Enigmas y Acertijos

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Book of Puzzles and Brain Teasers is a collection of over a thousand riddles, mysteries, and verbal conundrums guaranteed to build analytical, creative, and practical thinking power while beating boredom. Rated with a level of difficulty and complete with a pen and acetate sheets to allow each puzzle to be done again and again.

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The American cowboy's unique life-style inspired tools, clothing, amusements, advertising, and more which are avidly sought by collectors today. They are presented here with over 1000 color photographs identified in text and captions. Each section of this beautiful new second edition is more complete and has better examples than earlier books devoted to each subject. In Cowboy Culture, these items are inspected in their many variations. Here are exquisite spurs, saddles, gambling tools, photography, guns, holsters, bits, chaps, gloves, boots, hats, badges, and knives. Objects related to Wild West shows-which popularized the myths and accomplishments of cowboys to town dwellers who fantasized life on the open range-are also included. That same fantasy endures to this day as people all over the world who today dream of being a "cowboy."

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The Best book on western collectibles by far!!!.......1998-11-20

If you're into the antiques of the Old West, this is the one book to have. It's beautiful and comprehensive.WORTH EVERY PENNY. Highest recommendation.

The bible on cowboy antiques and collectables.......1997-12-30

This five pound coffee-table book is clearly the best ever done on the subject. Tons of beautiful color photos and lots of information on just about anything relating to the Old West. Spurs, saddles, guns, saloons and much more. Well worth the price.

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Painting Americana
Judy Morgan
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Brushstroke Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Decorative Painting Brushstrokes

ASIN: 1581805098

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Decorative painters love the charming country landscapes found in the art of American masters Grant Wood, Rufus Porter and Charles Wysocki. Their simplified styles celebrate rural America through paintings of rolling hills and farmlands dotted with sheep or old-fashioned farm houses.

Now, anyone can paint these nostalgic scenes with the easy instructions found in Painting Americana. In this book, readers learn:

* Simple techniques for painting hills, farm animals, trees, barns and more that even beginners can master

* How to achieve rustic effects on wood and metal surfaces

* 10 unique step-by-step projects, including a Pennsylvania Dutch design on a door crown and French country chickens on a bentwood box

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During his lifetime, artist Carl Rungius (1869-1959) enjoyed a reputation similar to that of well-known western painter Frederic Remington. Though interest in his depictions of the wildlife and awesome landscapes of the west declines after his death, growing fascination with our wilderness heritage is bringing Rungius back into the public eye.Rungius tended toward realism in his depiction of wildlife, he did some commercial illustration work for the magazine Field and Stream and paintings for the New York Zoological Society, but he also experimented with contemporary brushwork. Though his training was European, Rungius worked to develop a palette that would better convey the striking contrasts of light and color peculiar to the mountains and praries of North America.The publication of this book coincides with a travelling exhibit created by the Glenbow Museum of Calgary, Alberta.

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This was OK.

The Good Ol' Days: Paintings
Charles Wysocki
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0736910409

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This was OK........2007-09-15

I love Charles Wysocki's art and I got this book for less than $7.00. At that price it's worth it--it's only 48 pages. I wasn't overly crazy about the verse and prose, but the pictures are wonderful. If you love Charles Wysocki's art and you can pick this up for a good price then get it.

Maxfield Parrish : Identification & Price Guide 3rd Edition

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Advice From a Parrish Fanatic

Maxfield Parrish : Identification & Price Guide 3rd Edition
Erwin Flacks , and Maxfield Parrish
Manufacturer: Collectors Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1888054182

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This brand new 3rd edition of our best-selling Maxfield Parrish Price Guide just got better. Last publsihed in 1995, this completely overhauled and updated edition has valuable new pricing information along with newly photographed images for positive identification. This book also contains images and information found in no other book, making it THE reference for Maxfield Parrish collectors, dealers, and appraisers worldwide.

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Advice From a Parrish Fanatic.......1998-12-25

Incredibly useful. I believe Flacks has written the most accurate and convenient pricing guide available for Maxfield Parrish collectors and anyone else who wants to figure out what a Parrish item is worth. If you're looking for a great coffee table book, I suggest Alma Gilbert's The Masterworks. -- James Halperin, sf novelist (The Truth Machine & The First Immortal) and Parrish collector.

An American Celebration: The Art of Charles Wysocki

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This book is wonderful!
Over 200 paintings are reproduced in color
As beautiful as the artists' works truly are.
delightful, just wonderful book

An American Celebration: The Art of Charles Wysocki
Charles Wysocki , and Betty Ballantine
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0894809423

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Charles Wysocki delights in his native land and portrays the joys of its early days so lyrically that he has become the country's leading painter of Americana. In AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION, his premier collection, the artist offers over 200 full-color paintings. Text by Betty Ballantine perfectly embellishes his sense of time and place, providing a further look into American lore, history, innovations, and accomplishments. Selection of the Literary Guild. Excerpted in Family Circle and Americana magazine. 118,000 copies in print.

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This book is wonderful!.......2006-09-24

This is a wonderful book and a must have for any lover of Charles Wysocki's work. There are tons of pictures of his art and each page has a description of what life was like in the old days. If you love Charles Wysocki's work, you won't be disappointed with this book.

Over 200 paintings are reproduced in color.......2002-08-06

Over 200 paintings are reproduced in color in An American Celebration, a survey of American images done folk art style. Clambakes, quilting bees, and fairs are just some of Wysocki's subjects, celebrating the joys of early and traditional American gatherings and subjects.

As beautiful as the artists' works truly are........1999-07-01

Wonderful illustrations of the artists' works and short, to-the-point descriptions make this an enjoyable book to leave out on a coffee table for anyone to peruse. Makes you wish you owned a real print of each and every picture.

delightful, just wonderful book.......1999-02-01

I just received this book as a gift from my brother and is just wonderful. I've been collecting Charles' calendards sense the earlies 80's and I always look forward the next year to see his work!

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you could get lost in each painting
A Wonderful Book for Charles Wysocki Lovers
A TRIBUTE TO OUR COUNTRY
heartland by charles wysocki
For personal and community library artbook collections

Heartland
Charles Wysocki
Manufacturer: Artisan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1885183054

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Heartland is the bright and beautiful chronicle of Charles Wysocki's love affair with life and with Americana. Bursting with his distinctive, highly detailed, full-color paintings, drawings, sketches, and photographs from his own collection--and embellished by his own verse--Heartland will be a true source of joy and inspiration to his many fans.

Like An American Celebration, his best-selling 1985 book, Heartland presents a warm and romantic view of the hard work and quiet pleasures of nineteenth-century American life. But Heartland goes beyond that volume in presenting the artist's creative world--the sources of his inspiration.

"There is a simple message in my work," Charles Wysocki has always said, "and it is love." As shown within the pages of Heartland, that love infuses all his work. More than an art book, Heartland is the personal chronicle of Wysocki's unique vision. It is a treasure to cherish and appreciate for generations.

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you could get lost in each painting.......2007-09-29

wow, what a gift he had. I'm glad he chose to share it. He seems to get so much in such a small space. Classic Americana Art.

A Wonderful Book for Charles Wysocki Lovers.......2007-08-16

This is a wonderful book for anyone who loves Charles Wysocki's art. There are a lot of pictures and some interesting insights into the pictures he paints. Together with An American Celebration, this is a must have!

A TRIBUTE TO OUR COUNTRY.......2004-04-11

As Amnerican as apple pie, artist Charles Wysocki's "Heartland" is a tribute to our country.

While his visions exist only in his imagination, his images are true-historic Boston in midwinter with bundled skaters circling a pond, a sun-filed beach in Nantucket, a New England pumpkin patch, and a White House Fourth of July picnic.

Wysocki says, "There is a country in my mind, a landscape in my heart, a place that does not appear on any map but is so clear and sharply detailed that to paint it, I have only to look within."

How fortunate we are that he did.

heartland by charles wysocki.......2003-10-21

wonderful book including glimpses of the artist's life and pictures of his family. the book also shares real life photos that charles wysocki used to create his magical paintings. what a great accusition for a true fan.

For personal and community library artbook collections.......2001-05-18

Profusely and beautifully illustrated, Charles Wysocki's Heartland is a bright and impressive chronicle of his love of life and Americana. The highly detailed, full-color paintings, drawings, sketches and photographs are all from his own collection and embellished with his personal poetry. Enthusiastically recommended for personal and community library artbook collections, Heartland is a visual and emotional celebration that will charm and even inspire those who browse through its pages.

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Charles Wysocki's Americana Cookbook
Joni Miller
Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810939789

Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)

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Weathering the Storm: Inside Winslow Homer's Gulf Stream (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)
Peter H. Wood , and Winslow Homer
Manufacturer: University of Georgia Press
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ASIN: 0820326259

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Perhaps no other American painting is at once so familiar and so little understood as Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream (1899). For more than a century, scholars have praised the artist and yet puzzled over this harrowing scene of a black man adrift in the open sea, in a derelict boat surrounded by sharks. Critical commentary, when it has departed at all from the painting's composition and coloring, has generally viewed The Gulf Stream as a universal parable on the human condition or as an anecdotal image of a coastal storm.

There is more to this stark masterpiece, says Peter H. Wood, a historian and an authority on images of blacks in Homer's work. To understand the painting in less noticed but more meaningful ways, says Wood, we must dive more deeply into Homer's past as an artist and our own past as a nation. Looking at The Gulf Stream and the development of Homer's social conscience in ways that traditional art history and criticism do not allow, Wood places the picture within the tumultuous legacy of slavery and colonialism at the end of the nineteenth century.

Viewed in light of such events as the Spanish American War, the emergence of Jim Crow practices in the South, and the publication of Rudyard Kipling's epochal poem "The White Man's Burden," The Gulf Stream takes on deeper layers of meaning. The storm on the horizon, the sharks and flying fish in the water, the sugarcane stalks protruding from the boat's hold—-these are just some of the elements in what Wood reveals to be a richly symbolic tableau of the Black Atlantic world, linking the histories of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

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