Interesting books about

Art and Artists in Maine

(IS indicates the text is "in stock" on the library shelves.  Included in the listing below are some general books on art that we also have in the library.)

Alden, Grant. (1994). Logging in the Maine woods: The paintings of Alden Grant. Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum, Rangeley, ME. IS.

American Neptune. (1960). Pictorial supplement II: Antoine Roux sketch books (1790-1826). The American Neptune, Salem, MA. IS.

American Neptune. (1965). Pictorial supplement VI: A selection of marine paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. The American Neptune, Salem, MA. IS.

American Neptune. (1966). Pictorial supplement VII: American and Canadian fishing schooners. Peabody Museum, Salem, MA. IS.

Archives of Maine Art. (1963). Artists active in Maine in the twentieth century. Archives of Maine Art, Colby College, Waterville, ME. IS.

Avery, Myron H. (1940). Artist's and Katahdin. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company, Bangor, ME.

Bangor Historical Society. (1992). The Hardy connection: Bangor women artists 1830-1900: Mary Ann Hardy, Anna Eliza Hardy, Isabel Graham Eaton, Florence Whitney Jennison. Bacon Printing Co., Bangor, ME.

Beem, Edgar Allen. (1990). Maine art now. The Dog Ear Press, Gardiner, ME. IS.

Belanger, Pamela J. (1996). William Kienbusch: A retrospective exhibition, 1946-1979. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME.

Belanger, Pamela J. (1999). Inventing Acadia: Artists and tourists at Mount Desert. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME.

Belanger, Pamela J. (2000). Maine in America: American art at the Farnsworth Art Museum. University Press of New England, Hanover, NH.

Benson, E.M. (1935). John Marin, the man and his work. American Federation of Arts.

Bowdoin College. (1950). An illustrated handbook of the Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts in the Walker Art Building Brunswick, Maine. IS.

Bunting, William. (1997). A day's work: A sampler of historic Maine photographs, 1860-1920. Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME. IS.

Carr, Gerald L. (2000). Frederic Edwin Church: In search of the promised land. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., NY, NY.

Carter, Morris. (1925). Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court. Houghton Mifflin Co., NY, NY. IS.

Curtis, Jane, Curtis, Will, and Lieberman, Frank. (1995). Monhegan the artists' island. Down East Books, Camden, ME. IS.

DeAngelis, Ralph and Drinon, Alva. (1980). The works of Bob Drinon. Colonial Offset Printing, Inc., Portland, ME. IS.

Dearborn, Elwyn. (1983). Carroll Thayer Berry: A catalogue raisonné of his wood engravings, woodcuts & linocuts. Down East Books, Camden, ME.

Friedman, Terri. (1997). Interview with Jonathan Borofsky. Zing Magazine. 4. www.zingmagazine.com/zing4/friedman_frames.html.

Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck. (1961). Winslow Homer: American artist: His world and his work. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Goodrich, Lloyd. (1944). Winslow Homer. Whitney Museum of American Art, Macmillan.

Gourley, Hugh III and Jacks, Shirley. (1986). Bernard Langlois, The middle years. Midtown Galleries, NY, NY. IS.

Halstead, Frank. (1927). Orders of architecture. J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Haskell, Ernest. (1976). A retrospective exhibition portfolio of selected work: 1876-1925. The Museum, Brunswick, ME.

Hirshler, Erica E. (2001). A studio of her own: Women artists in Boston 1870 - 1940. MFA Publications, Boston, MA. IS.

Hobbs, Robert. (1990). Milton Avery. Hudson Hills Press, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Hudson, Eric, Shettleworth, Earle G. and Bunting, William. (1998). An eye for the coast: The maritime and Monhegan Island photographs of Eric Hudson. Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME.

Ivins, William M. Jr. (1943). How prints look. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY. IS.

Jacobs, Carl. (1957). Guide to American pewter. McBride Company, New York, NY. IS.

Joan Whitney Payson Gallery of Art. (1985). Women pioneers in Maine art, 1900-1945. Portland, ME.

Johansen, Deborah, Ed. (1991). Henry Miller: The paintings: A centennial retrospective. Coast Publishing, Carmel, CA. IS.

Kent, Rockwell, Ed. (1939). World-famous paintings. Wise & Co., Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Kiensbusch, William. (1996). William Kiensbusch: a retrospective exhibition, 1946-1979. Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME.

Langlais, Bernard. (1990). Bernard Langlais: Works on paper. Hobe Sound Galleries North, Brunswick, ME.

Little, Carl. (1993). Edward Hopper's New England. Pomegranate Artbooks, San Fransisco, CA.

Little, Carl. (1995). Winslow Homer and the sea. Pomegranate Artbooks, San Fransisco, CA.

Little, Carl. (1996). Paintings of New England. Down East Books, Camden, ME.

Little, Carl. (1997). Art of the Maine islands. Down East Books, Camden, ME. IS.

Little, Carl. (1997). Winslow Homer: His art, his light, his landscapes. First Glance Books, Cobb, CA.

Magee, Alan. (2003). Alan Magee: Paintings, sculpture, graphics. Forum Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. IS.

Maine Coast Artists. (1992). Catalogue: On the edge: Forty years of Maine painting: 1952 - 1992. Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME. IS.

Maine State Museum. (1976). 76 Maine Artists. Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME.

Maine State Museum. (1976). Artists Listed in City Directories in Maine 1850-1899. Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME.

Mellon, Gertrude, A. and Wilder, Elizabeth, F., Eds. (1963). Maine and its role in American Art 1740 - 1963. The Viking Press, NY. IS.

Miller, William B. (1963). Maine and its artists, 1710 - 1963: An exhibition in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Colby College, 1813 - 1963. The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, VT. IS.

Miller, William B., Ed. (1976). Maine artists, 1850-1899: Maine State Museum checklist series. Augusta, ME.

Morgan, Charles S. (1963). The American Neptune: Pictorial supplement V: New England coasting schooners. The American Neptune, Salem, MA. IS.

Morris, William; Walker, Emery; Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.; Blomfield, Reginald. (1968). The Revival of art in craft. Wynkyn de Worde Society, London. IS.

Muir, Emily. (2002). The time of my life. publisher unknown.

Newhall, Beaumont. (1982). The history of photography: From 1839 to the present. The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY. IS.

Payson, John Whitney. (April 1990). Bernard Langlais works on paper. Hobe Sound Galleries North, Brunswick, ME. IS.

Penland School of Crafts. (2005). The Penland book of jewelry. Lark Books, New York, NY. IS.

Porter, Bern. (1965). Art productions, 1928-1965. D. Turrell, Pasadena, CA.

Portland Museum of Art. (1998). 1998 Portland Museum of Art biennial. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME.

Portland Museum of Art. (2001). 2001 Portland Museum of Art biennial. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME.

Portland Museum of Art. (2002). The poetry within: The life and work of William Thom. Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME.

Quon-Quon Company. (1945). Chinese metal art. Quon-Quon Company, Los Angeles, CA. IS.

Reef, Pat Davidson. (1985). Bernard Langlais, sculptor. Kennebec River Press, Woolwich, ME.

Rose, Barbara. (1986). American painting: The twentieth century. Rizzoli International, NY, NY. IS.

Rosenthal, Mark. (1984). Jonathan Borofsky. H.N. Abrams, NY, NY.

Ryan, Susan Elizabeth. (1986). AM: Artists in Maine. 2 volumes. Artists in Maine, Portland, ME.

Sadik, Marvin S. (1990). Colonial and federal portraits at Bowdoin College. Brunswick, ME.

Schlosser, Ignaz. (1963). The Book of rugs - Oriental and European. Bonanza Books, New York, NY. IS.

Shaw Gallery. (July 25, 2002). Maine painting, circa 1950 - 1959. Shaw Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME. IS.

Skolnick, Arnold, Ed. (1991). Paintings of Maine. Clarkson Potter Publishers, NY. IS. Smart, Wini and Komusin, Bruce. (2003). Video: "Waddy": Charles E. Wadsworth (1917 - 2002). Great Cranberry Historical Society, Cranberry Island, ME.

Swinth, Kirsten. (2001). Painting professionals: Women artists & the development of modern American art, 1870 - 1930. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.

Tantillo, Joe. (2003). Historic past enduring land: A tribute to the machine shops & countryside of Springfield, VT. Self-published? IS.

Tragard, Louise, et. al. (1987). Ogunquit, Maine's art colony. Ogunquit, ME. IS.

Tree, Christina and English, Nancy. (2012). Maine: An Explorer's Guide. The Countryman Press, Woodstock, VT. IS.

Trettner, William H. and Stein, Roger B. (1999). Picturing old New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Varga, Margit. (1941). Waldo Peirce. Harper.

Warman, Edwin G. (1978). American Cut Glass. E.G. Warman Publishing, Uniontown, PA. IS.

West Side Gallery. (1991). Daniell, George. Exhibition Catalog, West Side Gallery, Southwest Harbor, ME. IS.

Wilmerding, John. (1987). American marine painting. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Wilmerding, John. (1994). The artist's Mount Desert: American painters on the Maine coast. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Wilson, Kenneth M. (1969). Glass in New England. Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. IS.

Woodman, Katherine and Barney, Grace L. (1970). A century of Portland painters, 1820-1920. Portland, ME.

Young, George M. (1998). Force through delicacy: The life and art of Charles H. Woodbury. Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, NH.

Zorach, William. (1947). Zorach explains sculpture: What it means and how it is made. American Artists Group, NY, NY. IS.

Zorach, William. (1967). Art is my life: The autobiography of William Zorach. World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH.