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Gallery Guide: Works on Paper

Suggested Readings

Diane Arbus

United States, 1923-1971
Blaze Star at Home, 1964
silver print
21.5x20.7 cm.
Gift of Esquire, Inc., 80.222

Drawings
  • Lambert, Susan, Reading Drawing: an Introduction to Looking at Drawings (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984)
  • Adams, Henry and Margaret Stenz with Jan M. Marsh, American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1992)
Prints
  • Gasciogne, Bamber, How to Identify Prints (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986)
  • Griffiths, Antony, Prints and Printmaking (London: British Museum Publications, 1980)
  • Mayor, A. Hyatt, Prints and People: a Social History of Printed Pictures (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971)
Photographs
  • Szarkowski, John, Photography Until Now (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989)
  • Rosenblum, Naomi, A World History of Photography (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984)
  • Trachtenberg, Alan, Reading American Photographs (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989)
Publication of this guide was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.