Cannonball Read 18

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Lots of cat pictures and cat things

Cat by Leila Jarbouai, Hannah Shaw, Phaidon

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This one I picked up for the cover. Cartoon style black cat curled up, title simply “Cat”. It’s an art book, over 200 pages of cats in painting, photograph, wood cut, and objects over time. Each page has an image and the museum description (although not always where the original currently lives). There’s almost a little bit of everything, from graffiti, to an Hermes scarf, to a Garfield strip (had to wait a while for that one) to Nyan-cat to Warhol and Doré to da […]

Andrew Wyeth

The Apprenticeship of Andrew Wyeth: Painting a Family Legacy by Gene Barretta

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Read via an online reader copy, though it is currently available, The Apprenticeship of Andrew Wyeth: Painting a Family Legacy by Gene Barretta is a lovely story about a painter who may not necessarily be “mainstream” (I judge “mainstream” as “pop culture” and by does my dad know who Person X is) but he was well known in the artworld. We also see how his childhood and youth would influence Wyeth to become the painter and adult Wyeth. There are lovely illustrations that capture the […]

World of Marcus Pfister

My Friend the Paintbrush: The Colorful World of Marcus Pfister by Marcus Pfister

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Cbr17bingo Arts (paintbrushes and an artist are the theme) When I saw the title (via an online reader copy) My Friend the Paintbrush: The Colorful World of Marcus Pfister by Marcus Pfister and translated by David Henry Wilson, I figured it might be cute, but not overwhelmingly WOW. I did see it was due at the end of March/early April 2026 but still thought I’d read it “now” instead of putting it on my TBR list. And I am glad I did. While it might […]

Paint feelings

Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony : La Grande Vallée Suite by Lisa Rogers

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I was hoping for more factual information in Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony : La Grande Vallée Suite by Lisa Rogers and illustrated by Stacy Innerst, but the spirit of the book is as if the artist herself had painted it. Only not abstract and it does have good facts, just focuses more on a poetic execution on the subject. The main point that grabbed my attention was that I was not really aware of the artist, but I think I have seen some of […]

A red swimsuit and a copper diving helmet

Else B. in the Sea : The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep by Jeanne Walker Harvey

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Else B. in the Sea : The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep by Jeanne Walker Harvey and illustrated by Melodie Stacey is due early June 2024. Therefore I read via an online reader copy. This is an amazing introductory picture book on a person, Else Bostelmann, who we are not probably familiar with. She was not only an artist but also a scientist. She was hired, in the 1930s, to paint the ocean. But not the waves or the creatures above those […]

“Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?”

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

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When Lucrezia, the third daughter of the Duke of Florence, is wed to Alfonso d’Este, she’s not sure what to expect – but whatever it was, it was certainly not that he was going to want her dead before they’d been married a year. I haven’t read Maggie O’Farrell’s work before, but she’s been on my radar after the success of Hamnet, and so when I saw The Marriage Portrait offered as a ‘lucky day’ loan from my library, I snapped it up. Hurrah for […]



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