Note that you may find newer editions and reprints with different ISBN numbers.
 
Anatomy, Figure & Head/Portrait Drawing
See also the drawing books of individual artists listed under Artists, and those of various artists listed under Collections.
 
Charles Bargue & Jean-Leon Gerome
Drawing Course 2-86770-166-X
Available through the Dahesh Museum of Art, www.daheshmuseum.org
George B. Bridgman
Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life 0-517-255464
Fifty Figure Drawings (Student drawings, edited by George B. Bridgman) Dover reprint, 978-0486451206
Elliot Goldfinger
Human Anatomy for Artists 0-19-505206-4
Robert Beverly Hale
Albinus on Anatomy 0-486-25836-X
Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
Master Class in Figure Drawing 0-8230-0224-1
Jack Hamm
Drawing the Head & Figure GD/Perigee Books, 0-399-50791-4
Andrew Loomis
Drawing the Human Head or Heads/2 Walter Foster Pub., 1-56010-009-5
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth Viking Press 1943 Loomis books are available online at www.saveloomis.org
William L. Maughan
The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head Watson-Guptill, 0-8230-0359-0
Dr. Frank H. Netter
Atlas of Human Anatomy 0-914168-81-9
Dr. Paul Richer
Artistic Anatomy 0-8230-0297-7
Anthony Ryder
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing Watson-Guptill, 2004,
0-8230-0303-5
Arthur A.Thomson
Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students 0-486-21163-0
John H. Vanderpoel
The Human Figure 0-486-20432-4
 
Drawing: General
Jack Hamm
Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes; GD/Perigee Books, 1982
Andrew Loomis
Successful Drawing; Viking Press 1951 Loomis books are available online at www.saveloomis.org
Ted Kautzky
The Ted Kautzky Pencil Book; Combined Edition, Van Nostrand Rheingold, 1979
 
Art & Art History
Hereward Lester Cooke
Painting Techniques of the Masters; 0-8230-3863-7
Kenyon Cox
The Classic Point of View
Old Masters and New; Fox, Duffield & Co.
R.H. Ives Gammell
Twilight of Painting; Reprinted in softcover
Roger Kimball
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, Encounter Books, 2004, 1-893554-86-4
Frederic Taubes
Anatomy of Genius: A Guide to Understanding and Intelligent Judging of Paintings, Dodd, Mead, 1948, B0007DY73Q Other editions are available
Tom Wolfe
From Bauhaus to Our House; 0-553-38063-X
The Painted Word; 0-553-25734-X
Heinrich Wolfflin
Principles of Art History; Dover reprint, 0-486-20276-3
Classic Art, Dover reprint
Paul Zucker
Styles in Painting: A Comparative Study; Dover reprint, 0-486-20760-9
 
Composition
E.G. Lutz
Practical Pictorial Composition; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1926
E.G. Lutz
Practical Pictorial Composition; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1926
William Palluth
Composition Made Easy; Walter Foster Publishing, original version or newer reprint 0-929261-43-7
Henry Rankin Poore
Composition in Art; 0-486-23358-8 reprint Both the original and the softcover reprint by Dover are worth owning.
Leonore Sherman
Creative Painting; Walter Foster Publishing
 
Painting: Figure & Portrait
John Howard Sanden

Portraits from Life in 29 Steps; North Light, 1-58180-582-9

 
Painting: General
Linda Cateura (The Teaching of David A. Leffel)
Oil Painting Secrets from a Master; 0-8230-2524-1 Buy the hardcover version
Gregg Kreutz
Problem Solving for Oil Painters; 0-8230-4097-6, Softcover
Richard Schmid

Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting; 0-9662117-3-1, Softcover

 
Painting: Outdoor
John F. Carlson
Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting; 0-486-22927-0
Emile Gruppe
Brushwork for Oil Painters
 
Painting: Watercolor
Ted Kautzky
Ways with Watercolor; (Outdoor painting), Reingold Publishing
Charles Reid
Figure Painting in Watercolor; Watson-Guptill, 0-8230-1710-9
Portrait Painting in Watercolor; Watson-Guptill, 0-8230-4192-1
Burton Silverman
Breaking the Rules of Watercolor; (Painting people), 0-8230-0523-2
 
Artists
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Rosemary J. Barrow, Phaidon Press, 2003, 071484358X
Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist
Faith Andrews Bedford, Rizzoli International, 1994, 0-8478-1609-5
Bouguereau
Fronia E. Wissman, Pomegranate Artbooks 1996, 0-87654-582-7
Degas
Gordon & Forge, Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, 1988, 0-8109-8107-6
The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Susan A. Hobbs, Brooklyn Museum, 1996, 1-56098-624-7
Fragonard
Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, 2006, 2-87939-301-9
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Jean Montague Massengale, Harry N. Abrams, 1993, 0-8109-3313-6
Frederick, Lord Leighton: Eminent Victorian Artist
Royal Academy of Arts/Abrams, 1996, 0-8109-3578-3
Lord Leighton
Russell Ash, Pavilion, 1995, 1-85793-732-5
The Complete Works of Michelangelo
Barnes & Noble, Reprinted in 1996, 0-7607-0263-2
Michelangelo Drawings
Paul Joannides, Louvre Drawing Gallery Musee du Louvre, Paris; 2003 88-7439-036-X Small, but has color reproductions
The Language of the Body:
The Drawings of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
John Elderfield, Abrams, 1996, 0-810-93585-6 Learn from the artwork--ignore the misguided text
The Complete Works of Raphael
Artabras, Harrison House, 1969 0-517-254422-0
Rubens: A Master in the Making
Jotte & McGrath, Yale University Press, 2005, 1857093712
Peter Paul Rubens: Man & Artist
Christopher White, Yale University Press, 1987, 0-300-03778-3
Peter Paul Rubens: The Decius Mus Cycle

Reinhold Baumstark, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, 0-87099-394-1

Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
Willem Diepraam, Amsterdam University Press, 2000, 0-520-22668-2
The Rembrandt Book
Gary Schwartz, Harry N. Abrams, 2006, 0-8109-4317-4
John Singer Sargent
Kate F. Jennings, Crescent Books, 1991, 0-517-05238-5
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes 1874-1882
Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray, 2006, Yale University Press, 0-300-11716-7
John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits
Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray, 1998, Yale University Press, 0-300-07245-7
John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890's
Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray, 2002, Yale University Press, 0-300-09067-6
John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits
Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray, 2003, Yale University Press, 0-300-09806-5
John Singer Sargent
Carter Ratcliff, Artabras, 1990, 0-89660-014-9
Theodore Clement Steele: An American Master of Light
William H. Gerdts, Chameleon Books, 1995, 0-915829-66-5
Gilbert Stuart
Rebora Barratt & Gross Miles, Metropolitan Museum, 2004, 0300104952
Impressionism Transformed:
The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell
Currier Gallery of Art, 2001, 0-92970-25-8
Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches
Jon L. Seydl, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005, 0-89236-812-8
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: 1696-1770
Chantal Eschenfelder, Koneman, 1998, 3-8290-0256-4
Titian
Filippo Perdrocca, Scala/Riverside Book Company, 1993, 1-878351-14-1
Van Dyck: Paintings and Drawings
James Lawson, Prestel, 1999, 3-7913-2090-4
Anthony Van Dyck
Walter A. Liedtke, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Velazquez: The Technique of Genius
Jonathan Brown & Carmen Garrido, Yale University Press, 1998, 0-300-10124-4
Vermeer
Arthur K. Wheelock, jr., Harry N. Abrams, 1981/1988, 0-8109-1737-8
J.W. Waterhouse
Peter Trippi, Phaidon Press, 2002, 0-7148-4518-3
James McNeill Whistler
Maria Costantino, Barnes & Noble, 1987, 0-7607-0046-X
 
Painting Collections
Victorian Paintings
Lionel Lambourne, Phaidon Press, 1999, 0-7148-3776-8
 
 
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