This volume is a retrospective of the art of African-American, John Biggers. The paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures depicted, trace his work from the murals of his college years, to the present. Included are drawings for his major mural commissions.
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This volume is a retrospective of the art of African-American, John Biggers. The paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures depicted, trace his work from the murals of his college years, to the present. Included are drawings for his major mural commissions.
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1995. Harry N. Abrams/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Hard Cover. Book-VG+. DJ-VG. 11x8.5. 184pp. Frontis, profuse colour & b/w plates & illus-some folding. Long recognized as a prolific master of American painting, John Biggers also emerged as a central figure in the world of African-American art. This splendid book accompanied a major exhibition of Biggers's work, placing his art in the context of the artist's personal history and the development of twentieth-century American art.
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Biggers, John. Fine in fine jacket. With 160 illustrations, including 55 color plates. 184pp. 4to, burgundy cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams, in association with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, (1995). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Houston.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. View from the Upper Room. 4to. 184 pp. Bound in full dark brown cloth, in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations throughout, many in full color, including two fold-outs. Includes chronology, selected exhibition history, bibliography, and index. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 2-August 28, 1995. Very Good+, previous owner's inscription in ink and age-toning to front free endpaper, otherwise tight and clean, in Very Good+ dust jacket with minor scuffing and scratches.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Essays by Edmund Barry Gaither, Alison de Lima Greene, and Robert Farris Thompson. Quarto. 184pp. Heavily illustrated, with several folding plates. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some rubbing on the lower panel. Catalog for a 1995-6 show.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 184 pages. Hardcover exhibition catalogue. 160 illustrations 55 in full color. First edition. Foreword by Peter C. Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Introduction by Jeanne Zeidler. Reflection by Maya Angelou. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston TX April 2-August 28, 1995, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC October 15, 1995-January 14, 1996, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT May 19-August 25, 1996 Hampton University Museum, Hampton VA October 6-December 20, 1996 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston MA January 24-April 20, 1997. Includes notes, selected bibliography, acknowledgments, lenders to the exhibition, catalogue of the exhibition, and index.
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Very Good jacket. Signed. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good. SIGNED+INSCRIBED; signed and inscribed at half title page to fellow artist Gale Fulton Ross by artist John Biggers. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Gently used. Light foxing to textblock edge. Pages are clean and bright. NO markings in text. Binding is tight. A beautiful copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.