Paris 1917. For twenty-five years, the legendary Marthe has been Pierre Bonnard’s companion and muse. His new model Renée, lovely and captivating, thinks it’s time her rival stepped aside. But Marthe won’t give up her place in history without a fight. An artist may have many models but there can be only one muse.
Spenser had a simple job-protect an art scholar during a ransom exchange for a stolen painting. No one was supposed to die. But the scholar had secrets no one knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser as well.
An illustrated guide to the colorful painted Victorian homes of San Francisco.
The great photographs show us, and the delightful text and captions tell us, how San Francisco's Painted Ladies have enjoyed an astonishing renaissance.
Now, eleven years after the original Painted Ladies these authors feel it is the perfect time to take their thousands of readers back to San Francisco and give them a...
Watkins Glen , N.Y .: The American Life Foundation , 1978 . Barber , George F. George F. Barber's Cottage Souvenir Number Two . With a new Introduction by Michael A. Tomlan . Watkins Glen , N.Y .: The American Life Foundation , 1982 .
In 1978, a landmark book about San Francisco's Victorian houses sparked a revolution known as The Colorist Movement. Painted Ladies became the bible for the restoration and rejuvenation of Victorians...
Describes and illustrates the effects of the San Francisco-based Colorist movement on Victorian-style buildings around the United States
Lavallee's watercolors feature highly stylized characters, whimsical and happy, and dressed in vibrant colors.
Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and stages of development of painted lady butterflies.
How to paint and decorate elaborately.