Here you’ll find a summary of books illustrated in whole or in part with photography created by Bruce M. White:

American Art History

Jurovics, T. (2021). Faces from the Interior: The North American Portraits of Karl Bodmer

Mesnier, R. (2020). Creating the Sweet World of White House Desserts, A Pastry Chef’s Secrets.

Monkman, B. and White B. (2000 2nd Edition 2014).  The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families

Seale, W. (2020). To Live on Lafayette Square Society and Politics in the President’s Neighborhood.

White, B. and Goode, J. Capital Houses: Historic Residences of Washington, D.C. & Its Environs 1735 - 1965

White, B. (2016). At Home in The Presidents Neighborhood: A Photographic Tour

White, B. 2004). Picturing The White House

White, B. (2007). James Hoban: Washington’s Architect.

White, B. (2009). The White House Neighborhood, Part I.

White, B. and White House Historical Association. (2010). The White House Neighborhood, Part II

White House Historical Association. (1999 - 2022 editions). The White House An Historic Guide.

White House Historical Association. (2017). A Garden for the President: A History of the White House Grounds.

White House Historical Association. (2019). Blair House The Presidents Guest House.

White House Historical Association. (2021). James Hoban: Designer & Builder of the White House.

White House Historical Association. (2019). Music at the White House From the 18th to the 21st Centuries.

White House Historical Association. (2018). The Stephen Decatur House: A History.

White House Historical Association. (2020). Recipes From the Presidents Ranch: Food People Like to Eat.

White House Historical Association. (2020). Wine & the White House: A History.

 

Ancient Egyptian Art 

Arnold, D. (1999).  Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids.

Arnold, D. (1996). The Royal Women of Amarna

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1996) The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1999). When the Pyramids Were Built

Michael C. Carlos Museum. (2001). The Collector’s Eye: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from the Thalassic Collection, Ltd.

Michael C. Carlos Museum. (in press). Egyptian Art highlights from the Collection.

Museum of Fine Arts. (1999). Pharaohs of the Sun.

Ancient Greek & Roman Art 

Aicha Ben Abed. (2006). Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from North Africa

The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Tampa Museum of Art. (2003). Magna Graecia: Greek Art From South Italy and Sicily

J. Paul Getty Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art. (1994).  A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman.  

J. Paul Getty Trust. (2006). Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman African Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia

Michael C. Carlos Museum. (in press). The Ancient Collections

Padgett, M. (2003).  The Centaur’s Smile

Princeton University. (2001). Roman Sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University.

Princeton University. (1994). Greek Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University.

Reeder, E. (1999). Scythian Gold: Treasures from Ancient Ukraine.

Ancient Islamic Art 

Carboni, S. (2001). Glass From Islamic Lands.  

Kaoukji,S. and Keene, M. (2001). Treasury of the World: Jeweled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1991). Al Andalus.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1998). Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1998). The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque.

Ancient Near Eastern Art 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2003). Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2014). Assyria to Iberia: Crossing Cultures at the Dawn of the Classical Age

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2008). Beyond Babylon: Art & Exchange in the Second Millenium B.C.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2000). The Golden Deer of Eurasia. The Walters Art Gallery.

 

Architecture 

Aicha Ben Abed. (2006). Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from North Africa

Billington, D. (2003). The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy

Billington, D. (2008). Felix Candela: Modern Spanish Architect in Mexico

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2006). James Athenian Stuart.

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (1999). Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (in press). William Kent.

The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Tampa Museum of Art. (2003). Magna Graecia: Greek Art From South Italy and Sicily

Evans, H. and White, B. (2004). Saint Catherine’s Monastery: Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay

J. Paul Getty Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art. (1994).  A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman.

J. Paul Getty Trust. (2006). Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia

Goode, J. and White, B. (in press). Capital Houses: the Historic Houses of Washington, D.C.. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1997). The Glory of Byzantium.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2004). Byzantium Faith and Power (1261-1557). 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2000). Studioli of the Italian Renaissance

Monkman, B and White B. (2000 and 2014).  The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families.

National Gallery of Art. (1999). Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the German Renaissance.

White House Historical Association. (2004). Picturing The White House.

White House Historical Association. (2009). James Hoban: Washington’s Architect.

White, B. (2016). At Home in The Presidents Neighborhood: A Photographic Tour.

White House Historical Association. (1999 - 2022 editions). The White House An Historic Guide.

Art Museum Handbooks 

Acosta, T. (2021)European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum.

Princeton University. (2008). Handbook of the Collection.

Princeton University. (2012). Handbook of the Collection.

Michael C. Carlos Museum. (2008). Handbook of the Collection.

Asian Art 

Aitken, M. (2004).  When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection.

Brauen, M. (2009). Mandala Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism.  

The Art Museum, Princeton University (1999). Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy

Fong, W. and Watt, J. (1996). Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Granoff, P. (2009) Victorious Ones Jain Images of Perfection

Harrist, R. and Fong, W. (1999). The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection.

Jackson, D. (2009). Patron and Painter Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style

Keene, M. (2001). Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals

Kossack, S. (1994). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: Southeast Asian Art.

Linrothe, R. (2006). Holy Madness Portraits of Tantric Siddhas

Liu, C. et al. (2005). Recarving China’s Past: Art, Archaelogy, and Architecture of the “Wu Family Shrines”. 

MacLean Collection. (2007). A Passion for Form: The Barry Maclean Collection of Asian Art

The Norton Museum of Art. (2003). The Chinese Collection: Selected Works from The Norton Museum of Art.

Byzantine Art 

J. Paul Getty Museum. (2006). Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons From Sinai

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1997). The Glory of Byzantium.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2004). Byzantium Faith and Power (1261-1557). 

Evans, H. and White, B. (2004). Saint Catherine’s Monastery: Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay

Contemporary & Modern Art 

Abadie, D. (1994). Charles Simonds: A Retrospective Fundación La Caixa.

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (in press). Sonia Delaunay.

Baum, K. (2014). New Jersey as Non Site

Baum, K., Griffey, R. (2021). Alice Neel: People Come First.

Freeman, J. (1990). The Fauve Landscape.

Freeman, J. (1993). Mark Tansey.

Fondacion Jose Guerrero. (2007). Jose Guerrero Catalog Raisonne

Grounds For Sculpture. (2021). Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960-2020.

Hatje Cantz. (2011). Frank Stella Connections.

Kennedy, B. (2010). Frank Stella Irregular Polygons, 1965-66.

Miami Art Museum of Dade County. (1997). Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos Alfonzo, a Survey 1975-1991.

Miller, P. (2022). Richard Tuttle: What is the Object?.

Mitnick, B. (1992). The Realist Vision of Adolf Konrad: A Retrospective.

The Museum of Modern Art. (1993). Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century

Princeton University Art Museum. (2002). Cézanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection

Schiff, R. et al. (2004). Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonne.

Schwarz, C. (1990). Long Island Collects: The Figure and Landscape.

Stella, F. (2011). Frank Stella Recent Work.

Simonds, C. & White, B. (in press). Floating Cities

Stapleton, L. et al. (2018). The Box Project.

Temkin, A. (2002). Barnett Newman

Wexner Center for the Arts (2009). Mark Bradford

 

Cookbooks/Food

Mesnier, R. (2020). Creating the Sweet World of White House Desserts, A Pastry Chef’s Secrets.

Mesnier, R. (2015, 2022). The White House in Gingerbread.

White House Historical Association. (2020). Recipes From the Presidents Ranch: Food People Like to Eat.

White House Historical Association. (2020). Wine & the White House: A History.

Haller, F. (2022). The White House Family Cookbook.

Decorative Arts 

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1993). Along the Royal Road: Berlin and Potsdam in KPM Porcelain and Painting 1815-1948.  

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1994).  Cast Iron From Central Europe, 1800-1850

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2004). Castellani and Giuliano Jewelry

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1999). Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, ca. 1690-1766

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2009). Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1998). Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930 - 1997.  

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (2007). Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1995). Goldsmith Work from the Hungarian Museum, Budapest

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1995). Georg Jensen Jewelry

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (2002). Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001.

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2006). James Athenian Stuart The Rediscovery of Antiquity

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (1997). Josef Frank, Architect and Designer: An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (1999). Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (2021). Majolica Mania Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915.

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2008). Out of This World: Shaker Design Past, Present, and Future

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (2008). Thomas Hope.

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2005). Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts (2001). William Beckford, 17601844: An Eye for the Magnificent

The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. (2000). Women Designers in the USA: 1900 – 2000

Barnes, R. & Hunt Kahlenberg, M. (2010). Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art. (1996). Converging Cultures: Art and Identity in Spanish America.

Campbell, T. (2007). Henry VIII  & Artistic Patronage

Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens. (2017). Spectacular: Gems and Jewelry from the Merriweather Post Collection.

Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens. (2018). Faberge Rediscovered.

LeCorbellier, C. (1990). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1998). Honoré Lannuier: Cabinetmaker from Paris.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2007). Tapestry of the Baroque: Threads of Splendor

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2014). Pieter Cocke Van Aelst: Master Designer of the Renaissance.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2002). Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2007). Tapestry of the Baroque: Threads of Splendor

Musee des Arts Decoratif (2008). Art Deco Jewelry

The Wolfsonian Foundation. (1995). Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885 – 1945: Selections from the Wolfsonian Foundation

White House Historical Association. (2021). James Hoban: Designer & Builder of the White House.

White House Historical Association. (2018). The Stephen Decatur House: A History.

 

Medieval & Renaissance Art (Europe)

The Hispanic Society (2000). Tesoros.

Christiansen, K. (1990). Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player

Christiansen, K. Falciani, C. (2021). The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1993). The Art of Early Medieval Spain: 500 – 1220 AD.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2019). The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2019). The Last Knight: A Picture Album

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1998). Stained Glass Before 1700 AD in American Collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (2000). Studioli of the Italian Renaissance.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1999). Dosso Dossi.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1998). Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries

National Gallery of Art. (1999). Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the German Renaissance.

National Gallery of Art. (2004). Tilman Riemenschneider.


Memoir

Rossellini, I. (1997). Some of Me.

Photography 

Bunnell, P. (1992). Record of the Art Museum: The Art of Pictorial Photography 1890-1925.  

Smith, J. (2009).  Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait.

White, B. (2015). Volkmar Kurt Wentzel and His Portrayal of Washington by Night.
 

Pre-Columbian Art 

Just, B. (2009). Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait

Princeton University. (2009). Enduring Spirit: Arctic Art at Princeton

Princeton University. (1995). The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership

Pohl, J. (2007). Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven  Nahua Art and Ritual of Ancient Southern Mexico