Art History Picture Books

This year we are focusing on contemporary local artists, but I loved teaching four years of Art History. Hopefully those studies laid a good foundation for our upcoming in-person artist discussions. I have to give a shout out to Lotus Stewart at Art History Kids because her course Magnificent Modern Art was really life changing for me and inspired me to give teaching Art a try!

Lotus just made a YouTube video of her 25 favorite art books for kids and I cannot resist making a list with links (Amazon) to each title. Here you go!

Uncle Andy's Cats by James Warhola

Miró's Magic Animals and The Boy Who Bit Picasso by Antony Penrose

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown

Cézanne's Parrot by Amy Guglielmo

Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit
by Linda Marshall

Dancing Through Fields of Color: The Story of Helen Frankenthaler
by Elizabeth Brown

The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
by Patricia MacLachlan

My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey
by Jeanne Walker Harvey

Vincent Can't Sleep: Van Gogh Paints the Night Sky
by Barb Rosenstock

Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, a Life in Nature
by Cindy Jenson-Elliott

Mary Blair's Unique Flair: The Girl Who Became One of the Disney Legends
by Amy Novesky

Alma's Art by Roda Ahmed

Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keeffe Painted What She Pleased
by Amy Novesky

Just Being Dalí: The Story of Artist Salvador Dalí by Amy Guglielmo

Faith Ringgold: Narrating the World in Pattern and Color (What the Artist Saw)
by Sharna Jackson

Degas and the Little Dancer (Anholt's Artists)
by Laurence Anholt

Mornings with Monet by Barb Rosenstock

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill

Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa
by Andrea D'Aquino

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
by Amy Novesky

Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland into a Home
by Barb Rosenstock

Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid
by Victoria Tentler-Krylov

Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington
by Michelle Markel

I have a lot of these books but it's always fun to learn about new titles!

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