World Famous Paintings by Rockwell Kent (7 results)

Condition: Good. 1947. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket over beige cloth. Colour illustrated plates. Pages are bright and clear with light water staining and tanning to text block edges; text unaffected. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall with visible loss and creasing to panels.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Características: Pasta dura en tela editorial. Buen estado. Las tapas están sucias y ligeramente manchadas de las orillas laterales. Cantos limpios. Hermosas guardas estampadas. La impresión se ha hecho en papel cuché de notable grosor. Esta obra incluye, para cada uno de los pintores de la compilación: una breve biografía, una excelente reproducción a colores de una de sus obras, un comentario sobre ésta y una lista de los principales textos escritos sobre el artista. Los artistas incluidos en el libro son: Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albetinelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Bordone, Moroni, Jan van Eyck, Memling, Mabuse, Rubens, Van Dyck, Dürer, Holbein, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Ter Borch, De Hooch, Metsu, Vermeer, Maes, Hobbema, Velásquez, Murillo, Watteau, Nattier, Chardin, Boucher, Perroneau, Greuze, Fragonard, Le Brun, Millet, Corot, Meissonier, Muenier, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir, Manet, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Morland, Lawrence, Turner, Constable, Cox, De Wint, Maclise, Watts, Brown, Landseer, Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Yeames, Orchardson, Pettie, Holiday, Moore, Somerscales, Parsons, Cotman, Whistler, Homer, Eakins, Ryder, Sargent, Bellows y Wood. Los textos tienen sobrias capitulares. Las páginas van sin cornisa ni folios. Cada lámina, es decir cada pintura distinta, tiene dedicadas en promedio cuatro páginas. 400 pp. aprox. más índice. (29 x 21 cm). Peso: 1950 g.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 285 pages. Previous owner's name inside. Stains to cream colored cloth cover. 8 1/2"w x 11 5/8"h x 2 1/4"thick. Includes 100 tipped-in color plates. Cool endpapers by Rockwell Kent.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Edition not stated. Undated 1947 printing of the 1939 first edition. Lacks the letterpress tissue guards of the 1939 edition. Thick, heavy 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 100 color plates. Illustrated endpapers by Rockwell Kent. Cased in half-leather and pale-tan cloth. All lettering stamped in gilt. Signed on the title page by Rockwell Kent. The editor was assisted in the commentaries that accompany each plate by his friend, Robert Heller. No signs of previous ownership. Not a library discard. A sound, intact copy in near very good condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Trade edition in embossed imitation leather binding without dustjacket. Illustrated endpapers by Rockwell Kent, who also provided an introduction and summaries of each of the 100 paintings. 100 full color plates tipped in. Very good, with foxing and dust soiling to page edges. A sound and attractive copy of this handsome production.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in boards. Bump on top text block edge. Foxing on panels and spine. Light fraying on panel corners. ; From the personal collection of notable photojournalist Ted Spiegel, known for his work with National Geographic and his portrait of John F. Kennedy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition elaborately embossed and decorated brown buckram leather boards with a 5 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch front cover color pastedown painting of by Van Dyke. Includes List of Plates and Painters; Introduction by Rockwell Kent dated 1939; Alphabetical Index of Pictures; and Alpahbetical Index of Painters. Profusely illustrated with 100 tipped-into-the-volume world famous paintings by various famous artisits/painters. Also includes two-color illustrated front and rear endpapers. All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square practically unread condition (see photographs). Unpaginated. ". Critic I've tried to be; painter, I am. As a painter then, as one who all his life has worked at art, one who while critics looked at pictures, worked at making them, let me say this: No pictures - ever - were addressed to critics: they were made for you. In the simplest and clearest terms that they were masters of, the painters through the ages have recreated life - ladscapes and flowers, air and water, human beings and dumb animals, their own thoughts of life and death and all between, their moods, their hopes, despairs, (all these and more are life): they've recreated it. Out of the emotional intensity of their own perceptions they have done this - that others, too, as long as life may last might share their wisdom and their ecstasy. In the critical commentary which accompanies the pictures, we (for in the commentary I have been assisted by my wise and learned friend, Robert Heller) w have tried - and it has been hard at times! - to not too strongly show our prejudices. What, after all, do any of us know - except, perhaps (the wisest of us) what we like. Pretend, if you want to, that you had met us at the door of the picture galler. And that you had siad to us, "Come on in and tell us what you think of the pictures." And that we had gladly accepted. (As, in fact, we wold.) Well - these comments are approximately what, trying to be honest and properly respectful of your own opinions, we would have said. Or pretend that, having met us, you cut us dead, saying indignantly to yourselves, "We don't want anyone to tell us what to like!" That would be good too. For after all the only way to cultivate our faculties of appreciation is to exercise them. And we can best do that alone." - Rockwell Kent, Ausable Forks, New York, 1939, short excerpt from the introduction.