A list of publications that describe American art and artists from specific regions of the country or in certain states. If these publications are not available through your local library, ask the librarian if these books can be obtained for you through inter-library loan.
Us Regional Listings
USA
Gerdts, William H. Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting: 1710- 1920. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990
East
Artists of Mid-Atlantic. Albuquerque, NM: Mountain Productions of Texas, Inc., 1991-
Rooney, E. Ashley. 100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2011
Who's Who in the East, A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the Eastern United States. Boston: Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin Ltd, 1943
Midwest
Who's Who in the Midwest (and Central Canada). Chicago: Marquis-Who's Who Inc., 1966-1987
New England
Artists of New England: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Albuquerque, NM: Mountain Productions of Texas, Inc., 1992-
Northwest
Appleton, Marion Brymner, ed. Who's Who in Northwest Art. Seattle, WA: Frank McCaffrey Publishing, 1941
Union Guide to Photograph Collections in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1978
South
Chambers, Bruce W. Art & Artists of the South (Robert P. Coggins Collection). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1984
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. 1st ed. Atlanta, GA: Tinwood Books in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the NY Public Library, 2000
Who's Who in the South & Southwest. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who Inc., 1965-1986
Southeast
Reflections of a Southern Heritage: 20th Century Black Artists of the Southeast. Charleston, SC: Gibbes Art Gallery, 1979
Southwest
Bullis, Douglas. 100 Artists of the Southwest. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2006
Who's Who in the South & Southwest. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who Inc., 1965-1986
West
Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West, a biographical dictionary, artists born before 1900. Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1985
Kovnick, Phil, and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998
Mautz, Carol. Biographies of Western Photographers: A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the 19th Century American West. Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997
Palmquist, Peter E., and Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000
Palmquist, Peter E., and Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005
Samuels, Peggy and Harold. Contemporary Western Artists. Houston, TX: Southwest Art Pub., 1982
Samuels, Peggy and Harold. The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1976
Who's Who in the West. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who Inc., 1962-1987
US State Listings
Alabama
Adams, E. Bryding, ed. Made in Alabama: A State Legacy. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1995
Alabama Art. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 2000
Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870. Mobile, AL: National Society of Colonial Dames, Historical Activities Committee, 1969
Clarke, Georgine. Alabama Masters: Artists and their Work. Montgomery, AL: Alabama State Council on the Arts, 2008
Kemp, Kathy. Revelations: Alabama’s Visionary Folk Artists. Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers, 1994
Alaska
Contemporary Art From Alaska. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Inst. Press, l978
Decker, Julie. Icebreakers: Alaska’s Most Innovative Artists. Anchorage, AK: Decker Art Services, 1999
Woodward, Kesler E. Painting in the North: Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Anchorage, AK: Anchorage Museum of History & Art, 1993
Arizona
Ballinger, James K., and Andrea Rubinstein. Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980. Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, l980
Medina, Danny. Arizona Galleries & Their Artists. Phoenix, AZ: Dandick Co., 1981
Rowe, Jeremy S. Photographers in Arizona. Nevada City, CA: C. Mautz, 1997
Arkansas
Bennett, Swannee, and William B. Worthen. Arkansas Made: A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas, 1819-1870. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1990-
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. First Biennial Exhibition. Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Arts Center & University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1971
California
Architectural Records in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland Pub., 1988
Bray, Hazel V. The Potter's Art in California 1885-1955. Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, c.1980
California Art Review. Chicago: American References, c.1989
The Dilexi Years: 1958-1970. Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1984
Fifty California Artists. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1963
Hailey, Gene, ed. California Art Research. La Jolla, CA: L. McGilvery 1987
Hopkins, Henry. Fifty West Coast Artists. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, l980
Hughes, Edan Milton. Artists in California 1786-1940. 3rd ed. Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2002
Italian-American Artists in California, 1850 to 1925. San Francisco: Museo Italo Americano, 1980
McClelland, Gordon. The California Style: California Watercolor Artists 1925-1955. Beverly Hills, CA: Hillcrest Press, 1985
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall. Artists' Clubs & Exhibitions in Los Angeles before 1930. Los Angeles: n.p., 1974
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall, and Lyn Wall Smith. Dictionary of Art & Artists in Southern California before 1930. Glendale, CA: Dustin Publications, 1975
One Hundred Years of California Sculpture. Oakland, CA: The Oakland Museum, c.1982
Palmquist, Peter E. Shadowcatchers: A Directory of Women in California Photography before 1901. Arcata, CA: P. E. Palmquist, 1990
Phillips, Glenn, ed. California Video: Artists and Histories. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2008
Van Nostrand, Jeanne Skinner. The First Hundred Years of Painting in California, 1775- 1875: With Biographical Information and References Relating to the Artists. San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1980
Westphal, Ruth Lilly. Plein Air Painters of California: The North. Irvine, CA: Westphal Publishing, 1986
Westphal, Ruth Lilly. Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland. Irvine, CA: Westphal Publishing, 1982
Colorado
Good, Steven L. Colorado Artists 1876-1945. Rosenstock Arts, 1978
Daley, Ann Scarlett and Michael Paglia. Landscapes of Colorado: Mountains and Plains. Albuquerque, NM: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2006
Paglia, Michael and Mary Voelz Chandler. Colorado Abstract: Paintings and Sculpture. Albuquerque, NM: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2009
Schlosser, Elizabeth. Modern Art in Denver (1919-1960): Eleven Denver Artists. Denver: Ocean View Books, 1993
Significant Colorado Women Artists. Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1988
Connecticut
French, Harry W. Art and Artists in Connecticut. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1898
Fuller, Sue Elizabeth. “Checklist of Connecticut Photographers by Town: 1839-1889.” Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 47, no. 4 (winter 1982), 117-124
Mattatuck Historical Society. The Connecticut Artists Collection. Waterbury, CT: Mattatuck Historical Society, 1968
Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. Early Connecticut Artists & Craftsmen. New York: Private Printing, 1925
Tarrant, Dorothy and John. A Community of Artists, a chronicle of the painters, illustrators, sculptors & cartoonists of Westport & Weston, 1900-1985. Westport, CT: Westport-Weston Arts Council, 1985
Three Centuries of Connecticut Art. New Britain, CT: The New Britain Museum of American Art, 1981
Warren, William Lamson. Connecticut Art and Architecture: Looking Backwards Two Hundred Years. Hartford, CT: American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1976
Delaware
Artists in Wilmington, 1890-1940. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1980
Directory of Delaware Visual Artists. Wilmington, DE: Delaware State Arts Council, 1900-
Gilmore, Jann Haynes. Almost Forgotten: Delaware Women Artists and Arts Patrons 1900-1950. Dover, DE: The Biggs Museum of American Art, 2002
District of Columbia
Artists Equity Association, DC Chapter. Washington Artists Today: A Directory. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1967
Baty, Laurie Anne. “Photographers of Washington, DC 1870-1885.” (master’s thesis, George Washington University, 1979)
Campello, F. Lennox. 100 Artists of Washington, D.C. Atglen, PA: Shiffer Publishing, 2011
Cohen, Andrea O., ed. Washington Artists: A Directory. Washington, DC: Artists Equity Association, 1972
McMahan, Virgil E. The Artists of Washington, D.C. 1796-1996. Washington, D.C.: Artists of Washington, 1995
McMahan, Virgil E. Washington DC Artists Born before 1900: A Biographical Directory. Washington, DC: Virgil E. McMahan Pub., 1976
Florida
Arbitman, Kahren Jones and Susan M. Gallo. Picturing Florida: From the First Coast to the Space Coast. Albuquerque, NM: Fresco Fine Art Publications, 2008
Fifty Florida Painters. Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1955
Florida Directory of Photographic Artists. Holly Hill, FL: Southeast Print & Pub. Co., 1980
Mann, Maybelle. Art in Florida: 1564-1945. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 1999
Monroe, Gary. Extraordinary Interpretations: Florida’s Self-Taught Artists. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003
Georgia
Artists in Georgia. Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1974
Koch, Mary Levin. A History of the Arts in Augusta, Macon and Columbus Georgia, 1900-1860. (master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 1983) Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1985
Vigtel, Gudmund. 100 Years of Painting in Georgia. Atlanta, GA: Alston & Bird, 1992
Hawaii
Clarke, Joan, and Dana Edmunds. Artists/ Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996
Contemporary Photographers of Hawaii. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1985
Haar, Francis, and Prithwish Neogy. Artists of Hawaii. Honolulu: State Foundation Culture and the Arts and University Press of Hawaii, 1974
Morse, Marcia. Legacy: Facets of Island Modernism. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001
Idaho
Hart, Arthur A. Camera Eye on Idaho: Pioneer Photography, 1863-1913. Caldwell, ID: Idaho Centennial Foundation, 1990
Harthorn, Sandy, and Kathleen Bettis. One Hundred Years of Idaho Art, 1850-1950. Boise, ID: Boise Art Museum, 1990
Nosanow, Barbara. Sawtooths & Other Ranges of Imagination: Contemporary Art from Idaho. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983
Illinois
Chicago Art Review. Chicago: American References, c.1979
Czach, Marie, comp. A Directory of Early Illinois Photographers : preliminary investigations into photography as practiced in Illinois, excluding Chicago, from circa 1846 to 1914. Macomb, IL: Western Illinois University, 1977
Illinois Arts Council. Naive Art in Illinois 1830-1976. Chicago: Illinois Arts Council, 1976
Illinois Arts Council. Painters and Sculptors in Illinois, 1820-1945. Chicago: Illinois Arts Council, 1971
Sparks, Esther. “A Biographical Dictionary of Painters & Sculptors in Illinois: 1808-1945.” (PhD diss. Northwestern University, 1971)
Indiana
Art Guide to Indiana. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 193l
Burnet, Mary Q. Art & Artists of Indiana. New York: Century Co., 1921 (rpr. Evansville, IN: Whipporwill Pub., 1985)
Lauter, Flora. Indiana Artists (active) 1940. Spencer, IN: Samuel R. Guard & Co., 1941
Mirages of Memory: Two Hundred Years of Indiana Art. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1977
Newton, Judith Vale, and Carol Weiss. A Grand Tradition: The Arts and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990. Indianapolis, IN: Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, 1993
Newton, Judith Vale, and Carol Weiss. Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana’s Historical Women Artists. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2004
Peat, Wilbur David. Pioneer Painters of Indiana. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1954
Iowa
Born in Iowa: The Homecoming Exhibition. Des Moines, IA: Iowa Arts Council, 1986
Ness, Zenobia, and Louise Orwig. Iowa Artists of the First 100 Years. Des Moines, IO: Wallace-Homestead Co., 1939
Kansas
Craig, Susan V. Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945. Lawrence, KS: Susan V. Craig, 2006
Lambert, Don, and Andrea Glenn. The Kansas Landscape. Topeka, KS: Kansas Department of Economic Development, 1985
Rowley, Patric. Artists: A Kansas Collection. Wichita, KS: Artists Registry, 1989
Kentucky
The Experienced Eye. Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, 1988
Jones, Arthur F., and Bruce Weber. The Kentucky Painter: From the Frontier Era to the Great War. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1981
Kentucky Expatriates: Natives and Notable Visitors: The Early 1800’s to the Present. Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, 1984
Kentucky Spirit: The Naïve Tradition. Owensboro, KY: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, 1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis. Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression. Paris, KY: Cane Ridge Publishing House, 2008
Pennington, Estill Curtis. Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011
Louisiana
19th Century Louisiana painters and paintings from the collection of W. E. Groves. New Orleans: W. E. Groves Gallery, 1971
Index to the New Orleans Artists Directory and Lives of New Orleans Artists. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1978
Louisiana State University. The Louisiana Landscape: 1800-1969. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1969
Mahe, II, John A., and Rosanne McCaffrey, eds. Encyclopedia of New Orleans Artists: 1718-1918. New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection, 1987
Smith, Margaret Denton. Photography in New Orleans: The Early Years: 1840-1865. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982
Maine
Beem, Edgar Allen. Maine Art Now. Gardiner, ME: Dog Ear Press, 1990
Maine and its Artists, 1710-1963: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of Colby College, 1813-1963. Waterville, ME: Colby College Art Museum, 1963
Maine Artists 1850-1899. Augusta, ME: Maine State Museum, 1976
On the Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting, 1952-1992: Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition. Rockport, ME: Maine Coast Artists, 1992
Woman Pioneers in Maine Art, 1900-1945. Portland, ME: Westbrook College, 1985
Maryland
Blumenthal, Arthur, ed., 350 Fifty Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland. College Park, MD: Art Gallery and Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, 1984
Kelbaugh, Ross J. Directory of Maryland Photographers: 1839-1900. & Supplemental Directory of Baltimore Daguerreotypists. Baltimore, MD: Historic Graphics, 1988 & 1989
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1945
Weidman, Gregory R., and Jennifer F. Goldsborough. Classical Maryland, 1815-1845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, the Museum and Library of Maryland History, 1993
Massachusetts
Blasdale, Mary Jean. Artists of New Bedford: A Biographical Dictionary. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1990
Cape Cod as an Art Colony. Sandwich, MA: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1977
Crotty, Frank. Provincetown Profiles & Others on Cape Cod. Barre, MA: Barre Gazette, 1958
Davies, Kristian. Artists of Cape Ann: A 150 Year Tradition. Rockport, MA: Twin Light Publishers, 2001
Fairbrother, Trevor J. The Bostonians: Painters of An Elegant Age, 1870-1930. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986
Hail, Christopher. Boston Architects and Builders: Compiled from the Boston Direcory, 1789-1846. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1989
Hirshler, Erica E. A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston, 1870-1940. Boston: MFA Publications, 2001
Massachusetts Masters: Afro-American Artists. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1988
Polito, Ronald, ed. A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers, 1839-1900. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993
Michigan
Artists in Michigan 1900-1976. Detroit: Wayne State University Press and Great Lake Books, 1989
Biographies of Detroit and Michigan Artists of the Past. Detroit: Detroit Public Schools, 1965
Dewhurst, C. Kurt, and Marsha MacDowell. Rainbows in the Sky: The Folk Art of Michigan in the Twentieth Century: Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 29-December 17, 1978. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1978
Fosburg, Marilyn. Directory of Michigan Artists. editions 1997, II and III. Lake, MI: M. Fosburg, 1997-2001
Gibson, Arthur Hopkin, comp. Artists of Early Michigan: a biographical dictionary of artists native to or active in Michigan, 1701-1900. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975
MacDowell, Marsha, and C. Kurt Dewhurst. Michigan Folk Art, Its Beginnings to 1941: Kresge Art Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, August 29-October 10, 1976: Exhibition. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1976
Omoto, Sadayoshi. Early Michigan Paintings. East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Center, c.1976
Sweeney, J. Gray, Artists of Grand Rapids: l840-l890. Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Rapids Art Museum, l98l
Minnesota
Coen, Rena Neuman. Minnesota Impressionists. Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 1996
Coen, Rena Neuman. Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota, 1820-1914. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1976
Crump, Robert L. Minnesota Print and Printmakers, 1900-1945. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009.
Nelson, Marion J. Painting by Minnesotans of Norwegian-American Background, 1870- 1970. Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 2000
Sixteen Younger Minnesota Artists. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1960
Mississippi
Black, Patti Carr. Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998
Poirer, William H. Mississippi Artists. Hattiesburg, MS: Bureau of Educational Research, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977
Made by Hand—Mississippi Folk Art: An Exhibition at the Mississippi State Historical Museum, Old Capitol Restoration, January 22-May 25, 1980 Jackson, MS: Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, 1980
Missouri
Kerr, Scott, and R. H. Dick. An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940. St. Louis, MO: McCaughen & Burr Press, 2004
Women’s Architectural League of St. Louis. Directory of Artists and Craftsmen. St. Louis, MO: Art in Architecture, 1962
Montana
McCinnell, Gordon. Yellowstone Art Museum: The Montana Collection. Billings, MT: Yellowstone Art Museum, 1998
Nebraska
Bucklin, Clarissa, ed. Nebraska Art and Artists. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, c.1932
Geske, Norman A. Art and Artists in Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Univ. of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 1983
Hagge, Dora, ed. Impact: The Art of Nebraska Women. Columbus, NE: Impact, Inc., 1988
Nebraska Art Today. Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum, 1967
Norwood, Tom. Contemporary Nebraska Art & Artists. Omaha, NE: Uno Duplicating Services, 1978
Nevada
Fox, Cheryl A., ed. Special Issue, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. vol. 33, no. 2 (Summer 1990) [History of artists in Nevada]
Hepp-Elam, Mary Beth, ed. Mining the Treasures: Contemporary Comstock Artists. Virginia City, NV: Historic Fourth Ward School Foundation, 2000
New Hampshire
Campbell, Catherine H., and Marcia S. Blaine. New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes. Canaan, NH: Phoenix Pub., 1985
A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin. Durham, NH: University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, 1985
Sculpture/ New Hampshire: [exhibition] Autumn 1981. Concord, NH: New Hampshire Visual Arts Coalition, 1981
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Mountains, 1830-1930. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1988
New Jersey
Ceccbetti, Giovanna. Eclectic Selections: Art in Paterson at the End of the Twentieth Century. Paterson, NJ: Paterson Museum, 1999
Early New Jersey Artists, 18th and 19th Centuries. Newark, NJ: Newark Museum Association, 1957
Gerdts, William. Painting & Sculpture in New Jersey. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand Co., l964
Miller, Pauline S., and Marilyn R. Kralik. A Century of Art, 1850-1950: Ocean County Artists and Their Works before 1950. Toms River, NJ: Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission, 1992.
The Montclair Art Colony: Past and Present. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1997 Three Centuries of Art in New Jersey. Red Bank, NJ: Monmouth Museum, [1969]
Torchia, Robert Wilson. New Jersey Remembered: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary. Philadelphia, PA: Schwarz Gallery, 2005
New Mexico
Eldredge, Charles, Julie Schimmel, and William Truettner. Art in New Mexico: Paths to Taos & Santa Fe. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987
Nelson, Mary Carroll. The Legendary Artists of Taos. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1980
Rudisill, Richard. Photographers of the New Mexico Territory, 1845-1912. Sante Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico, 1973
School of American Research. Representative Art & Artists of New Mexico. Bronx, NY: Olana Gallery, 1976
SoQ: Contemporary Art in Southern New Mexico. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of Fine Arts, 2004
Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen. Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942. Santa Fe, NM: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1987
Witt, David L. Taos Moderns: Art of the New. Santa Fe, NM: Red Crane Books, 1992
New York
Artists and East Hampton: A 100 Year Perspective: A Bicentennial Exhibition. East Hampton, NY: The Guild Hall of East Hampton, 1976
Barney, William. The Art & Artists of Buffalo. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, 1979
Burdick, Virginia Mason. Portraits and Painters of the Early Champlain Valley. Plattsburgh, NY: State University College, 1975
Groft, Tammis Kane. The Folk Spirit of Albany: Folk Art from the Upper Hudson Valley in the Collection of the Albany Institute of History and Art. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1978
Huttner, Sidney F., and Elizabeth Stege Huttner, comp. A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1821-42. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1993
Long Island Painters and Portraits. Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1981
Longwell, Alicia Grant. North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now. Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 2004
McKay, George Leslie, comp. A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1633-1820. New York: New York Public Library, 1942
New Response: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History & Art, 1985
Ward, James. Architects in Practice, New York City, 1900-1940. Union, NJ: J & D Associates, 1989
Woodstock, An American Art Colony, 1902-1977. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1977
North Carolina
Craig, James H. The Arts and Crafts in North Carolina, 1699-1840. Winston-Salem, NC: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem, Inc., 1965
Hewlett, Crockette W. Two Centuries of Art in New Hanover County (NC). Durham, NC: Moore Pub., 1976
Manley, Roger. Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1999
Massengill, Stephen E., comp. Photographers in North Carolina: The First Century, 1842- 1941. Raleigh, NC: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2004
McCue, Michael J. Tryon Artists, 1892-1942. Columbus, NC: Condar, 2001
Two Hundred Years of the Visual Arts in North Carolina. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1974
North Dakota
Barr, Paul Everett. North Dakota Artists. Grand Forks, ND: University of North Dakota Library, 1954
Kolbe, Robert, and Brian Bade. They Captured the Moment: Dakotas Photographers 1853-1920. Sioux Falls, SD: Pine Hill Press, 2006
Martin, Christopher. Prairie Patterns: Folk Arts in North Dakota. Fargo, ND: North Dakota Council on the Arts, 1989
Ohio
Clark, Edna Marie. Ohio Art & Artists. Richmond, Garrett & Massie, 1932; (rpr., Detroit: Gale Research, 1975)
Hagel, Diane VanSkiver. Ohio Photographers: 1839-1900. Nevada City, CA: Carl Mautz Pub., 1998
Hageman, Jane Sikes. Ohio Pioneer Artists: A Pictorial Review. Cincinnati, OH: Ohio Furniture Makers, 1993
Haverstock, Mary Sayer, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, and Brian L. Meggitt, eds. Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000
Yet Still We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland, 1920-1970. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1996
Oklahoma
Directory of Oklahoma Artists. Oklahoma City, OK: Melton Art Reference Library, 2007
England, Bess. Artists in Oklahoma: A Handbook. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, n.d.
Oregon
Allen, Ginny, and Jody Klevit. Oregon Painters: The First Hundred Years (1859-1959): Index and Biographocal Dictionary. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1999
Johanson, George. Equivalents: portraits of 80 Oregon Artists. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2001
Robinson, Thomas. Oregon Photographers: Biographical History and Directory, 1852- 1917. 2nd ed. Portland, OR: T. Robinson, 1993
Pennsylvania
Alterman, James M. New Hope for American Art: A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Painting from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony. Lambertville, NJ: Jims of Lambertville, 2005
Brey, William, and Marie Brey. Philadelphia Photographers, 1840-1900: A Directory with Biographical Sketches. Cherry Hill, NJ: Willowdale Press, 1992
Chew, Paul, ed. 250 Years of Art in Pennsylvania. Greensburg, PA: Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 1959
Chew, Paul A., ed. Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters, 1800-1945. Greensburg, PA: Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 1981
Contemporary Philadelphia Artists. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990
Malmberg, Valerie L. Artists of Berks County: An Overview, 1850-1920. Boyertown, PA: Greshville Antiques, 1989
New Hope Modernists, 1917-1950. New Hope, PA: New Hope Modernist Project, Inc., 1991
Peterson, Brian H. Pennsylvania Impressionism. Doylestown, PA: James A. Michener Art Museum, 2002
Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976
Ries, Linda A. Directory of Pennsylvania Photographers: 1839-1900. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999
Tatman, Sandra L., and Roger W. Moss. Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects: 1700-1930. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Rhode Island
Arnold, John Nelson. Art & Artists in Rhode Island. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1980
Nacheman, Elinor L. Unveiled: A Directory and Guide to 19th Century Born Artists Active in Rhode Island and Where to Find their Work in Publicly Accessible Rhode Island Collections. Pawtucket, RI: E. L. Nacheman, 2007
Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Artists Identified with Newport. Newport, RI: Art Association of Newport, 1936
South Carolina
Biolodeau, Francis W., and Mrs. Thomas J. Tobias. Art in South Carolina 1670-1970. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Tricentennial Committee, 1970
Morris, Jack A. Contemporary Artists of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: Greenville Museum of Art, 1970
South Carolina Art: Selections from the South Carolina State Museum Collection. Columbia, SC: South Carolina State Museum Collection, 1991
Teal Harvey S. Partners with the Sun: South Carolina Photographers 1840-1940. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001
South Dakota
Art for a New Century. Sioux Falls, SD: Civic Fine Arts Center, 1989
Kolbe, Robert, and Brian Bade. They Captured the Moment: Dakotas Photographers 1853-1920. Sioux Falls, SD: Pine Hill Press, 2006
Stuart, Joseph. The Art of South Dakota. Brookings, SD: South Dakota State University, 1974
Stuart, Joseph, ed. Index of South Dakota Artists. Brookings, SD: South Dakota State University, l974
Tennessee
Art of Tennessee. Nashville, TN: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 2003
Caldwell, Benjamin Hubbard Jr. Tennessee Silversmiths. Winston-Salem, NC: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, c.1988
Kelly, James C. Landscape Painting in Tennessee, 1810-1985. Nashville, TN: Tennessee Historical Society, 1985
Kelly, James C. Portrait Painting in Tennessee. Nashville, TN: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987
Visions of My People: African-American Art in Tennessee. Nashville, TN: Tennessee State Museum, 1997
Texas
Adele, Lynne. Spirited Journeys: Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century. Austin, TX: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Fisk, Frances Battaile. A History of Texas Artists & Sculptors. Abilene, TX: The Author, 1928
Grauer, Paula L., and Michael R. Grauer, comps. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University, 1999
Haynes, David. Catching Shadows: A Directory of Nineteenth-Century Texas Photographers. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 1993
Hendricks, Patricia D., and Becky Duval Reese. A Century of Sculpture in Texas: 1889- 1989. Austin, TX: University of Texas, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1989
Made in Texas. Austin, TX: University of Texas, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1979
O'Brien, Esse Forrester. Art & Artists in Texas. Dallas: Tardy Publishing Co., 1935
Pearce-Moses, Richard, comp. Photographic Collections in Texas: A Union Guide. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, c.1987
Pickney, Pauline A. Painting in Texas: The Nineteenth Century. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1967
Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 1996
Powers, John E. and Deborah. Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists: A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942. Austin, TX: Woodmont Books, 2000
Utterback, Martha, comp. Early Texas Art in the Witte Museum. San Antonio, TX: Witte Memorial Museum, 1968
Utah
Heaton, Rampton, & Sanders, eds. Pioneers of Utah Art. Logan, UT: Educational Printing Service, 1968
Olpin, Robert A. Artists of Utah. 1st ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs-Smith, 1999
Olpin, Robert S. Dictionary of Utah Art. Salt Lake City, UT: Salt Lake Art Center, 1980
Swanson, Vern G., Robert S. Olpin, Donna L. Poulton, and Janie L. Rogers. Utah Art, Utah Artists: 150 Year Survey. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2001
Women Artists of Utah. Springville, Utah: Springville Museum of Art, 1984
Vermont
Beck, Jane C. Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont. Montpelier, VT: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982
Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Portraits by the Vermont Artists: Horace Bundy, Zedakiah Belknap, Asahel Powers, Aaron Dean Fletcher, and by John Brewster, Abraham Tuthill, John L. Harding, William M. Prior, and Several Unknown Artists. Springfield, VT: Miller Art Center, 1958
Lipke, William C., and Philip N. Grime, eds. Vermont Landscape Interpretation: 1776- 1976. Burlington, VT: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 1976
Virginia
Ginsberg, Louis. Photographers in Virginia 1839-1900: a checklist. Petersburg, VA: Louis Ginsberg, 1986
Miller, Mark Randolph. A Catalog of Virginia Artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lexington, VA: Washington & Lee University, 1973
Wells, John E. The Virginia Architects, 1835-1955: A Biographical Dictionary. Richmond, VA: New South Architectural Press, 1997
Wright, R. Lewis. Virginia Artists Before 1900. Charlottesville, VA: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1983
Washington
Albi, G. G., and G. B. Peck. The Artists of Puget Sound. Seattle, WA: Metropolitan Press & Western, 1962
Conkelton, Sheryl. What it meant to be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, 2000
Oschsner, Jeffrey Karl, ed. Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1994
Robbins, Tom. Skagit Valley Artists. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1974
Trip, Dode, and Sherburne F. Cook. Washington State Art and Artists, 1850-1950. Olympia, WA: Sherburne Antiques and Fine Art, Inc., 1992
Washington Year: A Contemporary View 1980-81. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, 1982
Younger Washington Artists. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, 1963
West Virginia
Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia: an Introduction and Biographical Directory. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2000
Wisconsin
100 Years of Wisconsin Art. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988
Barton, John Rector. Rural Artists of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1948
Carter, Curtis L., and Johann J. K. Reusch. Wisconsin Artists: A Celebration of Jewish Presence. Milwaukee, WI: Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 1994
From Hardanger to Harleys: A Survey of Wisconsin Folk Art. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1987
Merrill, Peter C., comp. German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee: A Biographical Dictionary. Madison, WI: Friends of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 1997
Starks, Elliot Roland. “A Survey of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin: 1936-1946.” (master’s thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1946)
Wisconsin Directions Two: Here & Now. Milwaukee, WI: New Milwaukee Art Center, 1978
Wisconsin Directions Three: The Third Dimension. Milwaukee, WI: New Milwaukee Art Center, 1981
Wyoming
One Hundred Years of Artist Activity in Wyoming: 1837-1937. Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming Art Museum, 1978