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Selections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, by Anne B. Barriault with the assistance of Kay M. Davidson (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1997) and Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Rev. ed. Richmond, 2007, for general information and bibliography for many Art on the Air topics.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Collections Department, Curatorial Files. October 2008, for Kuba Wisdom Basket; Thomas Day, Maria and Julian Martinez, Robert Salmon, Elihu Vedder, Edwin Weeks; Korean Screen Painting; Vishnu-Varaha; Ancient Jewelry; Worsham-Rockefeller Room; South Indian Legend Scroll; Cecilia Beaux; Adolphe-William Bourguereau; South Asian Ivory Figure; George H. Ben Johnson; Kongo Royal Sceptor.

A-Tshol Head (African, Guinea, Baga)

Lamp, Frederick. Art of the Baga. The Museum of African Art: Prestel Verlag, 1996.

Akan Linguist Staff

Ross, Doran H. “The Verbal Art of Akan Linguist Staffs,” African Arts 23 (July 1990): 70-76

Woodward, Richard B. African Art. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000.

Akan Memorial Portrait Head

Preston, George Nelson. 1990. “People Making Portraits Making People: Living Icons of the Akan.” African Arts 23 July: 70-76.

Milton Avery, Alexander Archipenko, Antoine Barye, Arthur Mackmurdo, William Morris, Gustave Stickley, John Ruskin

Grove Art Online

Cecilia Beaux

Barlow, Margaret. Women Artists. New York: Universe Publishing, 2008.
Yount, Sylvia. Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter. High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Sandro Botticelli and Giovanni Boccaccio

Barriault, Anne. Spalliera Painting of Renaissance Tuscany. University Park: Penn State Press, 1994.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron. The John Payne Translation, revised by Charles S. Singleton. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1982.

Lightbown, Ronald. Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work. New York 1989.

Caligula

Mayo, Margaret Ellen. Ancient Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Virginia: Museum of Fine Arts, 1998.

Mary Cassatt

Barter, Judith, et al. Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman. New York: Art Institute of Chicago in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

Pollock, Griselda. “Modernity and the spaces of femininity.” Vision and Difference. London: Routledge, 1988.

Sund, Judy. Columbus and Columbia: Man of Genius Meets Generic Woman, Chicago, 1893. Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings, edited by Mary Ann Calo. New York: Westview Press,1998.

Chinese Funerary Couch

Juliano, Annette L., and Judith A. Lerner, “Stone Mortuary Furnishing of Northern China,” in Ritual Objects and Early Buddhist Art, Brussels, 2004, 14 - 55.

George Catlin

Gurney, George and Therese Thau Heyman, eds. George Catlin and His Indian Galleries. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Thomas Cole & the Hudson River School

Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

Miller, Angela. Empire of the Eye. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Novak, Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Truettner, William and Alan Wallach, eds. Thomas Cole: Landscape into History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Cycladic Art

Getz-Preziosi, Pat. Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.

Charles and Ray Eames

Albrecht, Donald, Beatriz Colomina, Joseph Giovanni, et al. The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum.

Inka Essenhigh

Essenhigh, Inka. “Swirls, Whirls & Mermaid Girls” ARTNews, May 2004, 138.

Peter Carl Fabergé

Curry, David Park. Fabergé. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1995.

Piero della Francesca

Lavin, Marilyn. Piero della Francesca. Phaidon Press, Inc. London, 2002.

Wood, Jeryldene M., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Loie Fuller

Brandt, Frederick. 1985. Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Current, Richard Nelson, and Marcia Ewing Current. Loie Fuller: Goddess of Light. Northeastern University Press, 1997.

Ganesha

Dye, Joseph M. III. The Arts of India in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts . London: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Christensen, Keith and Judith W. Mann. Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.

Chrisiansen, Keith and Judith Mann, Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001).

Sam Gilliam

Davies, Hugh M., and Jay Kloner. Sam Gilliam: Indoor & Outdoor Paintings 1967-1978. Amherst: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, 1978.

Giotto

Hartt, Frederick. History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

Eileen Gray

Adam, Peter. Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer. 1987.

Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Art Deco, 1903-1940. 1985.

Steward, Johnson. “Eileen Gray at Richmond,” Arts in Virginia 27 (1987): 34-43.

E.L. Henry

Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1985.

Kurtz, Amy. Historical fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's paintings of past and present. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2005.

McCausland, Elizabeth. "The Life and Work of Edward Lamson Henry N.A., 1841-1919," New York State Museum Bulletin, no. 339 (September 1945).

Claude Raguet Hirst

Frankenstein, Alfred. After the Hunt: William Harnett and other American Still Life Painters, 1870-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

Neal, Christine Crafts. "'The Female Harnett'": Claude Raguet Hirst." American Arts Quarterly (Summer 2001): 20-27.

Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present. Boston: G.K. Hall and New York: Avon, 1982.

Winslow Homer

Grossman, Julian. Echo of a Distant Drum. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974

Simpson, Marc. Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Bedford Arts Publishers, 1988.

Williams, Hermann Warner, Jr. The Civil War: The Artists' Record. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961.

Edward Hopper

Hobbs, Robert. Edward Hopper. Harry N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1987.

Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters

Davis, Hilary. The Roycroft Community, 1894 -1938. The Arts & Crafts Society Archive. Online.

Via, Maria and Marjorie Searl, eds., Head, Heart, and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1994.

The Webpage of the Roycrofters. Online.

Indian Miniature Painting (Cosmic Buddhas and Festival of Holi)

Dye, Joseph M. III. The Arts of India in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts . London: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Philip Wilson Publishers, 2001.

Ivory-Clad Secretary (American)

Gillis, Kathy Z., and David Park Curry, “Conservation of an ivory-clad drop-front secretary from Vizigapatam, India” in The Meeting of East and West in the Furniture Trade, Proceedings, Sixth International Symposium on Wood and Furniture Conservation. Amsterdam, Stichting Ebenist, 13-14 December, 2002.

Japanese Ink Painting

Shin’ichi, Miyajima, and Sato Yasuhiro. Japanese Ink Painting. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985.

Cunningham, Michael R. The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.

Kongo Power Figures

Herreman, Frank. To Cure and Protect: Sickness and Health in African Art. New York: The Museum for African Art, 1997.

Woodward, Richard B. African Art . Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1994.

Kreuzer Collection

Danzker, Jo-Anne Birnie, ed. Art Nouveau Buckles: The Kreuzer Collection. München: Museum Villa Stuck, 2000.

Kuba Masks

Cornet, Joseph. Art Royal Kuba. Milano: Edizioni Sipiel, 1982.

Vansina, Jan. “Kuba,” in Dictionary of Art 18. Jane Turner, ed. Macmillan, 1996.

Kuba Wisdom Basket

Ziemki, Jennifer J. Culture of the Democratic Republic of Congo Countries and their Cultures. October 23, 2008. www.everyculture.com

Leonardo da Vinci

Henneberger, Melinda. The Leonardo Cover-Up. The New York Times Magazine. 21 April 2002: 42-48.

Sol LeWitt

Kimmelman, Michael. “Conceptualism, by the Gallon, Covers the Walls.” The New York Times, “Weekend.” Friday, 8 December 2000.

Rene Magritte

Alden, Todd. The Essential Rene Magritte. New York: Wonderland Press, 1999.

Gohr, Siegfried. Magritte. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, c. 2000.

Edouard Manet

Courtion, Pierre. Edouard Manet. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1962.

Sally Mann

Protor, Roy. “Mann power-photographs of people, places.” PeoplePlaces. Richmond Times Dispatch, 16 April 2000.

Rexer, Lyle: “Marriage Under Glass: Intimate Exposures.” Art & Leisure. New York Times 19 November 2000.

Memphis Design

de Bure, Gilles. Ettore Sattsass, Jr. Paris: Rivages, 1987.

Horn, Richard. Memphis-Objects, Furniture and Patterns. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1985.

Radice, Barbara. Memphis: Research, Experiences, Results, Failures and Success of Design. New York: 1984.

Alphonse Mucha

Ellridge, Arthur. The Triumph of Art Nouveau: Mucha. Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992. For additional information and quotation, see www.mucha.cz/index2.

Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. & cat. organized by Sue Craze and Kathy Halbreich, with essay by Roberta Smith. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers in association with the Dallas Museum of Art and MIT Committee on the Visual Arts, 1987.

Maya Vase Painting

Kerr, Justin. Maya Vase Database. Online at mayavase.com, 2006.

Reents-Budet, Dorie. Painting the Maya Universe, Duke University Museum of Art, 1994.

Julie Mehretu

Fogle, Douglas and Olekumi Ilesanmi. “Looking Back,” Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting. Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, 2003.

Native American Art

Grimes, John R.; Christian F. Feest; Mary Lou Curran, et al. Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum. New York: American Federation of Arts; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Barlow, Margaret. Women Artists. New York: Universe Publishing, 2008.
Pyne, Kathleen. Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2007.
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton. In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O’Keeffe, and Stieglitz, The Stieglitz Circle at The Phillips Collection, exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, in assoc. with The Phillips Collection, 1995.

Martin Puryear

Crutchfield, Margo. Martin Puryear. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2001.
Gopnik, Blake. The Art of the Craftsman, The Washington Post, 22 June 2008.

Morocco: Arabic Calligraphic Carvings, House of Music, Aben Danan Synagogue, Bahia Palace Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.
Alaoui, Rachida, Jean Brignon, Nathalie Campodonico, et al. Morocco. London: Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 2002.
Honnor, Julius and Justin McGuinness. Footprint Morocco. Bath, UK: Footprint, 2008.

Benjamin Pyne

Hernmarck, Carl. The Art of the European Silversmith 1430-1830. London: Philip Wilson Publishers for Sotheby Park Bernet Publications, 1977.

Ravinder Reddy

Carter, Holland. “Art in Review: Ravinder G. Reddy,” New York Times, 12 October 2001.

King, Margery King, Ajay J. Sinha, and Ravinder Reddy. Ravinder Reddy, exhibition brochure. The Andy Warhol Museum, 2001.

Kinsley, David R. Hindu Goddesses. University of California Press, 1986.

François Rémond

François Rémond. World Wide Art Resources. Online.

David Reed

Mieke Bal. Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.

William Bartman, ed. David Reed. Los Angeles: A.R.T. Press, 1990.

Museum of Contemporary Art. David Reed Painting Motion Pictures. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998.

Severin Roesen

Sill, Gertrude Grace. “Roesen, Severin.” Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [March 2005], and online at www.groveart.com.

Henry Rousseau

Stabenow, Cornelia. “Artificial Paradise, Rousseau’s Jungle Landscapes,” Arts in Virginia 26, no.1 (1986):30-39.

Alison Saar

Lawrence, Sidney. 1997. “The Color of Art.” American Art 11. Spring: 2-9.

John Singer Sargent

James, Henry. "John S. Sargent." Harper's Magazine 18 (October 1887). Reprinted as Picture and Text. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1903.

Kilmurry, Elaine and Ricard Ormond. John Singer Sargent. London: Tate Gallery in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1999.

Ratcliff, Carter. John Singer Sargent. New York: Abbeville Press, 1982.

Sidlauskus, Susan. "Painting Skin: John Singer Sargent's Madame X." American Art 15 (Fall 2001): 8-33.

George Segal

Friedman, Martin, and Graham W. J. Beal. George Segal: Sculptures. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1978.

Tuchman, Phyllis. George Segal. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.

Sicily: Ancient Greek Bronze Satyr, Charioteer, Monreale, Mozia, Phoenicians:

Cannon, Gwen, ed. Michelin Sicily: The Green Guide. Greenville, S.C. and Watford, Herts, U.K., n.d.

Grady, Ellen. Blue Guild, Sicily. 7th ed. London, 2006.

Motya, Punic, Phoenicians. July 7, 2008. en.wikipedia.org

Alfred Stieglitz

Norman, Dorothy. Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. New York, Random House, 1973.

William Wetmore Story

James, Henry, William Wetmore Story and his Friends. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903, 33.

George Stubbs

Cormack, Malcolm, Patrick McCaughey, et al. George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: A Memorial Exhibition. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1999.

Table Forks in Art

Murry, Deborah. The Genesis of the Dining Fork in European Dining. Online.

Sherman, Dennis. A History of the Table Fork. Online.

Wollfmann, P. and C. Gold. Forks, Knives, and Spoons. London: Thames and Hudson 1994

Henry O. Tanner

Mosby, Dewey F., et al. Henry Ossawa Tanner. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991.

Tanner, Henry O. 1909. “The Story of an Artist’s Life, I and II.” The World’s Work. Vol. 18. June and July: 11661-6 and 11769-75.

Tibetan Mandalas, Tara, and Yamantaka

Heller, Amy. Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideas and Art in Tibet, 600-2000 AD. Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book SpA, 1999.

Rhie, Marylin M. and Robert A.F. Thurman. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

Singer, Jane Casey and Philip Denwood, eds. Tibetan Art: Towards a Definition of Style. London: Laurence King Publishing, 1997.

Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge

Adams, Henry. The Art of John La Farge. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1987.

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. "A New Renaissance: Stained Glass in the Aesthetic Period," in In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.

Koch, Robert. Louis C. Tiffany, Rebel in Glass. 3rd ed. New York: Crown Publishers, 1982.

Neustadt, Egon. The Lamps of Tiffany. New York: The Fairfield Press, 1970.

Weinberg, H. Barbara. "John La Farge and the Invention of American Opalescent Windows." Stained Glass, vol. 67 (Summer 1972): 4-16.

Cy Twombly

Varnedoe, Kirk. Cy Twombly: A Retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994.

James VanDerZee

Willis-Braithwaithe, Deborah. VanDerZee: Photographer, 1886-1983. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1993.

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

Baillio, Joseph. Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842. Kimbell Art Museum, 1982.

Goodden, Angelica. The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun. London: Andre Deutsch, 1997.

Bill Viola

Going Forth by Day: Process/Prozess: Bill Viola. Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin; New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2002.

Edouard Vuillard

Salomon, Antoine and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, 2 vols. Wildenstein Institute and Skira Editore, 2003.

Benjamin West

Abrams, Ann Uhry. The Valiant Hero: Benjamin West and the Grand-Style History Painting. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Evans, Dorinda. Benjamin West and His Students. Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1980.

Marks, Arthur S. "Benjamin West and the American Revolution." The American Art Journal 6 (November 1974): 15-35.

von Erffa, Helmut and Allen Staley. The Paintings of Benjamin West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1986.

Franz Winterhalter

Ormond, Richmond and Carol Blackett-Ord, Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe 1830-70. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1987.

James McNeill Whistler

Curry, David Park. 1987. "Total Control: Whistler at an Exhibition" in Studies in the History of Art. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 67-82.

Curry, David Park. Uneasy Pieces. Richmond: VMFA, 2004.

Dorment, Richard and Margaret F. MacDonald. James McNeill Whistler. London: Tate Gallery, 1994.

Grieve, Alastair. Whistler’s Venice. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000.

Merrill, Linda. A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Young, Andrew McLaren, et al. The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.