The Masters Academy of Art

Bookshelf

Art Education

The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgement of Pictures by Henry Poore
The Painter in Oil by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme: Drawing Course by Gerald Ackerman

Biographies

J. W. Waterhouse by Peter Trippi
Edwin Austin Abbey by Edward Verrall Lucas
Life and Works of Edwin Austin Abbey by Edward Verrall Lucas
The Russian Vision: The Art of Ilya Repin by David Jackson
Paul Delaroche: History Painted by Stephen Bann
Jean-Léon Gérôme: His Life, His Work 1824-1904 by Gerald M. Ackerman
Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition by Gabriel P. Weisberg
Edouard Dantan 1848-1897 : Des ateliers parisiens aux marines normandes by Sophie de Juvigny
Kroyer: An International Perspective by Marianne Sawbye; et al
J. C. Leyendecker: American Imagist by Laurence Cutler, Judy Goffman Cutler, & the National Museum of American Illustration
John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity by Sarah J. Moore 
Friedrich von Amerling, 1803-1887 by E. A. Seemann
Arthur Streeton, 1867-1934 by Geoffrey Smith
Hugh Ramsay: His Life and Work by Patricia Fullerton
William Trost Richards- True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches by Carol M. Osborne

Art History

The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century by Albert Boime
The Peredvizhniki: Pioneers of Russian Painting eds David Jackson and Per Hedstrom
A History Of French Painting From The Earliest To Its Latest Practice by C H. Stranahan

Art Criticism

Great Works of Art and What Makes them Great by F. W. Ruckstull
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by Roger Kimball