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Useful Library of Congress Call Numbers for Fine Art

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N Visual arts
NA Architecture
NC Drawing
NB Sculpture
ND Painting
ND1470-1625 Painting Technique
NE Print media
NK Decorative arts
TR1-1050 Photography
TT1-999 Handicrafts
TT490-695 Dressmaking. Tailoring
Z116.A3 Book Design

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Featured Books at HU

Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's murals at Talladega College by Heydt, Stephanie Mayer
Call Number: ND237 .W813 A4 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Contribution by David C. Driskell
Making Race: modernism and "racial art" in America by Francis, Jacqueline
Call Number: ND212.5 .M63 F73 2012
Publication Date: 2012
How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: murals, museums, and the Mexican state by Mary K. Coffey
Call Number: ND2644 .C64 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Art in Anime: the creative quest as theme and metaphor by Cavallaro, Dani
Call Number: NC1766 .J3 C385 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack
Call Number: N6250 .C656 2018
ISBN: 0198778791
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Lightfall - Genealogy of a Museum by Preston Scott Cohen (Contribution by); Amit Nemlich (Contribution by); Daniel Sherer (Contribution by); K. Michael Hays (Contribution by); Wes Jones (Contribution by); Robert Levit (Contribution by); Sylvia Lavin (Contribution by); Eran Neuman; Peter Eisenman (Contribution by); Antoine Picon (Contribution by); Carl Dworkin (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9788857226927
Publication Date: 2016-12-20
Soul of a Nation by Mark Godfrey; David Driskell (Text by); Edmund Gaither (Text by); Jae Jarrell (Text by); Wadsworth Jarrell (Text by); Samella Lewis (Text by); Susan E. Cahan (Text by)
Call Number: N6538.N5 S63 2017
ISBN: 9781942884170
Publication Date: 2017-09-26
Photography by Barbara London (Editor); John Upton
Call Number: TR145 .L66 1998
ISBN: 0321011082
Publication Date: 1997-08-21
Ansel Adams and the American Landscape by Jonathan Spaulding
Call Number: TR140.A3 S63 1995
ISBN: 0520089928
Publication Date: 1995-12-11
A Biography
Peasant scenes and landscapes: the rise of pictorial genres in the Antwerp art market by Silver, Larry
Call Number: ND1452.B42S57 2006
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Peasant scenes and landscapes: the rise of pictorial genres in the Antwerp art market
by Silver, Larry
2006
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Check Availability, ND1452.B42S57 2006
History of Art by Anthony F. Janson
Call Number: N5300 .J3
ISBN: 0131826239
Publication Date: 2003-07-01
Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art by Simona Cohen
ISBN: 9004267859
Publication Date: 2014-03-17

Featured E-books at HU

Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition by Hamdouni Alami, Mohammed
Call Number: N6260 .H25 2011 EB
Publication Date: 2011
Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora by Herrera, Andrea O'Reilly
Call Number: N6538 .C83 H47 2011 EB
Publication Date: 2011
Sacred Modern by Smart, Pamela G.
Call Number: N576 .H68 S63 2010 EB
Publication Date: 2010

Art Techniques

Artists' Techniques and Materials by Fuga, Antonella
Call Number: N7430 .F8413 2006
Publication Date: 2006

In 2006, the family of noted illustrator Tom Feelings donated his substantial collection to the Harvey Library. Among the collection's greatest strengths are books on drawing, watercolor, and airbrush techniques.

Art Projects Plus: introducing art form, media and technique with children's picture books by Webb, Martha Venning ; R. Howard Blount; Tracy Turner (Illustrator); Margo DePaulis (Contribution by)
Call Number: N362 .A78 1997
Publication Date: 1997
The Library of Tom Feelings, artist and illustrator (1933-2003). Presented to the Harvey Library, Hampton University by the Feelings Family, 2006
The Illustrator's Bible by Howard, Rob
Call Number: N7430 .H78 1992
Publication Date: 1992
complete sourcebook of tips, tricks, and time-saving techniques in oil, alkyd, acrylic, gouache, casein, watercolor, dyes, inks, airbrush, scratchboard, pastel, colored pencil, and mixed media;
The Library of Tom Feelings Artist and Illustrator (1933-2003) presented to the Harvey Library Hampton University by the Feelings Family 2006

Art Reference E-books

A to Z of African Americans in the Visual Arts by Otfinoski, Steven
Call Number: N6538 .N5 O86 2011 EB
Publication Date: 2011
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Search art dictionaries, encyclopedias, and image collections in Oxford and Credo databases

Art Reference Books

St. James Guide to Black Artists by Riggs, Thomas
Call Number: N40 .S78 1997
Publication Date: 1997
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart by Thieme, Ulrich
Call Number: N40 .T42 v1-v37
Publication Date: 1907
(shelved in the Reference Section on the 1st Floor of the Harvey Library)
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts by Vollmer, Hans
Call Number: N40 .V6 V.1-V.6
Publication Date: 1953-62
(shelved in the Reference Section on the 1st Floor of the Harvey Library)

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Fine Art: Books & More