Books

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HARRY JACKSON
Kennedy Galleries Monograph—Catalogue by Frank Getlein.  Publisher:  Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York, NY, 1969.  98 pages. First book ever on Harry Jackson.
  (Sold-Out:  We have the last few volumes for sale)
  Hard Cover: $45 + Shipping & Handling
  Soft Cover: $35 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON
By Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard.  Forward, Peter Hassrick, Director Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming; Introduction, John Walker, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Jackson’s life and work from 1924 thru 1980.  308 pages, 397 illustrations, 104 color plates with a complete list of Jackson’s patinaed and painted sculpture from its inception in 1954 through 1980.  Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 1981
  (Sold-Out:  We have the last few volumes for sale)
  Hard Cover: $550 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON, 40 Years of His Work 1941-1981
With essays by John Walker, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;  Gene Thornton, TIME magazine art critic; Donald Goddard, Larry Pointer, and a rare interview with Harry Jackson by Lee Myers.  Publisher:  Wyoming Foundry Studios Inc., Cody, Wyoming 1981.  166 page catalogue.
  Soft Cover: $45 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON, 30 Years in Versilia (Italy)
With essays by Dr. Fabio Pezzini, Mayor of Camaiore; Franco Bolelli, Italian Senator; Patricia Smith, Smith Gallery, New York, NY and Harry Jackson.  Publisher:  City of Camaiore (Lucca), Italy, 1985-6.  108 page catalogue.
  Soft Cover: $45 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON’S LOST WAX BRONZE CASTING - Signed by Harry Jackson
by Harry Jackson.  Introduction by John Walker, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.  This still is the most authoritative book on this incomparable 6,000 year old bronze casting technique. 

These first edition books are signed by the author Harry Jackson. The dust jackets have slight wear on them, but the books are in excellent shape.
 SALE Hard Cover: First Edition: (We have the last few volumes for sale. They have slight wear to the dust jackets.)
Was $95, now only $35.00 + Shipping & Handling
Publisher:  Northland Press, Flagstaff, AZ, 1972

HARRY JACKSON’S LOST WAX BRONZE CASTING
by Harry Jackson.  Introduction by John Walker, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.  This still is the most authoritative book on this incomparable 6,000 year old bronze casting technique. 

These are the second edition of this title.
  Hard Cover: Second Edition:
$45 + Shipping & Handling
Publisher:  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., Inc., New York, NY, 1979
  Soft Cover: $30 + Shipping & Handling
Publisher:  Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., Inc., New York, NY, 1983

BRONZES OF THE AMERICAN WEST
by Patricia Janis Broder.  Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 1973.  431 pages, 511 illustrations & 48 color plates.  (Sold-Out:  We have the last few volumes for sale)  History of American bronzes.  Introduction by Dr. Harold McCracken, Director Emeritus, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Cody, Wyoming.  Harry Jackson is the first artist featured in the Contemporary Chapter (IX).  Jackson’s section is also the longest:  It covers over 6 pages and contains 9 plates.
  Hard Cover: $450 + Shipping & Handling

PORTRAITS—5,000 Years
by John Walker.  Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, 1973.  288 pages, 301 illustrations, and 73 color plates,  (First Edition Sold-Out:  We have the last few volumes for sale)  John Walker, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC writes with great knowledge about all aspects of human portrait painting and sculpture during the last five millennia of Western Civilization.  Mr. Walker selected the work of only three living artists:  Andrew Wyeth, Christina’s World, 1948, Tempera on gesso panel; David Hockney, My Parents, 1977, Oil on canvas and Harry Jackson, The Foreman (Portrait of Cal Todd), 1981, Fat egg tempera on bronze sculpture.  Mr. Walker concludes his book with a full page color plate of the sculpture, introduced by this statement (p. 266):  “Harry Jackson’s The Foreman, is a penetrating likeness of an American type…Jackson’s wrangler is traditionally rendered, yet its modernity is unmistakable.  This, it seems a fitting conclusion to an artistic history that reaches back five thousand years.”
  Hard Cover: $450 + Shipping & Handling

AMERICAN PAINTING
by Donald Goddard and Robert Rosenblum.  Publisher:  Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1990.  Distributed by Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, NY.  319 pages, 305 color plates.  Goddard’s 34 essays and Rosenblum’s extensive introduction explain how American painting has earned its revered place in world art history.  Paintings by 168 artists, between 1670 and 1990, represent Goddard’s carefully considered selection.  Harry Jackson is one of 13 of the 37 living artists illustrated by more that a single example.  The Family 1953, is his largest and most ambitious abstract expressionist work and The Italian Bar 1956 is his first multi-figure realist work after studying the Renaissance masters in Europe in 1954.  His world renowned western sculpture is lauded in the essay at the beginning of Chapter 28—Refiguring Abstract Expressionism.
  Hard Cover: $100 + Shipping & Handling

NEW YORK SCHOOL OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS
Published in 2000 by the New York School Press, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, 393 pages, 187 illustrations, 172 color plates, and edited by Marika Herskovic.  Harry Jackson page 190-194, together with Bill and Elaine DeKooning, Grace Hartigan (Jackson’s 2nd wife) and Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner, speak for themselves in this unique and extraordinary volume.
  Hard Cover: $95 + Shipping & Handling

ATTENTION: The prices of the below listed documentary films are costly because their production is expensive while their specialized sales market remains limited.
Videos
THE ART OF HARRY JACKSON
A one hour film documenting the 1987 University of Wyoming Art Museum Retrospective Exhibit of 60 years of Harry Jackson art.  Written, directed and narrated by Harry Jackson
    $100 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON’S DREAMS INTO REALITY
A half hour special showing Harry Jackson as he paints the surfaces of his 10 ft. tall bronze sculpture Psychedelajawea and his 20 inch tall Sunset Washakie.  Filmed for the University of Wyoming Art School by Jim Nadler and narrated by Harry Jackson.
    $50 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON A MAN AND HIS ART PRESENTED BY JOHN WAYNE
A gripping 60 minute narrative that takes you through the exciting art and life of Harry Jackson.  You fly to Italy to see his foundry/studio in the foot hills of the Italian Alps as well as to his studio and house in Wyoming in the rugged wide-open American Cowboy West.  You will also watch Jackson tour the great museums as he explains what excites him and how he sees art.  Narrated by Harry Jackson and John Wayne, whom Jackson meets for the first time in this movie.  This is a film for your entire family.
    $50 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON'S QUARTET TWO—BLACK AND WHITE VARIATION 2005
You watch Harry create his Quartet Two Black and White Variation while he describes the direct influence of WWII and Jackson Pollock on his Random Mono-Prints done in Mexico in Aug 1949, their influencing his War painting created in Italy (1998-2001) and their combined influence on his Quartets created in Italy from April thru Oct. 2005.  Harry Jackson, as usual, has created an artistic autobiographical film that surpasses those made on Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, the three most filmed artists in the world – until this and other films on and created by Cody Wyoming’s Harry Jackson came along.
  VHS $50 + Shipping & Handling
  DVD $50 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON’S WAR KILLS LIFE
 
  VHS Free + Shipping
  DVD Free + Shipping

HARRY JACKSON/SECOND MARINE DIVISION AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT AT BETIO TARAWA 20 XI 1943—60TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION
Harry Jackson, who was gravely wounded during this assault, returned to Betio Island, Japan’s bombproof citadel in Tarawa Atoll, in November 2003 where he was the keynote speaker during the formal 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the US Marine conquest of this globally strategic island-fortress.  Jackson described the specific reasons for this Japanese citadel when he spoke on RED BEACH TWO during this ceremony.  Both the video film of Jackson’s talk and his 97 page book detailing the shockingly unique global importance of this victorious 76 hour battle comprise this incomparable offer.
  VHS $50 + Shipping & Handling
  DVD $50 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON’S JOURNEY
 
  VHS $50 + Shipping & Handling
  DVD $50 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON/JACKSON POLLOCK/POLECAT BENCH 6 IX 2004
Video in Progress
  VHS Free + Shipping

COSMOS 5 PAINTED
 
  VHS $30 + Shipping & Handling
  DVD $30 + Shipping & Handling

BABY HARRY'S BATHYSPHERE
 
  VHS $25 + Shipping & Handling
  DVD $25 + Shipping & Handling

HARRY JACKSON—BETIO 20’ X 30’ PAINTING
in progress
  VHS Not available yet
  DVD Not available yet

HARRY JACKSON'S QUARTET FIVE
in progress
  VHS $50 + Shipping & Handling (Not available yet)
  DVD $50 + Shipping & Handling (Not available yet)

Audio
The Smithsonian Institution Presents:

HARRY JACKSON THE COWBOY: His Songs, Ballads and Brag Talk
(Two Cassette album)  30 songs on the Folkways Cassette Series.  Only albums ordered from us include copies of rave reviews by Robert Sheldon, New York Times; Walter Starkie, Saturday Review; Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco Chronicle.
  Two Cassette Album $22 + Shipping & Handling
  Compact Disk $24 + Shipping & Handling

COWBOY SONGS ON FOLKWAYS
Harry Jackson (5 solo songs), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston and others.  Guy Logsdon compiled and annotated these from the Smithsonian Folkways Collection.
  Cassette $11 + Shipping & Handling
  Compact Disk $19 + Shipping & Handling