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Source Material used for art history, famous artists, and famous paintings on this site are as follows:

1) "History of Art", First Edition Revised, Fifth Edition Revised, H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1997

2)"History of Italian Renaissance Art", Frederick Hartt, published by Prentice-Hall Inc., Harry N. Abrams Inc. 1975


3)"Mainstreams of Modern Art", John Canaday, published by Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, New York, 1959

4) Gardener's,"Art Through the Ages", Ninth Edition, volume II, published by Harcourt Brace, 1991

5)"The World of Rubens", by C.V. Wedgewood and the Editors of Time-Life Books, published be Time-Life books, 1967


6) "The Story of Art", by E. H. Gombrich, published by Phaidon Publishers Inc. 1967

7) History of American Painting Volume Three, "That Wilder Image", The Native School From Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer by James Thomas Flexner, Dover Publications, INC. New York, 1970

8) Theories of Modern Art, A Source Book by Artists and Critics by Herschel B. Chipp, with contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Taylor, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1968

9) Gustav Klimt by Dr. Ilona Sarmany-Parsons, Crown Publishers, Inc.-New York, Printed in Italy- Industrie Grafiche Cattaneo S.P.A.Bergamo, 1987 Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland

10) Pissarro by Raymond Cogniat, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, New York, Printed in Italy, Bonfini Press, 1977


11) Raoul Dufy by Raymond Cogniat, Uffici Press, printed in Italy no date given, no publisher given


12) Paul Klee, Edited by Carolyn Lanchner, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Published with the assistance of the J. Paul Getty Trust, 1987


13) Munch, by Jean Selz, Crown Publishers, Inc.-New York, translated from the French by Eileen B. Hennessy, Printed in Italy,1976 by Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland


14) American Painting of the Nineteenth Century, Barbara Novak, Praeger Publishers, New yourk•Washington•London, Third printing, 1974


15) American Art 1700-1960. John W. McCoubrey, Edited by H. W. Janson, Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965


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