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Art Appreciation for Youth
Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Reading Colors Your World Nonfiction - YOUTH
Black History Month - Youth
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Reading Colors Your World Nonfiction - YOUTH
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Presents an illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
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"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery--a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh...
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"As a painter travels the world, he mourns the death of his wife, but finds an escape through his art. Until an unexpected knock at the door takes his otherwise secluded life on a dramatic turn. The guest presents a problem that traps them inside of a home for 72 hours, and the quiet suburban estate becomes the devil's playground. The painter is then thrown into a psychological game with twists and turns that lead to an unforeseeable ending..."--
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"A biography of twentieth-century African American folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes an afterword, author's note, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
7) Lovestoned
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Even though talented young painter Islam Ian is taking New York and London by storm, he feels nothing but emptiness until he meets a mysterious woman who, while bringing him to new heights of pleasure, forces him to question his morals, limits, beliefs, and sanity.
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"Clementine Hunter (1887?1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundreds of objects available around her glass snuff bottles, discarded roofing shingles, ironing boards, as well as on canvas. She produced between five and ten thousand paintings, including her most ambitious work, the African House Murals. Her paintings of...
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"As a painter travels the world, he also mourns the death of his queen, his wife. He is secluded from the world and finds an escape through his art. Not until he gets an unexpected knock at his door does his life take a drastic turn. The guest presents a problem that traps the painter inside the home, and his quiet suburban estate becomes the devil's playground. The painter is then thrown into a psychological game that has twists and turns, leading...
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