Claude and Camille: A Novel of Monet

From Rosemarie Jerome Author:  Stephanie Cowell Claude and Camille:  A Novel of Monet This beautiful, bittersweet love story shows the impovished life of Impressionist painter, Claude Monet and his wife Camille-Leonie Doncieux. He left his seaside home and moved to Paris to make his fortune. She left her affluent home to become his muse, his [...]

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Cezanne’s Quarry

From Rosemarie Jerome author: Pope, Barbara Corrado Cezanne’s Quarry Solange Vernet has been found murdered. A young inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, investigates the crime. Who was the beautiful Solange? Was her murder a crime of passion? Is the spurned artist Paul Cezanne guilty? He has a violent temper and his paintings speak of dark, gruesome deeds. [...]

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Just Kids

From Ellen Druda author: Smith, Patti  Just Kids Patti Smith’s evocative memoir recounts her early days in New York City and her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. This National Book Award winning work is an accessible, easy read, yet full of imagery that stirs the imagination.  From her childhood in New Jersey, we follow her [...]

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Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world’s stolen treasures

From Catherine Givens author: Wittman, Robert K. Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world’s stolen treasures The new book, “Priceless”, by Robert K. Wittman is a fascinating memoir set in the dark world of art thievery and the black market.  Wittman, a 20-year veteran of the FBI, founded the Bureau’s chronically understaffed [...]

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Swan Thieves

From Catherine Given author: Kostova, Elizabeth Swan Thieves As a favor to a friend, psychiatrist and amateur painter Andrew Marlow agrees to investigate the reason why well-known painter Robert Oliver violently attacked a canvas hanging in the National Gallery of Art.  Marlow’s new patient is clearly angry and hopeless, refusing to eat or talk, unable [...]

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Art of Learning

From Gina Scaglione: I read The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.  He was the national chess champion and Push Hands champion as well.  He is actually a terrfic writer and never made me feel inferior to him as he writes about how to be the best.  I great self-help book.

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Art and Physics

From Ellen Druda: Art & Physics, by Leonard Shlain I heard about the author after his recent death on a BoingBoing blog post, and decided to give him a try.  I wasn’t disappointed.  Shlain spends most of the book supporting his thesis about artists expressing ideas about light, space, and time years before the physicists express the [...]

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Golden Reads review

From Lynne  Demestichas: Feather man, by Rhyll McMaster Our main character has had a troubled past, but tries to overcome her lack of confidence through her painting.We go on a life journey with her,as she meets all the wrong friends,and men in the art world.The story doesn’t sound interesting but Rhyll McMaster is truly a [...]

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