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• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters (translated with an added essay on English painting; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1706), by Roger de Piles (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of Stained Glass, From the Earliest Period of the Art to The Present Time (London: The author, 1848), by William Warrington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Lindsey V. Sharman (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
• Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Ann Davis (PDF at University of Calgary)
• William Brymner: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2020), by Jocelyn Anderson, illust. by William Brymner (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Agnes Martin: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2019), by Christopher Régimbal, illust. by Agnes Martin (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Gershon Iskowitz: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2019), by Ihor Holubizky, illust. by Gershon Iskowitz (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Ozias Leduc: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2019), by Laurier Lacroix, trans. by Doris Cowan and Michael Rattray, illust. by Ozias Leduc (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Bertram Brooker: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2018), by James King, illust. by Bertram Brooker (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Molly Lamb Bobak: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2018), by Michelle Gewurtz, illust. by Molly Lamb Bobak (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Paterson Ewen: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2018), by John George Hatch, illust. by Paterson Ewen (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Alex Colville: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2017), by Ray Cronin, illust. by Alex Colville (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Helen McNicoll: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2017), by Samantha Burton, illust. by Helen McNicoll (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2017), by Michael Parke-Taylor, illust. by Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• William Kurelek: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2017), by Andrew Kear, illust. by William Kurelek (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Greg Curnoe: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2016), by Judith Rodger, illust. by Greg Curnoe (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Norval Morrisseau: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2016), by Carmen Robertson, illust. by Norval Morrisseau (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Paraskeva Clark: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2016), by Christine Boyanoski, illust. by Paraskeva Clark (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Emily Carr: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2015), by Lisa Baldissera, illust. by Emily Carr (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Oscar Cahén: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2015), by Jaleen Grove, illust. by Oscar Cahén (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Prudence Heward: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2015), by Julia Skelly, illust. by Prudence Heward (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Yves Gaucher: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2015), by Roald Nasgaard, illust. by Yves Gaucher (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• Paul Kane: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2014), by Arlene Gehmacher, illust. by Paul Kane (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)
• The House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Doris McCarthy: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2024), by John George Hatch, illust. by Doris McCarthy (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Kathleen Munn: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2016), by Georgiana Uhlyarik, illust. by Kathleen Munn (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Agnes Martin: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2019), by Christopher Régimbal, illust. by Agnes Martin (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• The Book of Small (1942), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Jean Paul Lemieux: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2016), by Michèle Grandbois, trans. by Doris Cowan, illust. by Jean Paul Lemieux (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)
• Paul-Émile Borduas: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2014), by François Marc Gagnon, trans. by Elizabeth Schwaiger, illust. by Paul-Émile Borduas (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)

• Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures et Pastels (new edition, in French; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994), by Marie Berhaut and Sophie Pietri, illust. by Gustave Caillebotte (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• Caillebotte: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (in French; Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, c1978), by Marie Berhaut, illust. by Gustave Caillebotte (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• La Vie et L'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné (2 volumes in French; Lausanne and Paris: Fondation Wildenstein, c1977-1978), by Robert Fernier (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• François Boucher (2 volumes, in French; Lausanne and Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, c1976), by Alexandre Ananoff and Daniel Wildenstein (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• Fragonard (in French; Paris: Librairie de l'art, ca. 1890), by Félix Naquet
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, trans. by Lionel Strachey (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), by Frank Budgen (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters (translated with an added essay on English painting; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1706), by Roger de Piles (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Culture of San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero della Francesca (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by James R. Banker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Vincent van Gogh: A Biographical Study (2 volumes; London and Boston: Medici Society, 1922), by Julius Meier-Graefe, trans. by J. Holroyd-Reece, illust. by Vincent van Gogh (both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Thomas Eakins, Who Painted (electronic edition, with many added images; original book c1946), by Margaret McHenry, illust. by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Retrospect of an Artist's Life, by John Kelso Hunter (HTML in Scotland)

• Francisco de Zurbarán (in French; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994), ed. by María Luisa Caturla, trans. by Odile Delenda (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective (New York: Harry N. Abrams in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978), by Diane Waldman, contrib. by Bernard Malamud and Clair Zamoiski (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1978), by Philip Rhys Adams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Horace Pippin, a Negro Painter in America (New York: Quadrangle Press, 1947), by Selden Rodman, illust. by Horace Pippin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of James McNeill Whistler (sixth new and revised edition; Philadelphia: J. Lippincott Co.; London: WL Heinemann, ca. 1919), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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