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Here is a list of books that we recommend related to the art of landscape painting. Our association with Amazon.com allows us to create links directly to their site.  You can click on the book logo next to the title of the book and go directly to Amazon.com to purchase.  Please use our links since this will help us to continue to provide this service.  If we've provided a review to the book you can click on the dancing Etruscan next to the title and go directly to that review.  Some of the titles are out of print, but Amazon.com will search for them.

 

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Art of Color, The Itten, Johannes 1961 (Van Nostrand Reinhold) 
Art Spirit, The Henri, Robert 1923 (Harper & Row) 

Artistic Anatomy of Trees, The Cole, Rex Vicat 1915 (Dover)

Barbizon School and the Origins of Impressionism, The 1994 (Phaidon Press), Adams, Steven (hard back)
Barbizon School and the Origins of Impressionism, The 1994 (Phaidon Press), Adams, Steven (paper back)
Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography Peter Galassi 1981 (Museum of Modern Art)
Brush with Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches, Riopelle, Bray 1999 (National Gallery Publications Limited)
Cezanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape Verdi, Richard 1990 (National Galleries of Scotland)  (out of print)
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction Gage, John 1999 in paperback (University of California)
Color Exercises for the Painter Salemme, Lucia 1979 (Watson-Guptill Publications) (out of print)
Colour: Art and Science Lamb, Trevor and Bourriau Janine (editors) 1995 (Cambridge University Press) (hard cover) 

Colour: Art and Science Lamb, Trevor and Bourriau Janine (editors) 1995 (Cambridge University Press) (paper back)

Corot in Italy Galassi, Peter 1991 (Yale University Press) 
Hawthorne On Painting Hawthorne, Charles W. 1938 (Dover) 

In the Light of Italy - Corot and Early Open-Air Painting Conisbee, Faunce, Strick 1996 (National Gallery of Art, Washington Yale University Press) 

Italian Journey J.W. Goethe (Penguin Books 1962)
Landscape and Memory Schama, Simon 1995 (Alfred A. Knopf) 
Landscape and Western Art Andrews, Malcolm 1999 (Oxford University Press) 
Landscape into Art Clark, Kenneth 1949 (Icon Editions) out of print

Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts Gaskill and Kemal, (editors) 1994 (Cambridge University Press)

Languages of Landscape, The Roskill, Mark 1997 (The Pennsylvania State University Press)
Leonardo On Painting Kemp, Martin (editor) (Yale University Press)
More Than You See : A Guide to Art Horowitz, Frederic 1992 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.) out of print 
Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air, The Minnaert, M. 1954 (Dover) 
Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Thom Thomson and the Group of Seven Murray, Joan 1994 (Key Porter Books Ltd.) out of print 
Philosophy of Art Noel Carroll 1999 (Routledge)
The Roots of Romanticism Isaiah Berlin 2001 (Princeton University Press)
Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes Adelson, Janis, Kilmurray, Ormond, Oustinoff 1997 (Abbeville Press Publishers) 
Studies on Claude and Poussin Michael Kitson (Pindar Press 2000)

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques Mayer, Ralph 1991 edition (Viking Press) 

The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting .... Max Doerner, Eugen Neuhaus (translator)Revised edition (October 1984) Harcourt Brace (paper back)

Thomas Jones (1742-1803) An Artist Rediscovered Sumner and Smith (editors) (Yale University Press)
What is Painting? Representation and Modern Art Bell, Julian 1999 (Thames and Hudson) 
Why Draw a Landscape ? Brown, Kathan 1999 (Crown Point Press)