This is not an all-inclusive list of resources we have on these artists, but it should get you started!
Thomas Hart Benton
Books
Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism
by
Erika Doss
Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical and cultural context of the Depression and the Cold War, Doss explains the reasons for this change and casts light on its significance for contemporary culture.
William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations
by
William Blake
Blake's sublime watercolors are not only peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, they are dramatic expressions of the great artist's integrity and imagination. Some apocalyptic, others angelic, the 102 plates range from completely finished pieces to rough sketches.
Michelangelo Drawings: closer to the master
by
Hugo Chapman
This lovely book focuses on more than 250 of his drawings executed in chalk, charcoal, and pen and ink. Distinguished art historian Hugo Chapman examines this array of works and discusses how the act of drawing figured prominently in Michelangelo's work.
Edward Burne-Jones and Pre-Raphaelite Melancholy
Shaw, W.David. “Edward Burne-Jones and Pre-Raphaelite Melancholy.” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 444–452. EBSCOhost, doi:10.3138/utq.66.2.444.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet
"Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 Mar. 2012. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Sir-Edward-Coley-Burne-Jones-1st-Baronet/18192.
Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
“Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.” The Decorator and Furnisher, vol. 29, no. 2, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1896, pp. 48–50, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25585110.
Paul Cezanne
Books
Cézanne : a biography
by
John Rewald
This is a study tracing the life of Cezanne from his boyhood in Aix through the tumultuous Paris period to his last creative but lonely years in his native town. Letters, documents and photographs are included. Rewald has also compiled a catalogue raisonne of Cezanne's watercolours."
Letters on Cézanne
by
Rainer Maria Rilke; Joel Agee; Clara Rilke
Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his "New Poems," But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge."
Call Number: PT2635.I65 Z49313 1985
ISBN: 9780880641074
Publication Date: 1988
Giorgio de Chirico
Books
Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne
by
Michael Taylor; Matthew Gale; Max Ernst; Gerard Tempest
"In eight essays the authors explore the importance of the Ariadne series in the context of the Paris art world before World War I and in later developments in de Chirico's career. An unpublished text by Max Ernst and an interview with Gerard Tempest, who was tutored by de Chirico in the late 1940s, shed new light on the artist and his working methods."
Call Number: N6923.C5 A4 2002
ISBN: 9781858941899
Publication Date: 2005
Modern Antiquity
by
Christopher Green; Jens M Daehner; Silvia Loreti
Focuses on the reinventions and transformations of antiquity in the work of four culturally and politically diverse artists between 1905 and 1935. In distinctly different ways, classicizing creations such as de Chirico's enigmatic piazzas, Picasso's post-Cubist women, Léger's mechanized nudes, and Picabia's Transparencies reflect what the eyes and minds of these artists found so arresting in the arts of antiquity and how they made those arts modern.
Chuck Close
by
Christopher Finch
Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960's and '70's to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations featured in the book survey almost all of Close's paintings and include his most recent work, a selection of his prints and multiples and examples of his photographic oeuvre.
Call Number: N6537.C54 F56 2010
ISBN: 9783791344669
Publication Date: 2010
Close Reading: Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait
by
Martin Friedman
Includes a comprehensive biography of Close that deals with his childhood and college years, his struggles with learning disabilities, the origins and perfecting of his near photographic painting technique, and his sudden illness in 1988, which led to almost complete paralysis, and the degree of recovery that enabled him to continue his painting career.
Call Number: N6537.C54 F75 2005
ISBN: 9780810959200
Publication Date: 2005
Salvador Dali
Books
Dali's Optical Illusions
by
Dawn Ades
This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion affects our sense of reality.
The Persistence of Memory
by
Meredith Etherington-Smith
The author penetrates the artist's self-mythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses: his Catalan childhood; his relationships with Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Breton, Picasso, Miro, de Chirico, Man Ray, Ernst, and Eluard; Dalí's fixations, phobias, and Surrealist pranks; and his bizarre marriage to Gala--muse, business manager, nymphomaniac, gold digger, and finally tormentor.
Call Number: N7113.D3E84 1995
ISBN: 9780306806629
Publication Date: 1995
Salvador Dalí 1904-1989 : the paintings
by
Robert Descharnes
A major study of this 20th-Century master, offering the most complete edition of his known paintings ever published. While not a catalogue raisonne, it contextualizes Dali's work, relating the paintings to his writings and drawings, as well as to other kinds of work by this versatile artist.
Call Number: ND813.D3 D4513 2006
ISBN: 9780681567917
Publication Date: 2006
Honore Daumier
Books
Honore Daumier
by
Pierre Cabanne
This definitive book presents Daumier's drawings, paintings, sculptures and lithographs, along with an insightful text by the distinguished French art historian Pierre Cabanne, and a comprehensive collection of notes, details and important background research.
Call Number: N6853.D3 C3313 1999
ISBN: 9782719104866
Publication Date: 1999
Edgar Degas
Books
Degas and the Dance
by
Jill Devonyar; Richard Kendall
Among the supreme masterpieces of 19th-century art are Edgar Degas' dramatic, incisive and often brilliantly coloured pictures of the ballet. He has enormous popularity as the foremost artist of the dance - with more than half his vast body of paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures devoted to the on- and off-stage activities of ballerinas - and this catalogue, accompanying an exhibition, illuminates the theme in its historical context.
Call Number: N6853.D33 A4 2002
ISBN: 0810932822
Publication Date: 2002
Degas
by
Roy McMullen
Recounts the life and career of the great French impressionist, describes his complex personality, and discusses his painting style and experiments.
World of Delacroix
by
Tom Prideaux
A profusely illustrated account of the life, career, works and times of Eugene Delacroix, master 19th century French painter, with background information on other artists of the time.
Call Number: ND553.D33 P7 1966
ISBN: 9780809402625
Publication Date: 1966
Edmund Dulac
Articles
Edmund Dulac—A Poet of the Brush
STUART, EVELYN MARIE. “Edmund Dulac—A Poet of the Brush.” Fine Arts Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, [The Frick Collection, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1910, pp. 87–102, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23905910.
Visions of Symmetry
by
Doris S. Schattschneider
Visions of symmetry contains Escher's complete set of symmetry drawings reproduced in full colour and two Escher notebooks (which contain his theory of symmetry). In all, there are more than 350 intriguing illustrations (about 80 of which have never been published.)
Call Number: NC263.E83 S3 1990
ISBN: 9780716723523
Publication Date: 1992
The world of M.C. Escher
by
M. C. Escher
Escher's works--woodcuts, lithographs, and drawings, accompanied by quotes from the author--are brilliantly arranged to form a cinematic look at his achievements. Here is the magical world of the artist's mind, an uncharted realm full of exotic conceptions and inventions.
Gauguin
by
Alan Bowness
This new anthology presents many of the great masterpieces that Gauguin painted in Paris, Brittany, Tahiti and the Marquesas, chosen from museums and private collections all over the world.
Call Number: ND553.G27 B66 1971
ISBN: 9780714814810
Publication Date: 1971
Gauguin: a retrospective
by
Marla Prather; Charles F. Stuckey
This book features hundreds of illustrations, including 125 colorplates. The text comprises writings of the artist's friends and colleagues as well as those of such late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century luminaries. The anthology also contains selections from Gauguin's own writings--including the celebrated Noa Noa.
Call Number: N6853.G34 G38 1987
ISBN: 9780883632871
Publication Date: 1987
Gauguin and Impressionism
by
Richard R. Brettell; Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark
This handsomely illustrated book reconsiders Gauguin's apprenticeship as an Impressionist and reassesses his contributions to the movement through the extraordinarily subtle and beautiful paintings, sculpture, and ceramic works he created during the years before 1887.
Alberto Giacometti
by
Laurie Wilson
Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson demonstrates how the artist's secret beliefs and emotional scars are reflected in his evocative sculpture, drawings and paintings.
Alberto Giacometti
by
Peter Selz
Catalog of a comprehensive exhibition of Glacometti's work organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1965.
Call Number: N7153.G47 N4 1965
Publication Date: 1965
Edward Gorey
Articles
Edward Gorey
"Edward Gorey." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 Feb. 2001. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Edward-Gorey/104319.
Gorey, Edward (St. John)
“Gorey, Edward (St. John).” Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Jan. 2018, p. 1; EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=funk&AN=go067750&site=ehost-live.
Goya
by
Robert Hughes
In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya's work.
Frida Kahlo
by
Judy Chicago; Frances Borzello
Features each work on its own spread, facing commentary by Chicago and Borzello. Essays explore Kahlo's many facets: woman, artist, historical figure, and inspiration. Designed to evoke a Mexican retablo, or altarpiece, this volume reframes Frida Kahlo for a contemporary audience.
Call Number: ND259.K33 C47 2010
ISBN: 9783791343600
Publication Date: 2010
Frida Kahlo
by
Martha Zamora
Seventy-five of Frida Kahlo's paintings, reproduced here in lavish color, accompany numerous historical photographs and the author's descriptive text, chronicling the significant episodes in Kahlo's life.
Call Number: ND259.K33 Z3613 1990
ISBN: 9780811804851
Publication Date: 1990
Gustav Klimt
Books
Gustav Klimt
by
Eva di Stefano
\With more than 300 beautifully reproduced pictures, paintings, and photographs, it presents Klimt's entire artistic production: posters for exhibitions, erotic drawings, and pictorial masterpieces such as The Kiss, Death and Life, and Tree of Life, along with countless portraits such as the famous Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
Monet
by
Robert Gordon; Andrew Forge
Examines the works of Monet from a new perspective, and traces the changes in his style as brought about by the changes and problems in his personal life.
Mother and Child: the art of Henry Moore
by
Gail E. Gelburd
Catalog of an exhibition held at Hofstra Museum (Sept. 10-Nov. 21, 1987); Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University (Dec. 6, 1987-Jan. 23, 1988); Baltimore Art Museum (Feb. 16-Apr. 17, 1988); and the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania (Dec. 11, 1987-Jan. 17, 1988).
Call Number: NB497.M6 M67 1987
ISBN: 9780812281118
Publication Date: 1987
The Life of Henry Moore
by
Roger Berthoud
From a mass of material, including recently discovered early letters, and interviews with Moore's friends, his former assistants and students, dealers, collectors, museum officials and leading architects with whom he worked, Roger Berthoud has built up a lively and engaging though not uncritical picture of Moore's long life and career in this definitive biography. Book jacket.
Call Number: NB497.M6 B47 1987
ISBN: 9780525245636
Publication Date: 1987
Henry Moore
by
Henry Moore; John Hedgecoe (Photographer)
Hedgecoe has taken many thousands of photographs of Henry Moore at work and on holiday, relating the man to the sources of his inspiration--the land, the sea, the sky, natural objects, flintstones, trees, landscapes, and above all to the human form. The words are by Henry Moore himself. Altogether, the result is an extraordinarily vivid and personal record of the world's greatest living sculptor in his environment.
Giorgio Morandi
by
Janet Abramowicz; Giorgio Morandi
An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history, this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.
Call Number: N6923.M6 A84 2004
ISBN: 0300100361
Publication Date: 2005
Kay Nielsen
Books
Kay Nielsen. East of the Sun and West of the Moon
by
Noel Daniel
This finely crafted reprint restores the stunning detail and artistry of Nielsen's images to their original splendor. Featuring 46 illustrations, including many enlarged details from Nielsen's rare original watercolors, the book is printed in five colors. Three accompanying essays, illustrated with dozens of rare and previously unseen artworks by Nielsen, explore the history of Norwegian folktales, Nielsen's life and work, and how this masterpiece came to be.
Georgia O'Keeffe
by
Jonathan Stuhlman; Barbara Buhler Lynes; Georgia O'Keeffe
This book examines for the first time an overlooked aspect of O'Keefe's work, focusing specifically on her distinctive use of circular forms as an abstract motif. The publication traces O'Keefe's experimentation with circular forms across her entire career and concludes with a selection of rarely seen late paintings in which she literally "circled back" to forms found in her early work.
Call Number: ND237.O5 A4 2007
ISBN: 9780943411491
Publication Date: 2007
Georgia O'Keeffe: the poetry of things
by
Elizabeth Hutton Turner
A celebration of Georgia O'Keeffe's contribution to still-life painting. It discusses the formative influence of Arthur Wesley Dow and compares her invention in still life to academic practices and traditional models in Western art. There are full-page reproductions of her paintings.
Wondrous Strange
by
Andrew Wyeth; Jamie Wyeth; Howard Pyle; N. C. Wyeth
The art presented in this volume is from three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as turn-of-the-century illustrator, Howard Pyle. The paintings have elements of the Gothic and touch upon the fantastic and the macabre, and each of the 120 selected is an illustration of a classic tale.
Call Number: ND237.P94 A4 1998
ISBN: 9780821225370
Publication Date: 1998
Arthur Rackham
Articles
Arthur Rackham
"Arthur Rackham." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 27 Jan. 2011. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Arthur-Rackham/1177.
About the Artist: Odilon Redon
Mozur, Nancy. “About the Artist: Odilon Redon.” Psychological Perspectives, vol. 59, no. 3, July 2016, pp. 293–294. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/00332925.2016.1202714.
Odilon Redon: Triumph of light
Ortega, Susan Ackoff. “Odilon Redon: Triumph of Light.” World & I, vol. 10, no. 3, Mar. 1995, p. 140. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=9503013445&site=ehost-live.
Frederic Remington
by
Michael Edward Shapiro; Peter H. Hassrick
The volume also includes comparative illustrations of works by his contemporaries, and views of the artist painting or adventuring in the west, and shows how Remington was much more than an artist of the American West.
Rembrandt's Eyes
by
Simon Schama
Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon Schama has been thinking for more than twenty years, shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Though a succession of superbly incisive descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into his narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh.
The world of Rembrandt, 1606-1669
by
Robert Wallace
Lavishly illustrated account of the life, career, works and times of the 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, with background information on other artists of that period.
Diego Rivera
by
Linda Downs; Cynthia Newman Helms
Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. Its 200 color plates and 325 black-and-white photographs illustrate Rivera's life and work from his early years at the Mexican Academy of San Carlos and studies in Spain, his subsequent eleven-year sojourn in Paris and brief involvement with Cubism in the first part of this century, to his efforts to establish a truly Mexican style in the murals for which he is most famous.
Rossetti and His Circle
by
Max Beerbohm
Facsimile of author's illustrated copy of the first edition. Contains 23 watercolor caricatures of Pre-Raphaelites and other artists, writers, models, and mistresses surrounding the caricaturist.
Peter Paul Rubens
by
Anne-Marie Logan; Michiel Plomp
The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens's drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artist's early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked.
Egon Schiele, 1890-1918 : the midnight soul of the artist
by
Reinhard Steiner
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings.
Call Number: N6811.5.S34 S74 2007
ISBN: 9783822863275
Publication Date: 2007
Egon Schiele: drawings and watercolors
by
Jane Kallir
Assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year career.
Seurat, 1859-1891
by
Robert Herbert
Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.
Call Number: ND553.S5 A4 1991
ISBN: 9780810964105
Publication Date: 1991
Seurat
by
John Russell
'A lively and most readable account of Seurat's life and artistic development... Mr. Russell contributes some important original insights.'
Call Number: ND553.S5 R8 1985
ISBN: 0500200327
Publication Date: 1985
Seurat and the Science of Painting
by
William I. Homer
Demonstrates the close connection that existed between science and the visual arts during the late nineteenth century and deals with some of the developments that led to that union.
Call Number: ND553.S5 H63 1985
ISBN: 9780878172955
Publication Date: 1985
Dorothea Tanning
Articles
Dorothea Tanning
Temkun, Annn. “Dorothea Tanning.” Grand Street, no. 72, Fall 2003, pp. 126–139. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=11460760&site=ehost-live.
Ascending Chaos: the art of Masami Teraoka
by
Masami Teraoka; Kathryn A. Hoffman; Alison Bing; Eleanor Heartney;
In Teraoka's paintings, the political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.
Call Number: ND237.T387 A4 2006
ISBN: 9780811850971
Publication Date: 2007
Wayne Thiebaud
Books
Wayne Thiebaud
by
Karen Tsujimoto
This major monograph traces the development of several themes and styles that characterize Thiebaud's complex oeuvre.
Call Number: ND237.T5515 A4 1985
ISBN: 9780295962696
Publication Date: 1985
Wayne Thiebaud: a paintings retrospective
by
Steven A. Nash; Adam Gopnik
Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes, pies, delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies, the topography of Northern California, and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco.
Call Number: ND237.T5515 A4 2000
ISBN: 9780500092927
Publication Date: 2000
Vincent Van Gogh
Books
Van Gogh
by
Josephine Cutts; James Smith
Van Gogh looks at all aspects of his painting, along with detailed commentary on 120 of his works and additional imagery to highlight comparisons and contrasts in his style. Some of these are considered his most important pieces while others are less well known, but all were central to Van Gogh's philosophical and artistic development.
Vincent van Gogh : the complete paintings
by
Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger
Features a golden hardbound cover and high quality photos of Van Gogh's work through each stage of his creative life, within six chronological sections; The making of an artist, 1853-1883, The years in Nuenen, 1883-1885, City Life, 1885-1888, Painting & Utopia, Arles Feb 1888-May 1889, Almost a cry of fear, Saint-Remy, May 1889-May 1890, and Auvers-sur-Oise, May-July 1890.
Leonardo Da Vinci
by
Patrice Boussel
Discusses Leonardo the man and painter, provides an analysis of his thinking as revealed in his notebooks, and includes reproductions of many of his works.
Call Number: ND623.L5 B677 1986
ISBN: 9780914427513
Publication Date: 1986
Notebooks
by
Leonardo da Vinci; Irma A. Richter; Thereza Wells; Martin Kemp
Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo's thoughts, and his approach to work and life. This selection offers a cross-section of his writings, organized around coherent themes. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo.
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780199299027
Publication Date: 2008
The world of Leonardo, 1452-1519
by
Robert Wallace and the editors of Time-Life Books
A selection of the works of Leonardo the artist, the scientist and anticipator of the modern age of technology and invention is accompanied by a text which presents and analyzes the stages of Leonardo's life and growth, including numerous quotations from his own notes and writings.
Wondrous Strange
by
Andrew Wyeth; Jamie Wyeth; Howard Pyle; N. C. Wyeth
The art presented in this volume is from three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as turn-of-the-century illustrator, Howard Pyle. The paintings have elements of the Gothic and touch upon the fantastic and the macabre, and each of the 120 selected is an illustration of a classic tale.