Books

Highlights from the Permanent Collection

John Sloan

This section includes the well-received catalog of the recent exhibition Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York, books about Sloan, and a book of theory and techniques for artists by Sloan himself.

The Pre-Raphaelites

This section includes a catalog of the Museum’s renowned Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art and other titles.

Howard Pyle

This section includes books written and illustrated by Howard Pyle as well as a collector’s edition on the life of this extraordinary Wilmington native.

Selected Treasures

This catalog of the Delaware Art Museum’s permanent collection is the first such representative work in over 20 years.

Highlights from the Past Exhibitions

Contemporary Photography and the Garden—
Deceits and Fantasies

For centuries, gardens have inspired artists. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, photographers ranging from Eugène Atget to Edward Steichen were drawn to their beauty and rich metaphorical associations.

David Macaulay

Browse books by David Macaulay, the subject of the 2006 exhibition Building Books:  The Art of David Macaulay.

Icons and Idols:
A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995

A companion to the exhibition of the same name, this book distills the finest of Jack Mitchell's own artistic mission to portray the greatest actors, dancers, painters, composers, writers choreographers and musicians of his day.

Portraits of a People:
Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century

This beautifully illustrated companion to the exhibition of the same name features color reproductions of more than 100 important portraits, drawn from museum and historical collections across the United States.

Wondrous Strange: The Wyeth Tradition

The paintings in this volume have a vivid and exacting tale to tell. This quality of "wondrous strangeness" is explored in the works of Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth and in their relationships to one another.

Edw. L. Loper: From the Prism's Edge

This book is the catalog from the 1996 retrospective exhibition of the works of Edward Loper.

Miscellaneous

Jack in Search of Art

In an innovative blend of illustration and digitized art photography, Jack the Bear explores the galleries of the Delaware Art Museum.