Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces

7 best books like Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces (Wendy Beckett): Marilyn and Me, A Child's Garden of Verses, Georgia O'Keeffe, M.C. Escher: 29 Masterworks, Essential Pre-Raphaelites, Dear Theo, Drawing the Head and Figure

Marilyn and Me

Author	Ji-min Lee
ISBN	0008322317

Historical fiction, based on true events, about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul, and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour.

February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice...

A Child's Garden of Verses

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0689823827

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson...

Georgia O'Keeffe

Author	Georgia O'Keeffe
ISBN	0140046771

I recommend reading this book after Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, which I gave five stars. The first is a biography of her whole life. With that as a background you easily recognize the people and the places she speaks of. Here, the artist speaks only of her art. This is a large format...

M.C. Escher: 29 Masterworks

Author	M.C. Escher
ISBN	0810922681

29 Twenty-nine woodcuts and lithographs make use of optical illusions and unusual perspectives and are accompanied by the artist's comments.

Nearly everyone will have seen some of the work of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1970). His woodcuts and lithographs are largely...

Essential Pre-Raphaelites

Author	Lucinda Hawksley
ISBN	1840845244

In 1848 a group of seven disillusioned artists, comprising the Rossettis, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Stephens, Thomas Wooner, and James Collinson, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Initially they were ridiculed in the art world for their pretension and subject...

Dear Theo

Author	Vincent van Gogh
ISBN	0452275040

An extraordinary document! What other inner view of a great artist's creative processes and life do we have like this one? (The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini perhaps, but it is boastful precisely where Dear Theo is introspective, materialistic where Dear Theo is threadbare, highly social where...

Drawing the Head and Figure

Author	Jack Hamm
ISBN	0399507914

This is a fantastic book for learning to draw people. It's from the fifties, so the styles of hair and dress are outdated and the features are more European looking, but it's still an excellent reference and I improved my skills just by practice drawing some of the figures and employing the suggested techniques....