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• Art

• Art, American -- 19th century
• Art, American -- 20th century
• Art, American -- 21st century
• Art, American -- Catalogs
• Art, American -- Exhibitions
• Art, American -- New York (State)
• Art, American -- Periodicals
• Art, American -- Texas
• Art, American -- West (U.S.)
• Cherokee art
• Dakota art
• Eskimo art
• Inuit art
• Iroquois art
• Pueblo art
• Siksika art

• American art
• Visual art of the United States

• The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Harrison House, 1987), by Marshall B. Davidson and Elizabeth Stillinger (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Doreen Bolger (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Nineteenth-Century America: Paintings and Sculpture; An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 16 through September 7, 1970 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), by John K. Howat and Natalie Spassky (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2000), ed. by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Elisabet Ney, Sculptor (New York: Devin-Adair, c1916), by Bride Neill Taylor
  • page images at Portal to Texas History
  • page images at Google; may not be accessible outside the US
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea (Punctum Books, c2020), by Zhang Jian and Bruce Robertson (PDF at oapen.org)

• New Horizons in American Art; 1985 Exxon National Exhibition (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1985), by Lisa Dennison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Linda Shearer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1971), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Thomas M. Messer, Linda Shearer, and Diane Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women of the 1913 Armory Show: Their Contributions to the Development of American Modern Art (dissertation; Louisville, KY: University of Louisville, 2014), by Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff (PDF with commentary at lousville.edu)
• Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, by Society of Independent Artists (New York, N.Y.) (partial serial archives)

• The Wave, ed. by Vincent Starrett (partial serial archives)

• Houston Reflections: Art in the City, 1950s, 60s, and 70s (2007), by Sarah C. Reynolds (without front matter: multiple formats at archive.org)

• Art on the Edge: 17 Contemporary American Artists (2004), contrib. by Virginia Shore (PDF at state.gov)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The United States of America (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), contrib. by Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Ellen Wiley Todd (HTML at UC Press)

• William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Dorinda Evans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The American Wing: A Guide (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), by Marshall B. Davidson (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Art Critic (full serial archives)

• Gilcrease Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Decorative Art and Basketry of the Cherokee (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee v2 #2; 1920), by Frank G. Speck (bound with #3: page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Protective Designs of the Dakota (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History v1 part 2; 1907), by Clark Wissler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Graphic Art of the Eskimos (Washington: GPO, 1897), by Walter James Hoffman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), ed. by Allen Wardwell, contrib. by Janet Catherine Berlo, Bruce Bernstein, Ted J. Brasser, N. Scott Momaday, and W. Richard West (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Shuvinai Ashoona: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2017), by Nancy Campbell, illust. by Shuvinai Ashoona (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at aci-iac.ca)

• Iroquois Crafts (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1957), by Carrie A. Lyford, ed. by Willard W. Beatty (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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires: Collection in 8o (Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts) (partial serial archives)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• "Civilidad y Arte": Discursos de Instalación de la "Academia de Bellas Artes" y de Presentación de sus Fundadores (in Spanish; Asunción, 1909), by Juan Silvano Godoi and Viriato Díaz-Pérez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.