FAMSF Catalogs

—. FAMSF: Selected Works, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum & California Palace of Legion of the Honor, FAMSF, 1987

Breuer, Karin. An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, FAMSF, 2000

Breuer, Karin. 35 Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, FAMSF, 1997

Burgard, Timothy Anglin. Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection, FAMSF, 1997

Cornell, Daniell. Visual Culture as History: American Accents, FAMSF, 2002

Gardner, Art through the Ages

Graham, F. Lanier. Three Centuries of American Painting from the Collection of the M.H. de Young Museum & the CA Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1971

Helfand, Glen. Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the De Young, MHdeYMM/FAMSF, 1999

Johnson, R.F., Karin Breuer & Joseph Goldyne. Treasures of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, FAMSF, 1995

Nash, Steven A. Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, FAMSF, U.CA Press, 1995

Nash, Steven A. with Adam Gopnik. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, FAMSF, 2000

Richardson, E.P. American Art—An Exhibition from the Collection of M/M John D. Rockefeller 3rd, FAMSF, 1976

Simpson, Mark et al. American Canvas: Paintings from the Collection of FAMSF, Hudson Hills Press, 1989

Simpson, Mark & Patricia Junker. The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at FAMSF, FAMSF with Abrams, 1994

Stover, Donald. American Sculpture in the Fine Arts Museums Collections, FAMSF, 1982

Bibliography from American Accents

Others [back to top]

College Art Assoc.—book reviews. CAA.org

Abrams series, Perspectives on individual subjects

Oxford’s History of Art series

Phaidon Art Series [back to top]

Berson, Stephanie and Bernstein & Fort. Made in California: Art, Image & Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (UCPress), 2000

Adams, Laurie Schneider, History of Western Art

Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, U.CA Press, 1985

Archer, Michael. Art since 1960, Thames & Hudson World of Art, London, 1997/2002

Atkins, Robert. Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements & Buzzwords, Abbeville Press, 1990

Atkins, Robert. Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements & Buzzwords, 1848-1944, Abbeville Press, 1993

Auping, Michael. Abstraction—Geometry—Painting, Harr Abrams, NY, 1989

Baigell, Matthew. A Concise History of American Painting & Sculpture

Baigell, Matthew. Dictionary of American Art

Baker, Kenneth. Minimalism: Art of Circumstance, Abbeville Modern Art Movements, Abbeville Press, NY, 1988

Barrett, Terry. Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Mayfield Publ., Mountain View, CA, 1994

Barnitz, Jacqueline. 20th Century Art of Latin America, U. Texas Press, 2001

Benezra, Neal et al. Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, SFMOMA, UC Press, 2000

Carr & Leonard. Learning to Look

Chadwick, Women, Art & Society

Corn, Wanda. Great American Things: Modern Art & National Identity, 1915-1935, UCaliforniaPress

du Pont, Diana C. et al. SFMOMA: The Painting & Sculpture Collection, Hudson Hills, 1985

Fer, Briony et al. Realism, Rationalism Surrealism: Art Between the Wars, Yale U. Press (The Open University) 1 of 4 in Modern Art Practices & Debates Series)

Fineberg, Jonathan. Art since 1940: Strategies of Being, Harry Abrams, NY, 2000

Godfrey, Tony. Conceptual Art, Phaidon, London, 1998

Harris & Nochlin, Women Artists, 1550-1950

Harrison, Charles. Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early 20th c., Yale U. Press (The Open University) 1 of 4 in Modern Art Practices & Debates Series)

Helm, MacKinley. Modern Mexicaqn Painters, Dover, 1968

Hopkins, Henry T. (foreword) Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 1957-1983, SFMOMA, 1984

Hughes, Robert. American Visions, Alfred Knopf, 1997

Hughes, Robert. Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays of Art & Artists, Penguin, NY, 1990

Hughes, Shock of the New, Alfred Knopf, NY, 1981

Hunter & Jacobus, American Art of the 20th c. (paper., $7.00 Amazon)

Hunter, Sam et al: Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

Hunter et al: Modern Art, 3rd Edition Revised (paperback, $55+)

Joachimedes, Christos & Norman Rosenthal. American Art in the 20th Century: Painting & Sculpture, 1913-1993, Prestel, 1993

Jones, Caroline. Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, SFMOMA with U.CA Press, 1990

Kirschke, Amy Helene. Aaron Douglas: Art, Race & the Harlem Renaissance, U. Press of Mississippi, 1995

Landauer, Susan. The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, UCPress, Berkeley & LA, 1996

Lewis, Samella. African-American Art & Artists, U.CA Press, Berkeley, 1990

Lucie-Smith. E. Art of the 1930’s: The Age of Anxiety, Rizzoli, New York, 1985

Lucie-Smith, E., ed. The Faber Book of Art Anecdotes, Faber & Faber, London, 1992

Martin, Alvin. American Realism: 20th century Drawings & Watercolors, SFMOMA, 1985

Martin, J. Longman Dictionary of Art Materials, Tools, Techniques, Terms. Longman, England, 1986

Osborne, Harold, ed. Oxford Companion to 20th c. Art

Patton, Sharon F. African-American Art, Oxford U Press, 1998

Perry, ed. Gender and Art

Petersen & Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition & Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the 20th Century

Polcari, Stephen. Abstract Expressionism & the Modern Experience, UCambridge, 1991

Reckitt & Phelan, Art & Feminism

Rose, Barbara. American Painting, 20th c.

Russell, The Meanings of Modern Art, MOMA/NY1981

Stitch, Sidra. Made in the USA, UC Press, 1987

Taylor, Joshua. Learning to Look

Tsujimoto, Karen. Wayne Thiebaud, U.Washington Press for SFMOMA, 1985

Varnadoe, A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern, Abrams Publ, NY, 1989

Von Blum, P. The Critical Vision: A History of Social & Political Art in the U.S., South End Press, Boston, 1982

Wood, Paul et al. Modernism in Dispute: Art since the Forties, Yale U. Press (The Open University) 1 of 4 in Modern Art Practices & Debates Series)

Sculpture [back to top]

Armstrong, Tom et al. 200 Years of American Sculpture, David R. Godine, Publ. in association with the Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 1976

Goldwater, Robert. What Is Modern Sculpture? MOMA, NYC, 1969

Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan. The Sculptor’s Eye: Looking at Contemporary American Art, Delacorte Press, NY, 1993

Hough, Katherine Plake & Michael Zakian, organizers. California Figurative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA, 1987

Opie, M. Sculpture: A Visual History Sculpture from its Prehistoric Beginnings to the Works of the Modern Masters, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1994

Stover, Donald. American Sculpture in the Fine Arts Museums Collections, FAMSF, 197?

Out of print [back to top]

Wood, Kathleen Sinclair. Clues to American Sculpture, Starhill Press, Washington, D.C., 1990

Decorative Arts [back to top]

Fairbanks, Jonathan L.& Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. American Furniture: 1620 to the Present (early 1980’s), Richard Marek Publ., NY, 1981

Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. Dictionary of the Decorative Arts, Harper & Row (Icon Editions), 1986

Design [back to top]

Hauffe, Thomas. Desing, An Illustrated Historical Overview, Barron’s, NY, 1996

Photography [back to top]

Crawford, William. The Keepers of Light: A History & Working Guide to Early Photographic Processes, Dobbs Ferry, NY, 1979

Upton, Barbara & John. Photography, adapted from Time-Life, 2nd ed. Little, Brown, Boston, 1981

Weston, Naef. The J. Paul Getty Handbook of the Photographs Collection, Malibu, 1995

Docent Library at the de Young [back to top]

1. 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1976
2. Albright T. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985
3. Alinder J, Szarkowski J. Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1985
4. Alinder J. The Unknown Ansel Adams The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco April 16, 1982
5. Arthur Dove, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, 1972
6. Baigell M. The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930’s, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1974
7. Baigell M. Thomas Hart Benton, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1975
8. Benezra N. Robert Arneson: A Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center, 1986
9. Benton TH. An American in Art, University Press of Kansan, Lawrence, Kansan, 1951
10. Buck RT, Cathcart LL, Gerald N, Maurice T. Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1976
11. Burgard T. Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1997
12. Campbell MS, Driskell D, Lewis DL, Ryan DW. Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994
13. Chipp H. Theories of Modern Art, University of California Press, 1971
14. Coplans J. Wayne Thiebaud, Pasadena Art Museum, 1968
15. Corn W. Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1983
16. Cummings P. 20thCentury Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987
17. Davidson A. Early American Modernist Painting1910-1935, Thames and Hudson, 1985
18. Favela R. The Art of Rupert Garcia: A Survey Exhibition, Chronicle Books and the Mexican Museum, San Francisco, 1986
19. Freshman P. Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, Walker Art Center, 1990
20. Friedman BH. Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1972
21. Gardner ATE. History of Water Color Painting in America, Reinhold Publishing Co., New York, 1966
22. Geldzahler H. New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, E.P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1969
23. Georgia O'Keeffe, Penguin Books, New York, 1977
24. Goodrich L, Bry D. Georgia O'Keeffe, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1970-1971
25. Goodrich L. Edwin Dickinson, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
26. Harris AS, Nochlin L. Women Artists 1550-1950 Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979
27. Haskell B. Marsden Hartley, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York University Press, New York, 1980
28. Hauser C. Art Foundry, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1972
29. Helm M. Mexican Painters: Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Other Artists of the Social Realist School, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1991
30. Hung Liu: "Chinese Types", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 1998
31. Jay DeFeo, San Francisco Art Institute, 1984
32. Jim Dine: Drawings, The Pace Gallery, New York, February 16, 1990
33. John Marin: 1870-1953, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970
34. Johnson RF, Breuer K, Goldyne J. Treasures of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1995
35. Jones C. Bar Area Figurative Art 1950- 1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990
36. Junker P. John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1998
37. Kelder D. Stuart Davis, Praeger Publishers, New York , 2002
38. Levin G. Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, W.W. Norton and Co., New York, 1996
39. Liffring-Zug J. This is Grant Wood Country, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Penfield Press, 1977
40. Lipparrd L. Pop Art, Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1966
41. Lisle L. Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life, Summit Books, New York, 1990
42. Mark Adams, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1970
43. Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978
44. Marter J, Tarbell RK, Wechsler J. Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, September 16, 1979
45. Master Paintings from The Phillips Collection, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1981
46. McCoubrey JW. American Art 1700-1960, Prentice Hall, 1965
47. Mendelowitz D. Drawing, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California, 1980
48. Mills P. The New Figurative Art of David Park, Capra Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1988
49. Moss S. The Howards: First Family of Bay Area Modernism, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, 1988
50. Nash S. Alain Kirili: A Dialogue with Rodin, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2000
51. Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 1957-1983, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 1984
52. Newman S. Arthur Dove and Duncan Phillips: Artist and Patron, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., 1981
53. O'Doherty B. American Masters, Random House, New York, 1982
54. Painters Behind Painters, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1967
55. Phillips L. Beat Culture and the New America: 195-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1966
56. Reginald Marsh: A Retrospective Exhibition, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach California, 1972
57. Rhapsodies in Black Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, University of California Press, Berkeley
58. Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, February 18, 1962
59. Rupert Garcia, The Haggin Museum Stockton, California, 1988
60. Seavey, KL. A Century of California Painting 1870-1970, Los Angeles, 1970.
61. Stangos N. Concepts of Modern Art, Thames and Hudson, 1994
62. Stebbins T. American Master Drawings and Watercolors, Harper and Row, 1976
63. Szarkowski J. The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1981
64. The Artist in America, The Editors of Art in America , W.W. Norton, New York 1967
65. The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art, Encyclopedia Britannica, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1973
66. The Precisionist View in American, Art Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1960
67. Tsujimoto K. Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography, University of Washington Press, 1982
68. Waldman D. Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948: A Retrospective, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1981

Modern and Contemporary Art Webography [back to top]

Contemporary Art Museums and Galleries:

contemporaryartscenter.org—in Cincinnati. With a brand new building in 2003, this organization doesn’t have a permanent collection. Try the exhibition archive for interesting info. No search function.

diacenter.org—Site for Dia Art Center. Searching for artists will lead you to images of work, short bio, bibliography, and essays. Very useful.

guggenheimcollection.org—directories by artist, movement, title, date, medium, concept. Good bios on artists. Lots of great information on the works and the artists plus suggested reading.

ica.org.uk—Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Prominent search function.

icaboston.org—site for Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. No search function. Press releases only go back to 2001.

mcachicago.org—site for Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The museum has a collection of over 6,000 works, searchable by artist. Press releases go back to 1999—a good source for info on artists that have been featured in their exhibitions.

mcdenver.org—Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver

massmoca.org—site for Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA. Past exhibitions back to 1996. Has a search function (Google). Not the best site for research.

moca.org—site for Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Past exhibitions archive goes to 1983 with links to images and the press release for each show. Search function is limited to permanent collection.

Other museum sites: [back to top]

lacma.org—site for Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “Collections online” is a good source of info. You can browse by artist or historical period. Their collection runs the gamut—American, Latin America, and Asian art, decorative arts, etc.

metmuseum.org

moma.org—site for Museum of Modern Art in NY.

tate.org.uk/modern

whitney.org

Fine Arts Presses [back to top]

atelierbordas.com—good info on print techniques and terminology

cirrusgallery.com—artist biographies. Note: LACMA now owns Cirrus archive.

crownpoint.com—good info on print techniques and terminology

nga.gov/gemini—archives of Gemini G.E.L. at National Gallery of Art

paulsonpress.com—Berkeley-based press

tandempress.wisc.edu—artist biographies

trilliumpress.com—good info on print techniques and terminology

unm.edu/~tamarind—Tamarind Press at the University of New Mexico

Online Magazines/Publications [back to top]

Generally online versions of contemporary art magazines offer small tastes of the magazine and require you to subscribe. Some are more generous than others.

artnet.com—news, features, reviews, database of over 18,000 artists; link to Grove

artnews.com

artforum.com

artinamerica.com—have to subscribe to read anything

artonpaper.com

flashartonline.com—lots of free articles and info

frieze.com

theartnewspaper.com—news, features, interviews, reviews—all free!

Misc. sites [back to top]

artcyclopedia—plug in an artist’s name and it will give you a list of all the places where you can find their work. You’re then linked directly to that museum or gallery site. You can also search by work, medium, movement, subject, etc.

artfacts.net—all over the map, but useful for finding an artist’s bio. Can’t vouch for accuracy of information.

findarticles.com—search the art magazines: Afterimage, Artfoum, Art in America, and a few others. Unlike the magazines’ websites, it will give you the whole article.

groveart.com—artist bios, free article search, images. Need subscription. This site is free with most library cards when you use your library's electronic resources page.

the-artists.org—biographies of contemporary artists with links to contemporary art exhibitions, i.e. Documenta.

Bibliography -- American Art [Colonial thru 19th Century] [back to top]

Recommendations from Academic Lecturers to Docents

Adams, Laurie Schneider, History of Western Art Eric Apfelstaddt
Gardner, Art through the Ages Eric Apfelstadt
Kathleen Maxwell
Elizabeth Dugan
Jan Thompson
Hartt, Art Jan Thompson
Janson, History of Art [Eric Apfelstadt= Move past Janson!]
Brigid Barton (except 20th c. = terrible!)
Jeannene Przyblyski
Pat Sanders
Marilyn Wyman
Stokstad, Art History Brigid Barton
Suzanne Jablonski
Pat Sanders
Jan Thompson
Marilyn Wyman
Conceptual Art—Phaidon Publishers Jeannene Przyblyski
Minimal Art—Phaidon Publishers Jeannene Przyblyski
College Art Assoc.—book reviews. CAA.org Jeannene Przyblyski
Abrams series, Perspectives on individual subjects Suzanne Jablonski
Oxford’s History of Art series Suzanne Jablonski
Phaidon’s Art series Suzanne Jablonski
Modernity & Modernism: French Painting in the 19th c. Elizabeth Dugan
Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early 20th c. Elizabeth Dugan
Realism, Rationalism Surrealism: art Between the Wars Elizabeth Dugan
Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties Elizabeth Dugan
Fineberg, Art Since 1940 Elizabeth Dugan
Suzanne Jablonski
Hunter & Jacobus, American Art of the 20th c. (paperback, $7.00 Amazon) Brigid Barton
Amazon: Hunter, Sam et al: Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Hunter, Sam & John Jacobus: American Art of the 20th c.: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Hunter et al: Modern Art, 3rd Edition Revised (paperback, $55+)
Perry, ed. Gender and Art Elizabeth Dugan
Reckitt & Phelan, Art & Feminism Elizabeth Dugan
Harris & Nochlin, Women Artists, 1550-1950
Petersen & Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition & Reappraisal from the Early Middle ages to the 20th Century
Chadwick, Women, Art & Society Eric Apfelstadt
Brigid Barton
Suzanne Jablonski
Jan Thompson
Bibliography from American Accents Daniel Cornell

FAMSF Catalogs [back to top]

1. —. FAMSF: Selected Works, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum & California Palace of the Legion of Honor, FAMSF, 1987
2. Burgard, Timothy Anglin. Bay Area Art from the Morgan Flagg Collection, FAMSF, 1997
3. Cornell, Daniell. Visual Culture as History: American Accents, FAMSF, 2002
4. Graham, F. Lanier. Three Centuries of American Painting from the Collection of the M.H. de Young Museum & the CA Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1971
5. Helfand, Glen. Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the De Young, MHdeYMM/FAMSF, 1999
6. Johnson, R.F., Karin Breuer & Joseph Goldyne. Treasures of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, FAMSF, 1995
7. Junker, Patricia with Sarah Burns. Winslow Homer, Artist & Angler, Amon Carter Museum & FAMSF, 2002
8. ash, Steven A. Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, FAMSF, U.CA Press, 1995
9. Nash, Steven A. with Adam Gopnik. Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, FAMSF, 2000
10. Richardson, E.P. American Art—An Exhibition from the Collection of M/M John D. Rockefeller 3r, FAMSF, 1976
11. Simpson, Mark et al. American Canvas: Paintings from the Collection of FAMSF, Hudson Hills Press, 1989
12. Simpson, Mark et al. Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine, FAMSF, 1992
13. Simpson, Mark et al. Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War, FAMSF with Bedford Arts, 1988
14. Simpson, Mark & Patricia Junker. The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at FAMSF, FAMSF with Abrams, 1994
15. Simpson, Mark et al. Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War, FAMSF, Bedford Arts Publishers, 1988
    

Docent recommendations [back to top]

1. —. Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
2. —. The American Renaissance, 1876-1917, Pantheon Books for The Brooklyn Museum, 1979
3. Rumford, Beatrix T. & Carolyn J. Weekley. Treasures of American Folk Art from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk
   Art Center, Little, Brown, etc., 1989
4. Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, U.CA Press, 1985
5. Anderson, Nancy K. & Linda S. Ferber. Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise, The Brooklyn Museum, 1990
6. Atkins, Robert. Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements & Buzzwords, Abbeville Press, 1990
7. Atkins, Robert. Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements & Buzzwords, 1848-1944, Abbeville Press, 1993
8. Baigell, Matthew. A Concise History of American Painting & Sculpture
9. Baigell, Matthew. Dictionary of American Art
10. Barratt, Carrie Rebora. “Faces of a New Nation: American Portraits of the 18th & early 19th c.,” MET Bulletin,
    Summer 2003
11. Blaugrund, Annette. The Tenth Street Building: Artist Entrepreneurs from the Hudson River School to the American Impressionists, The Parrish Museum, Southhampton, NY, 1997
12. Carr & Leonard. Learning to Look
13. Corn, Wanda. Great American Things: Modern Art & National Identity, 1915-1935, UcaliforniaPress
14. Craven, Wayne. Colonial American Portraiture, Cambridge University Press, 1986
15. Davidson. The Story of American Painting
16. du Pont, Diana C. et al. SFMOMA: The Painting & Sculpture Collection, Hudson Hills, 1985
17. Hopkins, Henry T. (foreword) Nathan Oliveira: A Survey Exhibition 1957-1983, SFMOMA, 1984
18. Hughes, Robert. American Visions, Alfred Knopf, 1997
19. Hughes, Robert. Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays of Art & Artists, Penguin, NY, 1990
20. Hughes, Shock of the New, Alfred Knopf, NY, 1981
21. Joachimedes, Christos & Norman Rosenthal. American Art in the 20th Century: Painting & Sculpture, 1913-1993, Prestel, 1993
22. Johns, Elizabeth, American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life, Yale University Press, 1991
23. Johnson, Paul. The Birth of the Modern World Society, 1815-1830, HarperCollins, NY, 1991
24. Jones, Caroline. Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, SFMOMA with U.CA Press, 1990
25. Kirshon, John W. ed. Chronicle of America (Year-by-year; day-by-day), DK Publ., NY, 1997
26. Mendelowitz, Daniel M. A History of American Art (2nd ed.), Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970
27. Morrison, Samuel Eliot, Commager, et al. A Concise History of the American Republic, vols. 1 & 2
28. Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decaeds: A Study of Arts in America, 1865-1895, Dover, NY, 1955
29. Murray, Peter & Linda. Dictionary of Art & Artists
30. Nash. Wayne Thiebaud
31. Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the 19th c: Realism, Idealis, & the American Experience (2nde ed.), Harper & Row, NY, 1979
32. Olson. Sargent
33. Osborne, Harold, ed. Oxford Companion to Art
34. Osborne, Harold, ed. Oxford Companion to 20th c. Art
35. Prown, Jules. American Painting from Its Beginnings to the Armory Show
36. Rebora, Carrie & Paul Straiti, ed. J.S. Copley in America, MET, 1995
37. Rose, Barbara. American Painting, 20th c.
38. Rosenberg, Pierre & H. Barbara Weinberg. A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting, 1760-1910, MFA, Boston, 1993
39. Russell, The Meanings of Modern Art, MOMA/NY1981
40. Shapiro, Michael E. et al. George Caleb Bingham, St. Louis Art Museum, Abrams, NY, 1990
41. Taylor, Joshua. Learning to Look
42. Tsujimoto, Karen. Wayne Thiebaud, U.Washington Press for SFMOMA, 1985
43. Varnadoe, A Fine Disregard:What Makes Modern Art Modern, Abrams Publ, NY, 1989

Bibliographies found in the website references *most commonly cited [back to top]

1. *Baigell, Matthew. Dictionary of American Art
2. Boas, Nancy. Society of Six
3. Dunbier, Lonnie P. ed. The Artists Bluebook (32,000 N.Amer. artists)
4. *Falk, Peter. Who Was Who in American Art
5. Heller, Jules & Nancy G. North American Women Artists of the 20th c.: Biographical Dictionary
6. *Hughes, Edan M. Artists in California, 1786-1940, 2 vols. (This is from the Crocker and costs $500+)
7. Lee, Cuthbert. Contemporary American Portrait Painters, illustrating and describing the work of 50 living painters
8. Rubenstein, Charlotte S. American Women Artists
9. Samuels, Peggy & Harold. Encyclopeida of Artists in the American West
10. Westphal, Ruth. Plein Air Painters of California, the North
11. *Zellman, David M. 300 Years of American Art

Decorative Arts [back to top]

1. Fairbanks, Jonathan L.& Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. American Furniture: 1620 to the Present (early 1980’s), Richard
   Marek Publ., NY, 1981
2. Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. Dictionary of the Decorative Arts, Harper & Row (Icon Editions), 1986

Sculpture [back to top]

1. Armstrong, Tom et al. 200 Years of American Sculpture, David R. Godine, Publ. in association with the Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 1976
2. Stover, Donald. American Sculpture in the Fine Arts Museums Collections, FAMSF, 197? Out of print
3. Wood, Kathleen Sinclair. Clues to American Sculpture, Starhill Press, Washington, D.C., 1990

Updated on: January 18, 2010