Selected Reading
Hassel Smith Reading Outside, 1930 © Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Hassel Smith read widely throughout his life, with resulting influences between his reading and his artistic production. His interests included history of art, world history, politics, philosophy, psychology, poetry and fiction.
Below is a list of approximately a quarter of the books Hassel Smith owned:
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians Vol. 1
Caitlin, George – 1973
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians Vol. 2
Catalin, George – 1973
Handbook of the Indians of California
Kroeber, A. L. – 1953
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
Kroeber, Theodora – 1963
100 Original Woodcuts
Posada – 1947
American Indian Art: Form and Tradition
E. P. Dutton – 1972
Winslow Homer's Magazine Engravings
Beam, Philip C. – 1979
Quilts and Coverlets from the American Museum in Britain
Betterton, Shiela – 1978
The Art of Jaco Epstein
Black, Robert – 1942
From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master
Christiansen, Keith – 2005
Georges de la Tour
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre & Pierre Rosenberg – 1997
Indian Art of the United States
Douglas, Frederic H. & Rene d'Harnoncourt – 1941
The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective
Edgerton, Samuel Y., Jr. – 1976
History of American Painting
Flexner, James Thomas – 1969
The Drawings of Goya: The Complete Albums
Gassier, Pierre – 1973
L’Oeuvre Gravé
Goya – 1948
Hokusai: Paintings, Drawings and Woodcuts
Hillier, J. – 1955
Titian
Hope, Charles – 1980
Art and Geometry: A Study in Space Intuitions
Ivins, William M., Jr. – 1964
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of the Present Day
Janson, Horst Woldemar – 1977
The Navajo Blanket
Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt & Anthony Berlant – 1972
The Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
Levey, Michael – 1956
A History of Italian Painting
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. – 1923
Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine Artist
J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton – 1927
The Hokusai Sketch-Books: Selections from the Manga
Michener, James A. – 1958
Ukiyo-e: 250 Years of Japanese Art
Neuer, Roni & Herbert Libertson – 1990
Paul Gaugin's Intimate Journals
Gauguin, Paul – 1936
The Complete Paintings of Canaletto
Puppi, Lionello – 1970
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
Rudofsky, Bernard – 1964
Mannerism
Shearman, John – 1981
Grotesques and Gargoyles: Paganism in the Medieval Church
Sheridan, Ronald & Anne Ross – 1975
Eadweard Mybridge: The Human Figure in Motion
Taft, Robert – 1955
The Story of Christ: The Noblest Paintings of the Saviour's Life Were Done by Giotto for a Chapel in Italy
Life – 1948
The Paintings of Frans Hals
Trivas, N. S. – 1949
The Galleries of the Accademia
Valcanover, Francesco – 1988
West Coast 1945-1969
Pasadena Art Museum – 1969
Up Stream: An American Chronicle
Lewisohn, Ludwig – 1926
Scottsboro Boy
Patterson, Haywood & Earl Conrad – 1950
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell
Powell, Anthony – 1983
Journals: 1982-1986
Powell, Anthony – 1996
Portrait of Max. An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm
Behrman, S. N. – 1960
Virginia Woolf: A Biography Vol. 1
Bell, Quentin – 1972
Life of Johnson
Boswell, James – 1969
Franz Kafka: A Biography
Brod, Max – 1947
A Private View of L. S. Lowry
Rhode, Shelley – 1987
Rossetti
Waugh, Evelyn – 1975
Passage of Arms
Ambler, Eric – 1959
Lucky Jim
Amis, Kingsley – 1958
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
Caroll, Lewis – 1939
Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph – 1931
Rock Bottom
Conrad, Eearl – 1953
Crime and Punishment
Dostoyvsky, Fyodor – 1945
The complete Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan sir – 1930
The Titan
Dreiser, Theodore – 1946
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – 1968
A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest – 1929
Antic Hay
Huxley, Aldous – 1923
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James – 1928
The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections
Kafka, Franz – 1946
A Hero of Our Time
Lermontov, Mikhail – 1962
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Carlo – 2000
Stories of Three Decades
Mann, Thomas – 1936
Of Human Bondage
Maugham, W. Somerset – 1915
A Severed Head
Murdoch, Iris – 1965
An Unofficial Rose
Murdoch, Iris – 1971
Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir – 1955
The Road to Wigan Pier
Orwell, George – 1962
Coming Up for Air
Orwell, George – 1967
The Life and Death of a Spanish Town
Paul, Elliot – 1942
What's Become of Waring
Powell, Anthony – 1962
Dance to the Music of Time Vol. 1: A Question of Upbringing
Powell, Anthony – 1965
The Fisher King
Powell, Anthony – 1987
Remembrance of Things Part Vol. 1 and 2
Proust, Marcel – 1934
The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal – 1925
The writings of Henry David Thoreau Vol. 2: Walden
Thoreau, Henry David – 1906
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo – n.d.
The Leopard
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe – 1970
Vile Bodies
Waugh, Evelyn – 1961
The Golden Apples
Welty, Eudora – 1949
The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith – 1920
The Cabala
Wilder, Thornton – 1926
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wilder, Thornton Niven – 1931
Of time and the river: a legend of man's hunger in his youth
Wolfe, Thomas – 1935
Night and Day
Woolf, Virginia – 1971
Poetics by Aristole
J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton – 1943
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology
Bateson, Gregory – 1973
Patterns of Culture
Benedict, Ruth – 1948
The Word as Image
Bowler, Berjouhi – 1970
Mythology
Bulfinch, Thomas – 1947
A Handbook of Marxism: Being a Collection of Extracts from the Writings of Marx, Engels and the Greatest of their Followers
Burns, Emile – 1935
Under the Sea Wind: A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life
Carson, Rachel L. – 1955
Critical Approaches to Literature
Daiches, David – 1956
Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak – 1952
The Drunken Forest
Durrell, Gerald – 1964
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1 and 2
Gibbon, Edward – n.d.
The Greatest Sea Adventure of Our Time
Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki – 1953
Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Norhtwest
Howard, Joseph Kinsey – 1952
Forty-Niners: The Chronicle of the California Trail
Hulbert, Archer Butler – 1931
Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolisim of Reason, Rite and Art
Langer, Susanne K. – 1993
Selected Works Vol. 2
Lenin, V.I. – 1943
Literature and Art: Selections from their Writings
Marx, Karl & Frederick Engels – 1947
The Dialogues
Plato – 1930
Stepmothering
Smith, Donna – 1990
Vaught's Practical Character Reader
Vaught, L. A. – 1907
Velikovsky reconsidered
Pensée – 1978
Worlds in Collision
Velikovsky, Immanuel – 1965
When the Going Was Good
Waugh, Evelyn – 1968
A Little Order: A Selection from his Journalism
Waugh, Evelyn – 1978
History of Philosophy
Weber, Alfred – 1909
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Wolfe, Tom – 1966
The Right Stuff
Wolfe, Tom – 1979
Modern American Poets
Aiken, Conrad – 1927
Poems
Benveniste, Asa – 1969
The Divine Comedy
Dante, Alighieri – 1941
Collected Poems: 1909-1935
Eliot, T. S. – 1936
Black Alephs: Poems 1960-1968
Hirschman, Jack – 1969
Poems
Hopkins, Gerard Manley – 1965
Poems, Odes, Sonnets
Keats, John – n.d.
The Aeneid
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) – 1910
