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African American women artists O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986 O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986 Juvenile literature Painters Painters United States Biography Juvenile literature Valadon, Suzanne 1865-1938 Waring, Laura Wheeler 1887-1948 Women artists Women painters Women painters United States Biography Juvenile literatureRobinson, Lisa
Summary: "A picture book biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, with an emphasis on her sustainable homestead in Abiquiu, New Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024
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Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe is famously known for her colorful, large paintings of flowers, but this artist's portfolio expands far beyond Jack-in-the-pulpits. In this book, young readers will learn about O'Keeffe's childhood in Wisconsin and her years as a talented art school teacher. Her years as an artist in both New York and New Mexico, two areas that are heavily represented in her artwork, reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET O'KeeffeHewitt, Catherine
Summary: A richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right. Catherine Hewitt tells the remarkable tale of an ambitious, headstrong woman fighting to find a professional voice in a male-dominated world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 VALADON, SUZANNE HEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B VALADON HEWHesse, María
Summary: "Frida Kahlo fue algo más que dolor y angustia. Quiso ser fiel a su arrolladora personalidad y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es sangre y sufrimiento, pero también fiesta, color. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera, una mujer apasionada que no se conformó con estar a la sombra de su gran amor, el pintor Diego Rivera, y peleó por alcanzar cada uno de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH HESSummary: "A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries. Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of painting. Featuring more than 300 artists from around the world, it includes both well-known women painters from history and today's most exciting rising stars. Covering nearly 500 years of skill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2022
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Summary: "Introduces the reader to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine Artist O'KeefeContents: Introduction : women envision the West, 1890-1945 / Virginia Scharff -- Searching for selfhood : women artists of Northern California / Susan Landauer -- "Islands on the land" : women traditionalists of Southern California / Patricia Trenton -- The adventuresome, the eccentrics, and the dreamers : women modernists of Southern California / Ilene Susan Fort -- Northwestern exposure / Vicki Halper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with the University of California Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.18 INDSiciliano, Gina.
Summary: Often overlooked in the pantheon of Renaissance masters is Artemisia Gentileschi -- Italy's greatest female painter. In 17th century Italy, Artemisia braved the male-dominated sphere of painting to become a groundbreaking artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 SICVenezia, Mike
Summary: "Introduces the reader to the artist Mary Cassatt"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine Artist CassattMcMillan, Claire
Summary: Fleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: Tells the story of Frida Kahlo, the renowned Mexican painter and activist. After surviving a bus crash, she made her mark in art history for her unique way of looking at the world and integrating her own image and life into her paintings. -- adapted from Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. So when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she jumped at the chance. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her. Now her portraits hang in Washington,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books, LLC 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 WARCline, Sally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FITZGERALD, ZELDA CLIDavis, Pauline
Summary: "The inspiring story of Pauline Davis, a Bahamian sprinter who fought through poverty, inequality, and racism to compete in five Olympic Games and become the first woman from the Caribbean to win Olympic gold. She would inspire an entire nation and go onto become the first Black woman elected to the international governing body of athletics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2022