Iona M Chelette (10 results)

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

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Full golden wraps. Embossed gilt titles. First edition. Book is in near fine condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. This publication documents the 47 paintings that were in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1992. Full color reproductions throughout. 4to. 108 pp.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Palm Springs Desert Museum, Published 1991. Paperback with French flaps, 107 pp.; 27 cm; color plates throughout (47 paintings by 43 artists); distributed by the University of Washington Press. In Good condition. Gold card covers with gilt title and blind-embossed mountain device on front. Light rubbing and soiling to front cover; rear cover with white scuffs and scratches along the spine-side edge and a few small dark spots; light wear to edges and spine. Covers starting to separate from the glued text block along the top of the spine, still attached; text block sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Laid in: exhibition checklist, a single sheet folded into three panels, with the exhibition itinerary printed on the reverse. Catalog for a traveling exhibition of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century California painting from the Oakland collection of James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees. On October 20, 1991, less than two months before the show opened at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the Oakland hills fire destroyed the collectors' entire collection; the book documents 47 of the lost paintings that had been chosen for the exhibition. Each artist has a biography by Iona M. Chelette facing a color plate, among them Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, William Hahn, Theodore Wores, Gunnar Widforss, William Wendt, Granville Redmond, Gottardo Piazzoni and Lillie May Nicholson, with essays by Katherine Plake Hough and Will South on the grand landscape and genre traditions. The laid-in checklist lists the paintings shown on the five-venue tour (Palm Springs, Ventura, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, Shreveport and Oshkosh, 1991-1993), with lenders including the Oakland Museum and several galleries. Contents: Foreword (Fritz A. Frauchiger); Collectors' Comments (James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees); Acknowledgments (Katherine Plake Hough); California Grandeur and Genre (Katherine Plake Hough); Distinctions Between Grandeur and Genre (Will South); Artists Biographies (Iona M. Chelette); Artists Index; Board of Trustees.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0295971894. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, slight dustsoiling to cover edges. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Oversized. No Signature.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Embossed, golden softcover wraps. First edition (1991) , Exhibition catalogue is in near fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Collection of California landscape paintings, including many that were destroyed in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. Published to accompany a traveling exhibition that originated in Palm Springs in 1992. Text by Katherine Plake Hugh, Will South, and others. 4to. 100 pp. Plus index. 295971894.…

Paperback. 1st. Small square 4to. 108pp. Artist bibliographies. Index. 47 color plates. Exhibition prospectus laid in. Small blemish to rear wrapper, else a fine copy. Sadly, the paintings represented in this work no longer exist, part of Coran and Nelson-Rees' entire collection of over seven hundred works tragically lost in the 1991 fire in the Oakland hills. Fortunately, this exhibition catalog survived. Includes works by noted artists Albert Bierstadt, Maurice Braun, Edward Deakin, August Francois Gay, Henry Percy Gray, Thomas Hill, Arthur Frank Matthews, Francis John McComas, John O'Shea, Edgar Alwin Payne, Hanson Duvall Puthuff, Granville Redmond, Charles Dormon Robinson, William Wendt and many others. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1991, first printing, matching copyright and publishing dates. Published by Palm Springs Desert Museum. Large softcover without DJ as issued. Condition fine overall, new inside, square and tight book, slight shelfwear, sharp corners, no names, no highlights, no bent page corners. Not a reminder. Square 4to, 108 pages, illustrated throughout. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. T-CHELETTE; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Chelette, Iona M.; Hough, K. P.; South, W. California Grandeur and Genre from the Collection of James L. Coran and Walter A. Nelson-Rees - Palm Springs Desert Museum - 12/13/91 - 3/1/92.