Permanent Collection Catalogs Books

Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on new forms. Common notions of time and space were forever changed.Through vivid illustrations and engaging ...more

Mexico City–based artist Francis Alÿs (b. 1959) has assembled a group of paintings depicting Saint Fabiola, a 4th-century saint who gave up all earthly possessions and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism. All of the pictures in the collection are based on an original work—now lost—by the 19th-century ...more

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of America's pre-eminent artists and one of the first to experiment with abstract form, although she never abandoned her deep response to and observation of nature. An enormously popular artist, she became identified and respected as an independent spirit through both her life and her art. ...more

There are more than 25,500 value changes in this year s Volume 6, which includes Countries of the world So-Z. The countries with the most activity are Turkey, Tunisia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Sweden, Tonga, Spain and Syria. There are more value changes than have typically been made to this volume in ...more

This elegant book reproduces 200 prints by the most important and prolific Japanese artists of the 19th century, whose prints constitute the most recognizable images of Japanese art throughout the world. ...more

An exquisite celebration of the exceptional collection of paintings found in the The National Gallery, London. The works in The National Gallery, London, include masterpieces of Renaissance art, the largest collection of Velazquez outside of Spain, early Flemish paintings, Italian Renaissance masterpieces, the Italian Seicento at its height, and works ...more

Fairfield Porter, the lyrical American painter of tense slices of family life, was an extraordinarily complex and conflicted person. Born in 1917, Porter finally achieved a measure of fame in the 1950s as part of the second wave of New York School artists--only to be eclipsed as a realist painter ...more

In Art in the Frick Collection, museum director Charles Ryskamp takes readers on a tour of the Frick's permanent collection, including paintings by Rembrandt and Vermeer as well as Renaissance sculpture and 18th-century French furnishings. Ryskamp begins with a biography of Henry Clay Frick, detailing his development as an art ...more

Visual art in the period following World War II witnessed landmark transformations. Today, drawing provides a powerful and vigorous device for reexamining the art of that period, and for renewing appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of well-known artists--and for discovering others. Even though the art of these years saw radical ...more