Stuart Davis by James Johnson Sweeney (16 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Museum of Modern Art, NY c.1945, 7-1/2 x10 rebound in cloth, 40pp. ca.26 b&w illusts. ink underlined text, ex-lib. bkplte., stamps, ugly but about G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Accompanies exhibit at New York's MoMA. Generously illustrated including 3 in color. Prints, oils, more. Chronology.Listing of Davis work in public collection. Also list of Davis writing. Boards are toned around edges and at spine. Wear at top and bottom edges of spine. Interior pages are unmarked and undamaged except for minor age toning around edges. 40 pages, 10 1/4" x 7 3/4".…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: VG++, Bumps, Sl Browning. Dust Jacket Condition: VG++, Chips, Tears, Sp brown. Edition Not Stated. First full-length study of this artist. 48p Monograph. 31 plates, 3 colour reproductions & 28 half-tone plates. Detailed bibliography. Scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with tanning to edges, 40 pages. 3 color, 28 b&w plates. Considers the life and work of American modernist Stuart Davis. (1892-1964) "Offers an informal account of Davis' career from its precocious beginning in the school of Robert Henri as a follower of The Eight through the impact of the Armory Show and the subsequent evolution of his work. The text is unique in that the artist, as far as possible, speaks for himself. James Johnson Sweeney has skillfully interwoven Davis' own terse and lively talk of pictures, places, people and esthetic theory with a running narrative and critical commentary." Record # 379613.…

Condition: Good. 1945 Repaired dust wrapper is in protective sleeve.Text and illustrations clean. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 3,000cc. 40pp. Light foxing to prelims, else a very good hardback in a tanned jacket.

Hardcover. Grey cloth; tan paper dust jacket, 40 pp. 3 color, 28 bw plates. Considers the life and work of American modernist Stuart Davis. (1892-1964) "Offers an informal acount of Davis' career from its precocious beginning in the school of Robert Henri as a follower of The Eight through the impact of the Armory Show and the subsequent evolution of his work. The text is unique in that the artist, as far as possible, speaks for himself. James Johnson Sweeney has skillfully interwoven Davis' own terse and lively talk of pictures, places, people and esthetic theory with a running narrative and critical commentary." (dj) The exhibition checklist cites 53 pieces, and 31 are pictured here. Includes bibliography and other peripheral lists. A nice and early monograph to own, on this prolific artist. G (Ex-gallery owned, with label on front cover and few interior marks; DJ has moderate wear at head of spine and has some blue paint on front cover and is aged; book interior is relatively clear, given its age, and color plates are vibrant.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 40 pages, colour frontispiece, illustrations, 2 colour plates; 26 cm. Edition of 3000 copies. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. *** A major MoMA survey of the Jazz Age Cubist painter Stuart Davis (1892-1964). *** CONTENTS: Chronology; Stuart Davis, by J. J. Sweeney; Catalogue of the exhibition; Work by Davis in American Public Collections; Prints by Davis; Murals by Davis; Bibliography by Hannah B. Muller; Index to Davis Quotations in Text. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First. 3 color plates, b/w illus. 40pp. Thin small 4to, pale blue cloth, d.w. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1945). First Edition. Stuart Davis. (illustrator).

Softcover. White stapled wraps with color illustrations. [8] pp. 7 color plates. Exhibition held Nov. 3 to Dec. 23, 1983. Includes 2 pages of text by Davis about the impact of the Armory Show on his subsequent work, the nice color plates, and a catalogue of 16 works (mostly oils). VG, small ink stamp inside on one copy.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition. One of 3,000 copies. Published NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1945. Small 4to. Frontis +40 pages, illustrated b/w and three color plates. Gray cloth with red lettering. Uniform, mild toning to paper. Very good, clean, tight in very good dust jacket with darkening to the spine and extremities, chip off the heel.…

Hardcover. 4to. pp. 40. 3 colour plates & 28 text illus. biblio. cloth. First Edition. cfFreitag 2139 (Edition published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art?).

26x20 cm. 40 S. Mit 3 farb. Tafeln und vielen s/w. Abb. OLeinen. Einband etwas fleckig und leicht angestaubt. Rücken verblasst. Schiefgelesen. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung von Stuart Davis an den Schweizer Architketen Alfred Roth, datiert 1947.

New York: Museum of Modern Art 1945. Sm.4to. Or.cl. In worn d.w. 40pp. With col. frontisp. 2 other col. plates and num. b/w illusts.