American Painting Contemporary American Artists Books - Set of 2

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Milestones of American Painting in Our Century by Frederick S. Wight. New York: Chanticleer Press and Institute of Contemporary Art, … more Milestones of American Painting in Our Century by Frederick S. Wight. New York: Chanticleer Press and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1949. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards with embossed gilt lettering. 136pp. Illustrated with 50 full-page plates, 12 in color. Catalog, bibliography, biographies, list of lenders and index. Avery, Bellows, Benton, Blume, Bohrod, Curry, Davis, Demuth, Dove, Feininger, Graves, Gropper, Hopper, Juniyoshi, Marin, Marsh, Shahn, Sheeler, Sloan, Wood and others. Minor tears on DJ. Interior clean and tight.

Fifty Contemporary American Artists. New York: Greenwich Gallery, 1957. First edition hardcover. Unpaginated (about 110). Catalog to accompany an exhibition. One page devoted to each artist with a black and white image of their work and brief biographical information. Avery, Bishop, Bloom, Burchfield, Cikovsky, ever good, Greene, Gropper, Grosz, Hopper, Kroll, Levine, Lipchitz, O'Keeffe, Refregier, Rivers, Shahn, Soyer, Walkowitz, Weber, Wyeth, Zorach and others. Pages very mildly rippled. Interior clean and tight. less