Princeton University's graphic arts collection holds Lucas Fielding's The Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours...Baltimore, 1815; and a number of other early American manuals and sample books. We also have an extensive collection of original dealer's catalogues, both European and American. The Grolier Club's exhibition "Teaching American to Draw" 2006, covered the topic very well and most of the materials in this show from private collections are also held at Princeton.

If the student wants to go back further than 1800, we have exceptional material in color samples, such as the 1794 Wiener Farbenkabinet oder vollständiges Musterbuch aller Natur-, Grund-, und Zusammensetzungfarben, “Viennese Color Collection or Complete Book of Samples of all Natural, Basic, and Combined Colors.” see the posting at http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks/2008/04/recently_acquired_wiener_farbe.html

Although the collection does not travel, all researchers are welcome and grants are available for visiting scholars.

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Julie Mellby

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Hello ARLIS,

I'm trying to help a graduate student find collections of art instruction manuals, conservation manuals, and pigment compendiums published in the United States from 1800-1950. He is also searching for a list of American industrial trade companies that made artists' pigments during this period.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Kasia


Kasia Leousis
Subject Librarian for Art & Architecture
Kranzberg Art and Architecture Library
Washington University in St. Louis
(314) 935-4377
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