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The obstacle race
The obstacle race: the fortunes of women painters and their work
Germaine Greer
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.
ISBN: 0374224129 DDC: 759 LCC: ND38 Edition: $25.00

Great artists
Great artists: from Giotto to Turner
Tim Marlow with Phil Grabsky and Philip Rance
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2001.
ISBN: 0571209084 DDC: 759 LCC: ND160

Techniques of the world's great painters
consultant editor, Waldemar Januszczak
Publisher: Edison, NJ : Chartwell Books, 2001, c1980.
ISBN: 0890093687 DDC: 759 LCC: ND1471

The story of painting
Wendy Beckett; contributing consultant, Patricia Wright
Publisher: New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
ISBN: 0789468050 DDC: 759 LCC: ND450

A checklist of painters, c1200-1994 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Publisher: London : Mansell ; c1995
ISBN: 1884964370 DDC: 759 LCC: ND35 Edition: (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers)

A checklist of painters, c1200-1994 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Publisher: London : Mansell ; c1995
ISBN: 0720121787 DDC: 759 LCC: ND35 Edition: (Mansell)

Naive painting
[by] Anatole Jakovsky; [translated from the German by Ernest Torlesse]
Publisher: Oxford : Phaidon, 1979.
ISBN: 0714819557 DDC: 759 LCC: ND196

The avant-garde in the history of painting
translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor
Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson, 1969.
ISBN: 0500231206 DDC: 759 LCC: ND137

100 masterpieces in colour
introduction by Christopher Wood
Publisher: London, Hamlyn, 1972.
ISBN: 0600312771 DDC: 759 LCC: ND1145

Illusion in art
Illusion in art: trompe l'oeil: a history of pictorial illusionism
by M. L. d'Otrange Mastai
Publisher: New York : Abaris Books, 1975.
ISBN: 091387003X DDC: 759 LCC: ND1390 Edition: $39.50

The Shorter dictionary of artists' signatures
The Shorter dictionary of artists' signatures: including monograms and symbols
[compiled] by Radway Jackson; introduction by Andrew Festing
Publisher: London : Foulsham, c1980.
ISBN: 0572008988 DDC: 759 LCC: N45 Edition: Đ9.50

Three little books about painting
[commentary by Julian Spalding; edited by Michael Harrison]
Publisher: London : Arts Council of Great Britain, c1983.
ISBN: 0728703734 DDC: 759 Edition: (v. 1)

Women painters of the world
Women painters of the world: from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow
Publisher: New York : Hacker Art Books, 1976.
ISBN: 0878171843 DDC: 759 LCC: ND38

Larousse dictionary of painters
Publisher: New York : Larousse, c1981.
ISBN: 088332265X DDC: 759 LCC: ND35 Edition: $50.00

Monet's landscapes
Vivian Russell
Publisher: London : Frances Lincoln, 2000.
ISBN: 0711215510 DDC: 759 Edition: £20.00

Paul Klee, the formative years
Charles Werner Haxthausen
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1981.
ISBN: 0824039327 DDC: 759 LCC: ND588 Edition: $70.00

The story of painting, from cave painting to modern times
H. W. Janson and Dora Jane Janson
Publisher: New York : H. N. Abrams, 1977.
ISBN: 0810920689 DDC: 759

Four steps toward modern art
Four steps toward modern art: Giorgione, Caravaggio, Manet, Cézanne
by Lionello Venturi
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, [1985], c1956.
ISBN: 0313248001 DDC: 759 LCC: ND35 Edition: (lib. bdg.)

Fantastic painters
Simon Watney
Publisher: New York : St. Martins Press, 1977.
ISBN: 031228165X DDC: 759 LCC: ND1288 Edition: $5.95

A concise history of watercolours
Graham Reynolds
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1978, c1971.
ISBN: 0195200519 DDC: 759 LCC: ND1760 Edition: $6.95

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