Book Reccomendations

American arts
by Rilla Evelyn Jackman
biographies with plates of the great American 19th century painters
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=267412&matches=25&author=rilla+evelyn+jackman&cm_sp=works*listing*title

From Seven to Seventy
by Edward Simmons
Auto biography of a great American 19th century painter
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?author=edward+simmons&title=from+seven+to+seventy

The Care of Pictures, a good book for you and your clients to have
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=927968&matches=30&title=The+care+of+pictures&cm_sp=works*listing*title

Freer A legacy of Art
The catalog for a museum started by Patron of Thomas Wilmer Dewing , Whistler, and Thayer
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=2453212&matches=189&title=Freer+A+legacy+of+Art&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The Academy : Five Centuries of Grandeur and Misery : From the Carracci to Mao Tse-Tung
Book is old but holds many reporductions of unknown academic painters from Solon Era, certainly worth they buy.
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?author=Thomas+B+hess&title=The+Academy

Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition
you can guess
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=10362807&matches=5&title=Paris+1889&cm_sp=works*listing*title

Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
by Lillian B Miller
cool and worth the cheap buy, good set of info on portraits and painters, prints are good
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?title=portraits+from+the+american+academy

A great book on Pietro Annigoni By Nicolo Rasmo is hardcover and filled (90%) with plates, many drawings many fresco's many portraits, probably the best book out on the painter.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1101311855&searchurl=an%3Dnicolo%2Brasmo%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26sortby%3D2%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3Dannigoni%26x%3D0%26y%3D0

Oil Painting Techniques
by Harold Speed
https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780486255064

The Practice and Science of Drawing
By Harold Speed
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=5283759&matches=16&wquery=Harold+Speed&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated
By Ralph Mayer
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=10827578&matches=25&wquery=Ralpg+mayer&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The Painter's Methods and Materials (Paperback)
By A. P. Laurie
http://www.amazon.com/Painters-Methods-Materials-P-Laurie/dp/0486218686

The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting, with Notes on the Techniques of the old Masters
By Max Doerner
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=4227717&matches=34&author=Doerner%2C+Max&browse=1&cm_sp=works*listing*title

The intention. The desire.

Amidst the tomes of information available to the painter today I hope we, here at Painter's resouce, can offer resources that you haven't herefore found. We hope to offer assistance, helping find ones way around our jungle of a profession. Feel free to email me if you have any questions which are not covered in the posts or would like to join our group and contribute! It's made for you!.