RECOMMNDED READING
Miano Academy of Art
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Level I
Clausen, George “Six Lectures on Painting” Methuen & Co. 1904
Cox, Kenyon “Classic Point of View” Charles Scribner’s & Sons 1911
DaVinci, Leonardo “On Painting” University of California Press 1964
Gammell, R. H. Ives “Twilight of Painting” G. P. Putnam’s & sons, 1946
Gammell, R. H. Ives “William MacGregor Paxton” Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1979
Gammell, R. H. Ives “Boston Painters 1900-1930” Parnassus Imprints 1986
Pach, Walter “Ingres” Harper and Brothers 1939
Level II
Cartwright, Julia “Millet” AMS Press 1971
Charteris, Evan “John Sargent” Charles Scribner’s & Sons 1927
Collier, Hon. John “Portrait Painting” Cassell & Co. 1905
Cox, Kenyon “Artist and Public” Charles Scribner’s & Sons 1914
Cox, Kenyon “Painters and Sculptors” Fox, Duffield & Co. 1907
Cox, Kenyon “What is Painting” W. W. Norton 1988
Gammell, R. H. Ives “Dennis Miller Bunker” Coward, McCann 1931
Gammell, R. H. Ives “Shoptalk of Edgar Degas” University Press 1961
Level III
Breton, Jules “The Life of an Artist” D. Appleton and Co. 1890
Delacroix, Eugene “Journals” Covici-Friede Publishers 1937
Hunt, William Morris “Talks on Art” Houghton Mifflin 1875
Low, Will H. “A Chronicle of Friendships” Charles Scribner’s & Sons 1910
Sensier, Alfred “Millet Letters” Houghton Mifflin 1896
Simmons, Edward “From Seven to Seventy” Harper & Brothers 1922
Stevenson, R. A. M. “Intro to Raeburn; by Sir Walter Armstrong” William Heinemann 1901
Stevenson, R. A. M. “Rubens” Seeley & Company 1909
Whistler, James Abbott “Ten O’Clock” Mosher 1920, 25, 29
Poynter, Edward J. “Ten Lectures on Art” London: Chapman & Hall 1879
Van Dyke, John C. “Modern French Masters” Century 1896
Level IV
Richer, Dr. Paul Artist's Anatomy Watson & Guptill 1971
Cole, Rex Vicat Perspective as Applied to Pictures Dover Publications 1976
Hatton, R. G. Perspective for Art Students London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1919
Carlson, John F. Elementary Principles of Landscape Painting National Publishing Society 1929
Hatton, R. G. Figure Composition London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1910
Hatton, R. G. Figure Drawing London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1904
Cross, Anson Drawing and Painting Self Taught The Athenaeum Press 1922
Cross, Anson Freehand Drawing * The Athenaeum Press 1895
Dow, Arthur W. Pictorial Composition Doubleday & Co. 1913
Parkhurst, Daniel B. The Painter in Oil Boston: Lee & Shepard 1898
Speed, Harold The Practice and Science of Drawing * Dover 1972
Blanc, Charles Grammar of Painting and Engraving Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1874
Hildebrand, Adolf Von The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture Kessinger Publishing, 2009
Harrison, Birge Landscape Painting Charles Scribner's Sons 1917
Doerner, Max Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1934
Solomon, Solomon J. The Practice of Oil Painting * London: Seeley, Service & Co. 1911
LeCoq de Boisbaudran Training of the Memory in Art * London: MacMillan & Co. 1911
Pearce, Cyril Composition * B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1927
Cave, Madame M. E. Drawing from Memory * Putnam's 1879