The Robert C. Voss Galleries (Lot of 9 small catalogues, 1912-1933)
Softcover
1933 · Boston
by Robert C. Vose Galleries
Boston: Robert C. Vose Galleries, 1933. Softcover. VG (Some age tanning around edges; light penciled note in each catalogue.). 9 small catalogues, varying paginations, 5 are stapled wraps; 4 are string bound; some BW illus. A collection of 9 small catalogues from the Robert C. Vose Galleries of Boston. Includes a card from the gallery indicating that it assembled this collection and sent it to interested people in 1950, after 108 "years of dealing in fine paintings." What a nice way to clean out files AND serve devoted customers as well! Here are quick details on the catalogues. (1) "Old Paintings: Old Portraits and Ideal Figure Pictures by Masters of the Early English, Continental and American Schools," 1912, 8 pages, 3 BW illus.; (2) "Selected Portraits and Ideal Figure Pictures," 1922, 8 pages, 5 BW illus. of checklist of 22 items; (3) "Exhibition of Paintings by Old and Modern Masters," 1929, 16 pages, 9 BW illus. of checklist of 37 items ; (4) "Exhibition of Portraits by Early English Masters," 1929, 16 pages, 8 BW illus. with brief annotations; (5) "Exhibition of Paintings by Old and Modern Masters," 1930, 8 pages, 6 BW illus. of checklist of 34 items. (6) "Paintings and Sculpture by Leading Massachusetts Artists," 1933, 8 pages, no illus., checklist of 44 artists and items; (7) "Robert C. Vose Galleries," undated, 16 pages, 12 BW illus.; (8) "Robert C. Vose Galleries," undated, 16 pages, 8 BW illus.; "An Exhibition of Important Works by French Masters of the XVIII and XIX Centuries," undated, four-fold, one tipped-in BW illus., checklist of 32 items. (Inventory #: 162515)