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A newly married couple surrounded by the beauty of Paris, each in their own way struggling to define what marriage could and should look like. A high school teacher confronting echoes of his past as his current love negotiates the place of art in her own life. An artist explaining why the work that should have been the pinnacle of his career fell unexpectedly flat. A rich young man exploring and painting a new landscape and perhaps creating an alternate...
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Moments of reflection, moments of change. Surprise, discomfort. Tenacious hope. Life-altering grief. Five stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Maryann D'Agincourt, W. Somerset Maugham, and Edith Wharton bring a full spectrum of human experience and emotion together in the second of Portmay Press's collections of art fiction. Each piece in this volume was chosen for the unique way in which the author paints with words and, whether from the perspective of the...
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The effects of World War II resonate through the lives of two families, one American and one European, living outside of Boston. As Jenny grows up in the shadow of her parents' dark experiences in Trieste during the war, she is pulled to the haunting art and ironic gaze of her next-door neighbor Jonas, whose own father, preparing for deployment as an army medic, died before he was born. But when, the mysterious Eric Stram enters her life unexpectedly,...
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Maryann D'Agincourt's stunning novel in sketches follows Jocelyn from childhood to middle age, starting at the moment in her youth when she first hears the name of the mysterious Canadian painter, Alex Martaine, whispered by her parents. Each of them-Jocelyn, her art-loving mother, and her literary father-has a unique relationship with the artist, and he does, in ways the child could never imagine, turn each of their lives around.
5) Printz
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Imagine writing a novel about a man named Jacob Printz who lost his purpose in life. Imagine describing the one constant in Jacob's life, the image of Seated Woman he first viewed as a much younger person, an image he comes back to over and over to make sense of the loves and losses in his life. This is the image by de Kooning that you, as the author, saw in the same museum several years before, an image that intrigues and haunts you, informing your...
6) All Most
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This insightful collection of short stories takes the reader on a journey through a diverse array of lives and relationships, from a journalist finding new love after the death of her husband to a schoolgirl, shocked to discover her mother's secrets. D'Agincourt delves, deep into the emotional lives of her characters and sheds light on the mysteries of human decisions and the significance of art and music in our lives.
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Chasing Vermeer volume 1
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When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Pete the Kitty loves art class. But when the project is to go outside and make art from nature, Pete isn't sure what to create. Then inspiration strikes and Pete realizes that nature art is cooler than he ever imagined"--
10) Horse
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Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting the racehorse takesup arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery...
11) Lots of dots
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Circular shapes are spotted in familiar objects and everyday situations.
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Babar (Brunhoff) volume 65
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Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2003
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44 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm. + 1 col. poster
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Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
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When Carrington Brouwer receives the enviable job of painting carousel horses for a factory in Ohio, she believes her future is secure. But after an expensive necklace disappears from the home where she's been staying, she's caught up in a search for the truth that puts her entire livelihood--and her developing relationship with the factory manager--at risk. Can she lead police to the real culprit before she loses everything?
17) Louise loves art
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2014]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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After drawing a picture of her cat, a young girl searches for the perfect place to hang her masterpiece.
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Child's Play (International) Ltd
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[2016]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Clive enjoys making a wide variety of art and craft projects, from sponge prints to stringing beads, alone and with his friends, as well as visiting an art museum and looking at art books.
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