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Exhibition Catalogs and Books on Portrait and Figurative Artists
Exhibition Catalogs and Books on Portrait and Figurative Artists
*To find books on individual portrait and figurative artists:
Search the UNT Online Catalog. Search artists and painter's names in following manner: last name, first name. Example: Saville, Jenny; Pearlstein, Philip; Clemente, Francesco; Bacon, Francis; Kahlo, Frida.
*Other keyword search examples for finding portraits or figurative art:
Figure and Painting; Portrait and Painting; "Self-portrait", Artist and Portrait; Matisse and Portrait; Women and Portrait.
*To Find Exhibition Catalogs on Individual Figurative Painters:
Exhibition catalogs are the best source of images of an artist's portraits or figurative works. Search the artist's name and the word "exhibition". Example: Kahlo, Frida and exhibition.
*To Find Exhibition Catalogs and Books not Owned by the UNT Libraries:
Search the World Catalog using the same search strategies used to search the UNT Libraries Online Catalog. World Catalog contains more than 35 million records describing items owned libraries around the world. World Catalog does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters. To find out if UNT owns the exhibition catalog or book, click on the title and then "Libraries that own" link. Books not owned by UNT may be borrowed through the UNT Libraries borrowing program known as Inter-Library Loan.
Reference Books on Artists
*Artists are listed alphabetically by last name in each of the art
reference books listed below. The books are located in Reference, 1st floor, Willis
Library.
*Not all artists listed in these books create portraits or figurative art. Some images are included in the entry on the artist.
The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans
E176 .H562 1970 v. 1-5.
N6490 .C6567 2002
Contemporary Masterworks N 6490 .C65675 1991
N8354 .C66 1999
Dictionary of Contemporary American ArtistsN6512 .C854 1994
Fine Art Index: a Compendium of Contemporary Art and ArtistsN6503 .F56 1993
Grove Dictionary of Art(also available as a database, see journals below) N31 .D5 1996 vols. 1-10
Gumbo YaYa: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Female ArtistsN6538 .N5 G85 1995
Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern EraN6502.4 .S45 2003
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth CenturyN6503 .N67 1995
Who's Who in American ArtN6536 .W5 2003
World Artists, 1950-1980N6489 .M37 1984
World Artists, 1980-1990 N6489 .W67 1991