Pan, An-yi and Ellen Avril. Nature Observed and Imagined: Five Hundred Years of Chinese Painting. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 2010. Exhibition catalogue.
Avril, Ellen B. Ancient Artistry: Pre-Chinese Ceramics and Jades from the Shatzman Collection. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2006. Exhibition catalogue.
Avril, Ellen B. Heavenly Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 2004. Exhibition catalogue.
Avril, Ellen B. “Transformations in the Glaze,” in Dark Jewels: Chinese Black and Brown Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection. Ackland Art Museum, 2002, pp. 25-79. Exhibition catalogue.
Ellen B. Avril, “Introduction: Children in Chinese Art,” co-authored with Ann Barrott Wicks, in Children in Chinese Art, edited by Ann Barrott Wicks, University of Hawai'i Press, 2002, pp. 1-30.
Avril, Ellen B. Chinese Art in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1997. Permanent collection catalogue.