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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Ira “Iraville” Sluyterman van Langewedye is a popular contemporary illustrator beloved for her charming watercolour illustrations of nature, small towns, idyllic scenes, and everyday life. This title brings together a collection of her best work in a giftworthy, lavishly presented hardback art book, which includes never-before-seen images, impressive portfolio pieces, insightful works in progress, beautiful photography, and the artist’s own...
202) Places of their own
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Pub. Date
©2000
Description
"This book compares the art, lives, and achievements of three great artists of the Americas: Emily Carr (1871-1945) of Canada, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) of the United States, and Frida Kahlo (1907-54) of Mexico. Each became her country's preeminent woman painter in the twentieth century, and all explored similar issues in their painting.
Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall shows how each artist searched for an authentic, personal identity and analyzes in detail...
203) Sylvie
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"When a teacher asks Sylvie's class what they want to be when they grow up, Sylvie is the only one without an answer. In this funny, perceptive graphic memoir, a girl who works very hard to be the perfect student, daughter, and friend must figure out who she is to the least demanding person in her life: herself."--Book jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"An inspiring picture book about Rosa Bonheur, the most famous and best-selling painter of her century In a stunning ode to underrepresented women everywhere, award-winning illustrator Ruth Sanderson tells the untold story of French artist Rosa Bonheur in this picture book biography. Rosa Bonheur was born in 1822 in France at a time when young women had limited options beyond being a wife and mother. But Rosa wouldn't stand for this. She wore pants,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In this graphic memoir, Liana Finck goes in search of that thing she has lost--her shadow, she calls it, but one might also think of it as the "otherness" or "strangeness" that has defined her since birth, that part of her that has always made her feel as though she is living in exile from the world. In Passing for Human, Finck is on a quest for self-understanding and self-acceptance, and along the way she seeks to answer some eternal questions:...
206) Aaron's leap
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Aaron's Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty first-century Israeli film crew delving into the extraordinary life of a woman who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of Terezin and died in Auschwitz. Aided by the granddaughter of one of the artist's pupils, the filmmakers begin to uncover buried secrets from a time when personal and artistic decisions became matters...
207) Mary Cassatt
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Born in 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburg, Mary Cassatt reached maturity in an era when the options open to most women were limited to marriage. Her passion for art overwhelmed the mores of the time and she dedicated her life to painting-European.
208) Stone Quarry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
PI Bill Smith is hired by a lady farmer in upstate New York to recover paintings, the theft of which she does not want to report to police. The probe leads Smith to a murder. By the author of A Bitter Feast.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Devastated by the loss of her older brother, Ernie, just before Christmas in 1938, gifted four-year-old artist Suzanna retains a painting she had intended to give him as a Christmas gift, a work considered by her descendants to be her finest in spite of her fame years later.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
If you thought that it was a man's world, think again! 100 Women Who Made History is the exciting story of the women who changed the world, from Anne Frank to J.K. Rowling. Meet the most talented and famous women in history, from politics, science, business, and the arts, from exciting entrepreneurs to clever creative. Discover landmark moments in the lives of amazing historical women from Joan of Arc to Marie Curie, up to and including modern game-changers...
216) Her sister's shadow
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Renowned painter Lilli Niles is at home in her North London flat when she receives an unexpected call from her older sister, Bea, who's at the family homestead in Whitehead, Massachusetts. Bea's husband has just died, and she'd like Lilli to fly home to attend the funeral. There are reasons Lilli moved all the way to England to escape her older sister --significant reasons that have kept them estranged for decades. But something in Bea's voice makes...