Library Wish List

To donate a book to the Library in your name or in honor of a loved one, please send us an e-mail at library@worcesterart.org noting which book from the Wish List you've selected. Your generous donation will be credited with an inscribed gift plate affixed to the inside cover of the book. Questions, please call 508.799.4406, x3106.
Prices noted below are approximate.

Handbook of Chinese Mythology
Lihui Yang, Deming An, Jessica Anderson Turner
An informative work of historical and contemporary Chinese myths, including a useful collection of historical documents, detailing myths as they live and change in China today.
$25

Handbook of Hindu Mythology
George M. Williams
An informative introduction to this dauntingly complex mythology of multifaceted deities, lengthy heroic tales, and arcane philosophies-all with a 3,000-year history of reinterpretations and adaptations.
$25

Handbook of Japanese Mythology
Michael Ashkenazi
Book reveals the origins of Japan's myths in the very different realms of Buddhism, Shinto, and folklore, and explores related mythologies of the Ainu and Okinawan cultures and recent myths arising from Japan's encounters with modernization.
$25

Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood
This popular anthology of twentieth-century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s.
$42

Art in Theory, 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger
Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
$55

Art in Theory, 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger
The ideas of some of the most influential artists, writers and thinkers of our times about 19th century art are collected in this vast collection of essays. Collectively they tackle difficult issues like the definition of Modern art and tracing the history of aesthetics.
$60

Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard
Marc Rosen, Susan Pinsky, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Sarah Bertalan
Fully illustrated, descriptive catalogue
$50

Albrecht Dürer and His Legacy, The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist
Giulia Bartrum, Gunter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner, Ute Kuhlemann
This book traces Albrecht Dürer's work and influence from his earliest career to his powerful posthumous role within German culture, surveys all of the artist's best-known prints, drawings and watercolors.
$65

Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture
Annettte Stott
This book deals with the change in sensibility in U.S. art and culture, between 1890 and 1920, when a significant part of the American middle and upper classes celebrated all things Dutch and “Dutchness”.
$66

Surrealism, Desire Unbound
Jennifer Mundy
Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition of international surrealism, this lavishly illustrated catalogue explores desire in surrealist art in both words and images.
$75

Chinese Jades: The Youngman Collection, From Neolithic to Qing
Robert P. Youngman, Jing Pei Fang, J. May Lee Barrett
Presented with detailed descriptions that further characterize each piece's unique splendor. Presented in three parts, Part One features early jades (7000 BCE to 220 CE); Part Two focuses on jade carvings of flora, fauna and the human figure; Part Three features personal adornments, scholar's objects and vessels.
$95

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
Editors of Phaidon Press
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture presents a global survey of the most outstanding works of contemporary architecture from around the world. The book illustrates more than 1,000 completed buildings from around the world.
$130

John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonne (2 Parts)
Rowland Elzea and Marliss C. Desens
Descriptions and histories of the 1,265 oils by John Sloan (1871-1951), more than 1,000 of which are illustrated. Includes critical commentary, the artist's own comments, and an analysis of Sloan's work and his role in American painting.
$200

Edward Hopper: A Catalog Raisonne (3 volumes with CD ROM)
Gail Levin
The complete catalogue of Hopper's paintings and illustrations. A standard reference book, written by the leading scholar on Hopper's work.
$300

Selections from the New Hollstein Dutch Series
Hollstein is a household word to all students of the great Northern European schools of printmaking. It is a universally known standard reference work with a status enjoyed by few other scholarly publications.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Nadine M. Orenstein
$685

Jacob Matham
Lena Widerkehr
$685

Rembrandt as an Etcher, The Practice of Production and Distribution (3 Parts)
$685

Early American Papermaking: Two Treatises on Manufacturing Techniques Reprinted from James Cutbush's American Artist's Manual (1814)
This text first appeared in James Cutbush's The American Artist's Manual (Philadelphia: 1814) and is reprinted in full.
$1000

Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Translation of the French Classic Reference Work. 14 Volumes
Benezit provides both the amateur and the professional with important factual information about almost any painter, sculptor, engraver or draftsman of all countries and schools, from antiquity to the present day.
$1,500

National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600
Nicholas Penny
This volume documents the National Gallery's unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and the Bassano family.
$115

Set Urushi: The Standard Work On Japanese Lacquer
Urushi No Waza
Urushi No Waza gives a so far unique overview of one of the most fascinating areas of Japanese craftwork. $115

New York Times
Widely quoted and published since 1851, The New York Times is regarded by many as the nation's pre-eminent newspaper.
Monday through Friday Delivery
$395

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Ancestry.com
The world's largest online resource for family history.