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REGIONAL ARTIST BIBLIOGRAPHY
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-
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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
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Van Nostrand, Jeanne Skinner. The First Hundred Years of Painting in California, 17751875: 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
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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,
1900Gilmore, 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
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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)
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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 [electronic resource:
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/1028/1/BDKAversion1.pdf]
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
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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
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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
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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, 18701970. 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
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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
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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
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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, 18421941. Raleigh, NC: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources, 2004
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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
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Robinson, Thomas. Oregon Photographers: Biographical History and Directory, 18521917. 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
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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
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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: 18891989. 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
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