The Arcane
This section is a collection of arcane knowledge that I've accumulated over the years. I'm sure it will be useful to a few people, perhaps very few people. At least I like it.
Abrams Library of Great Painters Series
This is a series of quatro sized (10 x 13) art books that Harry N. Abrams published from the 1950's to the 1980's. Each volume contained a number of tipped-in full color plates. I've compiled this list of titles from the end flaps of the books I have in the series. It may not be complete. Almost all of these books are still available at used book stores. Most of the ISBN numbers were copied from my own editions. The others were obtained from the Internet.
| Title | Lived | Genre | Author | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckmann [Max] | 1884-1950 | New Objectivity | Stephan Lackner | 08109-0269-9 |
| Bonnard [Pierrre] | 1867-1947 | Post-Impressionist | Andre Fermigier | 08109-0041-6 |
| Bosch [Hieronymus] | 1450-1516 | Late Gothic | Carl Linfert | 08109-0043-2 |
| Braque [Georges] | 1882-1963 | Cubism | Raymond Cogniat | 08109-0703-8 |
| Bruegel [Pieter] | 1520-1569 | Renaissance | Wolfgang Stechow | 08109-0045-9 |
| Caravaggio | 1573-1610 | Naturalism | Alfred Moir | 08109-0757-7 |
| Cézanne [Paul] | 1839-1906 | Post-Impressionist | Meyer Schapiro | 08109-0052-1 |
| Chagall [Marc] | 1887-1985 | Cubism± | Werner Haftmann | 08109-0074-2 |
| Constable [John] | 1776-1837 | Romantic Landscape | John Walker | 08109-0752-6 |
| Corot [Camille] | 1796-1875 | French Landscapist | Madeleine Hours | 08109-0058-0 |
| Dali [Salavador] | 1904-1989 | Surrealism | Robert Descharnes | 08109-0222-2 |
| Daumier [Honore] | 1808-1879 | Realist, etc. | Robert Rey | 08109-0834-4 |
| David [Jacques Louis] | 1748-1825 | Neoclassical | Luc de Nateuil | 08109-0833-6 |
| Degas [Edgar] | 1834-1917 | Post-Impressionist | Daniel Catton Rich | 08109-0067-X |
| Delacroix [Eugene] | 1798-1863 | Romantic | Maurice Sérullaz | 08109-0069-6 |
| Dufy [Raoul] | 1877-1953 | Fauvist | Alfred Werner | 08109-0083-1 |
| Dürer [Albrecht] | 1471-1528 | Renaissance | H. T. Musper | |
| El Greco | 1541-1614 | Mannerist | Leo Bronstein | 08109-0873-5 |
| Gauguin [Paul] | 1848-1903 | Post-Impressionist | Robert Goldwater | 08109-0137-4 |
| Goya [Francisco de] | 1746-1828 | Rococo, Neo-Baroque | José Gudila | 08109-0149-8 |
| Hals [Frans] | 1580-1666 | Baroque | H. P. Baard | 08109-1055-1 |
| Ingres [Jean-Auguste] | 1780-1867 | Romantic | Robert Rosenblum | 08109-0195-1 |
| Klee [Paul] | 1879-1940 | Expressionism | Will Grohmann | 08109-0228-1 |
| Leger [Fernand] | 1881-1955 | French Cubist | Werner Schmalenbach | 08109-0252-4 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452-1519 | High Renaissance | Jack Wasserman | 08109-0262-1 |
| Magritte [Rene] | 1898-1967 | Surrealism | A. M. Jammacher | 08109-0278-8 |
| Manet [Eduard] | 1832-1883 | Impressionist | Pierre Courthion | 08109-0260-5 |
| Matisse [Henri] | 1869-1954 | Fauvism | John Jacobus | 08109-0277-X |
| Michelangelo | 1475-1564 | High Renaissance | Frederick Jartt | 08109-0299-0 |
| Modigliani [Amedeo] | 1884-1920 | School of Paris | Alfred Werner | 08109-0323-7 |
| Mondrian [Piet] | 1872-1944 | Cubism, Neo-Plasticism | Hans L. C. Jaffé | 08109-0325-3 |
| Monet [Claude] | 1840-1926 | Impressionist | William C. Seitz | 08109-0326-1 |
| Munch [Edvard] | 1863-1944 | Art Noveau ± | Thomas M. Messer | 08109-1415-8 |
| Nolde [Emil] | 1867-1956 | German Expressionist | Werner Heftmann | 08109-0347-4 |
| Picasso [Pablo] | 1881-1973 | Cubism, etc. | Hans L. C. Jaffe | 08109-0368-7 |
| Pissarro [Camille] | 1830-1903 | Impressionist | John Rewald | 08109-0413-6 |
| Poussin [Nicolas] | 1594-1665 | Baroque | Walter Friedlaender | |
| Raphael | 1483-1520 | High Renaissance | James Beck | 08109-0432-2 |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | 1606-1669 | Baroque | Judwig Münz, B. Haak | 08109-0437-3 |
| Renoir [Auguste] | 1841-1919 | Impressionist | Walter Rach | 08109-0446-2 |
| Rouault [Georges] | 1871-1958 | Fauvism | Pierre Courthion | 08109-0459-4 |
| Seurat [Georges] | 1859-1891 | Post-Impressionist | Pierre Courthion | 08109-0474-8 |
| Soutine [Chaim] | 1894-1943 | School of Paris | Alfred Werner | 08109-0468-3 |
| Titian | 1485-1576 | High Renaissance | David Rosand | 08109-1654-1 |
| Toulouse-Lautrec | 1864-1901 | Post-Impressionist | Douglas Cooper | 08109-0512-4 |
| Turner [Joseph] | 1755-1851 | English Romantic | John Walker | 08109-0513-2 |
| Utrillo [Maurice] | 1883-1955 | School of Paris | A. Werner, Sabine Rewald | 08109-1725-4 |
| Van Gogh [Vincent] | 1853-1890 | Post-Impressionist | Meyer Schapiro | 08109-0524-8 |
| Velázquez [Diego] | 1559-1660 | Baroque | Maurice Sérullaz | 08109-1712-2 |
| Vermeer [Jan] | 1632-1675 | Baroque, Dutch genre | Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. | 08109-1730-0 |
| Vuillard [Edouard] | 1868-1940 | Post-Impressionist | Stuart Preston | 08109-0538-8 |
| Zurbaran [Francisco] | 1598-1664 | Spanish Baroque | Jonathan Brown | 08109-0549-3 |