Art Books

Contribution by Thelma Golden and Richard J.Powell and Julie L McGee and Renee Maurer and Jessica May The first publication to survey the entire...

The PMA has published the museum’s first-ever collection catalogue, The Collection: Highlights of the Portland Museum of Art. Featuring the PMA’s m...

Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and Frederic Remington (1861–1909) represent a distinct artistic strain of the American mythos: both were celebrated in...

A fresh and surprising overview of N. C. Wyeth’s career that considers the full range of the multifaceted artist’s oeuvre N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945)...

This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind th...

Learn to draw figures and faces with this clear and easy to follow guide, the latest in the bestselling ‘Read This’ series. Revealing the technique...

In the 1970s, Portland, Maine was a struggling seaside city on the cusp of change from a traditional working class gathering spot to a popular to...

Maine sculptor Bernard Langlais (1921–1977) achieved success in the 1950s through his wood-crafted sculpture, which was often abstract or based in ...

In the Vanguard: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1950–1969 traces this unique school’s impact on American art during the mid-twentieth century....

In Maine, it’s often said that you can’t get there from here, but Maine craft runs far and wide. Handcrafted Maine surveys the state’s “creative co...

Dear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state representative, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater ...

You Can’t Get There From Here: The 2015 Portland Museum of Art Biennial highlights Maine’s artistic legacies in the making. Curated by Alison Ferri...

This catalog is the first major publication on the Brooklyn Museum’s exceptional collection of pre-1945 American drawings highlighting over 100 mas...

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, and Edvard Munch are some of the artists represented in this evocative...

The 2018 Portland Museum of Art Biennial (January 26 through June 3, 2018), guest curated by Nat May, features more than 60 works by 25 participati...

"All we wanted to do was make art accessible, non-academic, non-elitist, gossipy and fun" (Russell Tovey, quoted in the New York Times) Engaging, i...

Emotions are part of every toddler's day... and now, part of their first art collection! 35 full-page artworks from a variety of periods introdu...

A clever, quirky, and highly entertaining biography of the leading contemporary artist, Banksy, written specially for children ages 4 to 7 Banksy i...

A tender and wise ode to love, illustrated with an expertly curated selection of fine art for young children Art, like anything else, is only as...

In his much-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies Leonard A. La...