Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550, by Dr. David Franklin 1st Ed

The Drawings of Parmigianino by A. E. Popham. Publisher: New York, The Beechhurst Press 1953. 1st Ed hardcover with Gaylord covered dust jacket. Illustrated with 82 of his drawings. ...

Hopper Drawing by Carter E Foster. 2013, Whitney Museum of American Art. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, from May 23 to October 6, 2013. The exhibition then traveled to Dallas and finally to the Walker Art Center in 2014. The book was owned by Herbert Kasper and inscribed by the author to him. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as Kasper. He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After World War II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. Hopper Drawing is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). More than anything else, Hopper's drawings reveal the continually evolving relationship between observation and invention in the artist's work, and his abiding interest in the spaces and motifs--the street, the movie theatre, the office, the bedroom, the road—that he would return to throughout his career as an artist. This exhibition showcases the Whitney's unparalleled collection of Hopper's work, which includes over 2,500 drawings bequeathed to the museum by his widow Josephine Hopper...

First edition (stated) of Italian/Parisian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s autobiography, published in 1954 by E.P. Dutton & Co. Per the dust jacket, Schiaparelli “tells her lif...

Johann Christian Friderici [= Frederici] (Heldburg 1766 - Cape Town 1804) Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago. Geteekend van Johann Christian Friderici / Verbeelding van de inwoonders op St Iago (View of the island, and the roadstead of St. Iago. Drawn by Johann Christian Friderci / Depiction of the inhabitants on St Iago) ?Porto Praia, Cape Verde...