Weatherbird artwork celebrates SLPL's Sesquicentennial!

 Dan Martin, the Post-Dispatch's current Weatherbird artist, has created a special illustration for the library's 150th year anniversary.  We will be celebrating the founding of the first St. Louis Public School Library all during 2015.  Happy New Year!

Steedman Architectural Library materials on exhibit, now through February

Steedman Library books and other materials are not usually on view to the public, but from December, 2014 through May, 2015, you can see them in the eight display cases in Central's Great Hall.  View one of the elephant folio Piranesis, the collection's oldest book (1521),  a recent artist's book that recreates Palladio's Villa Rotonda, and much more.  Keep up with other Steedman developments on its own blog:
http://steedmanarchitecturallibrary.blogspot.com/

Latest arrivals

New arts books are coming in regularly now. Remember that if you can't make it downtown to Central Library, you can request that these titles (well, not the Reference works) be sent to your home branch for pickup.

Reference

Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market, 2015

Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601 – 1700, 6^th edition

Who’s Who in American Art, 35^th ed., 2015

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

Art in America, 1945-1970; Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,    and Minimalism  edited by Jed Perl

The World is an Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne, exhibit catalog of the Art Gallery of Hamilton

Architecture / Landscape Design

The English Country House Garden  by George Plumptre

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design  by Anne Hawley

Louis Kahn; House of the Nation

Saarinen Houses  by Jari Jetsonen

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Car Posters  by Emmanuel Lopez

Creating a Successful Fashion Collection  by Steven Faerm

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms; Interiors and Decorative Arts  by Margo Stipe

Steampunk Graphics; the Art of Victorian Futurism  by Antoni Cadafalch

Photography

David Hume Kennerly On the iPhone: Secrets and Tips from a Pulitzer Prize winning  Photographer

Digital SLR Cameras & Photography for Dummies  by David D. Busch

Photographic Composition  by Albrecht Rissler

Scanning and Editing your Old Photos  by Heather Morris

She Who Tells A Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World  by Kristin Gresh