Art History Challenge, 2009 (in progress)

Rules:

• Challenge yourself to read at least 6 books about art in 2009. These can be either fiction or nonfiction, and can span every genre from historical fiction to graphic novel.

1. The Forest Lover, by Susan Vreeland
2. The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
3. The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece, by Jonathan Harr
4. The Matisse Stories, by A.S. Byatt
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
6. Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles, by Martin Gayford
7. LeConte Stewart: The Spirit of Landscape, by Robert O. Davis