Say a fond farewell to April by enjoying these fine new art books!

Reference

Warman’s Antiques & Collectibles, 2016

Graphis Design Annual 2015

Graphis Poster Annual 2014

Staffordshire Figures, 1780 to 1840: Volume 3

Staffordshire Figures, 1780 to 1840: Volume 4

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

David Lynch: The Unified Field, exhibit catalog of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube  by Ellen J. Lippert

Gerhard Richter: Pictures/Series

J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free, exhibit catalog of the J. Paul Getty Museum

James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony

A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome

XXL Art: When Artists Think Big  by Elea Baucheron

Architecture / Landscape Design

Architecture; The Whole Story

Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg

Havana Modern: 20^th Century Architecture and Interiors

High-Rise City Frankfurt; Buildings and Visions Since 1945

Hotels: Architecture & Design  by Xavier Broto

Landscape  by Elizabeth Hope Cushing

Robert A. M. Stern Architects; Buildings and Projects, 2010-2014

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

African Fashion Global Style  by Victoria L. Rovine

Cool Beer Labels  by Daniel Bellon

Design in the Hamptons  by Anthony Iannaci

Emerging Fashion Designers 4  by Sally Congdon-Martin

History of International Fashion  by Didier Grumbach

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Celtic Calligraphy  by Kerry Richardson

Crafter’s Guide to Patterns  by Jessica Swift

500 Traditional Quilts

Paper Quilling Chinese Style

Papier-Mache Monsters  by Dan Reeder

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Oil Painting Techniques  by Patrick J. Jones

Simple Flower Arranging  by Mark Welford

Winter Knits Made Easy

Wooly Woofers: Over 20 Knitwear Designs for Dogs of all Shapes and Sizes  by Debbie Bliss

Latest batch of new books

  

For your viewing and learning pleasure, take a look at these great books that have come in recently:

Reference

Society of Illustrators 56^th Annual of Illustration

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast  by Paul Carr Black

aka Marcel Duchamp: Meditations on the Identities of an Artist

J. M. W. Turner  by Sam Smiles

The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design 1930-1995  by Thomas Crow

The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso  by Jane Daggett Dillenberger

Why the Romantics Matter  by Peter Gay

Architecture / Landscape Design

Ando: Complete Works, 1975 – 2014  by Philip Jodidio

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House  by Steven M. Reiss

Picturing Wright: An Album from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Photographer  by Pedro E. Guerrero

Photography

Candida Höfer: Düsseldorf

Chuck Close Photographer  by Colin Westerbeck

Robert Herman: The New Yorkers

The World’s Top Wedding Photographers  by Bill Hurter

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

Designing Here/Now: A Global Selection of Objects, Concepts, and Spaces for the Future

In Fashion: From Runway to Retail  by Annemarie Iverson

The Secret History of Wonder Woman  by Jill Lepore

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

Creating Textures in Colored Pencil  by Gary Green

Hot Knots: Fresh Macrame Ideas  by Kat Hartmann

Pretty Papercrafts  by Mareike Grun

Unconventional & Unexpected; American Quilts Below the Radar  by Roderick Kiracofe

Antiques / Collectibles

100 Greatest U. S. Modern Coins, 3^rd Ed.  by Scott Schechter

Warman’s Coins and Paper Money; Identification and Price Guide, 6^th Ed.

Beautiful gardens of the world books on display

In honor of Spring, April showers, and May flowers, the room's display cart offers books on beautiful gardens of the country and world.  Come by and browse and check out!

Spring/Easter/Passover crafts book display

In celebration of Easter Week, Passover, and Spring in general, the display cart in the Fine Arts Room is stocked with books on crafts and activities related to those subjects this week.  Drop in and browse if you can!

Latest art books -- read all about it!

This batch is heavy on art history books about individual artists.  They can be picked up or placed on request, as always.

Art History / Art Theory / Art World

The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Ai Weiwei  by Christina Carrillo de Albornoz

Albert Bloch: The American Blue Rider

Art Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist  by Lisa Congdon

Egon Schiele: Portraits, exhibit catalog of the Neue Galerie, New York

Georg Baselitz: Back Then, In Between, and Today, exhibit catalog of Haus der Kunst, Munich

Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper  by Marina Pacini

Painted Glories: The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence  by Nicholas A Eckstein

Pollock and the Irascibles: The New York School, exhibit catalog of the Palazzo Reale, Milano

William Merritt Chase: A Life in Art  by Alicia G. Longwell

Architecture / Landscape Design

Piano: Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Complete Works 1966-2014

 

Photography

Charles M. Russell; Photographing the Legend  by Larry Len Peterson

The Mobile Photographer: An Unofficial Guide to Using Android Phones, Tablets, ad Apps in a Photography Workflow  by Robert Fischer

Design / Fashion / Interior Decoration / Graphics

The House of Worth: Portrait of an Archives  by Amy de la Haye

Crafts / Applied Arts / How-to

How to Draw Dogs, Cats & Horses  by Arthur Zaidenberg

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Books about women artists on display for March

March is Women's History Month, so this month we honor all women artists, architects, photographers, and artisans by displaying some of our many books on the subject.  Come by the Fine Arts Room to browse our display cart, or just explore the online catalog for more titles.