Vintage Best in Show Coffee Table Book

Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today

A beautifully illustrated art volume devoted to one of the most enduring subjects in fine and decorative art: the dog. Best in Show traces the presence of dogs in painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography from the Renaissance through the modern era, with richly reproduced examples that feel equally at home in a library, study, sporting room, or collected country house interior.

Published by Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this 2006 volume features contributions by Edgar Peters Bowron, Carolyn Rose Rebbert, Robert Rosenblum, and William Secord. The cover alone makes it a handsome display piece, with its painterly sporting dog portrait, warm sky, and classical art-book scale.

A thoughtful gift for the dog lover, art collector, sporting life enthusiast, or anyone drawn to the timeless relationship between dogs and the decorative arts.

DETAILS
Title: Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today
Authors/contributors: Edgar Peters Bowron, Carolyn Rose Rebbert, Robert Rosenblum, William Secord
Publisher: Yale University Press / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publication year: 2006
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 176
Approximate dimensions: 12" x 9"

CONDITION
Very good pre-owned condition with light expected shelf wear. 

STYLING SUGGESTIONS
Display on a coffee table, library shelf, bar cart, entry console, or layered into a sporting art vignette with antique brass, silver, leather-bound books, framed dog or equestrian art, and collected objects. Especially lovely for a den, hunt room, guest room, or dog-loving household with a traditional interiors sensibility.