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Free Lunch is a Junior Library Guild selection [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, [3] Publishers Weekly, [4] and School Library Journal. [5] Kirkus Reviews called the book "A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."
The painting depicts a woman seatead in the countryside, in open air, reading a book. She seems to be immersed in the reading of the book that she has on her lap. In the distance to her left there is a river, where can be seen a man in a boat. The green field and the blue cloudy sky, divide the painting's background almost at half size.
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Dutch: Brieflezend meisje bij het venster), also known as Lady reading at an open window, [1] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–1659, the painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden , which has held it since 1742.
Two Girls Reading (French: Deux Enfants Lisant) is a 1934 painting by Pablo Picasso. Since 1994, it has been at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. [1] In 2002, UMMA included it in an exhibition called Picasso: Masterworks of the Collection. [2] [3]
Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. [1]
Richard is a new art teacher at a high school. Cornelia Englebrecht (played by Glenn Close) is a history teacher who invites Richard to see a painting of a young girl at a table, which she believes to be a genuine Vermeer, where she tells him stories, which are portrayed as flashbacks about the people who owned the painting in the past.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book by British explorer Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the on the frontier of the United States. The book is a compilation of letters that Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta, and was published in October 1879 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] by John Murray .
X-ray of painting showing original pose. Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand.