jack warner 1917 2017 (4 risultati)

Second edition (per special statement upon page 6). 224 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 28.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; light bumping along top edge; short 1cm closed tear at spine head. Blue boards with vibrant gilt stamping to spine. Patch of surface peeling and some residue from removed gift sticker on front free endpaper; non-authorial green ink Christmas gift inscription on title page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a very good- dust jacket. Catalogue of the Jack Warner-Gulf States Paper Corporation-The Westervelt Company collection exhibited at the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As ownership of the paintings and other objects was split among Gulf States/Westervelt and The Warner Foundation as well as some being the direct property of retired CEO and chairman Jack Warner, a power struggle regarding the museum's future ensued between the retired chairman and the corporate board as art prices soared in the late-2000s. Thus, as it played out, in 2011 The Westervelt Company consigned 33 of the museum's paintings to Christie's so that masterworks including Asher B. Durand's "Progress-The Advance of Civilization," Childe Hassam's "Celia Thaxter's Garden," Frederick Carl Frieseke's "Sunspots," Albert Bierstadt's "Seal Rock, California," Andrew Wyeth's "Silver Cove," Frederic Edwin Church's "Above the Clouds at Sunrise" (which illustrates the book's dust jacket), and Thomas Hart Benton's "Shipping Out" were sold via private sale or auction. The financial impact of the artwork was immediate; Durand's "Progress" allegedly sold for $40 million (the painting was anonymously gifted to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in December 2018); the Benton painting sold for twice the high estimate at $1,025,000. The corporate holdings that survived the museum dissolution were either exhibited at its successive institution, the short-lived Tuscaloosa Museum of Art (closed in 2018) or retired to Gulf States offices. The book is a testimony to Jack Warner's legendry discerning eye and prescient recognition American fine and decorative arts highpoints most of them slyly acquired relatively cheaply from the 1950s through the 1980s when the market still strongly favored European objects. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5 pounds (2.26 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {ArtShelf_#1} ISBN 9781580930987.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY FOB JAMES TO JACK WARNER. [6], 432 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Glossy paper covers lightly rubbed with slight wear/curling at fore-edges; bumping at spine head and at rear cover's adjacent top right corner. Six-line black felt-tip ink inscription - "To Jack Warner - | from me [illegible] | to another - | With Warmest | Personal Regards | Fob James Jr" upon title page; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. Inscribee Jack Warner [Jonathan Westervelt Warner], 1917-2017, served as president and chairman of Gulf States Paper, now known as the Westervelt Company. Fob James was twice elected Governor of Alabama, his first term being January 15, 1979 to January 17, 1983 with his second term (post-dating the book) being January 16, 1995 to January 18, 1999. ISBN 0926291017.

First edition (not stated) INSCRIBED, DATED. AND SIGNED BY JACK WARNER. 224 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 28.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with some bumping at edges; short tear/nick at spine heel. Dark maroon boards with vibrant gilt stamping to spine; light bumping to spine ends and board corners. Four-line ink inscription "To: Lynda E------- | Fellow art lovers and good friends | Jack Warner | Jan 5 - 2007" on front free endpaper. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. Catalogue of the Jack Warner-Gulf States Paper Corporation-The Westervelt Company collection exhibited at the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As ownership of the paintings and other objects was split among Gulf States/Westervelt, The Warner Foundation, and retired CEO and chairman Jack Warner, a power struggle regarding the museum's future ensued between the retired chairman and the corporate board as art prices soared in the late-2000s. Thus, as it played out, in 2011 The Westervelt Company consigned 33 of the museum's paintings to Christie's so that masterworks including Asher B. Durand's "Progress-The Advance of Civilization," Childe Hassam's "Celia Thaxter's Garden," Frederick Carl Frieseke's "Sunspots," Albert Bierstadt's "Seal Rock, California," Andrew Wyeth's "Silver Cove," Frederic Edwin Church's "Above the Clouds at Sunrise" (which illustrates the book's dust jacket), Martin Johnson Heade's "Two Hummingbirds With An Orchid," and Thomas Hart Benton's "Shipping Out" were sold via private sale or auction. The financial impact of the artwork was immediate; Durand's "Progress" allegedly sold for $40 million (the painting was anonymously gifted to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in December 2018); the Benton painting sold for twice the high estimate at $1,025,000; Heade's "Two Hummingbirds" sold for an undisclosed amount to Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The corporate holdings that survived the museum dissolution were either exhibited at its successive institution, the short-lived Tuscaloosa Museum of Art (closed in 2018) or retired to Gulf States offices. The book is a testimony to Jack Warner's legendry discerning eye and prescient recognition American fine and decorative arts highpoints most of them slyly acquired relatively cheaply from the 1950s through the 1980s when the market still strongly favored European objects. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5 pounds (2.26 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {ArtShelf_#2} ISBN 1580930980.

White folder, H 30.25cm x L 22.75cm. Folder foxed and soiled; 3cm tear at spine fold head; color image of yellow-shafted flicker on folder's front cover. Laid-in sheets with a few stains, some creased/bumped corners, and light foxing/soiling but majority remain clean. Issued as a sales brochure for Basil Ede bird prints sold by The Warner Collection of Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Gulf States Paper Corporation whose art collector chairman Jack Warner was an aficionado of Ede's work. Color sheets illustrate the prints available in the various "Wild Birds of America" portfolios - Waterfowl, Upland Game Birds, Song/Perching Birds, Birds of Prey-Portfolio 1, Birds of Prey-Portfolio 2, Water/Shore Birds, and Special Editions. Other related sheets (several of which are duplicated) - order forms, artist biography with portrait photo, 1976 promo letter by Prince Philip (also an Ede collector), price list effective February 1984, price list effective February 1985, stapled two-sheet essay regarding "A Snowy Haystack" by George Inness, stapled 38 page (nineteen double-sided leaves) collection of essays by Jack Warner, and stapled six sheet (single-sided pages) essay presumably by Warner regarding the display of artwork at the [Tuscaloosa] Yacht Club.