The magazine antiques: presents its Winter 2003 choice of books for the collector's library

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2003

By Elizabeth Johns

Regular price $44.95

SALE $41

WINSLOW HOMER: ARTIST AND ANGLER (MA-8902)

By Patricia Junker with Sarah Burns and others

Regular price $45

SALE $41

COMBINED SALE $80 (MA-8903)

Johns studies the relationship between Homer's works end his psychological state at the time they were executed. 40 color-plates, 77 illustrations. Junker and Burns examine Homer's passion for fly-fishing and how it inspired his paintings and watercolors of all aspects of the sport. Homer fished in the Adirondacks, Florida, and Quebec, and the works he executed in response to these very diverse locales and equally varied fishing conditions are among his most successful. 80 colorplates. 110 illustrations.

MARSDEN HARTLEY (MA-8913)

Edited by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

Regular price $55.00

SALE $50

Six years in the making, this is an in-depth study of one of the most innovative of all the American modernist painters. Hartley was a complex individual who not only painted both abstract and representational canvases hut also wrote poetry and prose. He traveled extensively and worked in Europe, Mexico, Bermuda, and other locales before returning to Maine, his birthplace, in 1934. Hartley's life and work are examined by thirteen highly regarded historians of American art who have contributed essays to this lavishly produced book, which accompanies a landmark retrospective exhibition. 150 colorplates, 50 illustrations.

DUTCH COLONIAL HOMES IN AMERICA (MA-8904)

By Roderic H. Blackburn

Regular price $60.00

SALE $54

This volume explores the idiosyncratic yet singularly beautiful houses built by Dutch settlers in New York State and New Jersey in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Blackburn examines the religious, social, political, and family backgrounds of Dutch immigrants as they influenced the style of the houses they built in the new world, first under Dutch and later under English rule. Two illuminating chapters treat the history of the Dutch in the American colonies and the evolution of the Dutch house. These set the stage for case studies of more than forty privately and publicly owned houses and outbuildings, particularly barns. The book is arranged geographically with a discussion of the houses in the Mohawk and Upper Hudson River valleys, followed by those erected in Ulster, Dutchess, Westchester, Orange, and Rockland Counties in New York State; and finally examples built on Long Island, Staten Island, and in northern New Jersey. The evocative color photographs were taken by Geoffrey Gross and styled by S usan Piatt 200 colorplates.

WHISTLER AND HIS CIRCLE IN VENICE (MA-8914)

By Eric Denker

Regular price $39.95

SALE $36

SARGENT AND ITALY (MA-8915)

Edited by Bruce Robertson

Regular price $49.95

SALE $45

COMBINED SALE $80 (MA-8916)

Whistler and Sargent, two of the most important and influential artists of the tam of the century, were profoundly affected by their experiences in Italy. These two publications accompany large exhibitions. Whistler and His Circle in Venice focuses on his trip of 1879-1880 and also addresses his influence on artists in Europe and the United States. 150 colorplates. Sargent executed mainly watercolors on trips to Italy, pursuing subjects that interested him--buildings, street and canal scenes, Alpine landscapes, and people at work and at leisure. 85 colorplates, 50 illustrations.

KOLOMAN MOSER, MASTER OF VIENNESE MODERNISM (MA-8905)

By Maria Rennhofer

Regular price $60.00

SALE $54

DAGOBERT PECHE AND THE WIENER WERKSTATTE (MA-8906)

Edited by Peter Noever

Regular price $75.00

SALE $68

COMBINED SALE $119 (MA-8907)

Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century teemed with artistic talent. Two of the leading lights were Moser and Peche, both of whom designed objects in every conceivable medium. Rennhofer treats Moser's artistic output chronologically. 250 colorplates, 125 illustrations. Peche's is surveyed by medium. 360 colorplates, 140 illustrations.

CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN INCLUDING FIGURES FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ROBERT

GILL (MA-8917)

By Margaret Kealin Gristina

Regular price $50.00 SALE $45

Chinese porcelains produced for export are among the most revered of all ceramics. This catalogue features an enormous range of forms made between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, from garnitures and dinner services to coffeepots and monteiths, variously decorated in patterns and palettes for which these wares are renowned. Of special note is the collection of beguiling and rare animal figures assembled by the late Robert Lee Gill and Melanie Gill. Each of the sixty-five objects in this catalogue is illustrated in color, and the commentary in each entry incorporates up-to-date research. The objects under consideration were intended for export to the Netherlands, Scandinavia, England, Spain, the Near East, and the United States. 67 colorplates.

PENNSYLVANIA IMPRESSIONISM (MA-8908)

Edited by Brian H. Peterson

Regular price $49.95 SALE $45