Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students exploring human design. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions. The wealth of information offered by the Atlas ensures its place as a classic for the study of the human form.

"An exhaustive but absorbingly interesting treatise..... The author's thorough knowledge of his subject has given the book an intensity which would hold the attention of a reader not ordinarily interested in anatomy, while the artist will find it planned and written with a completeness and orderliness which make it the perfect reference book." – Art News and Review