A PAINTER'S PARADISE
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 97pp. fully illustrated in color. Includes Exhibition checklist laid-in.
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EDGAR ALWIN PAYNE AND HIS WORK
Los Angeles: Stendahl Art Galleries, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4'' x 6 1/4''. 68pp. with 51 black and white illustrations. Limited Edition, # 443. Articles by Antony Anderson and Fred S. Hogue. Photography by George E. Hurrell and Claude S. Turner. Spine of original green cloth is worn. Inner.....
SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, The Art of Alfred R. Mitchell, 1888-1972
San Diego, CA: San Diego Historical Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 83pp. Illustrated in b&w and in color. Substantial text. Green cloth Stamped in gold. Bound-up version of original softcover book with covers bound-in.
REGIONALISM: THE CALIFORNIA VIEW. Watercolors 1929-1945
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 88pp. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 47 artists represented, each with a short bio and illustrations. Original softcover edition nicely bound in grey cloth with title stamped in gilt.
BELLE BARANCEANU, A RETROSPECTIVE
San Diego: Mandeville Gallery/ University of California, San Diego. 1985. Hardcover. Quarto. 64pp. 11 color and many b&w plates. Plain blue cloth stamped in gold. Exhibition catalogue bound-up with original wrappers included. Light rubbing on spine edge.
CHRISTIAN VON SCHNEIDAU (1893-1976)
Los Angeles: Petersen Publishing Company, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 63 pp. Illustrated profusely with b&w and color plates. SIGNED by the author. Original softcover edition nicely bound in gilt stamped grey cloth. Gallery sticker on last blank.
THE LIFE AND ART OF PAUL De LONGPRE’
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 144pp. 156 color illustrations and 57 b&w illustrations. Introduction by Jean Stern.
WILLIAM KEITH: The Saint Mary's College Collection
Hearst Art Gallery, 1988. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. Second printing with supplement added. 115pp.; plus 25pp. Supplement. Catalogue section describes and illustrates, in b&w 135 paintings, remainder of the book has both color and b&w illustrations. Scholarly essay describes the range and significance of Keith's work. Light fading to edges of.....
THE LEGACY OF PERCY GRAY
Carmel, CA: The Carmel Art Association, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. 184pp. incl. chronology, exhibition history, notes and index. Illustrated with color plates and text illustrations. Mild crease to dust jacket.
CALIFORNIA LIGHT. A Century of Landscapes: Paintings of the California Art Club
New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 276pp. Incl. index. Color illustrations, mosty full-page.
MASTERS OF LIGHT: Plein-air Painting in California 1890-1930
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum, 2002. Hardcover. Quarto. 200pp. 110 color illustrations. "Masters of Light features the work of 35 California-based artists who were strongly influenced by French Impressionism"
JOHN FROST: A Quiet Mastery
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 238pp. incl. chronology, bibliography and index. Profusely and beautifully illustrated, mostly in color.
MAX WIECZOREK His Life and Work
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1930. Hardcover. Quarto. 137pp. Mostly full-page, half-tone illustrations of Wieczorek's portraits. Dust jacket has rubbing to folds and chips and small edge tears. In worn and broken slipcase.
GEORGE POST
Beverly Hills, CA: Hillcrest Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 81pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Post is considered one of California's premier watercolor artists.
MILLARD SHEETS. The Early Years (1926-1944)
Newport Beach, CA: The California Regionalist Art Information Center, 2010. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 192pp. Nicely illustrated with full page color plates. "He (Sheets) was just 27 years old when art critics proclaimed him to be California's premier Regionalist artist and one of America's foremost watercolor painters."-from blurb.
KEN POTTER
San Clemente, CA: CSP Publishing, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in color. "...the life and art of Ken Potter, one of the premier California Style watercolor artists...The first half of the book is an illustrated biography which chronologically documents the progress of his art career. The last.....
ART AT THE JONATHAN CLUB
Los Angeles: Jonathan Art Foundation, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto.180pp. plus two folding plates. Featuring paintings by forty prominent California artists, each with a full page color plate illustration, descriptions of the paintings, and biographical information for each artist. Featured artists include Henry Chapman Ford, Hanson Puthuff, Maurice Braun, Franz.....
DRAWINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTISTS BEFORE 1950
Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 64pp. Black and white illustrations. Bound in brown leather-like cloth with gilt stamped titles. Likely a bound-up softcover editions, but covers have not been bound-in. Art gallery sticker on last blank.
THE GOLDEN GATE COLLECTION: GEORGE DEMONT OTIS 1879-1962, American Impressionist.
San Francisco, CA: George Demont Otis Foundation, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Nicely illustrated in color and b&w. Bound-up version of original softcover book with covers bound-in. Mild bump to top of spine.
CALIFORNIA LIGHT 1900-1930
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. Hardcover. Quarto. 191pp. Illustrated in color and b&w. This Chronicle Books softcover edition has been bound in blue, leather-like cloth with gilt stamped title. Very clean and nice.
ARTIST'S AT CONTINENT'S END. The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 346pp. Incl. index. Illustrated in color and b&w. Substantial text. "...the fascinating story of eight principle protagonists- Jules Tavernier, William Keith, Charles Rollo Peters, Arthur Mathews, Evelyn McCormick, Francis McComas, Gottardo Piazzoni and photographer Arnold Genthe, as well as.....
IN AND OUT OF CALIFORNIA: Travels of American Impressionists
Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum / Hudson Hills, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 151pp. 70 colorplates, 7 b&w illus. Exhibition catalogue presenting paintings by artists working in California in the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
IN NATURE'S TEMPLE: The Life and Art of William Wendt
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Lg quarto. 320pp. with 305 color illustrations. Incl. 'A chronology of the Life of William Wendt', references for titles, checklist, bibliography and index.
THE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: George Demont Otis. 1879-1962. American Impressionist.
Sacramento, CA: California State Library /George Demont Otis Foundation. 1998. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 114pp.Profusely illustrated, mostly in color.
HANSON PUTHUFF. California Colors. 1875-1972
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 56pp. plus exhibition checklist and family photo album at rear. Illustrated in color.
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