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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 900L
Language
English
Description
Tom Moran had never ridden a horse or slept under the stars before, but the paintings he created on his journey from city boy to seasoned explorer would lead to the founding of America's first national park.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary--feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything--are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and England to embrace new experiences and forge a unique artistic style in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Letters, recollections, and archival prints and photographs recount the experiences artist George Catlin had traveling through the American wilderness studying Native American tribes.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a "vanishing race" before their "extermination"--his word. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits--unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Illuminates both the historic context in which FDR articulated the Four Freedoms -- Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear -- and the role of Rockwell's paintings in bringing them to life for millions of people, rallying the public behind the War effort and changing the tenor of the times. In telling the story of how Rockwell's works were transformed from a series of paintings into a national movement, the...
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