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From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn't play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think in black and white, Mary painted twinkling emerald skies, peach giraffes with tangerine spots, and magenta horses that could fly.
223) Georgia O'Keeffe
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Presents information about Georgia O'Keeffe, from her childhood in Wisconsin where she developed her fascination with nature to her exhibits around the world.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Frances Lusky, conducted on 21 July 1976 by Leonard Wood as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 22 minute interview, Lusky discusses her family and experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including watching sculptors Belle Kinney and Leopold Scholz work on the Parthenon.
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Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to amateur sleuth Beatrix Potter to help the denizens of Sawrey,...
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the spiritual and social movements Theosophy and later Anthroposophy became a strong source of inspiration for the pioneers of modernism and abstract art: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich - and Hilma af Klint. In 1906, the Swedish artist began painting her first abstract series, Primordial Chaos, featuring blue, green and yellow geometrical shapes and spirals. Her main work, Paintings for the Temple, expresses what...
228) Frida
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Illustrations and simple text describe the life of artist Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo, discussing how she learned to paint, how painting saved her life, and why her work is so unique.
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"When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another twenty years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint's radically abstract painting practice--one which predates the work...
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Yayoi Kusama dreamed of becoming a famous artist. Day and night she painted hundreds of dots onto large canvases. The dots soon came off her pictures and ended up on her dresses, tables, and walls. But she wasn't sorry! An inspiring story about one of the most popular contemporary artists in the world. -- Amazon.com.
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Scope and content: Maps drawn with pen and ink, and some with color, showing roads, towns, county boundaries, waterways and other details of early states and territories in the United States, based upon original maps drawn in the 1790s. Maps are useful for tracing settlement and migration patterns throughout the early United States. Four maps show county origins in the states of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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