Fleming Community Library

After recovering from grave wounds suffered in The Great War, Bogey Lambert, a young cowboy from Colorado, makes his way to 1920s Paris, where he encounters the beautiful painter, Chrysis Jungbluth. Precocious, passionate, talented, this free spirit rebels against a society and an art world in which men have all the privilege, and women none. By day, a serious student at the prestigious l'École des Beaux-arts, at night Chrysis loses herself to the...

Lacey Quinn adored her grandfather. Although he never achieved artistic fame, his paintings inspired her to become an artist. Now, several years after his death, she takes a few of his canvases to an expert for appraisal. When they are identified as the work of an acclaimed landscape painter, Lacey is plunged into doubt. Was her grandfather a forger--or a even a murderer?

A simplified discussion of the art of Pablo Picasso with examples showing the various techniques used in his works.

A profusely illustrated account of the life, career, works and times of Eugene Delacroix, master 19th century French painter, with background information on other artists of the time.

A brief biography of this nineteenth-century Dutch painter accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.

Explains some basic techniques of Da Vinci by analyzing several of his better-known paintings.

"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"-- Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work...

Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...