A list of books that describe architects, craft and design artists, folk artists, foundries, graphic artists, illustrators, photographers, sculptors, and artists who specializes in miniatures or silhouettes. 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.
Architects & Architectural firms
Crafts/Decorative Arts/Design
Folk Arts
Foundries
Graphic Arts/Print publishers
Illustration
Miniatures
Photography
Sculpture Silhouettes/Hollowcuts
Architects & Architectural firms
Architectural Records in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to Research. New York: Garland Pub., 1988
Includes index to San Francisco architects in practice 1850-1910.
Hail, Christopher, comp. Boston Architects and Builders: Compiled from the Boston Directory, 1789-1846. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1989
Colvin, Howard Montagu. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. London: J. Murray, 1978
Directory of Boston Architects, 1846-1970: compiled from Boston City Directories and Related Works, Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records. 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge, MA: COPAR, 1985
Doumato, Lamia. Architecture & Women: A Bibliography, Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States. New York: Garland Pub., 1988
Encyclopedia of Modern Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1964
Francis, Dennis Steadman. Architects in Practice: New York City, 1840-1900. Union, NJ: Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1970
Gane, John F. American Architects Directory. 3rd ed. New York: R. R. Bowker & Company, 1970
Hunt, William Dudley. Encyclopedia of American Architecture. New York: McGraw Hill, c.1980
Morgan, Ann Lee, and Colin Naylor, eds. Contemporary Architects. Chicago: St. James Press, 1987
Placzek, Adolf K. MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects. New York: MacMillan Publ., 1982
Richards, J. M., ed. Who's Who in Architecture: from 1400 to the present. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, c.1977
Tatman, Sandra L., and Roger W. Moss. Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects: 1700-1930. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Ward, James. Architects in Practice: New York City, 1900-1940. Union, NJ: Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1989
Withey, Henry F., and Elsie Rathburn Withey. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1956
Crafts/Decorative Arts/Design
Bray, Hazel V. The Potter's Art in California: 1885-1955. Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, c.1980
Caldwell, Benjamin Hubbard, Jr. Tennessee Silversmiths. Winston-Salem, NC: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, c.1988
Campbell, James Edward. Pottery & Ceramics: A Guide to Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978
Clark, Garth. A Century of Ceramics in the United States: 1878-1978. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979
Clement, Arthur Wilfred. Notes on American Ceramics 1607-1943. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Arts & Sciences, 1944
Comstock, Helen. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965
Decorative Arts & Household Furnishings in America: 1650-1920: An annotated bibliography. Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1989
Designer's International Index. London and New York: Bowker-Saur, 1991
Dormer, Peter. The New Ceramics: Trends & Traditions. New York: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 1980.
Doumato, Lamia. Architecture & Women: A Bibliography, Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States. New York: Garland Pub., 1988
Fleming, John, and Hugh Honour. Dictionary of the Decorative Arts. New York: Harper & Row, 1977
Garner, Philippe. The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: 1890-1940. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1979
The Guild: A Sourcebook of American Craft Artists. New York: Kraus Sikes Inc., 1968
Harrington, LaMar. Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press, c.1979
Haslam, Malcolm. Marks and Monograms of the Modern Movement, 1875-1930. New York: Scribner, 1977
Hatton, Beth, ed. Index to Craft Journals, 1984-1988. Sydney, Australia: Crafts Council of Australia, 1990
Jervis, Simon. The Facts on File Dictionary of Design & Designers. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1984
Jervis, Simon. The Penguin Dictionary of Design & Designers. New York: Penguin Books, 1984
Lehner, Lois. Lehner's Encyclopedia of U.S. Marks on Pottery, Porcelain and Clay. Paducah, KY: Collectors Books, 1988
Margetts, Martina, ed. International Crafts. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991
Minter-Dowd, Christine. Finder's Guide to Decorative Arts in the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984
Naylor, Colin, ed. Contemporary Designers. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990
Newman, Harold. An Illustrated Dictionary of Glass. London: Thames & Hudson, c.1977
Osborne, Harold, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985
Philip, Julia W., ed. Who's Who in Commercial Art & Photography. New York: Director's Art Institute, 1964
Phillips, Phoebe, ed. The Collector's Encyclopedia of Antiques. New York: Crown Pub., 1973
Prather-Moses, Alice Irma, comp. The International Directory of Women Workers in the Decorative Arts: A Historical Survey from the Distant Past to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981
Rainwater, Dorothy T. Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers. New York: Crown Pub., 1975
Weidner, Ruth Irwin, comp. American Ceramics Before 1930: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982
Who's Who in Commercial Art and Photography. New York: Director's Art Institute, 1960-
Folk Art
Earnest, Corinne P., and Russell D. Earnest. Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners. Albuquerque, NM: Russell D. Earnest Assoc., 1989
Folk Artists Biographical Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., c.1987
From Hardanger to Harleys: A Survey of Wisconsin Folk Art. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, c.1987
Rosenak, Chuck. Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Folk Art & Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, c.1990
Sellen, Betty-Carol, with Cynthia J. Johanson. Self Taught, Outsider and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations & Resources. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000
Foundries
Berman, Harold. Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders: 1800-1930. Chicago: Abage Publications, c.1981
Edge, Michael S. Directory of Art Bronze Foundries. Springfield, OR: Artesia Press, 1990
Forrest, Michael. Art Bronzes. West Chester, NY: Schiffer Publ., 1988
Kashey, Robert, and Martin L. H. Reymert. Western European Bronzes of the 19th Century; A Survey. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1973
Kjellberg, Pierre. Les bronzes du XIXe siecle: dictionnaire des sculpteurs. Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1987
Shapiro, Michael Edward. The Development of American Bronze Foundries: 1850-1900. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Shapiro, Michael Edward. Bronze Casting & American Sculpture: 1852-1900. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1985
Graphic Arts
American Engravers upon copper and steel. New York: Burt Franklin, 1964
Baker, William Spohn. American Engravers & their Works. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1875
Beall, Karen. American Prints in the Library of Congress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970
Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du xixe siecle: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. Paris: L. Conquet, 1885-1892
Boston Athenaeum. Catalog of the Boston Athenaeum Print & Photograph Collection. Boston: G. K. Hall, c.1989
Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. London: G. Bell, 1903-1905
Davis, Geraldine, and Ingrid Jenkner. Printshops of Canada: Printmaking South of Sixty. Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1987
Eichenberg, Fritz. The Art of the Print: Masterpieces, History, Techniques. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1976
Engen, Rodney K. Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers. Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd., 1985
Engen, Rodney K. Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers, and Their Works. Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd., 1979
Francey, Mary. Depression Printmakers as Workers: Re-defining Traditional Interpretations. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 1988
Garten, Robin, ed. British Printmakers 1855-1955. Aldershot, England: Scholar Press, l993
Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and engravers in Canada. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, c.1970
Heath, John. The Heath Family Engravers: 1779-1878. Aldershot, England: Scholar Press, 1993
Horn, Maurice, ed. Contemporary Graphic Artists vol. I. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986
Hunnisett, Basil. An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers. Aldershot, England: Scholar Press, Gower Publ., 1989
Kraeft, June. Great American Prints, 1900-1950. New York: Dover Pub., 1984
Parry, Pamela Jeffcott. Print Index: A Guide to Reproductions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983
Peters, Harry T. America on Stone. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931
Riggs, Timothy A. The Print Council index to oeuvre-catalogues of prints by European and American artists. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, c.1983
The Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios. New Brunswick, NJ: State University of New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 1983
Smith, Selma, ed. The Printworld Directory. Bala Cynwyd, PA: Printworld, Inc., 1983
Tyler, Kenneth. Tyler Graphics: Catalogue Raisonne, 1974-1985. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center and Abbeville Press, NY, 1987
Weitenkampf, Frank. American Graphic Art. New York: Johnson, 1970
Who's Who in Graphic Art. Zurich: Amstutz & Herdeg Graphis Press, 1962-
Windsor, Alan, ed., Handbook of Modern British Painting & Printmaking, 1900-1990. 2nd edition. Aldershot, Hants, England and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998
Illustration
Castagno, John. Artists as Illustrators: An International Directory with Signatures and Monograms 1800 to the Present. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989
Early American Book Illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968
Hammelmann, Hanns A. Book Illustrators in eighteenth-century England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1975
McElmell, Sharron L. 100 Most Popular Picture Book Authors and Illustrators: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000
Miller, Bertha E., ed. Caldecott medal books, 1938-1957. Boston: Horn Book, Inc. 1957
Reed, Walter. The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000. 3rd ed. New York: The Society of Illustrators, dist. by Watson-Guptill, 2001
Rollock, Barbara. Black Authors & Illustrators of Children's Books: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1988
Skipwith, Peyton. The Great Bird Illustrators and their art, 1730-1930. New York: A. & W. Pub., c.1979
Miniatures
Blattel, Henry. International Dictionary Miniature Painters, Porcelain Painters, Silhouettists. Munich: Art & Antiques, c.1992
Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature. New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1921
Foskett, Daphne. A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters. New York: Praeger Pub., 1972
Foskett, Daphne. Miniatures: Dictionary & Guide. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987
Photography
Auer, Michele. Encyclopedie internationale des photographes de 1839 a nos jours. Neuchatel, Switzerland: Ides et calendes, c.1997
Baty, Laurie A. “Photographers of Washington, D.C. 1870-1885.” (master’s thesis, George Washington University, 1979)
Boston Athenaeum. Catalog of the Print & Photograph Collection, Boston Athenaeum. Boston: G. K. Hall Micropublications, 1989
Browne, Turner. Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators. New York: Macmillan, c.1983
Coar, Valencia Hollins. A Century of Black Photographers: 1840-1960. Providence, RI: Rhode Island School of Design: Museum of Art, 1983
The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: fifty pioneers of modern photography. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978
Contemporary Afro-American Photography. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1983
Contemporary Photographers. New York: St. James Press, c1995
Contemporary Photographers of Hawaii. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1985
Czach, Marie, comp. A Directory of Early Illinois Photographers: preliminary investigations into photography as practiced in Illinois, excluding Chicago, from circa 1846-1914. Macomb, IL: Western Illinois University, 1977
Edwards, Gary. International Guide to Nineteenth Century Photographers & Their Works. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988
Emerging Texas Photographers. Austin, TX: Laguna Gloria Art Museum, 1980
Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Crown Publ., 1984
Freund, Gisele. Photography & Society. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1980
Fuller, Sue Elizabeth. “Checklist of Connecticut Photographers by Town: 1839-1889.” Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 47, no. 4 (winter 1982), 117-124
History of Photography. London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., n.d.
Johnson, William. Nineteenth-Century Photography: An annotated bibliography 1839- 1879. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990
Kelbaugh, Ross J. Directory of Maryland Photographers: 1839-1900. Baltimore: Historic Graphics, 1988
Kelbaugh, Ross J. Directory of Civil War Photographers. Baltimore: Historic Graphics, c.1990
Krantz, Lee. American Photographers: An Illustrated Who's Who Among Leading Contemporary Americans. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1989
Mathews, Oliver. Early Photographs & Early Photographers. London: Reedminster Pub., 1973
Mautz, Carl. Checklist of Western Photographers: a reference workbook. Brownsville, CA: Folk Image Pub., 1986
Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986
Newhall, Beaumont. The Daguerreotype in America. 3rd ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1976
Newhall, Beaumont. Masters of Photography. New York: Castle Books, c.1958
Panzer, Mary. Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography, 1865-1906. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982
Parry, Pamela Jeffcott. Photography index: A guide to reproductions. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979
A Partial View: Young Photographers in the Northwest. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, Museum of Art, 1979
Philip, Julia W., ed. Who's Who in Commercial Art & Photography. New York: Director's Art Institute, 1964
Photography: The First Eighty Years. London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., c.1976
Pollack, Peter. A Picture History of Photography. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969
Pritchard, Michael. A Directory of London Photographers: 1841-1908. Bushey, England: ALLM Books, 1986
Ries, Linda A., Directory of Pennsylvania Photographers, 1839-1900. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999
Rudisill, Richard. Photographers of the New Mexico Territory, 1854-1912. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico, 1973
Smith, Margaret Denton. “Checklist of Photographers Working in New Orleans,, 1840- 1865.” Louisiana History 20, 4 (fall 1979) and Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982
Union Guide to Photograph Collections in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1978
Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: a History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000
Willis-Thomas, Deborah. Black Photographers, 1840-1940: An Illustrated Biobibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1985
Women of Photography, An Historical Survey. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1975
Young American Photographers. Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 1975
Sculpture
Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'ecole francais. Paris: n. p., 1898-1921 (rpr., Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1970)
Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'ecole francaise sous le regne de Louis XIV. Paris: H. Champion, 1906
Mackay, James Alexander. The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collector's Club, c.1977
New Dictionary of Modern Sculpture. New York: Tudor Pub. Co., 1971
Opitz, Glenn S. Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1984
Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990
Watson-Jones, Virginia. Contemporary American Women Sculptors. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1986
Silhouettes/hollowcuts
An American Heritage: American Silhouettes. Hagerstown, MD: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 1973
A Basic Guide to Identifying and Evaluating American Silhouettes. Waynesboro, PA: Renfrew Museum and Park, 1980
Blattel, Henry. International Dictionary Miniature Painters, Porcelain Painters, Silhouettists. Munich: Art & Antiques, c.1992
Edouart, Augustin Amant Constance Fidele. Catalogue of 3800 named and dated American silhouette portraits. Kensington, England: Wakeham, 1911