Book wishlist - art books in libraries
Updated: Sep 26
I am now coming to the end of the July Intensive meetings and am putting out a call locally via newspapers, social media etc for people to donate any unwanted books on individual female artists to Abergavenny Library.
For reference - this is where the collection is at: 26/09/26 17 books on individual female artists and 54 books on individual male artists.
Female artists with book/s in Abergavenny Library:
Mary Lloyd Jones
Gwen John x 2
Georgia O’Keefe
Ida Kar
Helen Oxenbury
Books on individual female artists added by the MSFG project:
December 2025 Paula Rego - donated by the Cristea Roberts Gallery in London August 2026
Tirzah Garwood Beyond Ravilious by James Russell - donated by Philippa Bevan
Cats and Kittens at Play - The Art of Henriette Ronner-Knip - donated by Anonymous
Gillian Ayres by Mel Gooding - donated by Anonymous
September 2026 Elizabeth and the Box of COLOURS by Katherine Woodfine (junior) - donated by dinahvagina
Barbara Hepworth What Do You See? (junior) By Laura Carlin - donated by dinahvagina
Encountering Eva Hesse Edited by Griselda Pollock and Vanessa Corby - donated by dinahvagina
Women artists in Wales 2022 Editor Christine Kinsey - donated by dinahvagina
Cloth Lullaby the woven life of Louise Bourgeois (junior) By Amy Novesky - donated by dinahvagina
Pipilotti Rist by Peggy Phelan Hans Ulrich Obrist and Elizabeth Bronfen - donated by dinahvagina
Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita by Juliet Ault - donated by dinahvagina
Artists I’d love Abergavenny Library to have monographs on:
Ideally I’d like -
A range of media represented
12 Global Majority artists
12 Junior books (see below for a list of 12 great books, now recommended to Abergavenny Library)
10-14 Welsh / Wales based
And here’s my wishlist - books on other artists are also welcome, this is simply a starting point:
Marina Abramovic
Ruth Asawa
Manon Awst
Phyllida Barlow
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Supita Bitwas
Louise Bourgeois
Sonia Boyce
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Mary Cassatt
Brenda Chamberlain
Judy Chicago
Tacita Dean
Sara Vide Ericson
Elizabeth Frink
Tirzah Garwood
Ana Mendieta
Angharad Pearce Jones
Artemisia Gentilesci
Gwenny Griffiths
Nina Hamnett
Mona Hatoum
Barbara Hepworth
Cornelia Parker
Susan Hiller
Hannah Höch
Megan (Margaret) Watts Hughes
Bethan Huws
Claudette Johnson
Frida Kahlo
Hilma af Klint
Emily Kame Knywarreye
Käthe Kollwitz
Yayoi Kusama
Lynne Marshall
Lee Miller
Yoko Ono
Niki de Saint Phalle
Ingrid Pollard
Mari Rose Pritchard
Masha Reva
Sophy Rickett
Faith Ringgold
Veronica Ryan
Khadija Say
Jo Spence
Olga Stein
Hito Steyerl
Shani Rhys James
Julie Upmeyer
Kara Walker
Claudia Williams
Megan Winstone
Clare Woods Junior books
Anna Atkins - The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs by Fiona Robinson ISBN: 9781419725517
Ruth Asawa - A Life Made by Hand The Story of Ruth Asawa by Andrea D'Aquino ISBN: 9781616898366
Louise Bourgeois -: Cloth Lullaby The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois by Amy Novesky ISBN: 9781419718816
Barbara Hepworth - Barbara Hepworth What Do You See? By Laura Carlin ISBN: 9781849767859
Frida Kahlo - Little Frida by Anthony Browne ISBN: 9781406390919
Yayoi Kusama - Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn't Sorry by Fausto Gilberti ISBN: 9781838660802
Yoko Ono - hopefully have a donation on the way! :-)
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Elisabeth and the Box of Colours by Katherine Woodfine ISBN: 9781800900868
Hilma af Klint - The Art and Life of Hilma af Klint by Karin Eklund and Ylva Hillstrom ISBN: 9780500653173
Alma Thomas - Alma Woodsey Thomas - Painter and educator by Charlotte Etinde-Crompton ISBN: 978-1-9785-1468-3
Rosa Bonheur - No Horses in the House! The Audacious Life of Artist Rosa Bonheur ISBN: 9781459833524
Laura Wheeler - Waring Beautiful Shades of Brown:The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring By Nancy Churnin ISBN: 9781939547651
Maria Martinez - Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez, by Anna Harber Freeman and Barbara Gonzales ISBN: 9780807575390
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