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Whaam!: The Art and Life of Roy Lichtenstein
By Susan Goldman Rubin

Explores Roy Lichtenstein's work, life, and his groundbreaking influence on the art world. In Roy's long career as a teacher, artist, and innovator, he changed the way that people thought about art and how artists thought about their subjects.

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
By Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by Mary GrandPre

Describes how his creative life was profoundly shaped by a neurological condition called synesthesia which caused him to experience colors as sounds and sounds as colors.

Action Jackson
By Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker

Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.

Viva Frida
By Yuyi Morales

Via spare text, examines Kahlo's creative process.

Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines: Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
By Jeanne Walker Harvey
Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk

The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial.

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
By Javaka Steptoe

Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980's as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean - and definitely not inside the lines - to be beautiful.

The Garden of Monsieur Monet
By Giancarlo Ascari
Illustrated by Pia Valentinis

Meet Monsieur Monet, the French painter with a green thumb! Over one hundred years ago, Claude Monet created a beautiful garden in Giverny in northern France. The painter was inspired by bright Japanese art to fill his garden with irises, poppies, tulips, roses, and of course, water lilies. He employed a team of up to ten gardeners to care for it. The garden grew to be both Monet's most exquisite masterpiece, and his greatest inspiration. He celebrated it in many of his glorious impressionist paintings.

Uncle Andy's Cats
By James Warhola

Twenty-five cats named Sam have the run of Uncle Andy's New York City townhouse.

What Degas Saw
By Samantha Friedman
Illustrated by Cristina Pieropan

Encourages young readers and artists to carefully observe their own surroundings

And Picasso Painted Guernica
By Alain Serres

Learn about Picasso, his journey as an artist, and how he painted his iconic work, "Guernica."

Georgia's Bones
By Jennifer Bryant
Illustrated by Bethanne Andersen

Artist Georgia O'Keeffe was interested in the shapes she saw around her, from her childhood on a Wisconsin farm to her adult life in New York City and New Mexico.








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