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Series
Publisher
Penny Candy Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Amrita Sher-Gil was always making art -- as a little girl in Budapest, as a young woman in Northern India, as an art student in Paris, she filled up notebooks with sketches and drawings -- but what kind of artist would she grow up to be? The third title in Penny Candy's Amazing Women series of nonfiction picture books, Between Two Worlds: The Art and Life of Amrita Sher-Gil follows Amrita, the daughter of a Hungarian opera singer and an Indian scholar,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure," recognized supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America's traditional values--a simple decent, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple...
24) Roy's house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uses the artworks of the American painter to depict the interior of a house, including a large couch, three red fish in a fishbowl, a yellow chair, flowers in a vase, and paint brushes in a jar
Author
Series
Kidd novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
A superhacker friend of Kidd's named Bobby suddenly disapears from cyberspace, and Kidd knows that isn't a good sign
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper
Author
Publisher
D. McKay Co
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
"Peter Paul Rubens, the Antwerp genius who combined the influences of the Italian Renaissance with the indigenous styles of his native Flanders, was a rarity among artists: a shrewd businessman, eminently respectable and bourgeois in his personal habits. As he became more renowned he also grew more prolific and was known as a ""man who would reject no substantial order."" About Rubens' early life little is known since the family was in exile -- Rubens'...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how French impressionist artist Claude Monet set out to excite critics about his art, much in the same way his young son became enthused over trains
34) Action Jackson
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
©1970
Language
English
Description
"'Normal Rockwell's subject is average America' ... These words from the text by Thomas S. Buechner, distinguished director of the Brooklyn Museum, explain Rockwell's enduring charm. And this volume, with is superb reproductions, including two, three, and even four-page spreads and foldouts in full color, finally does justice to an artist whose works have most often been seen only in the impermanent mediums of magazines and calendars. The author discusses...
37) Cat's eye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from...
Author
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Henri Matisse, one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century painting, was an intensely private person. It was not until half a century after his death that Hilary Spurling's two-part biography cleared away the fog of inaccurate guesswork and gossip that obscured both the man and, at times, his work."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Renoir became hugely popular despite great obstacles: thirty years of poverty followed by thirty years of progressive paralysis of his fingers. Despite these hardships, much of his work is optimistic, even joyful. Close friends who contributed money, contacts, and companionship enabled him to overcome these challenges to create more than 4,000 paintings. Renoir had intimate relationships with fellow artists (Caillebotte, Cezanne, Monet, and Morisot),...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery--a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh...
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