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
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...
A piece of the world : a novel
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...
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...
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...
Sargent's daughters : the biography of a painting
Hirshler, Erica E.
Paper Book
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
Britain's most passionate Francophile takes us on a wonderfully rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of...
The Lioness of Boston
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...
The artist's palette : the palettes behind the paintings of 50 great artists
Loske, Alexandra
Paper Book
A beautifully illustrated look at the paints and palettes used by many of the world's greatest artists from the sixteenth century to today What can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about their artistic process, preferences, and finished works? From traditional...
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.
The letters of Vincent van Gogh
Gogh, Vincent van
Paper Book
This selection of letters by Vincent van Gogh helps to elucidate not only the creative processes involved in his painting, but also the tortured soul that lay behind the genius. Covering the years 1872-1890, from his time as an employee of the Art Gallery of Goupil in the Hague, to his final tragic...
Mystical landscapes : from Vincent van Gogh to Emily Carr
Lochnan, Katharine Jordan
Paper Book
This richly illustrated volume explores mystical themes in European, Scandinavian, and North American landscape paintings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This book features works by Emily Carr, Marc Chagall, Arthur Dove, Paul Gauguin, Lawren Harris, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Piet...
Vincent by himself : a selection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings together with extracts from his letters
Gogh, Vincent van
Paper Book
The yellow house : Van Gogh, Gauguin and nine turbulent weeks in Arles
Gayford, Martin
Paper Book
Martin Gayford presents a fascinating, atmospheric account of an intense period in the life of one of the world's most popular painters, Vincent Van Gogh, when he lived and worked with Paul Gauguin in the Yellow House.
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-four 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 was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him...
Concerning the spiritual in art (with a focus on painting) and the question of form
Kandinsky, Wassily
Paper Book
In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art's traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revolution in painting, arguing that...
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...
Every picture hides a story : the secret ways artists make their work more seductive
Cane, William
Paper Book
Each year 11 million people trek to the Louvre to gawk at the Mona Lisa. Many visitors clutch guide books in hand describing the painting. For some, it's the experience of a lifetime, one they'll talk about with friends and family for decades. Yet some modern researchers say that the...

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