Armbruster Donation
Donation in memory of Cynthia Reid Armbruster and her father Howard Joseph Reid. Both were artists and educators.
This is a standalone webpage and not linked to any menu. It is meant to be a worksheet for staff and inform the Armbruster family of our progress.
To-do List;
___ Weed the 700s, ‘The Arts’, to make room for the Armbruster donation.
___ Organize the donation to be the foundation of the 700s.
Create lists and shopping baskets for each vendor.
___ Baker and Taylor
___ Ingram. Account has been set up as of August 16th. ___ Send Cataloging Specifications to Ingram ___ 70 items are in the Ingram list/shopping basket as of August 20th. ___ First order has been submitted to Ingram.
___ Amazon. ___ Order submitted to Amazon
___ Other publishers
___ We already have an uncatalogued 1962 edition of Janson’s “History of Art”. Use the $75 to buy some instruction books for some disciplines not covered;
- jewelry making,
- pottery,
- sculpture,
- paper making,
- photography
___ Check our exiting collection for redundancy before ordering.
___ Catalog new art books. Kaja is cataloging books from Amazon.
___ Re-catalog our existing collection.
___ Wording of bookplate. The bookplate size is 3X4.
___ Paste in bookplates
___ Biographical information is needed for artist and educator Cynthia Reid Armbruster and Howard Joseph Reid; Artist, educator, craftsman, worked in oil, watercolors, jewelry, Cleveland Museum
___ Press release: Written by Kaja in collaboration with the Armbrusters.
___ The Armbruster family will be in Maine October 2-11. Gwen will arrive in Ogunquit on the 4th.
___ Reception at the library. ___ Friday October 8, 2021
___ Reach out to the art community to inform them of this new resource.
___ Organize arts programming that utilizes the new collection.
___ Build a public webpage featuring the revitalized collection.
| Area | Title | Author | Year | Price | Price total: | 6833.2 | |
| Painting – general | Imaginative Realism: how to paint what doesn’t exist | Gurney, James | 2009 | 18.79 | |||
| Color and Light: a guide for the realist painter | Gurney, James | 2010 | 17.51 | ||||
| How to Paint: A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Watercolors, Acrylics, and Oils | Gair, Angela | 2019 | 24.99 | ||||
| Classical Painting Atelier: a contemporary guide to traditional studio practice | Aristides, Juliette | 2008 | 19.87 | ||||
| Alla Prima II: everything I know about painting and more: expanded edition | Schmid, Richard | 2013 | 125 | ||||
| Painting Abstracts: ideas, projects and techniques | Van Vliet, Rolina | 2008 | 22.73 | ||||
| Colour Mixing Guide: watercolour | Collins, Julie | 2015 | 10 | ||||
| Colour Mixing Guide: oil | Collins, Julie | 2015 | 10 | ||||
| Colour Mixing Guide: acrylic | Collins, Julie | 2016 | 10 | ||||
| Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications | Brooker, Suzanne | 2010 | 19.97 | ||||
| Color for Painters: A Guide to Traditions and Practice | Gury, Al | 2010 | 24.99 | ||||
| Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist | Marine, Carol | 2014 | 22.99 | ||||
| Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition | Webb, Frank | 2015 | 29.95 | ||||
| Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice | Albala, Mitchell | 2009 | 22.49 | ||||
| Painting Trees: Colour, Line and Texture through the Seasons | Dudley, Sian | 2020 | 27.49 | ||||
| The Spirit of the Brush: Chinese Brush Painting Techniques: Simplicity, Spirit, and Personal Journey | Setton, Sungsook Hong | 2017 | 13.58 | ||||
| Drawing | Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain | Edwards, Betty | 2012 (1979) | 16.69 | |||
| Classical Drawing Atelier: a contemporary guide to traditional studio practice | Aristides, Juliette | 2006 | 29.95 | ||||
| Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters: 100 great drawings analyzed | Hale, Robert Beverly | 1989 (1964) | 13.51 | ||||
| Colored Pencil Painting Bible: Techniques for Achieving Luminous Color and Ultrarealistic Effects | Nickelsen, Alyona | 2009 | 16.26 | ||||
| Draw | Spicer, Jake | 2015 | 22.19 | ||||
| Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide | Dunn, Alphonso | 2015 | 17.95 | ||||
| Anatomy & portraiture | Morpho: Anatomy for Artists | Lauricella, Michel | 2018 | 22.43 | |||
| Morpho: Simplified Forms | Lauricella, Michel | 2019 | 13.39 | ||||
| Constructive Anatomy | Bridgman, George B. | 1973 | 9.95 | ||||
| Drawing and Painting People: A Fresh Approach | Ball, Emily | 2009 | 24.08 | ||||
| Watercolor | Water Paper Paint: exploring creativity with watercolor and mixed media | Jones, Heather Smith | 2010 | 23.96 | |||
| Billy Showell’s Botanical Painting in Watercolour | Showell, Billy | 2016 | 20.49 | ||||
| David Bellamy’s Skies, Light and Atmosphere in Watercolour | Bellamy, David | 2012 | 14.87 | ||||
| David Bellamy’s Seas & Shorelines in Watercolour | Bellamy, David | 2019 | 16.34 | ||||
| Experimental Flowers in Watercolour | Blockley, Ann | 2011 | 25.16 | ||||
| Experimental Landscapes in Watercolour | Blockley, Ann | 2014 | 18.59 | ||||
| Watercolor Painting: A Comprehensive Approach to Mastering the Medium | Hoffmann, Tom | 2012 | 28.3 | ||||
| Pastel | Painting Brilliant Skies & Water in Pastel: Secrets to Bringing Light and Life to Your Landscapes | Haywood-Sullivan, Liz | 2013 | 23.74 | |||
| Pastel Pointers: Top 100 Secrets for Beautiful Paintings | McKinley, Richard | 2010 | 22.9 | ||||
| The Pastel Artist’s Bible | Brown, Claire Waite | 2009 | 19.22 | ||||
| Pastel Painting Atelier: Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials | Eagle, Ellen | 2013 | 30.11 | ||||
| Pastel Innovations: 60+ Creative Techniques and Exercises for Painting with Pastels | Emerson, Dawn | 2017 | 20.39 | ||||
| Acrylics | Acrylics Unleashed | Macey, Glyn | 2013 | 23.91 | |||
| Acrylic Painting Mediums and Methods: A Contemporary Guide to Materials, Techniques, and Applications | Tauchid, Rheni | 2018 | 28.52 | ||||
| Compendium of Acrylic Painting Techniques | Barron, Gill | 2014 | 13.97 | ||||
| Oil | The Art of Still Life: A Contemporary Guide to Classical Techniques, Composition, and Painting in Oil | Casey, Todd M. | 2020 | 40.99 | |||
| The Elements of Landscape Oil Painting: Techniques for Rendering Sky, Terrain, Trees, and Water | Brooker, Suzanne | 2015 | 22.94 | ||||
| The Oil Painting Course You’ve Always Wanted: Guided Lessons for Beginners and Experienced Artists | Staiger, Kathleen Lochen | 2006 | 21.03 | ||||
| The New Oil Painting: Your Essential Guide to Materials and Safe Practices | Brooks, Kimberly | 2021 | 16.95 | ||||
| Other media | Making Japanese Woodblock Prints | Boswell, Laura | 2020 | 15.98 | |||
| OMAA Store | American Impressionist Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals | Coffey, John W. | 2016 | 40 | |||
| Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England | Denenberg, Thomas Andrew | 2009 | 29.95 | ||||
| Bernard Langlais: Independent Spirit | 2002 | 24.99 | |||||
| Art’s Ball: Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913-1936 Catalog | 30 | ||||||
| Marsden Hartley: The Earth is All I Know of Wonder | 35 | ||||||
| Marvin Bilek, Thimbledon Bridge and Emily Nelligan, Drawings | 25 | ||||||
| Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art | 35 | ||||||
| American Moderns 1910-1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell | 2012 | 29.95 | |||||
| Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series | 35 | ||||||
| Portland Museum of Art | Homer-Remington | 50 | |||||
| N. C. Wyeth: New Perspectives | 45 | ||||||
| David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History | 45 | ||||||
| Neil Welliver Prints | 18.75 | ||||||
| John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury | 24.95 | ||||||
| Handcrafted Maine: Art, Life, Harvest & Home | Kelleher, Katy | 39.95 | |||||
| Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze | 22.5 | ||||||
| The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art | 25 | ||||||
| The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005 | 17.5 | ||||||
| Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper | 45 | ||||||
| MFA Boston | 30,000 Years of Art | 2019 | 29.95 | ||||
| Flower Color Theory | Putnam, Darroch | 2021 | 35 | ||||
| Theory & history | Picture This: how pictures work | Bang, Molly | 2016 (1991) | 22.99 | |||
| Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color | Coles, David | 2019 | 32.52 | ||||
| Light for Visual Artists: Understanding and using light in art and design | Yot, Richard | 2019 | 33.99 | ||||
| Art: The Definitive Visual Guide | Dixon, Andrew Graham | 2018 | 39.2 | ||||
| Perspective Made Easy | Norling, Ernest R. | 1999 | 9.86 | ||||
| Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art | Grenwald, Diana Seave | 2021 | 35 | ||||
| How To Become A Successful Artist | Resch, Magnus | 2021 | 25.03 | ||||
| What is a print? | Suzuki, Sarah | 2011 | 19.61 | ||||
| The Art Spirit | Henri, Robert | 2020 (1923) | 14.5 | ||||
| Design as Art | Munari, Bruno | 2008 (1966) | 15.99 | ||||
| History of Art | Janson, H. W. | 1997 (1962) | 75 | ||||
| The Story of Art | Gombrich, E. H. | 1995 (1950) | 40.45 | ||||
| Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation | Gombrich, E. H. | 2000 (1960) | 40 | ||||
| Art and artists | Codex Seraphinianus | Serafini, Luigi | 2013 (1981) | 80.74 | |||
| Painting Summer in New England | Fairbrother, Trevor | 2006 | 21.98 | ||||
| Edward Hopper’s Maine | Salatino, Kevin | 2011 | 62.99 | ||||
| Maurice Prendergast: Art & Design | Mathews, Nancy Mowell | 1997 | 69.99 | ||||
| Earth, Sea and Sky | Woodbury, Charles | 1988 | 20 | ||||
| What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail | Hagen, Rainer | 2016 | 17.99 | ||||
| Women Artists: An Illustrated History | Heller, Nancy G. | 2003 | 30.34 | ||||
| Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists | Sargent, Antwaun | 2020 | 49.95 | ||||
| The Propaganda Front: Postcards from the Era of World Wars | Jozefacka, Anna | 2017 | 44.9 | ||||
| Praised and Ridiculed: French Painting, 1820-1880 | Kunsthaus Zurich | 2018 | 49.95 | ||||
| Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War | Prettejohn, Elizabeth | 2017 | 55 | ||||
| Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde | Figura, Starr | 2020 | 44.8 | ||||
| Wall and Piece | Banksy | 2006 | 16.99 | ||||
| Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs | Friedman, Samantha | 2014 | 40.15 | ||||
| Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes | King, Ross | 2015 | 57.03 | ||||
| The Louvre: All the Paintings | Pomarede, Vincent | 2011 | 47.49 | ||||
| Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World | Seed, John | 2019 | 41.49 | ||||
| The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint | Camplin, Jamie | 2018 | 34.95 | ||||
| Nature’s Artist: plants and animals by Albrecth Durer | Durer, Albrecht | 2003 | 75 | Used – prices vary | |||
| PROSE Awards | A History of Arab Graphic Design | Shehab, Bahia | 2020 | 55.96 | |||
| Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered | Bambach, Carmen C. | 2019 | 450.41 | ||||
| Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World | Morrison, Elizabeth | 2019 | 60 | ||||
| Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920 | Parry, James | 2018 | 58.65 | ||||
| Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment | Kusserow, Karl | 2018 | 65 | ||||
| William Blake and the Age of Aquarius | Eisenman, Stephen F. | 2017 | 26.43 | ||||
| Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life | Koerner, Joseph Leo | 2016 | 42.11 | ||||
| Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty | Hauptman, Jodi | 2016 | 79.96 | ||||
| Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence | Geronimus, Dennis | 2015 | 294.99 | ||||
| Gauguin: Metamorphoses | Childs, Elizabeth | 2014 | 36.37 | ||||
| Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 | D’Allessandro, Stephanie | 2013 | 47.99 | ||||
| Mexico and American Modernism | Landau, Ellen G. | 2013 | 60 | ||||
| Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925: how a radical idea changed modern art | Affron, Matthew | 2013 | 45.84 | ||||
| Gustav Klimt: The Magic of Line | Bisanz-Prakken, Marian | 2012 | 49.95 | ||||
| An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism | Craft, Catherine | 2012 | 78.29 | ||||
| de Kooning: A Retrospective | Elderfield, John | 2011 | 44 | ||||
| Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art | Allen, Gwen | 2011 | 29.95 | ||||
| The Moment of Caravaggio | Fried, Michael | 2010 | 31.9 | ||||
| The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire | Bindman, David | 2010 | 106 | ||||
| The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery”, Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World | Bindman, David | 2010 | 106 | ||||
| Bauhaus: 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity | Bergdoll, Barry | 2017 (2009) | 48.89 | ||||
| Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940 | Macleod, Dianne | 2008 | 18.73 | ||||
| Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne | Boyajian, Ani | 2007 | 123.96 | ||||
| Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock | Varnedoe, Kirk | 2006 | 40.55 | ||||
| Christopher Wilmarth: Light and Gravity | Madoff, Steven Henry | 2004 | 56.4 | ||||
| Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors | Armstrong, Carol | 2004 | 75 | ||||
| The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting: 1825-1875 | Bedell, Rebecca | 2001 | 71.2 | ||||
| Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting | Barnhart, Richard | 2002 | 34.7 | ||||
| Great Courses DVDs | How to Paint | 269.95 | |||||
| Startup Library: Painting with Watercolors | 89.95 | ||||||
| How Colors Affect You: What Science Reveals | 24.95 | ||||||
| Fundamentals of Photography | 69.95 | ||||||
| Fundamentals of Photography II | 69.95 | ||||||
| How to Look at and Understand Great Art | 374.95 | ||||||
| The World’s Greatest Paintings | 254.95 | ||||||
| Masterworks of American Art | 254.95 | ||||||
| Dutch Masters: The Age of Rembrandt | 69.95 | ||||||
| A History of European Art | 109.95 |
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