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Large, iconic robe painting by legendary American artist Jim Dine. “What motivated you to begin the series of Bathrobes pictures?" "Well, I had been seeing a psychiatrist for two,...

Grant, Ulysses S. Large Albumen Photograph Magnificent large albumen photograph of Ulysses S. grant by Abraham Bogardus. An unusually large late (circa 1880) photograph of Grant, post-presidency, in formal dress, sitting and in partial profile. Mounted on thick card with the photographer’s credit and address (“A. Bogardus / 872 Broadway, NY”) on matte below the photo. The photographer, Anthony Bogardus, was a photographic pioneer, described by the New York Times as “the best-known photographer in the United States” in his prime who took “the first photographs of Gen. Grant, Gen. Hancock, Samuel D. Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher and other equally well-known men.” The engravers Currier & Ives produced an engraving based on this photograph, calling it “the last and best taken of General Grant...

Photograph Signed

ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY CHARLES LINDBERGH.

Photograph of a young Lindbergh sitting at h...

Flower Is… “is one of Frank’s great books (which means it is one of the greatest of photobooks), demonstrating magisterially, as he himself says in the boo...

1928 COLOR LITHOGRAPH, one of Carlu’s most celebrated posters.

A classic Art Deco poster, showing cubist influences, by Jean Carlu, one of the early twentieth-century’...

"The love that Americans poured out for the work and person of Ansel Adams during his old age, and that they have continued to express with undiminished enthusiasm since his death, i...