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English
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Henry Whittaker is a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's daughter, Alma, inherits both his money and his brilliant mind, ultimately becoming a botanist of considerable gifts. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of...
Author
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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...
6) Cat's eye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, 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...
16) Monet
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the personal life and artistic accomplishments of Impressionist Claude Monet.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
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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...