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Outdoors notebook: In waterfowl surveys, some ups and downs
Waterfowl surveys taken in Washington, British Columbia, Alaska and Alberta showed bird production was good for some and bad for others...
Saying goodbye to Bernie
This week, the local angling community lost one of its most well-known members. On Sunday, July 10, Bernie Schnieders died suddenly at his home while exercising. He was 49. His unexpected passing shocked everyone who knew him. Few people were as full of fire and energy as Bernie was.
Recent stories
For Orange County resident Bob Terry, there's nothing better than taking your grandson for a spring turkey hunt. Some things that happen are so bizarre, they're hard to explain.
The Road Warrior Mailbag - July 11, 2005
I read your columns with interest every week. One thing I noticed is that for the first time, you mentioned that your G4 upgraded Pismo was a bit less than satisfactory running Tiger and that your 700MHz iBook outperformed it.
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Hartley was a complex individual who not only painted both abstract and representational canvases hut also wrote poetry and prose. He traveled extensively and worked in Europe, Mexico, Bermuda, and other locales before returning to Maine, his birthplace, in 1934. Hartley's life and work are examined by thirteen highly regarded historians of American art who have contributed essays to this lavishly produced book, which accompanies a landmark retrospective exhibition. 150 colorplates, 50 illustrations.
DUTCH COLONIAL HOMES IN AMERICA (MA-8904)
By Roderic H. Blackburn
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This volume explores the idiosyncratic yet singularly beautiful houses built by Dutch settlers in New York State and New Jersey in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Blackburn examines the religious, social, political, and family backgrounds of Dutch immigrants as they influenced the style of the houses they built in the new world, first under Dutch and later under English rule. Two illuminating chapters treat the history of the Dutch in the American colonies and the evolution of the Dutch house. These set the stage for case studies of more than forty privately and publicly owned houses and outbuildings, particularly barns. The book is arranged geographically with a discussion of the houses in the Mohawk and Upper Hudson River valleys, followed by those erected in Ulster, Dutchess, Westchester, Orange, and Rockland Counties in New York State; and finally examples built on Long Island, Staten Island, and in northern New Jersey. The evocative color photographs were taken by Geoffrey Gross and styled by S usan Piatt 200 colorplates.
WHISTLER AND HIS CIRCLE IN VENICE (MA-8914)
By Eric Denker
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SARGENT AND ITALY (MA-8915)
Edited by Bruce Robertson
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COMBINED SALE $80 (MA-8916)
Whistler and Sargent, two of the most important and influential artists of the tam of the century, were profoundly affected by their experiences in Italy. These two publications accompany large exhibitions. Whistler and His Circle in Venice focuses on his trip of 1879-1880 and also addresses his influence on artists in Europe and the United States. 150 colorplates. Sargent executed mainly watercolors on trips to Italy, pursuing subjects that interested him--buildings, street and canal scenes, Alpine landscapes, and people at work and at leisure. 85 colorplates, 50 illustrations.
KOLOMAN MOSER, MASTER OF VIENNESE MODERNISM (MA-8905)
By Maria Rennhofer
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DAGOBERT PECHE AND THE WIENER WERKSTATTE (MA-8906)
Edited by Peter Noever
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COMBINED SALE $119 (MA-8907)
Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century teemed with artistic talent. Two of the leading lights were Moser and Peche, both of whom designed objects in every conceivable medium. Rennhofer treats Moser's artistic output chronologically. 250 colorplates, 125 illustrations. Peche's is surveyed by medium. 360 colorplates, 140 illustrations.
CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN INCLUDING FIGURES FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ROBERT
GILL (MA-8917)
By Margaret Kealin Gristina
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Chinese porcelains produced for export are among the most revered of all ceramics. This catalogue features an enormous range of forms made between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, from garnitures and dinner services to coffeepots and monteiths, variously decorated in patterns and palettes for which these wares are renowned. Of special note is the collection of beguiling and rare animal figures assembled by the late Robert Lee Gill and Melanie Gill. Each of the sixty-five objects in this catalogue is illustrated in color, and the commentary in each entry incorporates up-to-date research. The objects under consideration were intended for export to the Netherlands, Scandinavia, England, Spain, the Near East, and the United States. 67 colorplates.
PENNSYLVANIA IMPRESSIONISM (MA-8908)
Edited by Brian H. Peterson
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As the principal authors point out impressionism was not an art movement rooted in America's cities, but rather spread to all corners of the countryside. Considered here is the group of artists who were known as the New Hope school, named for the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, town where they settled. It was here in the early decades of the twentieth century that artists such as Redfield, Barber, and Lathrop were praised for creating a style of painting that did not look to Europe for inspiration. The three themes treated by the contributors are the New Hope art colony itself, its relationship to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the concept of the art colony and its pervasiveness in this period. 369 colorplates, 37 illustrations.
SEAT OF EMPIRE (MA-8918)
By Roberta J. M. Olson and Margaret K. Hofer
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FRENCH FURNITURE FROM THE COLLECTION OF HILLWOOD MUSEUM AND GARDENS (MA-8919)
By Liana Paredes Arend
Regular price $ SALE $36
COMBINED SALE $44 (MA-8920)
Seat of Empire is a fascinating tale of a fauteuil made in Paris in 1800 for Malmaison, the chateau outside of Paris built by Napoleon Bonaparte and his consort, Josephine. The chair ended up at Point Breeze, the large estate in Bordentown, New Jersey, owned by Napoleon's exiled brother, Joseph. 15 colorplates, 3 illustrations. Arend relates how Marjorie Merriweather Post assembled this important collection of French furniture during the first half of the twentieth century, first for her palatial town house in New York City and eventually for her grand house, Hillwood, in Washington, . 74 colorplates, 9 illustrations.
STARS AND STRIPES: PATRIOTIC MOTIFS IN AMERICAN FOLK ART (MA-8909)
By Deborah Harding
Regular price $75 SALE $68
DRAWING ON AMERICA'S PAST: FOLK ART, MODERNISM, AND THE INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN (MA-8910)
By Virginia Tuttle Clayton. Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika Doss, and Deborah Chotner
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COMBINED SALE $106 (MA-8911)
Harding examines the pervasiveness of patriotic motifs such as flags, the Great Seal, Liberty, and eagles in all mediums of folk art. 200 colorplates, 6 illustrations. The Index of American Design is a unique record of more than eighteen thousand pieces of American folk art produced before the Great Depression. It was a government-sponsored project employing artists to make remarkably accurate watercolor renderings of folk art objects throughout the United States. This book incorporates new information about the history of the project and biographies of many of the artists who participated. 134 colorplates, 38 illustrations.
ART NOUVEAU, THE FRENCH AESTHETIC (MA-8921)
By Victor Arwas
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This enormous and lavishly illustrated volume treats the evolution of the art nouveau style in fin-de-siecle France, principally in Nancy and Paris. The author, a frequently published writer on this subject points to the style's origins in nature, tempered by the indelible influence of Japanese prints. Following a stylistic and historical overview and a discussion of the importance of the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1900, the book is arranged by medium. The art nouveau style permeated all branches of the arts. Among those treated here are: architecture, graphics, haute couture, painting, sculpture, lamps, furniture, jewelry, silver, pewter, walking sticks, seals, glass, ceramics, and bookbinding, The book concludes with a selection of writings of the period and biographies of the various artists and craftsmen considered by the author Approximately 700 colorplates.
THE ENGLISH CANDLESTICK, FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BASE-METAL CANDLESTICKS, 1425-1925 (MA-8912)
By Eloy Keldeweij
Regular price $ SALE $127
Although candlesticks were collected as early as the nineteenth century, there are surprisingly few books devoted to the subject. This welcome publication considers a large private collection of English base-metal (copper, bronze, iron, steel, pewter, brass, and paktong) examples made from the fifteenth through the early twentieth century. This volume includes fascinating new information about style and craftsmanship, candles and candlemaking, the everyday use of candles and candlesticks, and candlestickmakers and their marketing methods, There are numerous paintings and other period depictions of candles in interior settings Finally, the results of scientific analyses conducted at the Winterthur Museum on many of the candlesticks and a glossary of terms make this an essential reference work for anyone interested in candlesticks. 300 colorplates, 15 ilustrations.
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