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61) Cat's eye
Author
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Years after painter Elaine Risley flees Toronto for Vancouver, she returns to search for long-missing parts of her life and pursue the elusive Cordelia, her best friend and sometimes enemy.
62) Lost in Paris
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Four years after being exiled to Paris for disgracing the family name, Alabama debutante Zoe Barlow is still reeling from the horror of her ejection. Still, she's managed to create a new family among fellow expats and artists, including Hadley and Ernest Hemingway. When a valise containing all of Ernest's writings goes missing, Zoe volunteers to help Hadley track it down. Unfortunately, the valise leads to two murders-the train porter who stole the...
Author
Series
Amish Inn novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sweet Naomi Byler cooks meals for the guests at The Peony Inn, where Amish sisters and owners of the inn Esther and Lizzie love her like a granddaughter. She's as happy there as a young woman can be, considering that her fiancé, Thomas, has left her to court someone else. She knows she'll get over the love of her life in due time, but she assumes marriage will never be a part of her future. Amos Lantz and his mother are guests at the inn, visiting...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The Annunciationist is the story of an American painter obsessed with the meaning and significance of paintings of the Annunciation. It is the intensity of the relationship between Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin, and the message conveyed, “You have in your womb an infant” that so fascinates Martin, our painter. He believes that Gabriel is somehow involved because before his announcement, the Virgin was a virgin. It is forbidden intimacy with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A new series of illustrated books specifically designed for children in elementary education, narrating the stories of those great historical figures who have left their mark on humanity in fields such as science, art, exploration, music and other subjects. Young readers will be able to read all about these famous people's main achievements, experiencing the main steps of their lives through Isabel Munoz's engaging illustrations, and finding out some...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the fascinating Great artist series, we investigate some of the best artists in history - examining their influence, style and what exactly made them so unique. In this double package we examine the lives and work of two of the most influential artists of this period - El Greco, the most dramatic painter of his time, arguably paving the way for the Baroque art movement, and Dürer, accomplished oil artist and the first self-portraitist in art.
Author
Series
Sophie's daughters volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
On her way to Montana, Sally McClellan's party is attacked and robbed. But then artist Logan McKenzie saves the badly wounded cowgirl who has been left for dead. Can this landscape painter tame the tomboy without breaking her spirit? Sally doesn't know much about ribbons and lace, but Logan's presence makes her want to connect with her feminine side. Will this fractured female discover a way to capture the artist's love- or find herself captured and...
69) Georges Seurat
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Through images and brief text, presents an overview of the life and work of French painter Georges Seurat.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Karl Weschke's impressive, complex paintings picture the human figure and the landscape, the everyday and the mythical. His subjects include dogs and drowned bodies, creatures from legends and, increasingly in recent years, the monumental ruins of ancient Egypt. For more than fifty years, he has explored the possibilities of painting and its relevance to an uncertain world. Produced alongside a retrospective at Tate St Ives, with additional paintings...
71) J.M.W. Turner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A short biography that introduces J.M.W. Turner, his works, and his painting style.
72) Albrecht Dürer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Briefly discusses the influences upon Dürer, the fifteenth-century German artist, and the outstanding features of some of his paintings.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gary Hume makes beautiful paintings. His materials are household paints on aluminium surfaces and his subject's, he says, are "flora, fauna and portraits". The results are elegant, delicate, simple yet elusive and exquisite. Playing gloriously with colour and light, they are paintings of subtle tones, idiosyncratic clashes and insistent reflections. Interviewed in his studio, Gary Hume reflects on his work from the 1980s, when his Doors series won...
74) The duke undone
Author
Series
Duke Undone volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to paint the man in his natural form. Little does she know that...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"--
77) Mary Cassatt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the life and work of the American artist renowned for her luminous paintings of children and mothers.
78) Winslow Homer
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the 19th century American artist Winslow Homer.
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