Thrift Store Paintings : Paintings Found in Thrift Stores
  • artists' book
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 29.9 x 23.5 cm.
  • 199 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 1879158000

Thrift Store Paintings : Paintings Found in Thrift Stores

[Hardback Edition]

Jim Shaw

Thrift Store Paintings : Paintings Found in Thrift Stores

description

Artist's book / compendium of paintings acquired by Jim Shaw -- and a few collected by others -- in thrift shops. Imagine all the possibilities -- from clowns to portraits to a lusty robot attacking two women -- and you get the picture. Includes index of titles, dimensions, media, names of painters (when known), and ownership. A great artist's project published and edited by Edward Ruscha's Heavy Industry Publications.

references

No. A1990.02 in "Ed Ruscha : An Archive of Projects [Other Stuff]" by Robert Dean, Al Ruppersberg, David Platzker, Michael Friend. New York, NY : Gagosian, 2022, pp. 175.

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Thrift Store Paintings : Paintings Found in Thrift Stores [Paperback Edition]
$75.00
Condition:  Good. Light all over soiling of dust-jacket with fading and moderate wear including a 1 cm. tear at dust-jacket spine and a 1.2 cm. area of loss to verso. Light soiling of endpapers, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges may be required.
[Object # 24546]