Alan Bamberger, member in good standing of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, maintains an extensive inventory of rare, scarce, and out-of-print books, exhibit catalogs, auction catalogs, periodicals, magazines, articles, and ephemera about California art and artists of all time periods.

Stock includes books, exhibit catalogs, and monographs on plein air painters of Northern and Southern California, WPA art and artists, social realists, California School watercolorists, California women artists, Asian artists in California, California regionalism, Bay Area Figurative painting, abstract expressionists and expressionism, nineteenth century art and artists, painting, sculpture, prints, and much more.

A small sampling of artists includes William Wendt, Guy Rose, William Ritchel, Jessie Arms Botke, E. Bruce Nelson, Alfred Mitchell, Agnes Pelton, Orrin White, Jean Mannheim, Anna Hills, William Keith, Raymond Dabb Yelland, Arthur and Lucia Mathews, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Alson Skinner Clark, F. Grayson Sayre, Enjar Hansen, Charles Fries, Hanson Puthuff, Maurice Braun, Christain von Schneidau, Charles Reiffel, Burton Boundey, Benjamin Brown, Charles Christian Nahl, William Hahn, John O'Shea, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud, Thomas Hill, Dong Kingman, Millard Sheets, Theodore Wores, Maynard Dixon, Edward Borein, Edgar Payne, Henrietta Shore, E. Charlton Fortune, Ben Messick, John Gamble, Roi Partridge, Elise, Boris Lovet-Lorski, and Thaddeus Welch.

You can also read reviews of Artists in California, 1786-1940, the third and final edition by Edan Hughes. While you're at it, also check out the review of California Watercolors, 1850-1970, An Illustrated History and Biographical Dictionary, another great California art reference book.