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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel--a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the reader into the past better than a time machine could accomplish" (The Associated Press). New York, 1924....
3) Fake like me
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A satire of the absurdly glamorous New York high art scene, in which a young artist crumbles under unimaginable pressure while at an upstate artists' retreat.
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where piano teacher and artist, Andrea Wagner, has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. She has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled. Andrea becomes so fixated on finding her birth mother...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found, the cause of death was assumed to be suicide. But as Kate...
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women painters from history and today's most exciting rising stars.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a spring afternoon long ago, thirteen-year-old Wyn Davies took a shortcut through the woods in her New Hampshire hometown and became a cautionary tale. Now, twenty years later, she lives in New York, on the opposite side of a duplex from her ex, with their four-year-old daughter shuttling between them. Wyn makes her living painting commissioned canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. But the nagging sense that she has sold her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1760 France, Marianne arrives at an isolated seaside estate to secretly paint the wedding portrait of Heloise, a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
10) Frida Kahlo
Series
Publisher
Button Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
You may already know that Frida Kahlo was an artist, but did you know she lived in a bright blue house? Or that she owned two pet spider monkeys? A graphic retelling of Kahlo's story which gives children a colourful snapshot of her life and the world in which she grew up, whilst educating them on everything from the Mexican revolution to the importance of self-belief.
11) Fake: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"Can you spot the difference? Emma Caan is a fake. She's a forger, an artist who specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. But she isn't a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. Emma's more than mastered a Gauguin brushstroke and a van Gogh wheat field, but her work is sometimes a painful reminder of the artistic dreams she once chased for herself, when she was younger and before...
Author
Language
English
Description
Martha's Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five years ago, she had confidently walked the halls of Boston's renowned Museum School, enrolling in art courses that were once deemed "unthinkable" for women to take, and showing a budding talent for watercolors. But no more. Ida Russell is now Ida Pease, resident of a seaside farm on Vineyard Haven, and wife to Ezra, a once-charming man who has become an inattentive and...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a young painter approaches Isaiah Quintable for help tracking down her missing mother, it's not just the case IQ's looking for, but the human connection. When his new confidant turns out to be connected to a dangerous paramilitary operation, IQ falls victim to a threat even a genius can't see coming.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Una preciosa biografía de la pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo ilustrada con las evocadoras imágenes de María Hesse. ± Pies, para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar ». Frida fue algo más que dolor y angustia. Quiso ser fiel a su arrolladora personalidad y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es fiesta, color, sangre y vida. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera y una mujer apasionada que no se conformó...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Georgia O'Keeffe is famously known for her colorful, large paintings of flowers, but this artist's portfolio expands far beyond Jack-in-the-pulpits. In this book, young readers will learn about O'Keeffe's childhood in Wisconsin and her years as a talented art school teacher. Her years as an artist in both New York and New Mexico, two areas that are heavily represented in her artwork, reveal O'Keeffe's influences. Explore the adventures that inspired...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, 'A Generous Vision' portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette. Flamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively...
Author
Publisher
Taurus
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still - so she began to paint. Kahlo's unique talent was to make her one of the century's most enduring artists. But her remarkable paintings were only one element of a rich and dramatic...
20) Georgia O'Keeffe
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Introduces the reader to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe"--
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