van der Vinde, Lea (ed.):Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis
- Livres de poche 2014, ISBN: 9783791352251
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New York: Fischbach Gallery. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 30 pages; Polly Kraft is a painter who turned quotidian objects and scenes — a slice… Plus…
New York: Fischbach Gallery. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 30 pages; Polly Kraft is a painter who turned quotidian objects and scenes — a sliced red apple still bearing its seeds, an unmade bed cluttered with mail, a filleted fish vibrant even in death — into works of art resonant with meaning. Mrs. Kraft spent a half-century at the center of the Washington establishment as the wife of Joseph Kraft, the syndicated newspaper columnist, and later of Lloyd Cutler, the high-powered lawyer who was White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Her marriages took her into the thick and thicket of social life in the capital — a world, she once remarked, where “politicians were mixed in with intellectuals, mixed in with academics, mixed in with movie stars.” She counted among her friends members of the Kennedy family, Washington Post chairman and publisher Katharine Graham, Post executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee and diplomats W. Averell and Pamela Harriman. ., Fischbach Gallery, 2014, 4, London: Drian Galleries. Very Good+. 1962. First Edition. Paperback. 12 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial stiff wrappers. OCLC 82652886 One color plate, two b&w plates. Former owner's name at top of front wrapper - Dr. [Stefan] Munsing. Marek Zulawski (1908 in Rome – 1985 in London), was a Polish painter, graphic artist and art historian who settled in London in 1937. Between 1926 and 1933 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under professors Felicjan Kowarski and Karol Tichy at the same time as his cousin, Jacek Zulawski. In 1935 he won a scholarship to study in Paris; then in 1937 he moved permanently to London. There he fraternized with other Polish artists, including Feliks Topolski, Halima Nalecz, Marian Szyszko-Bohusz and the Themersons. Initially he was influenced by Post-Impressionism, but after the war he refined his own style, employing a simpler form and a more muted palette. His subjects included still life and figurative art such as Chrystus z Belsen 1947, Tancerz 1957, etc. Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments, Fine-Arts & Archives Section in Munich. The MFAA was an Army unit locating stolen artworks which had disappeared into the huge Nazi hoards during the war. [The "Monuments Men"] Munsing later joined the U.S. Department of State during the later 1940's and '50's, where he established the State Department's Amerika Haus programs in Munich and Berlin and organized exhibitions and cultural programs in Germany and Austria. In 1955, he was named cultural officer at the American Embassy in London, where he staged exhibitions of such New York artists as Philip Pavia, Paul Jenkins and Ben Shahn and became an important force in the London art world. Munsing returned to the U.S. in the 1960's and 70's where he helped establish the contemporary art collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Washington (now the National Museum of American Art) and headed the State Department's Art in Embassies program. In retirement from the State Department after 1976, Mr. Munsing was a consultant to the American Association of Museums. ., Drian Galleries, 1962, 3, New York: Library of America, 1982. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1982 Hard Cover. 1217 pp. The four novels collected in this Library of America volume are among the classic works from the immensely productive career of America’s most influential man of letters at the turn of the twentieth century. William Dean Howells was a champion of French and Russian realistic writers and a brilliant advocate of the most controversial American writers of his own time. In A Foregone Conclusion (1875), a young American painter roams through Europe for years before at last deciding to marry the woman who, he erroneously thinks, has been in love with an Italian priest turned agnostic. A Modern Instance (1882) offers an unflinching portrait of an unhappy marriage and ends with a hero barred by his perhaps overscrupulous conscience from marrying the divorced heroine. Once again personal dilemmas are seen as symptoms of the rapid displacement of older social and religious stabilities by opportunism and commercial progress. One of the most engaging of all his novels, Indian Summer(1885), is touched with the Jamesian glamour of romantic confusion among two American couples in Italy. Here Howells’s realism takes a quietly humorous turn. Situations which might be exploited by another novelist for their theatrical or melodramatic possibilities are instead eroded by the often trivial or casual experiences of everyday living. Characteristically, Howells is opposed to exaggeration in the interest of discovering how people, despite the crises that beset them, manage to find their way. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), Howells’s best-known work, gives a brilliantly skeptical portrait of American business life and its perils, celebrating not the rise but the loss of fortune that makes possible the hero’s recovery of his earlier integrity and happiness. “There are,†remarked a contemporary reviewer, “thousands of Silas Laphams throughout the United States,†and present-day readers might agree that there still are., Library of America, 1982, 4, New York: Prestel, 2013. Hardcover. VG+. Blue cloth with gold spine lettering; illustrated d/j with white and blue lettering; 143 pages : color illustrations , 66 figures and 67 color plates, 65 with full commentary. Introductory essays by Lynn Federle Orr, Lea van der Vinde, Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Quentin Buvelot and Ariane van Suchtelen, and Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Petria Boble. Catalogue of the exhibition of Dutch Masters from the Mauritshuis, shown in San Francisco, Atlanta and New York between January 2013 and January 2014. Comprehensive essays and catalogue, with beautiful full-colored plates. Topics include the Foundations of Dutch 17th-Century Painting, History of the Mauritshuis and Its Collection, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer and Conservation and Technical Research at the Mauritshuis. Paintings are divided into 5 categories and include works by Vermeer, Jan Steen, Rachel Ruysch, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, etc. An exquisite catalog. This volume will mark the first time Johannes Vermeer's iconic painting will be seen in the Southeast. The painting headlines the exhibition, which highlights the artistic genius of Dutch Golden Age painters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals and Jan Steen, through the presentation of more than 35 exceptional works. Through landscapes and portraits, this book will explore the idea that Dutch artists more readily embraced paintings of everyday subjects than their southern European contemporaries, focusing on capturing commonplace scenes of daily life. Dutch artists not only recorded representations of the domestic interior, still lifes and boisterous crowds, but often imbued these scenes with moral undertones and humorous, sarcastic wit. Contents as follows: Setting the stage: the foundations of Dutch seventeenth-century painting / Lynn Federle Orr -- The history of the Mauritshuis and its collection / Lea van der Vinde -- The Mauritshuis of the future / Emilie E.S. Gordenker -- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer: the Dutch Mona Lisa / Quentin Buvelot and Ariane van Suchtelen -- New techniques for old masters: conservation and technical research at the Mauritshuis / Emilie E.S. Gordenker and Petria Noble -- Catalogue of paintings / Lea van der Vinde, Quentin Buvelot, and Ariane van Suchtelen. Portraits and tronies ; Landscapes and seascapes ; Genre paintings ; History paintings ; Still lifes., Prestel, 2013, 3<
