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The muralistBarbara A. Shapiro

The muralist

2015337 pages
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When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who, while working at Christie's auction house, uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now famous…

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2015
    Algonquin Books · 337 pages · 9781616203573
  • Other · English · 2015
    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 337 pages · 9781443446617
Missing personsFictionArtistsSocial life and customsArtists, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionMissing persons, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, historical