Gina Beavers
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Maureen Gallace
Kyle Staver
Katherine Bradford
Celeste Rapone
Claire Sherman
Josephine Halvorson
Chantal Joffe
Margot Bergman
Elizabeth Livingston
Brandi Twilley
Hanneline Rogeberg
Nicole Eisenman
Angela Dufresne
Katarina Janeckova
Ridley Howard
Holly Coulis
Eric Aho
Justin John Greene
Elise Ansel
Ann Craven
Catherine Murphy
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Vija Celmins
Alex Katz (the landscapes, not the portraits)
Wilhelm Sasnal
Peter Dreher
Sarah Sohn
Eleanor Ray
Greta Waller
Carly Silverman
Alexi Belsey Worth is a good painter and writer. Here's an excellent piece he wrote for Cabinet Magazine
Amy Bennett
Monica Tap
George Ault
Tiffany Calvert

Robert Doak (best oil paint maker I've ever found)

The Sight of Death by T.J. Clark
The Gift by Lewis Hyde (ignore the cheesy cover)
The Art of Arts by Anita Albus
Rooms with a View The Open Window in the 19th Century by Sabine Rewald
John James Audubon by Richard Rhodes You'll learn something about being a hustler and what it means to be an American
Istanbul Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Mapping Home by Aleksandar Hemon
Secret Knowledge by David Hockney
Bette and Joan the Divine Feud