Search Results - art collections and collecting

ABC for collectors of American contemporary art by Baur, John I. H. (John Ireland Howe), 1909-1987

Subjects: “…Art Collectors and collecting Handbooks, manuals, etc.…”

Indian art, the new international sensation : a collector's handbook by Pande, Alka

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The AAM guide to provenance research by Yeide, Nancy H., 1959-

Subjects: Digital bookplate

How to save your stuff from a disaster : complete instructions on how to protect and save your family history, heirlooms and collectibles by Haskins, Scott M.

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Early American decorative arts, 1620-1860 : a handbook for interpreters by Krill, Rosemary Troy, 1950-, Eversmann, Pauline K., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Contexts and Foundations -- Interpreting Decorative Arts Objects -- Looking at Objects -- Understanding Style -- Making and Marketing Objects -- Owning Objects -- Objects and Collections -- Furniture in the Seventeenth-Century or Mannerist Style -- Furniture in the William and Mary or Early Baroque Style -- Furniture in the Queen Anne or Late Baroque Style -- Furniture in the Chippendale or Rococo Style -- Furniture in the Federal or Early Classical Revival Style -- Furniture in the Empire or Late Classical Revival Style -- Windsor Furniture -- Clocks -- Ceramics -- Glassware -- Silver Objects -- Pewter Objects -- Iron, Copper, and Copper Alloy Objects -- Paintings and Pictures -- Prints -- Textiles -- Needlework -- Floor Coverings.…”

Learning to Look : 20 works of art across time and cultures

Going public : a field guide to developments in art in public places by Cruikshank, Jeffrey L., Korza, Pam

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Richard Andrews -- Introduction to the guide / by Pam Korza -- Stretching the terrain : sketching twenty years of public art / by Kathy Halbreich -- The administration of public art. …”

Teaching America to draw : instructional manuals and ephemera, 1794-1925