Helen A Harrison
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One artist. One student. One deadly mystery.
When Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton's corpse is discovered behind the easels of Manhattan's famed art school, whispers in the art community say he had it coming. As Benton's list of enemies lengthens to include League instructors, Vietnam War protesters, and members of Andy Warhol's entourage, one art student is ultimately pinned for the crime. The only problem: the suspect has vanished. Why...
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At the palatial Hamptons estate of wealthy artist Alfonso Ossorio, Jackson Pollock's masterpiece, Lavender Mist, is the crown jewel in a fabled collection of modern art. When Ossorio's decision to sell the painting to finance his obsessive landscaping projects proves fatal, suspicion falls on members of his circle, among them Pollock's widow, Lee Krasner, who has made no secret of her opposition to the sale.
Number one on the list, however, is...
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"Accidents happen. But was this murder? On the night of August 11, 1956, in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree, killing himself. Pollock, the world-renowned abstract painter and notorious alcoholic, also killed his 24-year old passenger Edith Metzger in the crash...or did he? Metzger's autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. Murdered? Perhaps. This shocking disclosure draws vacationing...
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"When the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Juanita Diaz and her new NYPD counterpart Brian Fitzgerald from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland in search of a killer who left a grotesque calling card: an exquisite corpse. Suspicion soon falls on the tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Did one of their bizarre...
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"TJ is taking classes at The League, an open-enrollment art school in Manhattan to become an artist. But when a deadly crime strikes The League's figure drawing class, and famous artist Thomas Benton's corpse is discovered on the floor. But Benton has a long history of angering the art world and his involvement at the school hasn't always led to happy students and faculty... It's soon up to TJ, son of Detective Juanita Diaz and Captain Brian Fitzgerald...
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"Charting the course of his career and life, from his early training in figurative painting to his position as the most critically championed proponent of Abstract Expressionism, this book sets Pollock's artistic development in the context of his volatile personal life and his wide ranging artistic influences that include Mexican murals and Native American art."