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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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.
FRANK COBURN (1862-1938). An Early Los Angeles Painter
San Diego, CA: Orr's Gallery, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 143pp. Nicely illustrated with full page color plates and color and b&w text illustrations. Coburn arrived in Los Angeles in 1908.
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..."
PLANT PORTRAITS: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum/ San Diego Natural History Museum, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 212pp.; 325 color illustrations and 10 b&w illustrations. " Valentien accepted a commision from San Diego philanthropist, Ellen Browning Scripps to paint a series of California wildflowers...(it) soon became his life's passion...diligently painting every specimen.....
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.
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.
100 YEARS OF ART IN SAN DIEGO. Selections From The Collection of the San Diego HIs tori all Society.
San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, n.d. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 108pp. Incl. bibliography. Nicely illustrated, mostly b&w, but a few in color. Blue cloth stamped in gold. A Catalogue of the works of Artists Active in San Diego from the 1850’s to the 1950’s. Bound-up version of original softcover.....
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.
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.....
GUIDING LIGHTS. Teachers at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts 1920-1938
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Historical Society, 2007. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 53pp. Nicely illustrated.
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.....
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. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. 127pp. Incl. chronology, exhibition history and notes. Nicely illustrated with color plates and text illustrations. Scarce in hardcover.
THE PAINTINGS OF FRED GRAYSON SAYRE (1879-1939)
Laguna Beach, CA: Redfern Gallery, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 76pp. Nicely illustrated with color plates. This copy SIGNED by Barbara Sayre Harmon, daughter of Sayre. Brown cloth stamped in gold.
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.
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.
WINDOWS IN TIME: California Scene Paintings from the Hilbert Collection
Newport Beach, CA: California Scene Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 336pp. incl. index. 255 illustrations in color with artist's biographies and essays. Featured are many well known artists such as Mischa Askenazy, Emil Kosa, Millard Sheets, Paul Sample and many others, some not so familiar.
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.
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.”.
JOSEPH KLEITSCH, A Kaleidoscope of Color
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 283pp. incl. index. Nicely illustrated with 300 illustrations, mostly in color.
AGNES PELTON POET OF NATURE
Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1995. Hardcover. Quarto.128pp. Incl bibliography and Chronology. Beautifully illustrated, mostly in color. Faint line down the half-title page. Small edge tear to dustjacket. Hardcover is scarce.
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