Welcome to the Bookshop at St. Louis Art Supply—our curated, ever-changing selection of reading material to inspire your best work. We stock art instruction books, of course, but you'll also find literary fiction, philosophy, art history, and design texts.


Barry Schwabsky
Landscape Painting Now


Ryokushu Kuiseko
Brush Writing: Calligraphy Techniques for Beginners

Roberto Burle Marx
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism


Michel Lauricella
Morpho Anatomy Handbooks: Muscled Bodies


Erica Hirshler and Teresa Carbone
John Singer Sargent: Watercolors


Niklaus Troxler
Poster Collection: Niklaus Troxler


Ken Salaz
Landscapes in Oil


Marcel Proust
Swann's Way


Jean Baudrillard
America


Laurie Lambrecht
Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio


James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man: Stories


Michel Lauricella
Morpho: Anatomy for Artists


Felix Scheinberger
Dare to Sketch


Leslie Frontz
The Watercolor Course You've Always Wanted


Michael Reardon
Watercolor Techniques: Painting Light & Color in Landscapes & Cityscapes


Alice North, Halsey North, Louise Allison Cort
Listening to Clay


Juliette Aristides
Figure Drawing Atelier: An Instructional Sketchbook


Lydia Davis
Essays One