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1909016844Paris: Jack Okey 1909. Original Letter and Art . No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Nice Four Page Letter By Okey Discussing And Including His Only Etching A Self Portrait Which He Made In Paris. John Clark "Jack" Okey June 3 1889 - January 8 1963 Was An American Art Director. He Was Raised In Los Angeles And Attended The Harvard School For Boys. After Leaving He Was Given Instruction In Art By His Uncle The California Artist J. Bond Francisco. While He Was In His Early 20S He Traveled To Paris With His Friend Stanton Macdonald Wright And Spent Several Years There Studying Art. Around The Time Of His Marriage In 1913 He Became Involved In The Nascent Film Industry In The Los Angeles Area And Was Involved In The Design And Construction Of Some Of The Earliest Studios There. He Continued In The Film Industry As An Art Director Until His Retirement In 1959. In The Mid-1930S He Spent Several Years In England Working For Alexander Korda Designing Studios For Him. After His Return To The United States He Spent The Remainder Of His Active Career Working For Rko. He Was Nominated For Two Academy Awards For Art Direction 1929 And 1944 But His Best Known Film Is "It'S A Wonderful Life". <br/> <br/> Jack Okey unknown
1963015906Mykonos Circa 1963 1963. Original Oil Painting . Framed. Fine. An attractive dockside view of part of the harbor with a man and his donkey in the foreground. Nicely framed in plain angled wood with a small gilt border on the inside. <br/> <br/> unknown
194011177Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 11.2x8.7x0.4in. not issued with a dust jacket; spine faded wear to head of spine and edges and corners of paper covered boards owner's name on front free endpaper interior clean and bright. <br>The catalogue of an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit Michigan from October 18 to November 10 1940. 96 pieces loaned by C. T. Loo & Co. are described and illustrated in black and white on 41 plates. <br>78pp 1.24lb 11.2x8.7x0.4in The Detroit Institute of Arts hardcover
1977900259New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers 1977. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large square cloth hardcover book. 220 pages. Illustrated throughout with black & white and color photography. Several larger fold-out photographs. Tipped-in plate. Also includes a Biographical outline; a chronologies of Major Sculpture Commissions One-Man Exhibitions and Major Catalogs and Selected Group Exhibitions and Catalogs; Works In Pulic Collections;Selected Bibliography; Films and Taped Interviews; and an Index. <br/><br/>This copy inscribed/signed by George Rickey to his sister Emily. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers hardcover
1935035594Los Angeles: Pasquale G Napolitano 1935. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Original Drawing In Black Five Standing Figures And Globe Subtitled Science With Later Pencil Subtitle "Babblers" In The Artist's Frame. Image Size 13" X 9". Signed In Pencil. A Study For His Long Beach School Murals Under The Wpa. Napolitano Studied At Chouinard And Otis To 1925 Worked With Herman Sachs And Later On His Own Doing Architectural Murals Los Angeles City Hall The Miami Beach Biltmore And Many Prominent Buildings And Estates. He Then Studied Ceramics In Ny And Mural Painting In Germany 1929-1931. After Returning To Los Angeles In 1933 Napolitano Began Working In All Media Including Many Murals For The Wpa Where He Met Armitage. Armitage Published A Book About Napolitano In 1935 And Used His Illustrations In Many Books 1934-1960. <br/> <br/> Pasquale G Napolitano unknown
1977166680N.p.: N.p. 1977. Photograph of Claes Oldenburg on site for the 1977 installation and dedication of Oldenburg's large-scale public art installation "Batcolumn" at the US Social Security Administration plaza in downtown Chicago. Photograph with annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso noting the name of German photographer Harry Shunk. Also included are two different vintage programs for the event.<br /> <br /> "Batcolumn" was commissioned by the US General Services Administration and depicts a giant baseball bat constructed in latticework COR-TEN steel and painted gray standing on its knob. The dedication ceremony was held on April 14 1977 and included remarks by Mayor of Chicago Michael A. Bilandic and National Endowment for the Arts Deputy Chairman Michael Straight.<br /> <br /> Photograph 10 x 8 inches. One program 8.25 x 8.5 inches the other 8 x 5.25 inches. All materials generally Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1940015931Los Angeles Circa 1940 1940. Original Artwork . Board. Near Fine. 8" x 6. Small Oil Landscape On Board Signed 8" X 6" Oblong Undated But Circa 1930/1950. Provenance: Estate Of Edwin Roscoe Shrader Of Otis Art Institute. <br/> <br/> unknown
19032111902158904508Kyoto Art Association 1903. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kyoto Art Association paperback
19100262011910. Original Drawing . Single Sheet. Very Good. Drawing By Will Bradley. Original Drawing By Will Bradley In Green Ink With A Small Black Ink Embellishment / Correction. Very Detailed And Probably Intended As A Book Illustration. 6 5/8" X 4" On Sheet 12 1/8" X 9". Undated But Circa 1900/1920 Is Likely. Slight Age Toning Two Small Corner Chips Far From The Illustration. From A Collection Of Will Bradley Material Formed By A Southern California Collector Who Apparently Had Many Of Will Bradley's Own Copies And Drawings Apparently Received From Fern Bradley Or Her Estate Or A Later Owner. <br/> <br/> unknown
1997251108058Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture 1997. hardcover. Like New. 11x1x11. ~ Like-New Inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. E-mail for more info./pics Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture hardcover
1992DEMO015147IOak Park IL: Another Chicago Press 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt. Thick 8vo 1138pp. gray cloth. Laid in archivally is Forrest's obituary. <br/><br/>This Pulitzer-nominated novel had a first printing of only 1500 copies. On Christmas Day 1992 an electrical fire in the publisher's office damaged all the remaining copies of which about ten smoke-damaged copies were salvaged. Forrest was an English Professor at Northwestern University. He inscribed this copy "Love to "Connie Reuveni / good luck with your bookstore / Best Wishes / Leon Forrest." Connie owned the Booknook Parnassus used bookstore in Evanston so this is not one of the smoke-damaged copies. Critic John Cawelti called this "The ULYSSES of Chicago's South Side." It covers a week in February 1966. in the life of Joubert Jones and "as a way of re-creating the spirit of those times . Forget the other hype. This is a legitimately rare modern first edition ! Blurbed by 2 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison. Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt. NOTE: the new 2023 edition incorporates hundreds of editorial changes Forrest wanted included here but wer not. Another Chicago Press hardcover
1987200-06746bGeorge Braziller 1987. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! George Braziller hardcover
196959146Paris France: Association De La Jeune Sculpture Et Al. As New. 1969. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 220 pp. With 194 ills. 19 x 14 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Association De La Jeune Sculpture, Et Al paperback
19742580Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. As New. 1974. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 119 pages including many black& white photographs by Daniel Farber of pieces in the collection a selected bibliography and an introduction by Jonathan Fairbanks. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum of Fine Arts paperback
196458492Salon De La Jeune Sculpture. As New. 1964. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in French. 144 pp. With 84 ills. 18 x 13 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Salon De La Jeune Sculpture paperback
197363308Sculpture Plaza Rimini; Et Al. As New. 1973. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in Italian. 98 pp. With 63 ills. 3 col. . 21 x 25 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Sculpture Plaza, Rimini; Et Al paperback
196428236Maine: Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. As New. 1964. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer-- . Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture paperback
1905027752New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck 1905. First Edition . Single Embossed Tin Sheet. Very Good . 14 1/2" x 11. Rare Embossed Tin Color Broadside With Puck Heading Numbered Vol. Lvii No. 149 Possibly An Advertising Display For That Issue Of Puck. A Prototypical Demonstration Of The Emerging Consciousness That The Modern Institutional Economic World Was Apparently Designed By Greedy Self-Centered Drunken Seventeen Year Olds With Expectations Of Managing It When They Grew Up With The Finer Structure Continually Redrawn By Self-Serving Politicians Bureaucrats And Judges Concerned Mostly With Preserving Their Salaries. Contains 10 1/8" X 8 3/4" Color Illustration Of John D. Rockefeller And Senator Aldrich Father-In-Law Of John D. Ii With Dark Skins Each Dressed Only In A Short Skirt Or Tutu Bearing The Legend "Gold Dust" Aldrich Holding A Model Of The Capitol And Standing On A Model Of The Stock Exchange John D. Holding A Satchel Of Money And A Standard Oil Can With Uncle Sam Looking On Dubiously; Text At Bottom "Let The Gold Dust Twins Do Your Work" A Take-Off On A Well-Known Advertising Logo Depicting Two Black Children Selling Soap. A Classic Display From The Era Of Outspoken Political Outrage. To Add To The Satire The Gold Dust Twins Washing Compound Was Owned By The Fairbanks Company A "Rockefeller Concern" And The Company Was Subject To A Major Trade Union Dispute And Strike Led By William Z. Foster Famous As Head Of The American Communist Party. <br/> <br/> Keppler & Schwarzmann / Puck unknown
1929025041Pasadena 1929. Original Drawing . No Binding. Near Fine. 13 3/4" x 12 1/4. Original Pencil Engineering Drawing Of Three Views Of A "Latitude Finder At Any Hour Angle With Three Reflections" Dated 1929 Signed Rwp. The Drawing Is 9 5/8" X 11 1/8" With Ample Margins. Porter Is Famous For His Prescient Pre-Construction Drawings Of The Palomar Observatory And Its Telescopes Machinery And Buildings So Well Visualized That They Were Used As Guides During Construction. <br/> <br/> unknown
