National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden - Art Appreciation
On my recent visit to Washington, DC I walked through the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden. I could hear the sound of the water spurting in the nearby fountain. It was a warm day and the mist from the water was refreshing. As it was the ... [... more]
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Brassai: The Eye of Paris
 Amazon.com Review: Brassaï: The Eye of Paris is both the catalog of an exhibition of Brassaï's photographs organized by the Houston Fine Arts Museum and a valuable biography of the artist. In 1932, only three years after he purchased his first [... more]
$60.00
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Neill Heath
Neill Heath is also the author of Farm Houses: The New Style. He is the former information chief for The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and has held senior positions with the Smithsonian Institution. He lives in rural New Jersey. [... more]
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National Gallery of Art Washington Blooms With Art - Art ...
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is one of the largest holdings of paintings in the U.S. Presently it has 1,200 paintings compared to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with 2,200 and Boston's Museum of Fine Art with 1,600. At ... [... more]
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Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
Author: David Alan Brown Author: Peter Humfrey Author: Mauro Lucco Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 759.5 EAN: 9780300073317 ISBN: 0300073313 Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 1997-11-13 [... more]
$70.00
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Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller
Great Introduction: This painter was an amazing combination of excellent artist, sarcastic and humorous person, and historian -- he painted what he saw - and each tells a story. This book helps guide you through it and points out things in his paintings [... more]
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Edouard Vuillard
Amazon.com Review: A quiet man who lived with his beloved mother, the painter Édouard Vuillard applied his inventive talents to re-imagining bourgeois interiors as shifting planes of color and pattern. Admirers of his sensuous interior world will [... more]
$75.00
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Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the ...
All They Ever Painted: In 2001, the National Gallery of London and the National Gallery of Art in DC exhibited about 70 of the most important 19th-century paintings from the Nationalgalerie of Berlin, Germany. The SPIRIT OF AN AGE catalogue grouped them, [... more]
$55.00
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Harry Callahan
A Concise Compilation: Harry Callahan was the most influential and important figure in photography throughout the last half of the 20th century. This edition of his work shows chronologically how Callahan's approach to the medium evolved and changed, [... more]
$65.00
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Johannes Vermeer
Perfection on a canvas and in a book to take home: The year was 1995. The place was the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The occasion was the exhibit of 21 of the known three dozen paintings by Johannes Vermeer, Dutch master of the seventeenth [... more]
$65.00
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Willem de Kooning: Paintings
Rich, colorful, and insightful: This is probably the best book about Willem De Kooning on the market. Along with a multitude of color plates David Sylvester offers historical, technical, and philisophical insights about Willem De Kooning and his life [... more]
$75.00
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The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated ...
Amazon.com Review: Fifty years of scientific archaeology in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have redefined early Chinese culture. This handsome volume surveys some of the most spectacular recent finds and their role in reshaping the history of [... more]
$110.00
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