Barker Virgil (101 results)

Buckram. Condition: Good. Good buckram bound copy, 717 pp, illus. in B/W with text throughout. *Binding is somewhat weak.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover, 171 pp, profusely illustrated throughout, lists 100 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 52 page essay on American Painting published by William Edwin Rudge for the Whitney Museum. Supplement at end lists of painters - a chronological classification starting in 1607. Exterior spine is chipped an missing a small section at bottom. Text block is complete and clean. Delicate condition, but interesting and fairly scarce.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paper, Interesting that Mr Barker lists the painters in each period (p. 45 thru p 52), 52 pp, all text. Has Bookplate on inside front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. A few stains. ; 93 pages.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket is very chipped, large closed tears. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The MacMillan Company Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

xxvii. + 717pp. 100 full-page black & white plates. First Printing so stated. Ex-library, previous owner's bookplates, front hinge glued: Good+/no dj. Interior clean/tight.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket has is chipped, rubbed, sunned. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo; 52 pages; Clean and secure in original brown wrappers. OCLC 851188121 Art critic and historian Virgil Barker was born in Abingdon, Virginia, in 1889. He attended the Bordentown Military Institute, Harvard University and the Corcoran School of Art. Barker began his professional career in 1919, serving as special assistant for the biennial exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. Following a long period of museum work, Barker began writing art history and criticism. He joined the editorial board of The Arts, serving as associate editor and later as contributing editor. Working as an art critic in New York during the 1920s, Barker "came to know well many of the many important American painters who gravitated toward Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and whose works dominated American painting between the two wars." Barker also contributed to the knowledge and interpretation of American art through his writings. Barker served on the editorial boards of The Arts and The Art Bulletin, Art and Archaeology, The Magazine of Art, and Art in America. He contributed articles and reviews to Art in America, The Magazine of Art, The Yale Review, Saturday Review, and other magazines. Barker's first book Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, published in 1926, was the first work on Bruegel written in English. In 1931 Barker published a monograph on Henry Lee McFee as well as this work - A Critical Introduction to American Painting. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. No dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Many black-and-white illustrations. 717 pages, tall 8vo, orange cloth, dust wrapper (lightly worn and spine faded). New York: Macmillan, 1950. A Very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cloth, xxvii, 717 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket with a sunned spine & moderate shelfwear. Profusely illustrated. *** CONTENTS: PERIOD ONE: THE COLONIAL. DIVISION ONE: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS-TO 1725 / The retablos; Exploration, conquest, and settlement; Protestantism and art; Early Virginia; The first century in Massachusetts; The artisan painter; The amateur painter; The signs; Portraits by artisans and amateurs; Portraits of children; Anticipation of studio technique; The central colonies; The South; Indications of a broadening taste; Retrospect from the year 1725. DIVISION TWO: COLONIAL CULMINATION-1725 TO 1775: The emergence of an upper class; A conscious taste in painting; Specialists into New England; Specialists into the central colonies / Anon.: De Peyster Children Portraits; Van Cortlandt Child Portraits; Specialist in the South; The spread of foreign fashion; A native-born talent; More native-born / Boston: Philadelphia; A native-born genius; Important stylistic beginnings; More artisans and amateurs; The further broadening of taste / Pastel, Miniature, Conversation pieces, Anecdote; Still-life; Landscape: Decoration: Retrospect from the year 1775. DIVISION THREE: REVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION-1775 TO 1790 The disruption of the upper class; Transition artisans and amateurs; Fractur; Anticipations of later developments; PERIOD TWO: THE PROVINCIAL. DIVISION FOUR: THE FEDERAL ERA-1790-1830: The new nation; A returning master; An influx of foreigners; The popularity of the miniature / Foreign-born: Native-born; Portraiture in the oil medium / Boston: Connecticut: Philadelphia: The Old South; The Cotton South: The Old West; Forms strengthened by the foreign-born / Still-life; History; Anecdote; Topographical views: Panorama and scene painting: Landscape; Forms developed by the native-born / Anecdote; Landscape; Panorama; The summit of a useful life; History painting; An artist of impulse; An artist of forethought; The first effective art organizations; Artisans and amateurs of the Federal Era; Retrospect from the year 1830. DIVISION FIVE: THE MID-CENTURY-1830 TO 1860 THE REIGN OF THE GENTEEL; The decline of the miniature; Mid-century portraiture / The basic average: Mechanistic finish: The cotton South; The Old West: The Old South; Mid-century landscape; The popularity of the panorama; Painters of the Amerind; Painters into distant regions / Texas: California; Mid-century art organizations; Mid-century history painting; Mid-century anecdote; The mid-century concept of imagination; Mid-century still-life; Painters working for reproduction; Mid-century artisans and amateurs / Sign painting, Ship portraits; Monochromatic drawings, Mourning pieces; Mid-century dilettantes; Retrospect from the year 1860. DIVISION SIX: AFTERMATH OF THE CIVIL WAR-1860-1880: THE AGE OF PLUNDER; Painting in the remoter regions / The South: Texas; California; Postwar portraiture; Postwar history painting; Postwar anecdote; Postwar artisans and amateurs; Postwar still-life; Grandiloquent landscape; Lesser landscape; Poetic landscape; Poetic figure painting; The transformation of nature; The transcription of nature; The renewal of nature; Conclusion Size: 4to. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library with the usual labeling. Minor shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. 716pp., illus, notes, index. This is the 1960 printing. Very good condition with text clean and binding sound without a dust jacket.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Reprint. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. ; B&W Illustrations; 717 pages.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pp 125-183, V. Blue Card Covers. Light Usage. No Marks. B/W Illustrations and Plates (illustrator).

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