Summary: With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland after the death of director/producer Marion Cajori, this movie describes the life and work of an artist who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The artist describes his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthouse Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHUChurnin, Nancy
Summary: "Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. So when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she jumped at the chance. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her. Now her portraits hang in Washington,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books, LLC 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 WARWolff, Isabel.
Summary: At thirty-five, Gabriella Graham--"Ella" to her family and friends--has already made a name for herself as a successful portrait artist in London. She can capture the essential truth in each of her subjects' faces--a tilt of the chin, a glint in the eye--and immortalize it on canvas. This gift has earned Ella commissions from royals and regular folks alike. Ella realizes that there is so much...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLModesitt, L. E.
Summary: Rhennthyl and Seliora are married and have a small daughter, and Rhennthyl has proven to be an effective patrol captain as well as a strong imager. But problems are increasing: a new addictive drug is destroying more people faster, including a member of Rhenn's family, mysterious explosions rock the city of L'Excelsis, and the country's most powerful enemy is expected to go to war any day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MODMurakami, Haruki
Summary: "The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"-- A painter retreats into a solitary house...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurakamiPears, Iain.
Summary: Journeying to a remote French island to sit for a portrait that is painted by his tormented artist friend, an influential London art critic recalls the early years of their friendship, and his own influence over aspiring artists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEARose-Marie, Abigail
Summary: Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he is a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing
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Summary: In Amsterdam in the 1630s, a young wife escapes her stifling marriage to an older man into the arms of the artist who is hired to paint their portrait.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOGRussell, Josh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSSummary: An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TULGleeson, Janet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEModesitt, L. E.
Summary: Apprentice portraitist Rhennthyl begins training as a covert operative after he discovers that he has the magical ability called Imaging. When his martial training kicks into high gear though, an unknown assassin tries to kill him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "The saga of the Imager Quaeryt, Commander in the forces of Lord Bhayar, reaches a new climax as the great struggle to unify the continent of Lydar enters its final phase. Only the land of Khel remains uncommitted to Bhayar's rule. Their decision could mean a lasting peace, or more conflict across an already war-ravaged realm. While the conqueror of Bovaria awaits emissaries to arrive with news...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODAlbee, Sarah
Summary: George Washington and artist Gilbert Stuart didn't always see eye-to-eye, but both men knew the importance of legacy and the power of art. Though George disliked having his portrait painted -- which took days and days to complete -- he knew his place in history would require people to know his face. Fortunately, Gilbert Stuart's unique way of painting didn't compel his subjects to sit for hours...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024