Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Jackson Pollock. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.

"A biography of twentieth-century African American folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes an afterword, author's note, and sources"--Provided by publisher.

"A poetic picture-book biography about artist N.C. Wyeth's daughter, Henriette, a talented painter in her own right" -- Amazon.com. "A picture-book biography of painter Henriette Wyeth, depicting a day in her childhood, learning how to paint and be inspired from her father, painter N. C. Wyeth"--

"This lavish book is the first full treatment of the stunning artist books created by Henri Matisse in the mid-20th century. Matisse would select a text (or texts) by an author he admired and create an entire production of visual art around it. Matisse created books around the work of French poets like Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Ronsard. He made a fascinating edition of the French version of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese....

An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. He becomes the subject of her new work, and even in separation, their relationship grows morphing from victim to thief to artist to muse, and more.

Master Gerlachus - Fra Filippo Lippi - Albrecht Durer - Giorgione - Parmigianino - Michelangelo - Caravaggio - Peter Paul Rubens - Salvator Rosa - Nicolas Poussin - David Bailly - Velazquez - Rembrandt - Van Gough - Edvard Munch - James Ensor - Picasso - Frida Kahlo - Felix Nussbaum - Max Beckmann - Salvador Dali - Lucian Freud - Andy Warhol - Francis Bacon - David Hockney - Albert Oehlen - Jeff Koons - Gerhard Richter. Me, myself, and IIs a self-portrait...

"Most of us have heard the name Georgia O’Keeffe— she’s one of the most famous women in art history. But did you know that for most of her life, she lived on her own land in New Mexico, grew her own food, bought locally, and even made her own clothing? Georgia’s garden and her art fed and enriched one another, just as her bean plants enriched the soil and her home-grown feasts fed her friends. In spite of the era’s prejudice against female...

There are no rules, and even less justice. Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote "I am old, sick, and I swore to die while painting". But often, researching a painter's death is an easier task than determining which of their works is truly their 'last'. Paintings tend to be dated by year and not month, inciting...