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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"As chronicler of the life and work of brilliant artist Lorin Jones, Polly Alter - museum curator and would-be painter - at first has it all figured out. Lorin, left to die alone in Key West, was done in by the white, male art establishment. But as Polly's interviewing progresses, Lorin comes down from her pedestal, and her "villains" emerge as likeable persons; at the same time, some of the truths about Polly's life are shattered or realigned"--Library...
Author
Series
Jonathan Argyll ; 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Detective Flavia di Stefano of Rome's art theft squad joins forces with art historian Jonathan Argyll to investigate the theft of a simple icon of the Blessed Virgin. The object turns out to be worth far more than anyone thought.
46) The Loo sanction
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Hemlock has gone to England for a presumed rest. But the head of an almost autonomous branch of British Intelligence needs his highly skilled services. He informs Jonathan that he must take over the mission of a British agent whose murder was so bizarre and terrifying that no other agent could be found for the job -- Jonathan must take the assignment or he himself will be "framed" for murder. His task: to locate a set of secretly made films...
Author
Publisher
La Puerta
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1892 Paris, Julius Stewart painted The Baptism, a Vanderbilt family scene that contains an embarrassing secret. In the present day, art historian Grace Atwood becomes obsessed with the painting and its hidden clues for reasons that have more to do with her personal ghosts. Either her doting husband is trying to make her think she's crazy, or she really is in the early stages of dementia.
48) The music lesson
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
Author
Publisher
Inkwater Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"One semester before graduation, Danielle Caruthers, a Yale senior, takes a train to New York City and vanishes. No one has heard from her since-not her parents in gilded Westport, not her senior advisor, eminent art historian Whitmore Verhaast, and not her roommate, Sabrina Gutierrez. The daughter of a single Colombian mother, Sabrina grew up on the rough side of Chicago and has been defying the odds ever since-most recently with a full scholarship...
Author
Publisher
[Permanent Press]
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Brian Moss is the urban gay everyman. Nearing 40, Brian has settled for sex with strangers. His incomplete dissertation on painter Toulouse-Lautrec haunts him. He toils four night a week as a friendly bartender and one day a week as a frustrated art history instructor, career paths that disappoint his hard-driving land developer father, who is recovering from a mild stroke. In general, it's an unsettled autumn for Brianp̮lus, a man who romanced him...
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1919: Sir Edward Horner, the most celebrated artist of his day, destroys his world-famous painting, THE LITTLE BIRDS, shortly before his death. But why? The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans is the unputdownable tale of a family torn apart and the house they lived in. Harriet writes the most delicious, epic stories from the heart since Maeve Binchy and Kate Morton. Millions around the world once queued up to see the painting that...
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