The Luminous Brush: Painting With Egg Tempera
This important resource is essential to any artist who is interested in using the time-honored medium of egg tempera to achieve the luminous effects that can't be duplicated by any other medium. Complete with step-by-step photography, the book elucidates all stages of preparation, development, and completion of egg tempera paintings. Formal issues such as the depiction of light, color, form, and detail are discussed. Altoon Sultan's paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other fine institutions. Represented by the Marlborough Gallery, she lives in Groton, Vermont.

Practice of Tempera Painting
Considered the bible of Egg Tempera.

Paul Cadmus
Written by the artist's brother-in-law, who has posed for portraits and collaborated with Cadmus in theatrical design, the text takes us chronologically through individual works, which are characterized by tight, expert draftsmanship most often used to illustrate a perfect male form. Cadmus's style ranges from sedate portraits of solitary figures, usually in repose, to group scenes charged with movement, interaction and festivity. The group scenes generally depict people in their least attractive attitudes. Painted with egg tempura, these canvases seem to glow and appear fresh and vibrant. The allegorical works, such as "The Seven Deadly Sins," are vulgar renditions that express themselves as cheap poster-art sentimentality. The middle ground of this artist's work, paintings that are somewhat cartoon-like and full of life, seem to be the most successful. The text is full of informative detail but the work suffers from an infatuation with its subject and lack of attention to contemporaneous art movements which would place the artist in a larger social context.

George Tooker
An excellent book about one of the most famous artists of egg tempera.

Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography
Here, the legendary American realist painter looks back at six decades of his work. This comprehensive retrospective that originated in Japan and is now on view in Kansas City, Missouri, includes both famous and recent paintings. An artistic independent, Wyeth pictures a different view of reality than does, say, Norman Rockwell. Thomas Hoving introduces the book and observes that Wyeth "has always painted for himself." Thus, Wyeth's comments on the origins and events of each painting are of particular interest. The quality of the printing is very good, avoiding the pitfalls of too much high contrast and loss of shadow detail in the pictures. But best of all are the stories Wyeth tells. Sure to appeal to both general and informed readers, this is recommended for the autobiography and art collections of public and academic libraries.?Andy Murphy, Charleston P.L., S.C.

Breaking Eggs Making Paint
New dvd about the egg tempera techinque produced byt the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, PA.

Milk & Eggs
Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950. This is a very good resource which traces the history of egg tempera in the early 1900's.