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1. A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

Creator:: McGregor, Alasdair, 1954–
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 369 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Against the odds : the life of Edgar Holloway, artist / Jennifer Holloway.

Creator:: Holloway, Jennifer
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 158 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

3. An artist in Abydos : the life and letters of Myrtle Broome / Lee Young.

Creator:: Young, Lee
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: x, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Artists who make books / Andrew Roth, Philip E. Aarons, and Claire Lehmann, editors. ; entries by Jeffrey Kastner and Claire Lehmann.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Barbara Hepworth : the sculptor in the studio / Sophie Bowness.

Creator:: Bowness, Sophie
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

Creator:: Ewan, Joseph, 1909–1999
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: xxvi, 1,127 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects / edited by Phillada Ballard.

Date:: 2009
Physical Description:: xx, 629 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Burning to speak : the life and art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska / Roger Cole.

Creator:: Cole, Roger, 1922–
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 141 pages : chiefly illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

9. Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh / John S. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, John Stewart
Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: xxiv, 282 pages, [2] leaves of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Roger, 1943 November 17–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 204 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener / Thomas Hinde.

Creator:: Hinde, Thomas, 1926–2014
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford.

Creator:: Rutherford, Sarah (Freelance consultant)
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 192 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

Creator:: Parkin, Sophie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Constable : a portrait / James Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, James, 1948–
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: xx, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Craigie Aitchison : a life in colour / Cate Haste.

Creator:: Haste, Cate, 1945–
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

16. David Hicks scrapbooks / edited by Ashley Hicks.

Creator:: Hicks, David, 1929–1998
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

17. David Hockney / James Cahill.

Creator:: Cahill, James
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 144 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. David Hockney : moving focus : works from the Tate collection / edited by Helen Little.

Creator:: Hockney, David, born 1937
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Edward Stott (1855-1918) : a master of colour and atmosphere / Valerie Webb.

Creator:: Webb, Valerie
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Edwina Sandys art / text by Carolin Seebohm ; foreword by Anthony Haden-Guest ; introduction by Sir Roland Penrose.

Creator:: Seebohm, Caroline
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron / Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker.

Creator:: Scarisbrick, Diana
Date:: 2014
Physical Description:: 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

Creator:: Powers, Alan, 1955–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. From the shadows : the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor / Owen Hopkins.

Creator:: Hopkins, Owen, 1984–
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Gainsborough : a portrait / James Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, James, 1948–
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xvi, 420 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

25. George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886 / John Tregenza.

Creator:: Tregenza, John
Date:: 1980
Physical Description:: 88 pages : illustrations (some color) maps on endpapers, portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 534 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Graham Sutherland : life, work and ideas / Rosalind Thuillier.

Creator:: Thuillier, Rosalind
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

Creator:: Bond, Barbara A.
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 263 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Hogarth / David Bindman.

Creator:: Bindman, David, 1940–
Date:: 2021
Physical Description:: 223 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Holbein : drawings / by František Dvořák ; [translated from the German by Christa Tiefenbacher-Hudson].

Creator:: Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 47 pages, [57] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

31. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

Creator:: Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853–1920
Date:: 1900
Physical Description:: xii, 256 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

32. In praise of Paul Mellon.

Date:: [1987]
Physical Description:: 130 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Leara Kuffer.

33. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

Creator:: Julien, Isaac, Sir, born 1960
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. John and William Bartram : travelers in early America / Sandra Wallus Sammons.

Creator:: Sammons, Sandra Wallus
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: xiv, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. John Behan : the bull from Sheriff Street : the life and work of an Irish sculptor / Adrian Frazier.

Creator:: Frazier, Adrian Woods
Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

Creator:: Hilton, Timothy, 1941–
Date:: [1985]-[2000]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Vol. 1 is a gift of Jules David Prown.

37. John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter : a memoir with a catalogue of his paintings and a critical review of his works / by William Baird.

Creator:: Baird, William, active 1898
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: xvii, 267 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

38. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

Date:: [2014]
Physical Description:: 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain / edited by Eleanor Clayton.

Creator:: Miller, Lee, 1907–1977
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966 / by Claude Berry.

Creator:: Berry, Claude
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

Creator:: Montfort, Patricia de
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: xiv, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Modern Scottish women : painters and sculptors, 1885-1965 / edited by Alice Strang.

Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

Creator:: Uglow, Jennifer S.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: x, 598 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Mrs Delany : a life / Clarissa Campbell Orr.

Creator:: Orr, Clarissa Campbell
Date:: [2019]
Physical Description:: xv, 405 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Nathaniel Clements 1705-77 : politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland / A.P.W. Malcolmson.

Creator:: Malcomson, A. P. W.
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Nicholas Hilliard : life of an artist / Elizabeth Goldring.

Creator:: Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970–
Date:: 2019
Physical Description:: xiii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. On being an artist / Michael Craig-Martin.

Creator:: Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

Creator:: Turner, Sarah A. M.
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

49. Peter Clapham Sheppard : his life and work / Tom Smart ; foreword by Louis Gagliardi.

Creator:: Smart, Tom
Date:: [2018]
Physical Description:: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.

Creator:: Baas, Jacquelynn, 1948–
Date:: [1998]
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

2. Against the odds : the life of Edgar Holloway, artist / Jennifer Holloway.

3. An artist in Abydos : the life and letters of Myrtle Broome / Lee Young.

4. Artists who make books / Andrew Roth, Philip E. Aarons, and Claire Lehmann, editors. ; entries by Jeffrey Kastner and Claire Lehmann.

5. Barbara Hepworth : the sculptor in the studio / Sophie Bowness.

6. Benjamin Smith Barton : naturalist and physician in Jeffersonian America / written by Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan ; edited by Victoria C. Hollowell, Eileen P. Duggan, Marshall R. Crosby.

7. Birmingham's Victorian and Edwardian architects / edited by Phillada Ballard.

8. Burning to speak : the life and art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska / Roger Cole.

9. Byron and the Honourable Augusta Leigh / John S. Chapman.

10. Capability Brown : and the eighteenth-century English landscape / Roger Turner.

11. Capability Brown : the story of a master gardener / Thomas Hinde.

12. Capability Brown and his landscape gardens / Sarah Rutherford.

13. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

14. Constable : a portrait / James Hamilton.

15. Craigie Aitchison : a life in colour / Cate Haste.

16. David Hicks scrapbooks / edited by Ashley Hicks.

17. David Hockney / James Cahill.

18. David Hockney : moving focus : works from the Tate collection / edited by Helen Little.

19. Edward Stott (1855-1918) : a master of colour and atmosphere / Valerie Webb.

20. Edwina Sandys art / text by Carolin Seebohm ; foreword by Anthony Haden-Guest ; introduction by Sir Roland Penrose.

21. Elihu Yale : merchant, collector & patron / Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker.

22. Enid Marx : the pleasures of pattern / Alan Powers.

23. From the shadows : the architecture and afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor / Owen Hopkins.

24. Gainsborough : a portrait / James Hamilton.

25. George French Angas, artist, traveller and naturalist 1822-1886 / John Tregenza.

26. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

27. Graham Sutherland : life, work and ideas / Rosalind Thuillier.

28. Great escapes / Barbara A. Bond.

29. Hogarth / David Bindman.

30. Holbein : drawings / by František Dvořák ; [translated from the German by Christa Tiefenbacher-Hudson].

31. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

32. In praise of Paul Mellon.

33. Isaac Julien : riot / Isaac Julien with Cynthia Rose ; Paul Gilroy, Kobena Mercer, B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Mark Nash, Giuliana Bruno, Christine Van Assche, Laura Mulvey, Stuart Hall.

34. John and William Bartram : travelers in early America / Sandra Wallus Sammons.

35. John Behan : the bull from Sheriff Street : the life and work of an Irish sculptor / Adrian Frazier.

36. John Ruskin / Tim Hilton.

37. John Thomson of Duddingston, pastor and painter : a memoir with a catalogue of his paintings and a critical review of his works / by William Baird.

38. Kenneth Clark : looking for civilisation / [edited by] Chris Stephens and John-Paul Stonard ; with David Alan Mellor, Peter T.J. Rumley and John Wyver.

39. Lee Miller and surrealism in Britain / edited by Eleanor Clayton.

40. Lionel Edwards, 1878-1966 / by Claude Berry.

41. Louise Jopling : a biographical and cultural study of the modern woman artist in Victorian Britain / Patricia de Montfort.

42. Modern Scottish women : painters and sculptors, 1885-1965 / edited by Alice Strang.

43. Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

44. Mrs Delany : a life / Clarissa Campbell Orr.

45. Nathaniel Clements 1705-77 : politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland / A.P.W. Malcolmson.

46. Nicholas Hilliard : life of an artist / Elizabeth Goldring.

47. On being an artist / Michael Craig-Martin.

48. Percy Moore Turner : connoisseur, impresario & art dealer / Sarah A.M. Turner.

49. Peter Clapham Sheppard : his life and work / Tom Smart ; foreword by Louis Gagliardi.

50. Peter Shelton : soul soundings / Jacquelynn Baas.