Del Norte Public Library

Discusses paintings that tell a story and gives examples which readers can follow to create their own stories in paint.

Its a rare and secret profession, comprising a few dozen people around the world equipped with a mysterious mixture of knowledge and innate sensibility. Summoned to Swiss bank vaults, Fifth Avenue apartments, and Tokyo storerooms, they are entrusted by collectors, dealers, and museums to decide if a coveted picture is real or fake and to determine if it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci or Raphael. The Eye lifts the veil on the rarified world of connoisseurs...

Uses the subjects of well-known paintings to introduce the numbers from one to twenty.

Discusses the life and works of the Russian painter.

A biography of one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who captured the essence of light and color on his canvases.

Surveys the life, work and times of Jan Vermeer, the last of the great artists of 17th century Holland.

A search-and-find book that follows the story of a girl at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and includes a section looking at various types of art found at the museum.

Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.

Find the hidden animals in the photographic reproductions of paintings of artists from around the world and through the centuries.