History of Drawing & Painting Technique

ART & AESTHETICS

Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. Concerning Beauty

Joshua Reynolds. Discourses on Art
Robert Henri. The Art Spirit 

Hans Georg Gadamer. The Relevance of the Beautiful

George Clausen, Aims and Ideals of Art

DRAWING

Harold Speed. The Practice and Science of Drawing
Gerald Ackerman. Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course
Robert B. Hale. Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
Rex Vicat Cole. Perspective for the Artist
LeCoq de Boisbaudran. Training the Memory in Art
John Vanderpoel. The Human Figure 

PAINTING

Ralph Mayer. The Artist’s Handbook
Charles Eastlake. Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters
Massey, Robert. Formulas for Painters

FIGURE & PORTRAIT PAINTING

Harold Speed. Oil Painting Techniques and Materials
Solomon R. Solomon. The Practice of Oil Painting
John Collier. A Manual of Oil Painting
Nicholas Beer. Sight-size Portraiture
Schmid, Richard. Alla Prima

STILL LIFE PAINTING

Marianne Roland Michel. Chardin
Vance Jordan. Quiet Magic: The Still Lives of Emil Carlsen
Norbert Schneider. Still Life
Gretchen Hirschauer. Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
David Leffel. An Artist Teaches - Reflections on the Art of Painting
Alan Chong. Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720
Edward Lucie-Smith. Fantin-Latour

ANATOMY & ÉCORCHÉ

Paul Richer. Artistic Anatomy (R. Hale. Trans.)
Stephen R. Peck.  Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
Eliot Goldfinger. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
Victor Perard. Anatomy and Drawing
Edward Lanteri. Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure

LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Edgar Payne. The Composition of Outdoor Painting
John F. Carlson. Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting
Birge Harrison. Landscape Painting
Rex Vicat Cole. The Artistic Anatomy of Trees
F. J. Glass. Sketching from Nature
Peter Galassi. Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting & the Classical-Landscape Tradition
Averil King. Isaak Levitan: The Lyrical Landscapes
Ralph Sessions ed. The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism
Geoffrey Smith.  Arthur Streeton 1867-1943

COMPOSITION

Cyril Pearce. Composition: An Analysis of the Principles of Pictorial Design
Henry R. Poore. Pictorial Composition & the Critical Judgement of Pictures
Edgar Payne. The Composition of Outdoor Painting
Charles Blanc. The Grammar of Painting and Engraving. Trans. Kate Doggett
Arthur W. Dow. Pictorial Composition
Albert Boime. The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century
Fritz Henning. Concept and Composition
Andrew Loomis. Creative Illustration

ART HISTORY

R. A. M. Stevenson. Velasquez
Kenyon Cox. The Classic Point of View
Evan Charteriers. John Sargent
Ernst van de Wetering. Rembrandt: The Painter at Work
Arthur K. Wheelock. Vermeer and the Art of Painting
Damien Bartoli with Fred Ross. Catalogue Raisonné on William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
Weinberg, Barbara. The Lure of Paris
Elizabeth G. Holt ed.  From the Classicists to the Impressionists
Jonathan Brown. Velasquez: The Techniques of Genius
William Rothenstein. Men and Memories: Recollections, 1872-1938