Some More Art Books for a Basic Home Museum

HISTORY OF ART, Elie Faure. Five monumental volumes: Ancient Art; Medieval Art; Renaissance Art; Modern Art; Spirit of the Forms. (Each $1.98; Garden City.)

THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE EAST, René Grousset. Four definitive volumes: The Near and Middle East; China; Japan; India. (Each $5.00; Knopf.)

MASTER DRAWINGS, edited by Bryan Holme. 128 pages of graphic masterpieces from Michelangelo to Matisse. ($3.50; Studio Publications.)

MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS, R. H. Wilenski. Fifty years of art critically analyzed. ($6.00; Reyna! & Hitchcock.)

GREAT AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM SMIBERT TO BELLOWS, selected and edited by John Walker and Macgill James. A companion to Jean Lipman’s American Primitive Painting (1790-1875); both volumes form a verbal and pictorial panorama of American art. (Each $5.00; Oxford.)

CONTEMPORARY ART : THE MARCH OF ART FROM CÉZANNE TO Now, edited by Rosamund Frost. All the newer isms and modern personalities. ($4.00; Crown.)

THEY TAUGHT THEMSELVES: AMERICAN PRIMITIVE PAINTERS OF TIIE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Sidney Janis. Of special interest to the amateur painter. ($3.50; Dial.)

MODERN NEGRO ART, James A. Porter. From pre-Civil War to today by a Howard University art professor. ($3.25; Dryden.)

ART FOR CHILDREN, Ana M. Berry. A companion to Katharine Gibson’s Pictures to Grow Up With; both excellent for children from seven up. ($3.50 and $3.00; Studio Publications.)

ART AND FREEDOM, Horace M. Kallen. A two-volume masterly interpretation of the relationship between art and freedom in Western civilization since the ancient Greeks. ($6.50; Duell, Sloan & Pearce.)