese, factors encouraging their emigra...

American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art’s holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the twentieth century. Organized thematically and featuring paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture, the publication brings together some of the Museum’s most celebrated masterworks, contextualizing them across mediums and amidst lesser-seen but revelatory works. The selection of works by artists such as Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield and Stuart Davis includes urban and rural landscapes, scenes of industry, still-life compositions and portraiture. Although varying in style and specifics, they share certain underlying visual and emotional tendencies. Cityscapes and factories are shown eerily emptied of the crush of residents that flocked to them, becoming both a celebration of clean modern forms and technological advances, as in Sheeler’s paintings and photographs, and a reflection of anxiety about increasingly urban lifestyles and their consequences for the American individual, as in Hopper’s iconic “Night Windows.” Equally silent rural scenes are no less haunting, but perhaps reflect a nostalgia for seemingly simpler times, and a celebration of early American traditions and values. Featured still lifes are as diverse: Stuart Davis’ bright, angular compositions marry fractured form with logos and patterns taken from modern advertising...

This 1966 nautical portrait is of the clipper ship "Sweepstakes". Originally intended as a menu cover for Pan Am Airlines, this piece has never been us...

Woodrow Wilson. A History of the American People. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Alumni Edition #29 of 350 copies. Volume I signed by Woodrow Wilson...