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2008., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic AmericanParis Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ex-G.I. painter Jerry Mulligan resides in post-war Paris and falls in love with a young dancer who is engaged to another man.
![An American in Paris [DVD] (1951) Directed by Vincente Minnelli.](/Library/images/~imageCT73869.JPG "An American in Paris [DVD] (1951) Directed by Vincente Minnelli.")
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c2012., Adult, NeWest Press Call No: Fic Sto Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 27-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter. Then, a classified ad in the local paper introduces Frieda to Gladys, an elderly woman who long ago gave up on her dreams of being a dancer. The catch? Gladys is a ghost.
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2003., Doubleday Call No: Fic Pal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Horror.
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2019., Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: SC Fic Mac Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly, her world begins to expand beyond her wildest dreams--but she has no idea that evil is waiting in the shadows. Silas has only thought of one thing since that chance meeting, and his obsession is darkening by the day." --Amazon.com.
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By Seguin, Marc2021., Exile Editions Call No: QWF Fic Ség Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This is a profound and moving novel that ponders family and home through the reflections of an intriguing protagonist whose very real troubles are offset by bright flashes of hope. Truth or fiction? In A Fine Line Marc Séguin offers the reader an irresistible torn-from-life story about friendship, art, sex, and love as he revisits the boy, the adolescent, and the young man he once was - all three tormented by incessant worry, they now haunt the renowned painter, film director, and author he has become. His striking reflections - shaped by deaths, confessions put to the test, a friendship destroyed, and memories of the beautiful Arielle - masterfully punctuate this story about a man who regrets not having loved enough... or perhaps having loved too late.
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Ã2016., Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic For Edition: First English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A 15th-century portrait painter, grieving the sudden death of his lover, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until a monk assigns him the task of copying a manuscript - though he is illiterate. His work slowly heals him and continues the tradition that had, centuries earlier, grown the monastery's library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing press."--.
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2018., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Mur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An unnamed thirty-something portrait painter, abandoned by his wife, becomes caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown painting in the attic, entitled "Killing Commendatore"--a painting that takes its cues from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--he also discovers clues about Amada, his family and their involvement in a violent and failed plot to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna. As the painter slowly learns the truth, he is equally consumed by the story of a wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Menshiki, in what is, according to the author, a clear homage to The Great Gatsby. The painter becomes obsessed with Menshiki's doomed love affair, the young girl who might be his child and a stone-lined underground space in the nearby woods where Buddhist priests were once buried alive. This pit becomes a portal into another world, a surreal place where the figures from "Killing Commendatore" take form to guide our narrator on an epic journey.
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By Avery, Ellis2011., Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Ave Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars.
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c2011., Adult, Spiegel & Grau Call No: Fic Wal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the summer of 1890, in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died two days later, at the age of thirty-seven, largely unknown despite having completed over two thousand works of art that would go on to become some of the most important and valued in the world. In this riveting novel, Carol Wallace brilliantly navigates the mysteries surrounding the master artist's death, relying on meticulous research to paint an indelible portrait of Van Gogh's final days--and the friendship that may or may not have destroyed him. Telling Van Gogh's story from an utterly new perspective--that of his personal physician, Dr. Gachet, specialist in mental illness and great lover of the arts--Wallace allows us to view the legendary painter as we've never seen him before. In our narrator's eyes, Van Gogh is an irresistible puzzle, a man whose mind, plagued by demons, poses the most potentially rewarding challenge of Gachet's career. Wallace's narrative brims with suspense and rich psychological insight as it tackles haunting questions about Van Gogh's fate. A masterly, gripping novel that explores the price of creativity, Leaving Van Gogh is a luminous story about what it means to live authentically, and the power and limits of friendship."--Inside bookjacket.
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-- Martyr! :By Akbar, Kaveh2024., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: NEW Fic Akb Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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1999., Random House Call No: Fic Mau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Works of W. Somerset MaughamSummary Note: On a trip to research French artist Paul Gauguin, Maugham sailed into Tahiti's Papeet harbor, where he imagined an exotic tale of the ultimate outsider, one who rejects his entire way of life to pursue an obsession. The result of his efforts is a story of rebellion and escape from civilization which continues to attract and captivate readers to this day.
