Art Books

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)...

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

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...

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

Photographer Paul Caponigro specializes in black-and-white photographs of New England's natural world and homes. This catalogue features numerous i...

The exhibition John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, which ran at the PMA June 23-October 09, 2011, showcased John Marin's early works from the 1930...

Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls have issued a consciousness-raising corrective to the sexism and racism of Western Art, exposing how Art History is...

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...

Winslow Homer was nothing if not a creature a habit, once stating, “The sun will not rise or set without my notice.” But he also reinvented himself...

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...

This pithy volume offers a pocket guide to feminist art from the 1960s through today, covering painting, performance, and everything in between. A ...

Winslow Homer fans know that space, place, and landscape are cornerstones of his art. As his career progressed, these qualities grew and helped sha...

Hans Hofmann was a major force in mid-century American abstraction, ushering in a new emphasis on relationships between form, color, and space. Thr...