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By Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan

ISBN-10: 0307548740

ISBN-13: 9780307548740

Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist was once named a Robert F. Sibert Honor publication by way of the ALA. this can be the enchanting biography of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter identified for pioneering new strategies and types in masterpieces similar to Starry evening and Vase with Sunflowers. The ebook cites specified basic assets and features a thesaurus of artists and phrases, a biographical time line, notes, a bibliography, and destinations of museums that exhibit Van Gogh's paintings. It additionally includes a sixteen-page insert with kin pictures and full-color reproductions of lots of Van Gogh's work. Vincent Van Gogh was once named an ALA extraordinary publication and an ALA top ebook for teenagers and has been chosen as a typical middle nation criteria textual content Exemplar (Grades sixty eight, Historical/Social reviews) in Appendix B.From the Hardcover variation.

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