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Monterey County Bookstore: Arts

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Art in Residence: West Coast Artists in Their Space
by Kurt Edward Fishback, Cole Weston, Henry Hopkins (2000)
California Impressionism
by William H. Gerdts, Will South (1998)
Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907
by Scott Shields
Cottages by the Sea
by Linda Leigh Paul (2000)


Portraits of 80 influential West Coast artists, including Monterey County residents Cole Weston, Ansel Adams, and others.


Definitive work on Californian artists who work in the Impressionist movement, including Carmel artists E. Charlton Fortune and Armin Carl Hansen.


The rich artistic life of the Monterey Peninsula is thoroughly explored in this informative, lively book about the Californian Bohemians.


Handsome book with more than 270 photographs, devoted to the "handmade homes of Carmel, America's first artist community."


Storybook Style
by Arrol Gellner, Douglas Keister (2001)
The Monterey Peninsula, A Postcard Journey
by Burl Willes (2005)
Thomas Kinkade: Paintings of Radiant Light
by Thomas Kinkade, Philippa Reed (1995)
Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola
by Robert C. Harvey and Gustavo M. Arriola (2000)


Carmel's �Hansel and Gretel' cottages, and others built for artists and ordinary folk by Hugh Comstock, get good coverage in this intriguing illustrated book.


Charming vintage postcards — 300 of them — illustrate this unusual travel book.


Informal autobiographical notes accompany 120 color plates of Kinkade's charming paintings. Kinkade's first studio in Carmel can still be visited by fans.


After 44 years in the funny pages of newspapers across America, "Gordo" has now been captured in a book that includes biographical detail about Arriola, a Monterey-based artist.


The Merchant of Dennis the Menace
by Hank Ketcham (2005)
 
 
 
 
 
 


Ketcham's mischievous eternal six-year-old lives on in daily strips, but this vintage collection is a more personal memoir about the real life of the Monterey-based cartoonist.