From a painting class I was taking:

1. Velasquez
   
2. Francisco Goya
   
3. Artemesia Gentelleschi
   
4. El Greco
   
5. Edoard Manet
   
6. Rembrandt
   
7. da Vinci
   
8. Courbet
   
9. John Singer Sargent
   
10. Maria Fortuny
    
11. Paul Cezanne
    
12. Matisse
    
13. Bonnard
    
14. Alice Neel
    
15. Paula Rego
    
16. Lucien Freud
    
17. Edward Hopper
    
18. Frank Auerbach
    
19. Antonio Lopez Garcia
    
20. Winslow Homer
    
21. Andrew Wyeth
    
22. Richard Diebenkorn
    
23. David Park
    
24. Elmer Bischoff
    
25. Theo Brown
    
26. Paul Wonner
    
27. Catherine E. Murphy
    
28. Robert Bechtle
    
29. Eric Fischl
    
30. Vincent Disiderio
    
31. Claudio Bravo
    
32. Philip Pearlstein
    
33. Jack Beal
    
34. Avigdor Arikha
    
35. Euan Uglow
    
36. Yan Pei-Ming
    
37. Chuck Close
    
38. Hung Liu
    
39. Jenny Saville
    
40. Neo Rauch
    
41. Kara Walker
    
42. Gottfried Helnwein
    
43. Gerhard Richter
    

Some of these I know already, and some of them I hate (Chuck Close, except for some of his work). Got any suggestions?

Books:

1. Hawthorne on Painting by Hawthorne, new 5.95, used from $2.64,
   
2. The Art Spirit by Robert Henri new 13.57, used from $3.00,
   
3. A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo daVinci, drawings by Poussin, new $9.95, used from $5.69 (all AmazonBooks.com),
   
4. The Encyclopedia of Oil Painting Techniques by Jeremy Galton, Sterling Publishing Co. New York,
   
5. The Artist’s Handbook by Ray Smith, Alfred Knopf,
   
6. The Big Book of Drawing and Painting the Figure by Muntsa Calbo I Angrill,
   
7. Color in Contemporary Painting by Charles LeClair,
   
8. A Painterly Approach by Mary Beth McKenzie,
   
9. Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rogers Peck,
   
10. Life Drawing in Charcoal by Douglas Graves,
    
11. Alla Prima Everything I Know About Painting by Richard Schmid,
    
12. Painting People, figure painting today, Charlotte Mullins

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