Classic Art Instruction: The Crowd-sourced List

A week or two ago, I shared a list of my favorite classic art instruction books from Dover Publishing. In the comments, I invited you to suggest the classic art instruction books (more than 50 years old) that you thought were particularly helpful. Here's the list you suggested below. The links take you to Amazon pages where you can read more about each title. On the left is a poll. Please vote for your favorite books. You can vote for more than one. An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists by W. Ellenberger et al.  Animation by Preston Blair   Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Peck  Bridgman’s Life Drawing by George Bridgman  Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting by John F. Carlson  Composition of Outdoor Painting by Edgar Payne Constructive Anatomy by George Bridgman   Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis   Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators by Ernest Watson   Drawn to Life by Walt Stanchfield Dynamic Anatomy by Burne Hogarth  Famous Artist’s Course by various authors Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth by Andrew Loomis  Fun With a Pencil by Andrew Loomis Hawthorne on Painting by Charles Hawthorne Hensche on Painting by John Robichaux How I Make a Picture by Norman Rockwell Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson  Light and Shade by Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure by Edouard Lanteri   Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed   On Drawing Trees and Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual (Dover Art Instruction) On the Art of Drawing by Robert Fawcett Pencil Drawing by Ernest Watson Pencil Pictures by Theodore Kautzky Perspective by Rex Vicat Cole Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Norling Pictorial Composition by Henry Poore Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur L. Guptill Successful Drawing by Andrew Loomis   The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren The Artistic Anatomy of Trees by Rex Vicat Cole The Classic Point of View by Kenyon Cox The Human Figure by John Vanderpoel The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides The Painter in Oil by Daniel Parkhurst The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed The Practice of Tempera Painting by Daniel Thompson Twilight of Painting by R. Ives Gammell