Art books at the Wells Branch Community Library!

Come to the Wells Branch Community Library to view our new art display "Picturing America: from East to West." We invite you to learn more about this month's four (4) featured prints. Check out the library materials listed below for more information about the art. Their locations in the library are in bold.

FEATURED ARTWORK:

Brooklyn Bridge, 1929 by Walker Evans

Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1919-1920 by Joseph Stella

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow, 1836 by Thomas Cole

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, 1865 by Albert Bierstadt

ART BOOKS:

Enjoy Oil Painting (A New Concept in Art Instruction Books) (Book #3). Cleveland, Ohio: Crafting Manufacturing Co., 1971. 751.45 ENJ

Failing, Patricia. Best-Loved Art From American Museums. New York: Clarkson N Potter, Inc., 1983. 708.13 FAI

Golden, Reuel. C20th Photography: A Complete Guide to the Greatest Artists of the Photographic Age. London: Carlton Books, 2003. 779 GOL

Kammen, Michael. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture. New York: Vintage, 2006. 306.4 KAM

Nordmark, Olle. Complete Course in Oil Painting. New York: Bonanza, 1960. 751.4 NOR

Visions of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, 2003. 708.1471 MUS

BACKGROUND ABOUT THE ART:

Bowen, Ezra. The High Sierra. New York City: Time Life, Inc, 1972. 508.794 BOW

Brands, H.W.. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream. New York: Anchor, 2003. 979.404 BRA

Commager, Henry Steele. The West: an Illustrated History. New York: Exeter Books, 1984. 978.02 COM

Dale, Donald, and Peter Wood. The Sierra Madre - The American Wilderness. New York: Time-Life Books, 1975. 508.72 JAC

Muir, John. John Muir : Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Essays (Library of America). New York: Library of America, 1997. 508.74 MUI

Traven, Bruno. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chicago: Frederick Ellis, 2007. FIC TRA

Worster, Donald. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008. B MUIR

Visit the Picturing America Web site for more resources - http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/

Teachers and home school instructors – See us to copy teaching activities from the Picturing America manual.