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• 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)

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

• 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

• 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)
• Annie Pootoogook: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, c2020), by Nancy Campbell, illust. by Annie Pootoogook (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Art Canada Institute)

• 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)

• Language and Art in the Navajo Universe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1977), by Gary Witherspoon (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• 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)

• The Fluxus Reader (Chicester, UK and New York: Academy Editions, 1998), ed. by Ken Friedman (PDF files at Swinburne Research Bank)
• Artist and Computer (1976), ed. by Ruth Leavitt (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Après le Cubisme (in French; Paris: Éditions des Commentaires, 1918), by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Modern Masters from the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1961), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Degas to Calder: Sculpture and Works on Paper From the Guggenheim Museum Collection (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1984), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Thomas M. Messer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Gauguin and the Decorative Style (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1966), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Lawrence Alloway and Marilyn Hunt-Nishi, illust. by Paul Gauguin (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)
• Six Painters and the Object (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1963), by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Robert Henri, Charles Bittinger, Theresa Bernstein; and Etchings by William Meyerowitz: April, Nineteen Hundred Twenty (Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1920), by University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Offizieller Katalog der Internationalen Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins Bildender Künstler Münchens (A. V.), "Secession", 1898 im Kgl. Kunstausstellungsgebäude am Königsplatz gegenüber der Glyptothek (4th edition, in German; Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1898), by Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture, by Clayton Funk (multiple formats with commentary at at Pressbooks)

• Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924), ed. by Harold Loeb (partial serial archives)

• Art of Tomorrow: Fourty-One Reproductions From the Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for Non-Objective Painting (ca. 1947), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, contrib. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by W. S. Di Piero (HTML at UC Press)

• Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Ann Davis and Elizabeth Herbert, contrib. by Jennifer E. Salahub and Christine Sowiak (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Grenze/Granica: Art on the German-Polish Border After 1990 (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, c2024), by Burcu Dogramaci and Marta Smolińska (PDF and EPub files at V&R eLibrary)

• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)

• Du "Cubisme" (6th edition, in French; Paris: E. Figuière et cie, ca. 1912), by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The New Tendency in Art: Post Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Henry Rankin Poore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), by Willard Huntington Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Après le Cubisme (in French; Paris: Éditions des Commentaires, 1918), by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.