The last painting of Sara de Vos / Dominic Smith.
Record details
- ISBN: 1410490637 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781410490636 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781410490636 : HRD
- ISBN: 1410490637 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781410490636 (hardcover ; large print)
- ISBN: 9781432837808 (paperback ; large print)
- ISBN: 143283780X (paperback ; large print)
- ISBN: 1410490637 (hardcover ; large print)
- Physical Description: 495 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-492). |
Summary, etc.: | Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos, the first female master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, defies convention by painting a haunting landscape. New York City, 1957: Her only known surviving work, At the Edge of a Wood hangs in the bedroom of a wealthy lawyer descended from the original owner. Ellie Shipley, a struggling art history student, paints a forgery for an art dealer. Sydney, 2000: Now a celebrated art historian and curator, Ellie mounts an exhibit of female Dutch painters and finds that both versions are en route to her museum. |
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Genre: | Large type books. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Oxford Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oxford Public Library | LP FIC SMITH (Text) | 33530143038849 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. Smith earned an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His writing has been nominate for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly. Dominic's writing has received several awards including the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. His debut novel The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. It also received the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. Dominic's second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, was optioned for a film by Southpaw Entertainment. His third novel-Bright and Distant Shores was published in 2011 and was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and the Vance Palmer Prize, two of Australia's foremost literary awards. His most recent book is The Last Painting of Sara De Vos (2016). It won the 2017 2017 Indie Book Award for Fiction. Dominic serves as a faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught recently at the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University. (Bowker Author Biography)