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Include books by the same authorPortrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
Laurie Lisle · 447 pages
This chronicle of the life and career of a unique modern artist is based on her correspondence and interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera · 528 pages
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · 616 pages
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improv
Life with Picasso
Francoise Gilot · 373 pages
Extensive portrait of the artist written by a woman who lived with him for 11 years and was the mother of two of his children.
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
Alexander Theroux · 82 pages
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline · 306 pages
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Melissa Sweet · 32 pages
Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America--the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Linda Lear · 608 pages
Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tr
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Amy Novesky · 40 pages
Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Deborah Solomon · 493 pages
Vincent
Barbara Stok · 141 pages
"The turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh is a constant source of inspiration and intrigue for artists and art lovers. In this beautiful graphic biography, artist and writer Barbara Stok documents the brief and intense period of creativity Van Gogh spent in Arles, Provence. Away from Paris, Van Gogh falls in love with the landscape and light of the south of France. He dreams of setting up an artists
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Timothy Egan · 368 pages
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history and the driven, brilliant man who made them. Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Francine Prose · 432 pages
"In this new book, Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process.". "There is no ideal muse, but rather as many variations on the theme as there are individual women who have had the luck, or misfortune, to find their destiny conjoined
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
Witold Rybczynski · 480 pages
In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens, Illinois's
The Power of Art
Simon Schama · 448 pages
Taking eight famous painters and their great masterpieces, this book takes you back to the intense moment in history when these works were conceived and born. In each case the artist is backed into a corner, and given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics.
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Duncan Tonatiuh · 32 pages
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmAD1040L Lexile
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis · 672 pages
A portrait of the late creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip evaluates how his career was shaped by his midwestern working-class origins, family losses, and wartime experiences, offering insight into how familiar storylines closely reflected Schulz's private life.
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip
Nevin Martell · 256 pages
Traces the life and career of the creator of "Calvin and Hobbes."
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Molly Peacock · 416 pages
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King · 403 pages