Art&DesignWinter2024

Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battles of the Civil War Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Includes portraits of political and military leaders, famous forts, pivotal battles and naval engagements, military encampments, and major events. These images were created by a corps of war artists employed by Frank Leslie for his illustrated newspapers. • 113/4"x16" (298 x 406mm) • 740 b/w illustrations • 544 pp. • 978-0-7643- 3996-7 • HC • $99.99 / £90.99 / $140.00 CAD Great Children’s Illustrators: 1880-1930 Darrell Heppner. Some of the best illustrators of children’s books from the late 1880s to the 1920s, including Anne Anderson, Frances Brundage, Clara Burd, Bertha Corbett, Fanny Cory, Melcema Denny, Bessie Pease Gutmann, Queen Holden, Maud Humphrey, Henriet- ta Le Mair, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Ida Waugh, and more. Biographical sketches, along with a listing and price guide of illustrated baby books. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •405color photos•176pp. •978-0-7643-1947- 1 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Today’s Top Stationery Artists Tori Higa. This book profiles over 160 color images of artwork from con- temporary greeting card and stationery designers. Each artist readers are introduced to through images and text has a unique and modern approach to designing for the age-old concept of handwritten correspondence. They are all trendsetters in the stationery arena • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 169 color photos • 112 pp. • 978- 0-7643-2832-9 • PB • $25.00 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Today’s Top Stationery Artists 2 Tori Higa. This book contains the work of 52 new stationery artists and over 350 vibrant color photos of their imaginative work. Short artist biographies and 16 in-depth feature interviews with various stationers provide readers with insight into their inspiration and business. Valuable tips are provided for starting your own stationery company. Graphic art designs are small and personal • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 355 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0- 7643-3737-6 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD A Bit of Brundage: The Illustration Art of Fran- ces Brundage Sarah Steier & Donna Braun. Prolific American illustrator Frances Brundage was atypical of her time—during the late 1800s to the mid-1930s she was a well-known artist. With over 500 color illustrations and an extensive price guide, this book presents imag- es of children and beautiful ladies in her unique style. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 541 color photos • 176 pp. •978-0-7643-0716-4•HC•$39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95CAD Bessie Pease Gutmann: Over Fifty Years of Published Art 2E Karen Choppa. A visual masterpiece with more full-color photos of Gutmann’s work than all other previous Gutmann publications. Some of the works shown are so rare that this book provides their only publication. This is the most complete price guide to Gutmann’s work and a wonderful reference for il- lustrators and art libraries. • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) • 330+ photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-1908-2 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Boudoir Art: The Celebration of Life Clifford P. Catania. Boudoir Art: The Celebration of Life. Clifford P. Catania. Illustrated with 280 color examples of charm- ing Boudoir Art, the book chronicles “major” and “minor” artists of the early twentieth century who captured the beauty of post-Victorian women through their etchings and lithographs. Information about the art and artists accompanies the photos, including size, number of copies printed, and exact wording of copy- right declarations when known. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 280 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-88740-615-7 • HC • $59.95 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD The Collectible Maxfield Parrish William R. Holland & Douglas Congdon-Martin. Here the great wealth and beauty of illustrator Maxfield Parrish’s work is present- ed in 700 beautiful color photographs. Focusing on those images that are available and can be collected by the average person, it has a useful price guide. This is an essential reference for collectors of Parrish’s work and those interested in the development of the illustra- tor’s art in America. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 700 photos • 214 pp. • 978-0-88740-536-5 • HC • $59.95 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD The Etchings of Louis Icart S. Michael Schnessel & Mel Karmel. Artist Louis Icart’s famous etchings of beautiful women are pictured here in 456 photos with critical appraisals of his techniques. A family background includes personal photos of Icart’s wife, scenes from his home and studio, and a chronological catalog of many of his etchings. • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) •456 photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-916838-64-5 • HC • $59.95 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Vintage Neon Len Davidson. Neon signs turned North America’s roadside into a luminous wonderland in the mid-20th century. Neon designer Len Davidson has captured their magic with over 350 photos of superb vintage signs. In the text, voices of neon sign makers, shopkeepers, photographers, and preservationists record their legends in words, while a definitive photo archive gives architects and sign artisans an invaluable resource • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 316 color images • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-0857-4 •HC• $59.95 / £54.99 / $85.00CAD Contemporary American Print Makers E. Ash- ley Rooney and Stephanie Standish ,Foreword by Susan J Goldman. Over 500 color photos display the work of 75 contemporary printmakers and 30 print shops. Traditional printing techniques featured include lithog- raphy, intaglio, screen print, and relief, while newer techniques include installation, digital, and fiber. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 500 color & b/w photos • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643-4691-0 • PB • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Printmakers Today Jeffrey B. Snyder, editor. Color photos review works by today’s printmak- ers, from installation pieces to three-dimension- al art. Techniques include woodcuts, lithographs, screenprints, silkscreens, etching, mezzotint, serigraph print, linocut, and more. The artists describe their works, techniques, and inspirations. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 368 color photos • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-3462-7 • HC • $50.00 / £45.99 / $73.00 CAD Singular & Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint Catherine Kernan and E. Ashley Rooney with Laura G. Einstein and Janice Oresman. Today’s wide range of print techniques, approaches, and mo- tivations is collected here, with insights on what mono- types and monoprints offer to artists and the broader world of art. Recent prints from more than 70 top artists across the US include freewheeling and impro- visational, as well as more traditional, approaches. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 365 color images • 272 pp. • 978-0-7643-5727-5 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD Animation Art at Auction: Since 1994 Jeff Lotman. Fascinating information about what to buy, where to buy it, and what the cost might be. Animation afficio- nado Jeff Lotman has done it again! With more than 1,500+ photographs and more than 5,000 concise textual entries, almost every studio that produced animation art for shorts, features, or commercials has work included • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 1500+ color photos•208pp. •978-0-7643-0411-8•HC•$49.95 / £45.99 / $72.00 CAD Walter Launt Palmer Maybelle Mann & Alvin Mann. This definitive biography, 258 photographs of his work and catalog raisonné of Walter Launt Palmer, a cele- brated 20th century painter, presents his personal and creative life in great detail. The text covers the entire scope of Palmer’s work, tracing his experiments with style from academicism to impressionism • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 258 photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-88740- 001-8 • HC • $35.00 / £31.99 / $50.00 CAD Animation Art: The Early Years, 1911-1954: A Visual Reference for Collectors Jeff Lotman. The major reference. Nearly 6,800 pieces of movie anima- tion art are included in color. Explore the early period of animation, from the founding of the Winsor McKay Studio in 1911 up to cels from 1954 productions. The animation process is explained along with tips for animation art collectors • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 6800 illus. •420pp. •978-0-88740-763-5•HC•$125.00 / £113.99 / $188.00 CAD Sam Hyde Harris: 1889–1977 A Retrospective Maurine St. Gaudens. An in-depth look at the sometimes outrageous personality of Sam Hyde Harris, an early California plein air landscape painter, and insight into his methods and styles. Over 400 images demonstrate the progression and refinement of his subject and technique. Includes pencil drawings, work-up sketches, maquettes, and the final product. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) •350 color &62 b/w images •256 pp. •978-0-7643- 2591-5 • HC • $79.95 / £72.99 / $120.00 CAD Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond Gary Fillmore. Using over 390 illustrations, this book explores the similarities and differences in the lives, artistic styles, and beliefs of the men and women who visited the Wetherill-Colville Guest Ranch in Kayenta, northern Arizona. Among the artists who visited were Maynard Dixon, William Rob- inson Leigh, James Swinnerton, Carl Oscar Borg, and Gunnar Widforss. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) • 273 color & 118 b/w photos • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643-4054-3 • HC • $69.99 / £63.99 / $105.00 CAD Thai & Southeast Asian Painting: 18th through 20th Century James E. Bogle. With 137 color imag- es and explanatory text, this book takes you on a tour of Southeast Asian religious paintings inspired by Ther- avada Buddhism. These works of art include: Phra Bot-hanging cloth paintings for temple use; icons on wood, cloth, or paper; and manuscript paintings on Khoi paper. Buddha and Jataka and Phra Mali stories are featured. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 137 color im- ages•176pp.•978-0-7643-3739-0•HC•$49.99/£45.99 / $72.00 CAD Valor inAction: TheMedal of Honor Paintings of Col CharlesWaterhouse JaneWaterhouse. At the age of 82, renowned illustrator and former United States Marine Corps artist-in-residence Col. Charles Waterhouse set out to paint US Marines and Navy corpsmen engaged in the acts for which they were awarded theMedal of Honor. Valor in Action tells the true storyof someamazingAmericanheroeswhowent above and beyond the call of duty, and the tenacious artist who—armed only with a paintbrush—sought to capture their heroic actions in the moment they occurred, to his dying breath. •12" x 12" (304 x 304mm) •430 color and b/w images •384 pp. • 978-0-7643-6017-6 • HC • $100.00 / £90.99 / $140.00 CAD ANIMATION ART The Mezzotint 2nd Ed. Carol Wax. A comprehensive treatise on mezzotint engraving, a form of intaglio printmaking known for lush tonal gradations and dramatic lighting effects. The author traces mezzotint's beginnings in 1642, through its growth as a vital British industry for reproducing paintings, to its demise after the invention of photography and resurgence as a means of original expression. • 9" x 12" (216 x 279 mm) • 293 b/wand color images • 304 pp. • 978-0-7643- 6685-7 • HC • $75.00 / £68.99 / $105.00 CAD NEON ART CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING HISTORICAL PRINTMAKING 62 | HISTORICAL PAINTING & PAINTERS • NEON ART • CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING • HISTORICAL PRINTMAKING