Fields-Schneider, Penny
Summary: "Jack has been praised all his life for his extraordinary artistic talent and is rarely seen without his sketchpad. However, in Jack's world art is considered a hobby - men are expected to support their families with steady jobs offering solid prospects for advancement. Future responsibilities are far from Jack's thoughts, however, as he departs Australian shores for a six-month holiday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PFS 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTFig, Joe
Summary: Twenty-four painters, video, mixed- media artists, sculptors, photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools, techniques, quotidian habits, strategies for getting work done: music they listen to; hours they keep; relationships with gallerists, curators, friends, family, fellow artists that sustain them outside the studio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.2 FIGRowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHFields-Schneider, Penny
Summary: Searching for Sofia is the third book in the Portraits in Blue Series. In Book One: The Sun Rose in Paris, and Book Two: Shattered Dreams we accompany Jack Tomlinson's foray into the world of artists in the early twentieth century, and his experiences in Paris, Spain and living in an artist's retreat in Australia. In Searching for Sofia, his story continues. Having experienced tragedy beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PFS 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEOrtiz, Raquel M.
Summary: Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ORTMcCullough, David G
Summary: Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.0092 MCCWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: Looks at the life and career of Ernie Barnes, a football star who became an influential painter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARSummary: Presents brief profiles of over eighty major artists throughout history, providing the historical context in which each artist worked, their influences, and legacies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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Summary: "Trace The Story of Bauhaus through the 100 personalities, designs, ideas and events that shaped this monumental movement. Learn about leaders Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Anni Albers and Wassily Kandinsky; witness wild parties and groundbreaking events that would revolutionise contemporary design; and discover a range of innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. Now 100 years old, the Bauhaus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ilex 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 707.1 AMBSummary: This elaborately produced documentary series made up of six episodes plunges into Parisian life at the beginning of the twentieth century, a hotbed of artistic creation with the blossoming of Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Through illustrations, animation and stunning original archival footage, the films trace the highs and lows, scandals and celebrations, tragedies, and the triumphs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ADVSummary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEOHenry, Marguerite
Summary: With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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Summary: "Interest in Beatrix Potter and her characters is undimmed, with the second Peter Rabbit film being released in summer 2021 and an exhibition at the V&A from February 2022, 'Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature'. Few people realise how extraordinary Beatrix Potter's own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Trust Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Profiles pioneering artist and chef Jim Denevan, founder of Outstanding in the Field, a radical alternative to the conventional dining experience. The documentary intimately reveals Denevan's artistic and culinary gifts with land art in epic geometric formations alongside grand dinners in beautiful natural settings. Instead of bringing the food to the restaurant, Outstanding in the Field has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANMillington, Ruth
Summary: "Jam-packed with imaginative ideas for all kinds of creative crafts . . . this book will make YOU an artist! Pick up your pencils, collect your collage materials, and take inspiration from 25 of the world's best-known artists in this fact-filled book full of activities. Discover famous masterpieces through the included photographs of real works of art - from ancient cave painting to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J702.8 MILWilliams, Jake
Summary: The award-winning author and illustrator behind Darwin's Voyage of Discovery and Really Remarkable Reptiles turns his attention to the Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a master of art, architecture, engineering, mathematics and more. Discover his relationship with the natural world, his futuristic inventions and the breadth of his artistic skill in this spellbinding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's Books 2022
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Summary: "A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist Paul Gauguin, rhyming text reveals the way of life in a South Seas island village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2007
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: May Alcott spends her days sewing blue shirts for Union soldiers, but she dreams of painting a masterpiece -- which many say is impossible for a woman -- and of finding love, too. When she reads her sister's wildly popular novel, Little Women, she is stung by Louisa's portrayal of her as "Amy," the youngest of four sisters who trades her desire to succeed as an artist for the joys of hearth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKSummary: Documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after forty-eight years, sold his home, the 36,000 square-foot, 100-year-old landmark building in Manhattan known simply as "The Bank." Through the intimate lens of noted artist and photographer Stephen Wilkes, the viewer is taken on a remarkable journey through Maisel's life as an artist,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JAYVenezia, Mike.
Summary: Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1988
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB REMBRANDT VENBurleigh, Robert.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2014