📚 Artists

Books with artists on their catalogue record, first published between 1759 and 2023, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 25 works carrying the subject artists in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 113,431 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Georg Baselitz	Georg Baselitz	1970	113
	Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori	Giorgio Vasari	1759	91
	Leonardo	Leonardo da Vinci	1946	89
	The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti	John Addington Symonds	1892	76
	Just Kids	Patti Smith	2006	33
	The Artist's Way	Julia Cameron	1992	31
	Leonardo da Vinci	Walter Isaacson	2017	21
	The letters of Vincent van Gogh	Vincent van Gogh	1918	17
	Creative and mental growth	Viktor Lowenfeld	1947	15
	Essays in aesthetics	Jean-Paul Sartre	1963	15
	Brieven aan zijn broeder	Vincent van Gogh	1900	14
	Art & fear	David Bayles	1993	12
	Permanent red	John Berger	1960	11
	The Andy Warhol Diaries	Andy Warhol	1989	11
	Women artists in history	Wendy Slatkin	1985	10
	Kunst und künstler	Otto Rank	1932	9
	Self portrait	Man Ray	1963	9
	Keith Haring Journals	Keith Haring	1996	9
	The lonely city	Olivia Laing	2016	9
	The art of Eric Carle	Eric Carle	1993	6
	The Creative Act	Rick Rubin	2023	5
	The Philosophy of Andy Warhol	Andy Warhol	1975	4
	Daily Rituals	Mason Currey	2013	4
	1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows	Ai Weiwei	2021	4
	Graphic Artists Guild Handbook	Graphic Artists Guild	1994	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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