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Book List
A Few Books and a few comments:
Vitamin P phaidon,2002,…isbn,071484246x
Updated every few years, a must have, especially for rural painters who want a contemporary perspective.
Art Today,…Phaidon
See above comments.
Art Now,…Taschen, 2005,…isbn,3822839965
Ditto as above
The next four texts are important reading, for committed California painters.
California Art, Dustin,1998,…isbn0961462256
Made in California ,2000,…isbn,0520227654
Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965,…University of California
Press,1990,…isbn,0520068424
Facing Eden; 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area,…University of California Press,…1995,…isbn,0520203623
Books about painters/groups of painters:
Leading the West, One hundred contemporary painters and Sculptors,…Northland Publishing,1997,…isbn,087358600x
American Painting,…Watson Guptill,2002,…isbn,0823003310
The Pacific Northwest Landscape,…Sasquatch Books2001,…isbn,1570612846
Lucian Freud Paintings,…Thames & Hudson,1998,…isbn,0500275351
Everyone should have at least one reference on this guy.
Lisa Yuskavage, small paintings 1993-2004,…Harry N.Abrams,2004,…isbn,0810949571
John Currin,…Gagosian Gallery,2006,…isbn-10;0847828654
Probably the leading figure in contemporary figurative.
Joaquin Sorolla,…Phillip Wilson Publishers,…isbn,0856676055
Proving there were other painters during the early 20th century
Contemporary Art, art since 1970,…Pearson/ Prentice Hall,2005,…isbn,0131181742
The Art Book,…Phaidon1994,…isbn,714836257
500 Self-portraits,…Phaidon,2000,…isbn,0714843849
The next four selections are also a must have for every California painter.
The Art of Richard Diebenkorn,…Whitney California,1998,…isbn,0520212576
The Society of Six, California Colorists,…University of California
Press,1988,…isbn,0520210557
Wayne Thiebaud, A Paintings Retrospective,… Thames & Hudsen,2000,…isbn,0500092923
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson,…Firefly,2003,…isbn155297605x
Carl Rungius, Artists and Sportsman,…Glenbow/Warwick,2001,…isbn,189462209x
Another good reference on the grandfather of all contemporary wildlife painters.