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Wood sculpture

Here are entered works on art works made by carving or assembling components of wood and created primarily for their aesthetic value. Works on carved, cut, or gouged wood having both a decorative and functional purpose are entered under Wood-carving.

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• Sculpture

• Wood-carving

• Wood sculpture, Bambara

• Wood carvings
• Wooden sculpture

• The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c1994), by Sarah C. Brett-Smith (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Art of Wood Carving: Practical Hints to Amateurs, and a Short History of the Art (London: Virtue and Co., 1867), by George Alfred Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Manual of Wood Carving (revised edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Charles Godfrey Leland and John J. Holtzapffel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903), by George Jack, ed. by W. R. Lethaby (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Auction on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, February 5, 6 and 7, at 2.30 O'Clock, in the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 366 Fifth Ave., Near Thirty-Fourth St., New York (1903), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by James P. Silo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, November 6, 7, 8, 1902, at 2.30 O'Clock, at Copley Hall, Boston (1902), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by Frank A. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Italian Renaissance Frames (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990), by Timothy J. Newbery, George Bisacca, and Laurence B. Kanter (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Renaissance Frames (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990), by Timothy J. Newbery, George Bisacca, and Laurence B. Kanter (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Auction on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, February 5, 6 and 7, at 2.30 O'Clock, in the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 366 Fifth Ave., Near Thirty-Fourth St., New York (1903), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by James P. Silo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic, From Temples and Palaces of Japan and China, to be Sold at Public Sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Afternoons, November 6, 7, 8, 1902, at 2.30 O'Clock, at Copley Hall, Boston (1902), by Yamanaka & Company, contrib. by Frank A. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1911), by Kate Sanborn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• How to Understand Sculpture (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1911), by Margaret Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures on Sculpture, As Delivered Before the President and Members of the Royal Academy (new edition; London: Bell and Daldy, 1865), by John Flaxman, contrib. by Richard Westmacott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures on Sculpture, As Delivered Before the President and Members of the Royal Academy (new edition; London: G. Bell and sons, 1881), by John Flaxman, contrib. by Richard Westmacott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts: Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, by Juliet Helena Lumbard James (Gutenberg text)

• Art Treasures of Belgium II: Sculpture (Art, Life and Science in Belgium, second series, #3; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1954), by Marguerite Devigne
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection (1962), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by H. Harvard Arnason, Abram Lerner, and Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshorn Collection (1962), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by H. Harvard Arnason, Abram Lerner, and Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1965), by John D. Cooney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tālamāna or Iconometry: Being a Concise Account of the Measurements of Hindu Images as Given in the Āgamas and Other Authoritative Works (Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India #3, 1920, reprinted 1977), by T. A. Gopinatha Rao
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1916), by George Frederick Kunz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Portraits in Plaster, From the Collection of Laurence Hutton (New York: Harper and Bros., 1894), by Laurence Hutton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Lenape Stone Masks From Pennsylvania and New Jersey (from the Indian Notes and Monographs series; New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1920), by Alanson Skinner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Modelling in Public Schools (Boston and New York: J. L. Hammett Co., c1909), by Walter Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plaster Casts and How They Are Made (second edition; New York: W. T .Comstock, 1899), by Frank Forrest Frederick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paper Sculpture: Its Construction and Uses for Display and Decoration (New York: Marquardt and Co., c1944), by Paul McPharlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Restitution du Temple d'Empédocle à Sélinonte: ou, L'Architecture Polychrôme Chez les Grecs (in French; Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1851), by Jacques Ignace Hittorff
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Gallica

• Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1965), by John D. Cooney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (third edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1952), by Léon Kochnitzky
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1948), by Léon Kochnitzky (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1965), by Albert Ten Eyck Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, by Stella G. S. Perry, contrib. by Alexander Stirling Calder (Gutenberg text)

• Die Antiken Steindenkmäler des Provinzialmuseums in Bonn (in German; Bonn: In Kommission der Buchhandlung F. Cohen, 1918), by Hans Lehner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum: Reign of Ashur-Nasir-Pal, 885-860 B. C. (London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1914), ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c1994), by Sarah C. Brett-Smith (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• Modern Sculpture in Belgium (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1948), by Jan Albert Goris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (third edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1952), by Léon Kochnitzky
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Negro Art in Belgian Congo (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1948), by Léon Kochnitzky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture: Regional Variations (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by William H. Forsyth (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin, by Frederick Lawton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Idealismus und Naturalismus in der Gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1918), by Max Dvořák (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaic and Archaistic Sculpture (Athenian Agora series, v11; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1965), by Evelyn B. Harrison (PDF in Greece)
• Greek Altars, Origins and Typology, Including the Minoan-Mycenaean Offertory Apparatus: An Archaeological Study in the History of Religion (St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University Press, 1949), by Constantine G. Yavis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sculpture, 1896-1923 (Corinth series v9 part 1; Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Harvard University Press, 1931), by Franklin Plotinus Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Collection of Casts in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1913), by F. N. Pryce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Répertoire de Reliefs Grecs et Romains (3 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1909-1912), by Salomon Reinach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Short Account of the Niobe Group (New York: L.W. Schmidt, 1875), by Thomas Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.