You might be familiar with painting by numbers, the books and kits invented and developed in the 1950s to help even novice painters create decent works of art by indicating exactly what colors to use, ...
Gerdts, William H., and Russell Burke, "American Still-Life Painting," New York: Praeger, 1971. Frankenstein, Alfred, "The Reality of Appearance: the Trompe L'Oeil Tradition in American Painting," ...