Relates how the unexpected delivery of a large crate containing a live penguin changes the life of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the polar region.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....

Distinguishing herself as an evocative portrait painter in London, Ella Saville completes three life-changing works that reveal the secrets of her own life. Ella Graham is an artist whose career is on the rise. But when her younger sister, Chloe, asks her to paint her fiancI, Nate, Ella is dismayed'she distrusts Nate, and painting him is the last thing she'd like to do. But in the studio, Ella sees Nate in a different light. As her latest portrait...

Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, The "Genius" explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality.

Discusses the personal life and artistic accomplishments of Impressionist Claude Monet.