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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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.
THE POTTER'S ART IN CALIFORNIA, 1885 to 1855.
Oakland, CA: The Oakland Museum, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 87pp. Incl. exhibition list. Nicely illustrated in color. Original softcover edition has been bound in brown leather-like cloth stamped in gold. Gallery sticker on last blank.
ROBERT CLUNIE: Plein-Air Painter of the Sierra
Bishop, CA: Coons Gallery, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 289pp. Incl. index. Profusely illustrated: 317 illustrations, including 93 plates in full color. "Clunie spent thirty years recording, on sweeping canvases, in all weathers, the majesty of the wilderness..."
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.
CHARLES REIFFEL: An American Post-Impressionist
San Diego, CA: The San Diego Museum of Art, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 190pp. Incl. chronology and exhibition history. 91 color plates and numerous text illustrations. "His work was often dismissed by collectors as 'too modern' in comparison with the more restrained production of the local plain air school..."
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.
RALPH HOLMES
Santa Barbara, CA: James M. Hansen, 1981. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Brief text plus 38 plates, mostly color. With “Painting List “ at rear describing 239 artworks and examples of Holme’s signature.
CALIFORNIA GRANDEUR AND GENRE. From the Collection of James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees
Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. Incl. Artist's index. Nicely illustrated with single illustration on one page and artist bio on facing page. Contains well known artists, like Edgar Payne and Hanson Puthuff, and many other, lesser known, artists. Rear of 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"
MATHEWS: Masterpieces of the California Decorative Style
Santa Barbara and Salt lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1980. Quarto.127pp. Incl. index. Nicely illustrated in color and b&w. White cloth stamped in brown. Spine of dust jacket is a bit sunned and has one edge-tear.
ELMER BISCHOFF: The Ethics of Paint
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Softcover. Sm. quarto. 210pp. incl index. Nicely illustrated in color and b&w. Light general wear. "This first substantial monograph on Elmer Bischoff offers a warm appraisal of a deacon of West Coast painters.."
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.
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.....
LILLIE MAY NICHOLSON 1884-1964: An Artist Rediscovered
Oakland, CA: WIM, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 85pp. Illustrated mostly in color. A complete catalogue of her known works. Spine of yellow dust jacket is faded.
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.
E. CHARLTON FORTUNE 1885-1969
Carmel, CA: The Carmel Art Association, 2001. First edition. Softcover. Sq. quarto. 127pp. Incl. chronology, exhibition history and notes. Nicely illustrated with color plates and text illustrations. Mild dulling (scuffing) to cover.
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.....
BENJAMIN CHAMBERS BROWN: 1865-1942 California Colors
Pasadena: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. 65pp. Illustrated with full-page color plates.
AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST: The Art and Life of Alson Skinner Clark
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Museum of California Art / Hudson Hills Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 149pp. Nicely illustrated in color.
HANSON PUTHUFF. California Colors. 1875-1972
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2006. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 56pp. plus exhibition checklist and family photo album at rear. Illustrated in color.
THE DRAWINGS OF EDGAR PAYNE 1883-1947
Minneapolis, MN: Payne Studios, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 116pp. incl “List of Titles”. Nicely illustrated. “...a collection of illustrative drawings and pages from his notebook.”.
BIRDS, BOUGHS, & BLOSSOMS. JESSE ARMS BOTKE (1883-1971).
Carmel. William A. Karges Fine art. 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 10'' x 10''. 90pp. Illustrated in color and black & white. Green cloth stamped in gold. Bound-up version of original softcover with wrappers bound-in.
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