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"In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition...
142) Action Jackson
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses
143) Matthew's dream
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Knopf
Pub. Date
©1991
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In Catland, Kathryn Hughes chronicles the cat craze of the early twentieth century through the life and career of Louis Wain. Wain's anthropomorphic drawings of cats in top hats falling in love, sipping champagne, golfing, driving cars, and piloting planes are some of the most instantly recognizable images from the era. His round-faced fluffy characters established the prototype for the modern cat, which cat "fanciers" were busily trying to achieve...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve, Celia's family moved to nearby Appledore Island, where her...
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