artists

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Mary Cassatt

1999
Introduces the life and work of Mary Cassatt, discussing her early years, life in the United States and Paris, and development as an artist.

The Canada geese quilt

1989
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.

A blue butterfly

a story about Claude Monet
1995
Text and illustrations by the author celebrate the beautiful paintings of the impressionist painter Claude Monet.

Eggbert, the slightly cracked egg

1994
A cracked egg with a talent for painting goes through some painful experiences before realizing that being cracked can be something to be proud of.

The artist and the architect

1991
In ancient China a jealous artist plots to eliminate the favorite architect of the emperor.

Pictures of Hollis Woods

2002
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.

Story painter

the life of Jacob Lawrence
1998
A biography of the African-American artist who grew up in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and became one of the most renowned painters of the life of his people.

Grandma Moses, painter of rural America

1986
A biography focusing on the early years of Grandma Moses, who was known for her paintings of rural America.

Josefina

1996
A counting book inspired by Mexican folk artist Josefina Aguilar who makes painted clay figures.

Once upon a lily pad

froggy love in Monet's garden
1995
Hector and Henriette, the most famous frogs in France, befriend an old painter in a battered straw hat named Monet.

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