Artist Matrix - Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Lives of Well Known Artists (last updated August 2006
|Author |Title |Difficulty* |Artist | | |Contains | |
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| | | | |Type of Art |Time Period | |Biographic Information |
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|Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, | | | | | |X |Artist’s life while making his first |
|Sandra |Action Jackson |Easy |Jackson Pollock |painting |20th cent. | |painting |
| | | |Michael Foreman | | | | |
|Foreman, Michael |After the War Was Over |Medium | |watercolors |20th cent. | |Life in his town. |
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|Duggleby, John |Artist in Overalls |Medium |Grant Wood |Regionalism |20th cent. | |Artist's whole life |
| | | | | |Ancient Greece to | | |
| |Artistic Trickery: The Tradition of Trompe| | |Trompe L’Oeil |Present | |A look at the art and the artists |
|Capek, Michael |L’Oeil Art |Difficult |Various | | | | |
| | | | | |pre-Renaissance | | |
|Guarnieri, Paolo |Boy Named Giotto, A |Medium |Giotto |frescos | | |Early years |
| | | | | | | |Brief biographies of each artist. |
|Lester, Julius |Blues Singers, The |Medium |Various |vocal |20th cent. |X | |
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| |Capturing Nature: The Writings of John | | | | | | |
|Roop, Peter & Connie, eds. |James Audubon | |John James Audubon |painting and drawing| | |Artist’s life as told through his |
| | |Difficult | | |19th cent. |X |journals. |
| | | | | | | |Based on interviews. Artist's whole |
|Lyons, Mary |Catching the Fire |Difficult |Philp Simmons |iron work |20th cent |X |life |
|Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, | | | | | | |Artist’s whole life, based on |
|Sandra |Chuck Close Up Close |Medium |Chuck Close |portraiture |20th cent. |X |interviews. |
| |Clara Schuman: Piano Virtuoso | | | | | | |
|Reich, Susanna | |Medium |Clara Schuman |piano |19th cent. | |Artist’s whole life |
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|Lyons, Mary |Deep Blues |Medium |Bill Traylor |folk art |20th cent. |X |Artist's whole life |
| | | | | | | |Artist’s autobiography with brief |
| | | | | | | |biographies of other African American |
|Butler, Jerry |Drawing in the Sand, A |Medium |Jerry Butler/various |painting |20th cent. |X |artists |
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|Pinkney, Andre |Duke Ellington |Medium |Duke Ellington |piano |20th cent. |X |Artist’s rise to fame. |
| |First Impressions: Andrew Wyeth | | |watercolor and | | |Based on interviews. Artist's younger |
|Meryman, Richard | |Difficult |Andrew Wyeth |tempera |20th cent. | |years. |
|Author |Title |Difficulty* |Artist | | |Contains | |
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| | | | |Type of Art |Time Period | |Biographic Information |
| | | | | | | |Artist’s later life with his |
|Visconti, Guido |Genius of Leonardo, The |Medium |Leonardo da Vinci |various |15th cent. | |apprentice |
| |Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the | | | | | |Artist looks back at her family |
|Igus, Toyomi |South |Medium |Michele Wood |folk art |20th cent. | |history |
| | | | | | | |Information on the artist and her |
|Perry, Regina |Harriet Powers’s Bible Quilts |Difficult |Harriet Powers |quilts |19th cent. |X |quilts |
| | | |Charles Wilson Peale | | | | |
|Wilson, Janet |Ingenious Mr. Peale, The |Difficult | |portraits |18-19th cent. |X |Artist's whole life. |
| | | | | | | |Brief glimpses of each artist. |
| | | | |vocal and | | |Contains a glossary of jazz terms. |
|Monceaux, Morgan |Jazz: My Music, My People |Medium |Various |instrumental |20th cent. | | |
| | | | | | | |Artist’s rise to fame written in |
|Livingston, M |Keep on Singing |Easy |Marion Anderson |vocal |20th cent. | |verse. |
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|Stanley, Diane |Leonardo DaVinci |Medium |Leonardo DaVinci |oil painting |15th cent. |X |Artist’s whole life. |
| | | |Leonardo Da Vinci, | | | | |
| | | |Charles Dent, | |15th cent. and 20th | |Story of Leonardo’s horse sculpture |
|Fritz, Jean |Leonardo’s Horse |Medium |Nina Akamu |sculpture |cent. | | |
| | | | | | | |Brief account of each artist. |
|Goffstein, M.B. |Lives of the Artists |Medium |Various |various |various | | |
| |Looking at Paintings: Self Portraits | | | | | |Contains a glossary of art terms. |
|Roalf, Peggy | |Medium |Various |self-portraits |15th-20th cent. | | |
| |Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life | | | | | | |
|Freedman, Russell | |Difficult |Martha Graham |dance |20th cent. |X |Artist’s whole life. |
| | | | |painting | | | |
|Stanley, Diane |Michelangelo |Medium |Michelangelo |sculpture |Renaissance |X |Artist’s whole life |
| | | | | | | |Tells of the artists travels and |
|Winter, Jeanette |My Name is Georgia |Easy |Georgia O’Keefe |painting |20th cent. | |inspirations. |
| | | |Pablo Picasso | | | | |
| |Picasso and the Girl With a Ponytail | |Sylvette David aka Lydia | | | |Brief period of the artists' lives. |
|Arnholt, Laurence | |Easy |Corbett |various |20th cent. | | |
| | | | |vocal and piano | | |Brief highlights in the artists life |
|Mathis Sharon |Ray Charles |Medium |Ray Charles | |20th cent. | | |
| |Sebastian: A Book About Bach | | | | | |Highlights of the artists musical |
|Winter, Jeanette | |Medium |Sebastion Bach |music |17th cent. | |life. |
|Author |Title |Difficulty* |Artist | | |Contains | |
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| | | | |Type of Art |Time Period | |Biographic Information |
| | | | |vocal and guitar | | | |
|Littlesugar, Amy |Shake Rag |Easy |Elvis Presely | |20th cent. |X |Early Years |
| | | | |instrumental and | | | |
|George-Warren, Holly |Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock| | |vocal music | | |Short glimpses into each artist’s |
| |& Roll |Medium |Various | |20th cent. | |life. |
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|Martin, Jacqueline |Snowflake Bentley |Medium |Wilson Bentley |photography |19th cent. | |Artist's whole life. |
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|Lyons, Mary |Starting Home |Medium |Horace Pippin |folk art |20th cent. | |Artist's whole life. |
| |Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence | | | | | | |
|Duggleby, John | |Difficult |Jacob Lawrence |painting |20th cent. |X |Artist's whole life. |
| | | | | | | |Based on interviews. Artists whole |
|Lyons, Mary |Talking with Tebe |Easy |Clementine Hunter |folk art |20th cent. |X |life. |
| | | | | | | |Artist weaves his biography with |
| | | | | | | |Native history |
|Littlechild, George |This Land is My Land |Easy |George Littlechild |folk art |20th cent. | | |
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|Freidman, Russell |Voice That Challenged a Nation |Difficult |Marion Anderson |vocal |20th cent. |X |Artist's whole life. |
| |Walking the Log: Memories of a Southern | | | | | |Artist’s life as told by the artist |
|Nickens, Bessie |Childhood |Easy |Bessie Nickens |painting |20th cent. | | |
| |Wonderful Tower of Watts, The | | | | | |Focus is on the building of the towers|
|Zelver, Patricia | |Easy |Simon Rodia |sculpture |20th cent. | | |
| |Yellow House, The: Vincent van Gogh & Paul| | | | | |The year the artists lived together. |
|Goldman Rubin, Susan |Gauguin Side by Side | |Vincent van Gogh | | | |Short biographies included. |
| | |Medium |Paul Gauguin |impressionist |19th cent. |X | |
* Easy = Level 1 & 2
Medium = Level 3 & 4
Difficult = GED-level
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