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The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Stella G S Perry First edition - this is NOT A REPRINT. staple-bound paperback The Wahlgreen Company, San Francisco (1915)

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Important original source material for this Panama Pacific International Exposition

The Man Who Paints Animals by Bob Kuhn first edition hardcover not paginated Ken Meyer Productions, Boulder Colorado (1980)

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The artwork is magnificent. The artist has a distinguished career as an illustrator for Field and Stream and Outdoor Life. This book documents the disappearing part of our world - the wild animals. Photo is of the title page.

Canyon Shadows by Lou Ella Archer first edition hardcover Times Mirror Press (1931)

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Beautiful gift copy. Lou Ella Archer's poetry captures the beauty of the Arizona landscape. Pastedown picture of the Grand Canyon on the cover. Illustrated with black and white scenes plus 7 color artworks by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (1882-1974) including her magnificent paintings of Zion Canyon, the Desert After the Rain, Dawn at Bryce Canyon, From Grand Canyon Lodge, Seven Palms, and the Temple of Sinawava.

John Register: Persistent Observer by Conrad, Barnaby, III first edition hardcover Woodford Publishing, San Francisco. (1998)

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"The artist beckons the viewer to make a personal connection to isolation and stillness."  "A personal friend of the artist for more than a decade, Conrad uses a narrative form that combines incisive art historical observation with details of Register's early life..." This monograph, with more than 170 color plates, was published at the time of a traveling retrospective exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art and Register's 60th birthday.

The John W and Mildred L Graves Collection: December 1, 1984 Through February 3, 1985 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas by Wichita Art Museum first edition paperback Wichita Art Museum (1984)

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Filled with color and black and white reproductions of this fine collection. Exhibition Catalogue at the time of gifting this collection to the Wichita Art Museum.

Linda Carter Holman: Evolution of a Self-Taught Painter: A Work in Progress by Carolyn C Robbins and Linda Carter Holman signed first edition RARE AUTHOR SIGNED hardcover Red Shoe Publishing. (2005)

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"From her birth in a small Oklahoma town to her childhood in Venezuela, and through her adult life spent in a variety of locations in the Southwest and California, Linda Carter Holman has been inspired by places both actual and imaginary. Her gift for creating characters in settings that celebrate life is evident in all phases of her painting. For Carter Holman, being a self-taught painter is all about discovery, learning, joy, listening, and experimentation.''

How To: The Art of Deborah Oropallo by Merril Falkenberg and Jeff Kelley first edition paperback San Jose Museum of Art. (2002)

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"The longer you look at one object,   the more of the world you see in it."

The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol edited by Pat Hackett Marked "First Printing: May 1989" Hard cover. Warner Books, Copyright @1989 buy Estate of Andy Warhol (1989)

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RARE. This diary compilation paints an intimate portrait and is a distillation of 20,000 diary pages .

The Cross & The Sword. La Cruz y la Espada. An Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, April 3 to May 16, 1976 by Jean Stern first edition paperback. Fine Arts Society of San Diego. (1976)

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An exhibition catalog of religious figures done by Hispanic artists who lived in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, California, and Northern Mexico during the Spanish Colonial and subsequent periods.  Also included were objects of silver, porcelain, weaving, metal, and leather to provide breadth and variety to the exhibition. 

Printmaking in the Sun An Artist's Guide to Making Professional-Quality Prints Using the Solarplate Method by Dan Welden and Pauline Muir paperback Watson-Guptill Publications (2001)

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"Solarplate is a highly versatile and expressive new art medium. This is the first comprehensive book demonstrating how to use this simple and intriquing technique..." 

Contemporary Painters of Japanese Origin in America 1958 by Thomas M Messer and Anne L Jenks

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Rare. Important resource material.  "...we detected certain form constellations in these abstract works which were too insistently present in Japanese-derived painting..."

The Spirit of Liberty by T F Chen signed first edition

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"Admittedly the Neo-Iconography of Tsing-fan Chen is not without its enigma. It is complex, demanding and ultimately rewarding in a thousand subtle ways." 

Dream Songs and Ceremony by Lapena, Frank signed first edition hardcover

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Paintings, poetry, and text by the artist. Magnificent gift copy. As of this listing, no other available copies have the ORIGINAL SLIPCASE.

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