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1) Horse
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history 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...
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"To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five...
4) Mary Cassatt
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Presents a biography of artist Mary Cassatt, covering her early years, the development of her artistic style, and her artistic accomplishments. Includes a timeline, a map, a quiz, and a glossary.
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During a fifty-year period, an artistic movement developed in America that was based on Romanticism and inspired by the wild areas in the vicinity of New York's Hudson River. The first native American school of landscape painting included artists Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and Thomas Doughty. While most of these artists did not think of themselves as belonging to a movement, they did share a sense of wonder at the grandeur of the New World's...
10) Waking the dead
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Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations....
11) Grandma Moses
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A brief biography of Anna Mary Robertson, the artist who was known as Grandma Moses, describing the inspiration behind and development of her paintings.
12) Mary Cassatt
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Looks at the life and work of artist Mary Cassatt, in simple text with illustrations, providing information about her childhood, her education, and her accomplishments in art.
13) Edward Hopper
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Briefly examines the life and work of the American realist painter, describing and giving examples of his art.
16) Grandma Moses
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An introduction to the life and work of the twentieth-century American painter known as Grandma Moses.
18) Georgia O'Keeffe
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Presents the life of the twentieth-century American painter who drew much of her artistic inspiration from nature.