Books

A massive panorama of Native American art from Navajo weaving to Apache basketry Spanning nearly 1,000 years of artistic creativity, this wide-rang...

An affordable introduction to the key places, people and motifs in the life and art of Cezanne Paul Cezanne’s incomparable, architectonic rendering...

This PMA exhibition (June 29 — October 20, 1996) aimed to dispel the perception that Cubism was only a pre-World War I phenomenon and to show how c...

New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Week...

A historical graphic novel inspired by the life of Harlem's legendary mobster, Stephanie Saint-Clair Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Cl...

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...

This catalogue accompanied the Robert Indiana exhibition at the PMA of the same name (June 24 — October 17, 1999) and highlighted the artist's twin...

A new definitive overview of the founding Abstract Expressionist celebrated for his Elegies to the Spanish Republic Famously the most politicized a...

Edited with text by Nora R. Lawrence. Foreword by John P. Stern. Text by Susan Choi, Angie Cruz, Jennifer Egan, Jarrett Earnest, James Hannaham, Ma...

A wide-ranging survey of Black art in the American South, from Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe to the quilters of Gee’s Bend For generations, Bla...

Spike Lee is a world-renowned, Academy Award–winning filmmaker, a cultural icon, and one of the most prominent voices on race and racism for more t...

A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Susan Meiselas became known for her work in the conflict zones of Central America in the 1970s and '80s and f...

Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's ...

The Ashcan School and The Eight are now recognized as America’s first modern art movement: rejecting their academic training and the practices of t...

Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence, and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of ...

The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring...

Young Tobias is on a quest with his father, David Moses Bridges, the tribe’s master canoe maker. Together they go deep into the Maine woods to find...

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...

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...

Since its founding in 1947, the legendary Magnum Photos agency has been telling its own story about photographers who were witnesses to history and...

From Monet to Marquet, artists gravitated to the Normandy coast in the 19th and 20th centuries and to the beaches and boulevards of Honfleur, Le Ha...