Books

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...

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...

In the first half of the 20th century, European-born artists Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach became preeminent f...

Join your sea turtle guide as you navigate every inch of our oceans, from the sunlit surface to the deepest, darkest depths.This beautiful book wil...

This collection of photographs from over 40 years of rock 'n' roll history includes iconic and enlightening images of rock stars from Bob Dylan and...

In Beautiful Blackbird, painter-poet-puppeteer Ashley Bryan brings African folklore to today’s young readers through illustrations that really leav...

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

Smile, Baby!'s playful text introduces babies to their faces and asks them to find their nose, ears, and eyes in the embedded mirror. Introducing ...

In Welcome to Shape School!, readers join Gabriel Giraffe, Elijah Elephant, Riley Narwhal, Mia Monkey, Layla Llama, Paisley Octopus, and Mateo Red ...

This remarkable collection of photographs celebrates the creativity of Judith Ellis Glickman, who has been making and collecting photographs for mo...

Award-winning Maine sculptor John Bisbee (born 1965) has spent decades building inventive and complex sculptures from just one type of ordinary obj...

The exhibition Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England, which ran at the PMA June 25 — October 12, 2009, showcased New England's famous arti...

Sculptor Sheila Pepe and painter Carrie Moyer have achieved international acclaim through abstract works that are rich with color and materiality a...

I can hear change hummingIn its loudest, proudest song.I don’t fear change coming,And so I sing along.” In this stirring, much-anticipated pictu...

Charles Codman (1800-1842) apprenticed for Boston painter John Ritto Penniman and lived his whole life in Portland, Maine, where he painted some of...

A moving and sophisticated investigation into the nature of vision. American artist Clifford Ross’ photographic and video practices over the pas...

Dahlov Ipcar's Farmyard Alphabet is her first board book, pairing her fresh, original verses with timeless illustrations from eleven of her books, ...

  This third board book from Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar (1917-2017) contains an original illustration done especially for this edition, her first ne...

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 exhibition Monet to Matisse, Homer to Hartley: American Masters and Their European Muses, 1870 to 1950 (June 24 — October 17, 2004) linked ...

Contributors: Judy Glickman, Chris Thompson, Susan Danly, Drew Johnson, & Christian Peterson Irving B. Ellis (1902-1977) was an archetypal pict...

“Oh, Freedom”—a rallying cry against racial injustice over the years. In Freedom Over Me, Ashley Bryan draws from historical materials to tell the ...