Book Description

Looking at paintings is a series of books designed to present many different painters'views of a single subject.Here is a visual feast of paintings,each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint.

In Children,Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of children.From the work of an unknown Egyptian artist to Peter Paul Rubens,John Singer Sargent,William H.Johnson,and others,each artist's vision and interpretation of chidren is unique.Some artists,such as Hans Holbein the Younger in Edward VI as a Cbild and Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez in his painting titled Portrait of the Infanta Margarita,Immortalize the offspring of powerful kings and queens.Others,such as Frank W.Benson in Calm Morning and Mary Cassatt in Children Playing on the Beach,capture the pleasures of children at play.

To see through the eyes of many of the world's greatest painters is to see with the imagination as well.Cbildren in the LOOKING AT PAINTINGS series is a book that inspires young readers to observe their world and to use their imagination to see like a painter.

About Author

PEGGY ROALF is a painter,graphic designer,and writer who has taught art to young people and their parents in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Weekend Family Program.