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painters who wrote biography
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Wanda Gág
Wanda Gág (1893-1946)

painter, printmaker, visual artist, drawer, artist

  • Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Art Students League of New York
The girlhood diary of Wanda Gág, 1908-1909
Growing pains
Childcraft [Volume 3]
Millions of cats
My Own Book of Animal Stories
Nothing at all
Snow White and the seven dwarfs
The Funny Thing
More tales from Grimm
The Six Swans
Tales from Grimm
Gone is gone
Snippy and Snappy
Wanda Gág's The earth gnome
The ABC bunny
Wanda Gág's The sorcerer's apprentice
Three Gay Tales from Grimm
Wanda Gág's story book
Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934-2017)

film director, sculptor, feminist, photographer, painter, public figure, artist, pedagogue, feminist theorist

  • University of Oxford, Columbia University
The loony-bin trip
Sita
Flying
Going to Iran
Flying
Sita
Mother Millett
Caterpillars
Sexual politics
A.D., a memoir
The politics of cruelty
The basement
The prostitution papers
La politique du mâle
Kate Millett, sculptor
Sita
Elegy for Sita
The Prostitution papers
Prostitution
Sexual politics
Carolyn Cassady
Carolyn Cassady (1923-2013)

painter

  • Bennington College, University of Denver
Off the road
Heart beat
Off the road
Off the road
Yoldakiler
Sur ma route
Jack Kerouac
Karel van Mander the Elder
Karel van Mander the Elder (1548-1606)

art historian, painter, poet, biographer, visual artist

Schilderboek
Het leven der doorluchtige Nederlandsche en eenige Hoogduitsche schilders ..
Dutch and Flemish painters
Schilder-boek
Het schilder-boek
Lives of Elsheimer
Le livre des peintres
The lives of the illustrious Netherlandish and German painters, from the first edition of the Schilder-boeck (1603-1604)
Het leven der doorluchtighe Nederlandsche en eenige Hoogduitsche schilders
Kniga o khudozhnikakh
Het schilder-boeck
Das Leben der niederländischen und deutschen Maler (von 1400 bis ca. 1615)
Het leven der oude antijcke doorluchtighe schilders
Das Lehrgedicht des Karel van Mander
Le livre de peinture
Kniga o khudozhnikakh
Le livre des peintres
Het Schilder-Boeck waerin voor eerst le leerlustighe Iueght den grondt der edel vry schilderconst in verscheyden deelen wort voorghedraghen
Le livre des peintres
Den grondt der edel vry schilder-const
Hans Holbein
Karel van Mander
De kerck der deucht
Le livre des peintres de Carel van Mander
Wtleggingh Op den Metamorphosis Pub. Ouidij Nasonis
Olijf-bergh 1609
Het schilder-boek van Carel van Mander
Das Lehrgedicht des Karel van Mander
Het schilder-boek waerin voor eerst de leerlustighe jueght den grondt der edel vrye schilderkonst in verscheyden deelen wort voor-gedragen
Bethlehem, dat is het Broodhuys
Das Leben der niederländischen und deutschen Maler
Uitlegging over de Metamorphosis, of Verschepping van P. Ovidius Nazo
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot (1921-2023)

painter, model, illustrator, art critic, visual artist

  • Beaux-Arts de Paris, University of Cambridge
Francoise Gilot
Vivre avec Picasso
Le regard et son masque
Interface
Françoise Gilot, an artist's journey =
Matisse and Picasso
Françoise Gilot
Francoise Gilot: monograph 1940-2000
Picasso and Francoise Gilot
The Fugitive Eye
Francoise Gilot
Monograph
1946, Picasso et la Méditerranée retrouvée
F. Gilot; [exhibition] March 23--April 10, 1965, Findlay Galleries ... New York
Françoise Gilot, emblems and symbols
Dans l'arène avec Picasso
Monotypes
Artist's Journey
Paloma-Sphynx
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot dans l'arène avec Picasso
Gerrit Paape
Gerrit Paape (1752-1803)

poet, columnist, journalist, politician, judge, ceramic painter, pottery painter

Mijne vrolijke wijsgeerte in mijne ballingschap
De Bataafsche Republiek
Het leven en sterven van een hedendaags aristocraat
Vrolijke caracterschetsen
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1834-1925)

sculptor, painter, biographer, historian, theatre critic

  • Trinity College Dublin
Laurence Sterne. --
The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards
The Life Of George The Fourth, Including His Letters And Opinions; With A View Of The Men, Manners, And Politics Of His Reign
Memoirs of an Author
The life of Laurence Sterne
The world behind the scenes
The Kembles
The romance of the English stage
The operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
Beauty Talbot
Mr. Gilbert's humor
Roeland van Eynden
Roeland van Eynden (1747-1819)

painter, art historian

Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst
Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst
Geschiedenis der vaderlandsche schilderkunst