World Watercolor Month

Updated June 5, 2025
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Descender. Book one, Tin stars
Lemire, Jeff
Paper Book
Newsweek's Best Comic Booksof 2018 2018, 2017, 2016YALSA's Great Graphic Novels forTeens 2015 NPR'sBest Books of theYear<...
Wytches. Volume 1
Snyder, Scott
Paper Book
"It's fabulous. A triumph."-Stephen King "Dark andbrutal... Wytches are like nothing horror fans have ever seen"-USA Today Everything youthought you...
Andrew Wyeth : memory & magic
Knutson, Anne Classen.
Paper Book
Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, who is age 88 at the date of publication, has continued to paint, to the delight of his admirers, collectors, and the art-loving...
A piece of the world : a novel
Kline, Christina Baker
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Exquisite. A must-read." --Kristin Hannah From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic...
A piece of the world : a novel
Kline, Christina Baker
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Exquisite. A must-read." --Kristin Hannah From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic...
A piece of the world
Kline, Christina Baker
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World. "Later he told me that he'd been afraid to show me the painting...
Portrait of an artist : a biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
Lisle, Laurie.
Paper Book
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of ninety-eight. Her vivid visual vocabulary -- sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth -- had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on...
Someone always nearby : a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot
Albert, Susan Wittig
Paper Book
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. &...
Georgia : a novel of Georgia O'Keefe
Tripp, Dawn Clifton.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan's Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O'Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist. This is not a love...
Family romance : John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Strouse, Jean
Paper Book
Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family. Jean Strouse's Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by...
Sargent's daughters : the biography of a painting
Hirshler, Erica E.
Ebook
One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's...
Sargent's women : four lives behind the canvas
Lucey, Donna M.
Paper Book
"Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency--Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." --Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder, Refinery29<...
The man in the red coat
Barnes, Julian
Paper Book
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending--a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. * "A pleasure to read in every way." --The New York Times Book Review...
The lioness of Boston : a novel
Franklin, Emily
Paper Book
BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER "Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive--irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world."--Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's...
Watercolors by Winslow Homer : the color of light
Tedeschi, Martha
Paper Book
Focusing on over 100 watercolours, along with more than 30 related drawings and paintings, this volume explores Homer's technical and artistic practice as a watercolourist, and also looks at the experiences that shaped his development.
Let's see : writings on art from the New Yorker
Schjeldahl, Peter.
Paper Book
Distinguished critic at The New Yorker since 1998, Peter Schjeldahl has been described as America's most influential writer on art. Blessed with an unerring eye, he tackles a myriad of subjects with wit, poetry, and perspicacity, examining and questioning the art before him while reveling in the...
The letters of Vincent van Gogh
Gogh, Vincent van
Paper Book
A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and...
The yellow house : Van Gogh, Gauguin, and nine turbulent weeks in Arles
Gayford, Martin.
Paper Book
This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Includes 60 B&W reproductions of the artists' paintings and drawings...
Van Gogh : the life
Naifeh, Steven
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative...
Van Gogh and the artists he loved
Naifeh, Steven
Paper Book
The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing himself in the work of others, featuring hundreds of paintings by Van Gogh as well as the artists who inspired him-from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Van Gogh- The Life...
The secret life of sunflowers
Molnar, Marta
Paper Book
"This book draws all the emotions out of you. I went from tears to snorting with laughter. It was both lighthearted and heart breaking, yet it inspires me to live my best life! " Michelle Cox When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's...
The Bauhaus group : six masters of modernism
Weber, Nicholas Fox
Paper Book
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their...
Concerning the spiritual in art
Kandinsky, Wassily
Paper Book
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of...
Cézanne : a life
Danchev, Alex.
Paper Book
With 32-pages of full-color inserts, and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Alex Danchev gives us the first comprehensive assessment of the revolutionary work and restless life of Paul Cézanne to be published in decades. One of the most influential painters of his time...

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