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World Famous Paintings Hardcover Book with Slipcase by Rockwell Kent
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World-Famous Paintings by Rockwell Kent, 1939
Beautiful book which Includes 100 full color prints of world famous paintings, each with descriptions.
Art prints are stand alone which allows you the ability to easily remove and frame any print. Hardcover book in a blue marbled slipcase with blue ribbon. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Some wear due to age can be seen on slipcase and also on books cover which only lend to its charm.
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| Category | Books > Nonfiction Books > Art Books |
|---|---|
| Condition | Good |
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Or as the captain reminds Crusoe in Tournier's Friday, before the ships sinks:With my robes I cover the speckled hen’s eggs and the brindled sea shell; I cover vice and poverty. On all things frail or dark or doubtful, my veil descends. Wherefore, speak not, reveal not. Spare, O spare!
“Crusoe,” he said sternly, take heed of what I say. Beware of purity. It is the acid of the soul.”
As a child, I lived in a state of innocence. This is never total, and I was well enough aware of seeing poverty in Baltimore and witnessing unhappiness in adult lives that seeped into my own. Nevertheless, my experience of looking at paintings in an art book was innocent and unmediated.
As a child who liked to swing on swings, for example, I was fascinated with the fantasy quality and wretched excess--the extraordinary sensuality, as I would now see it--of Fragonard's "The Swing," especially the voluminous gown and the shoe flinging off. As a child, I thought losing the shoe was an unfortunate accident that would mean the woman would have to get off the swing (!) and
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. 1. Publisher's full cream cloth, brown lettering on spine and cover, grassy and white printed endpapers. Unpaginated (approx. 450 pp.). Profusely illustrated with 100 tipped-in, full-page, full-color plates, each preceded by a page with historical and biographical data, an analysis of the specific work by Rockwell Kent, and list of other major works by the artist on the reverse. Edited, with an Introduction by Rockwell Kent. The artists depicted include: Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albetinelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Bordone, Moroni, Jan van Eyck, Memling, Mabuse, Rubens, Van Dyck, D�rer, Holbein, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Ter Borch, De Hooch, Metsu, Vermeer, Maes, Hobbema, Vel�squez, Murillo, Watteau, Nattier, Chardin, Boucher, Perroneau, Greuze, Fragonard, Le Brun, Millet, Corot, Meissonier, Muenier, Van Gogh, C�zanne, Renoir, Manet, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Morland, Lawrence, Turner, Constable, Cox, De Wint, Maclise, Watts, Brown, Landseer, Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Yeames, Orchardson, Pettie, Holiday
Encuadernaci�n de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Caracter�sticas: Pasta dura en tela editorial. Buen estado. Las tapas est�n sucias y ligeramente manchadas de las orillas laterales. Cantos limpios. Hermosas guardas estampadas. La impresi�n se ha hecho en papel cuch� de notable grosor. Esta obra incluye, para cada uno de los pintores de la compilaci�n: una breve biograf�a, una excelente reproducci�n a colores de una de sus obras, un comentario sobre �sta y una lista de los principales textos escritos sobre el artista. Los artistas incluidos en el libro son: Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albetinelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Bordone, Moroni, Jan van Eyck, Memling, Mabuse, Rubens, Van Dyck, D�rer, Holbein, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Ter Borch, De Hooch, Metsu, Vermeer, Maes, Hobbema, Vel�squez, Murillo, Watteau, Nattier, Chardin, Boucher, Perroneau, Greuze, Fragonard, Le Brun, Millet, Corot, Meissonier, Muenier, Van Gogh, C�zanne, Renoir, Manet, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Morland, Lawrence, Turner, Constable, Cox, De Wint, Maclise, Watts, Brown, Landseer, Rossetti, Millais, Burne-Jones, Yeames, Orchardson, Petti
November, Greenland, 1931-33
34.125 x 44.125 inches | oil on canvas
On June 21, 1882, Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown Heights, NY to Sara Ann Holgate and Rockwell Kent, Sr. Born into a privileged family, the young Kent attended several of the East Coast’s top private schools. When he was 13, he toured Europe with his aunt Josie Baker, who was a well-educated artist.
In 1900, he began his art training at the William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art in Shinnecock, Long Island. In the fall, he enrolled in the architecture program at Columbia University. Just prior to his senior year, he dropped out and enrolled fulltime at the New York School of Art, where he studied under painter Robert Henri (1865-1929).
Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Kent took a painting trip to Monhegan Island, ME in 1905. The island’s vibrant working class attitude and arts community had a lasting effect on Kent. In the following April, he returned to Monhegan and purchased some land. While living there, Kent met his first wife, Kathleen Whiting, a niece of painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921). Over the course of the next 13 years, the couple had five children to