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"Megan Perkins' love letter to Spokane. In this collection of brilliant and whimscial water-colors and sketches, Perkins opens her sketch pads and notebooks to celebrate the community quirks of the Lilac City, sharing delicious foods, beautiful landscapes, successful sports teams, amazing parks, gorgeous historic buildings, and creative people: all of the things that make life in Spokane so wonderful." -- Back cover.

"During the last fifteen years of her life, Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) created hundreds of drawings and welcomed visitors to her home, located on a busy thoroughfare just outside of Atlanta, that she called her 'Playhouse' and decorated with found-object installations, handmade dolls, and chewing-gum sculptures. Rowe created her first works as a child in rural Fayetteville, Georgia, but only found the time and space to reclaim her artistic practice...

"The most comprehensive book on Kodojin's art ever published--beautiful and mysterious--a collection of more than 100 paintings with English translations of the inscribed poems.The Art and Life of Fukuda KodMjin is the first publication in English to offer an in-depth examination of KodMjin's life, painting, and poetry. This fully illustrated publication draws from institutions and private collections worldwide, and is the result of fifteen years...

"A rich overview of the fascinating life and career of internationally renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), this volume features the artist's complex and diverse paintings, a series of thoughtful essays about her and her oeuvre, and a detailed illustrated chronology. As a woman artist who confronted many taboo subjects--and herself--head-on, Kahlo produced groundbreaking work that shifted the terrain of the art world. In these pages, new...

"Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, "I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and not knowing where the idea came from." These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made...

"For decades, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth have provided a continuous backdrop against which the twists and turns of American art can be compared, contrasted, and benchmarked. By approaching the Wyeths and their art with a specificity that transcends content and biography, Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio provides readers with the opportunity to move beyond a visceral reaction and toward an understanding of the artists' work, media, mindset, and studio...