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Author
Publisher
State Historical Society of Iowa
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows her face but few ever knew her name. The stoic-faced woman in Grant Wood's American Gothic was his sister Nan, perhaps one of his closet friends and observers. In My Brother, Grant Wood, Nan Wood Graham offers us an intimate glimpse of the artist in a full-life biography. Her portrait of her brother is as direct and poignant as the portrait he painted of her. Through her anecdotes and reminiscences, Graham not only revives the vivid...
Author
Publisher
Galahad Books
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
The very best of America's favorite American artist - at an unbeatable price. Norman Rockwell's works have always enchanted America with their clear-eyed and humorous picture of life in the country's heartland: here are the very best of them, from the Saturday Evening Post covers to The Four Freedoms, a series of paintings done during World War II. Every image still exudes its fresh charm, unsullied by sentimentality: Santa, napping as the elves scurry...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
At its most fundamental level, this stunning and unique biography describes a distinguished painter's enterprise of transmitting emotion onto a flat surface. It explores all the factors that have combined to create Andrew Wyeth -- his childhood in a hothouse of creativity; his hypersensitivity; his formidable wife; his identification with people marginalized and misunderstood -- all which have made him an American icon. In the process, his realist...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Wood was one of America's most famous regionalist painters. In his time he was an "almost mythical figure, " recognized supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America's traditional values--a simple decent, home spun tribute to our lost agrarian age. America's most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood, is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple....
Author
Publisher
Bulfinch Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive survey is a look back at six decades of paintings by America's favorite artist. With 138 reproductions, including many seminal paintings from both his Chadds Ford and Maine work, this is the crowning book of Andrew Wyeth's career. But what makes Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting--an "autobiography," told through conversations with Thomas Hoving--which offer fascinating, often...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In "John Singer Sargent," Trevor Fairbrother, Deputy Director for Art and John and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern Art at the Seattle Art Museum, presents a rich and thoughtful interpretation of Sargent and his art. Fairbrother explores the opposing elements that made Sargent a complex figure and a great artist: he accepted his New England Puritan heritage but, for the most part, lived grandly in Europe; he achieved wealth and fame as a portraitist...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A clever, charmingly quirky portrayal of painter Jackson Pollock - and the first in a series of picture-book biographies of contemporary artists Jackson Pollock was unlike any other painter. Instead of sitting in front of an easel with brushes, he poured paint over canvases rolled-out across the floor, moving, splashing, and making the vivid liquid run with energy and rhythm. Pollock's story is told here with wit and eccentricity, perfectly paired...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
""The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew." As an observant young child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees-and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings with him both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks...
18) Cook book: Gertrude Stein, William Cook, and Le Corbusier : with visual poems for Gertrude Stein
Author
Publisher
Bobolink Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
" ... a biographical sketch of one of Gertrude Stein's closest friends, a largely unknown artist named William Edwards Cook (1881-1959)"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the popular American artist who depicted both traditional and contemporary subjects, including children, family scenes, astronauts, and the poor.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. Edward Hopper's story is...
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