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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....

An introduction to art that uses well-known works of art to illustrate familiar words.

On a visit to the museum, Katie climbs into five Impressionist paintings and has wonderful adventures.

Explores the world of art and artists, including Michelangelo, Mary Cassatt, and Vincent Van Gogh, and features do-it-yourself art projects.

"A book about looking at and thinking about Art, based on an unfinished manuscript and sketches by Dr. Seuss that was discovered twenty-one years after his death"--

Invites the reader to guess a painting by looking through one to ten holes in the preceeding pages.

Discusses the life, works, and lasting influence of Michelangelo.

Examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century artist Edgar Degas, who loved to paint scenes of Paris and the people who worked and lived there.

Describes the life and career of the nineteenth-century French artist Eugene Delacroix, whose experiments with color and scenes of action led to Impressionism and other modern art styles.

Discusses the life, works, and lasting influence of Vincent van Gogh.