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• Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Characters -- Artists
• Albani, Emma, Dame
• Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867
• Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
• Bashkirtseff, Marie, 1860-1884
• Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
• Bertoia, Harry
• Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
• Blake, William, 1757-1827
• Blind Tom, 1849-1908
• Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893
• Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
• Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865-1945
• Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974
• Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
• Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571
• Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760
• Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
• Corinth, Lovis, 1858-1925
• Courbet, Gustave, 1819-1877
• Cross, David
• Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876
• Diehl, Alice M. (Alice Mangold), 1844-1912
• Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
• Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
• Ferrari, G. G. (Giacomo Gotifredo), 1763-1842
• Fisher, Clara, 1811-1898
• Fripp, Robert, 1946-
• Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928
• Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866
• Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958
• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
• Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 1829-1869
• Grossmith, George, 1847-1912
• Harwood, James Taylor, 1860-1940
• Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
• Heinichen, Johann David, 1683-1729
• Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924
• Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927
• Horst, Louis
• Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
• Howe, J. B. (J. Burdett), 1828-1908
• Hunter, John Kelso, 1802-1873
• Hurst, Lulu, 1869-1950
• Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
• Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927
• Joyce, Peggy Hopkins, 1893-1957
• Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
• Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949
• Lady Gaga
• Lavergne, Claudius, 1814-1887
• Lawrence, Gertrude
• Leno, Dan, 1860-1904
• Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
• Lewis, Jerry Lee
• Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887
• Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971
• Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835
• Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
• Miller, Tim, 1958-
• Morris, Clara, 1848-1925
• Morris, William, 1834-1896
• Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907
• North, Marianne, 1830-1890
• Pippin, Horace, 1888-1946
• Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871
• Robinson, Mary, 1758-1800
• Rosengarten, Ruth
• Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
• Ruffo, Titta, 1877-1953
• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
• Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896
• Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979
• Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
• Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
• Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842
• Volkov-Muromt︠s︡ev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1844-1928
• Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904
• Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
• Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
• Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922

• Fine artists

• Artists Past and Present: Random Studies (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909), by Elisabeth Luther Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve Great Artists (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900), by William Howe Downes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text)
• Success in Life: The Artist (Cincinnati and New York: Henry W. Derby, James C. Derby, 1854), by Louisa C. Tuthill (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Memoirs of Alexander Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff (A. N. Roussoff), By Himself (London: J. Murray, 1928), by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Volkov-Muromt︠s︡ev, trans. by Clara Huth Jackson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 1860-1930, Memories: A Winning Crusade To Revive George Washington's Vision of a Capital City (Washington: Press of W. F. Roberts Co., 1931), by Glenn Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nights: Rome, Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris in the Fighting Nineties (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1916), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reminiscences of My Life (London: W. Heinemann, c1914), by Henry Holiday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilde v. Whistler: Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler (unauthorized publication of correpondence taken from Whistler's "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"; London: Privately printed, 1906), by Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Works: A Handbook (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2002), by Hans Abbing (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• English Female Artists (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Ellen C. Clayton
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Dagger of the Mind (c1941), by Kenneth Fearing (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (New York: J. Cape and H. Smith, c1929), by Lynd Ward
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Wikimedia Commons
• The Coast of Bohemia (biographical edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Forward the Mage, by Eric Flint and Richard Roach (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Imago (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1907), by Carl Spitteler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imago (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1907), by Carl Spitteler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Love Among the Artists (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Bernard Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tarr (London: The Egoist Ltd., 1918), by Wyndham Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Third Violet (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897), by Stephen Crane
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at openlibrary.org
• The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
• The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Tristan (in German), by Thomas Mann (Gutenberg text)
• The Woman Gives: A Story of Regeneration (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1916), by Owen Johnson, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather (HTML at Virginia)
• The Magic Story (sixth edition; New York: F. E. Morrison, c1914), by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ulysses, by James Joyce (multiple editions)
• The Marble Faun, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• The Marble Faun (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1889), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Trilby (New York: International Book and Publishing Co., 1899), by George Du Maurier (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• Trilby (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1901), by George Du Maurier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of That Celebrated Sculptor; and Memoirs of Several Contemporary Artists, from the Time of Roubiliac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to That of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1828), by John Thomas Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jolliest Term on Record (London et al.: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by Angela Brazil, illust. by Balliol Salmon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• American Art Annual (partial serial archives)

• Biographical Sketches of American Artists (third edition; Lansing: Michigan State Library, 1915), ed. by Helen L. Earle
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Biographical Sketches of American Artists (fifth edition; Lansing: Michigan State Library, 1924), ed. by Helen L. Earle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
• Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
• Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)

• Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Elsie Bonita Adams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• They Still Draw Pictures: Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the Spanish Civil War, 1938 (electronic edition, c1998), contrib. by Aldous Huxley (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at ucsd.edu)
• They Still Draw Pictures! Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the Spanish Civil War, 1938 (New York: Spanish Child Welfare Association of America, 1938), contrib. by Aldous Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Le Peintre Graveur (21 volumes in French, published in Vienna 1803-1821), by Adam von Bartsch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Etchings (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1912), by Frederick Wedmore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v17; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2015), ed. by Christiane Erharter, Dietmar Schwärzler, Ruby Sircar, and Ashley Hans Scheirl (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Von Juedischer Kunst (Josef Israels): Ein Vortrag (in German; Cologne and Leipzig: Jüdischer Verlag, 1910), by Max Eisler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v17; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2015), ed. by Christiane Erharter, Dietmar Schwärzler, Ruby Sircar, and Ashley Hans Scheirl (PDF with commentary in Austria)

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