Bailey, Susannah
Summary: The mice are captivated by Matisse and the cats are exploring the Surrealists' room ... what else is going on in the gallery? This quirky and creative search-and-find book takes children, room by room, through a wonderfully illustrated gallery, where an array of animals are enjoying everything from Impressionism and Surrealism to Pop Art and Cubism. Each room is filled with strange and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LOM Art 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 708 BAIGriffin, Molly Beth
Summary: Stella the Mouse, Delilah the Spider, and Bo the Parakeet try to cheer up Nico the Toad by agreeing to join him on a school field trip to the art museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GRICho, Lian
Summary: "Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: When a priceless sculpture disappears from the Capitol City Art Museum, thirteen-year-old Clementine Wim, daughter of an assistant curator, and her three friends set out to solve the mystery and recover the Statue of Gudea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BRESchiff, Thomas R.
Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708.13 SCHBrowne, Anthony
Summary: The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 708 BROHigonnet, Anne
Summary: By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periscope Pub. 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708 HIGOtter, Isabel
Summary: Featuring peek-through gatefolds and questions to encourage active reading, this invitation into the world of art and color introduces kids to basic art styles, such as mosaics, portraits, sculptures and landscapes, with the help of adorable animal friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Colorful pictures and simple text describe the kinds of things you might see and do at an art museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 708 MEISummary: In this exuberant celebration of the world’s museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Neil Gaiman, and more tell us about their favorite museums, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, the Musée Rodin in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. These essays, collected from the pages of The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine, reveal the special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2016
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Summary: As a family wanders through an art museum, they see examples of various art styles from primitive through twentieth-century pop art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 708.13 BROSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSoontornvat, Christina
Summary: At an art museum with his parents, Simon has trouble controlling his urges to slide on the floor, chase pigeons, and eat cheesecake at the cafe, until something special catches his eye.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SOOLiu, Joanne
Summary: In a nearly wordless picture book, Max visits an art museum where he sees paintings, sculptures, and even some art he creates, himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIUParish, Herman.
Summary: Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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Summary: The director of Santa Barbara's Museum of Mexican Art discovers notes that lead her to a 19th-century treasure chest and into the arms of murderous peril.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MulleBringley, Patrick
Summary: "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from home for a decade. Here he explore his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the subculture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRINGLEY, PATRICK BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BringleyBrunhoff, Laurent de
Summary: Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BRUBonfante-Warren, Alexandra.
Summary: The Musee d'Orsay contains one of the most magnificent collections of 19th- and early 20th-century art in the world. Limited to the years between 1848 and 1914, the collection showcases Impressionist and Postimpressionist favorites by Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Signac. In addition, Realist, Nabis, Symbolist, and Fauvist movements are represented in works by Millet, Gauguin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 BONColón, Raúl
Summary: "When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLSummary: Tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. MASS MoCA is the largest museum for contemporary art in the world, but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be? A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022