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Rome, 1605: After her mother's death, Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. Artemisia became one of Rome's most talented painters-- and her father took all the credit. Five years later, in the aftermath of a rape, Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. Through the ensuing trial and torture,...
82) Anywhere artist
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A young artist explains how she uses the materials provided by nature, as well as her imagination and creativity, to fuel her art.
83) Emily's art
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Atheneum
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uuuu
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English
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Emily paints four pictures and enters one in the first grade art contest, but the judge interpets Emily's entry as a rabbit instead of a dog.
84) The painter
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Orchard
Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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Although her father is busy working as an artist at home, he still finds time to spend with his daughter
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English
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Alternating between his perilous hunt for the Lost Van Gogh, and the glamorous life John Decker remade for himself after serving time for forgery, this intricately woven historical thriller follows Luke Perrone as he unearths several mysteries best left untouched as he gets closer to the truth.
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Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee being called...
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Pantheon
Pub. Date
c2005.
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English
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A famous female artist, Sara Ehrenreich, resurfaces after being lost to the world for thirty years. She has been living on a tiny island in the South Pacific for all this time, after running away to paradise with fellow artist Philip Ehrenreich. During there marriage Sara becomes more famous as an artist. Philip is killed during WWII, but Sara survives and becomes an expert on native tattooing and uses her own body as the canvas for her art. She now...
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Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets.
93) Fields of bounty
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Leah's garden volume 03
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English
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Lilac Nielsen's dream has come true: Reverend Ethan Pritchard has finally noticed her. But she must balance this new courtship with her dream of publishing her artwork in a New York newspaper. She has been submitting the drawings under a pen name, and if anyone traces them to her the entire Nielsen family could be in danger. When a family crisis back in Ohio shakes the Nielsen sisters, can they continue to build the new life they've begun in Nebraska?...
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2023.
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"Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past, and...
95) Bitter
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"After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that's so far away from what...
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The story of the actor Jack Burns. His mother, Alice, is a Toronto tattoo artist. When Jack is four, he travels with Alice to several North Sea ports; they are trying to find Jack's missing father, William, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed. But Alice is a mystery, and William can't be found. Even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. Jack Burns goes to schools in Canada and New England, but what shapes him are his relationships...
98) Josefina
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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A counting book inspired by Mexican folk artist Josefina Aguillar who makes painted clay figures.
99) The lake
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Melville House
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English
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The tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her grief and start a career as a graphic artist.
100) Everyman
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English
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A successful commercial artist with three very different ex-wives, a daughter who adores him, and two sons who despise him, the protagonist finds his confidence, sense of independence, and well-being undermined by an attack of illness in middle age.
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