The publications series is divided into two distinct categories: materials published by Rex Brandt, and materials published about Rex Brandt by others. Formats represented in this category include books, magazine and newspaper articles, pamphlets, exhibition catalogs, among others. Some publications include information on both Rex Brandt and Joan Irving Brandt and their work, such as the “Two From Here” exhibition catalog from Riverside, California in 1984.

A. Books by Rex Brandt

Brandt, Rex. About Landscape: Selected Statements. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Rex Brandt, 1989.

Brandt, Rex. The Artists’ Sketchbook and its uses. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, [1966].

Brandt, Rex. The Composition of Landscape Painting. Corona del Mar, Calif.: The Press of the Rex Brandt School, 1959.

Brandt, Rex. From my Sketchbooks. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Rex Brandt, 1990.

Brandt, Rex. Notes on the Composition of Landscape Painting. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Brandt Painting Workshops, 1959.

Brandt, Rex. Rex Brandt’s San Diego: Land of the Sundown Sea. Palm Desert, Calif.: Best-West Publications, 1969.

Brandt, Rex. Seeing with a Painter’s Eye. Corona del Mar, Calif.: The Brandt Painting Workshops, 1981.

Brandt, Rex. Seeing with a Painter’s Eye: Notes on the Composition of Painting from the Brandt Painting Workshops. Second edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1984. Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Landscape. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor with Rex Brandt. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Rex Brandt, 1949.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Technique in 15 Lessons. Corona del Mar, Calif.: The Brandt- Dike School, 1950.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Technique in 15 Lessons. Third edition, revised. Corona del Mar, Calif.: The Brandt-Dike School, 1952.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Technique in 15 Lessons. [Cover title: Watercolor Landscape in Fifteen Lessons]. Third edition, revised. Corona del Mar, Calif.: The Brandt- Dike School, 1952.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Technique in 15 Lessons. Fourth edition, revised. Corona del Mar, Calif.: The Brandt-Dike School, 1954.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Technique in 15 Lessons. Fifth edition, second printing. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Rex Brandt, 1959.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Technique in 15 Lessons. Sixth edition, revised. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1963.

Brandt, Rex. Watercolor Techniques and Methods: The Twenty Basic Lessons Adapted from the Winning Ways of Watercolor for Easy Student and Studio Use. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973. Brandt, Rex. West Coast Porfolio: Sixteen Watercolors and Four Drawings in Wash and Line. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Brandt Painting Workshop, 1977.

Brandt, Rex. West Coast Sketchbook. Corona del Mar, Calif.: Brandt Painting Workshops, 1978.

Brandt, Rex. The Winning Ways of Watercolor: Basic Techniques and Methods of Transparent Watercolor in Twenty Lessons. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973.

B. Books about Rex Brandt and the California School

Everyday Life in California: Regional Watercolors, 1930-1960. Santa Monica, Calif.: The California Heritage Museum, 2004.

Muller, Jerome K. Rex Brandt: A Portfolio of Recent Works Commemorating the First 25 Years of the Brandt Workshop at Corona del Mar. Santa Ana, Calif.: Unicorn Press, 1972. [2 copies]

Regionalism: The California View: Watercolors, 1929-1945. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988.

Stary-Sheets, David. “California School:” From the Private Collection of E. Gene Crain. Gualala, Calif: Gualala Arts Center, 1986.

Todd Madigan Gallery. California State University, Bakersfield. Scenes of California Life, 1930-1950. Bakersfield, Calif: The Dorian Society, 1991.