The Day Laid on the Altar
by Adria Bernardi
Three 16th century Italian artists struggle to reconcile their creative spirits with the details of daily living

Girl With A Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
A young girl sent into service at the home of Vermeer becomes his creative inspiration and an irritant to his wife

Spending
by Mary Gordon
Monica, a middle-aged artist, longs for a male muse, and finds one - only to worry that her good fortune compromises her art

Burnt Umber
by Sheldon Greene
The lives of two artists are linked when a WWII soldier/artist happens upon a sketchbook of a WWI counterpart

A Grave Talent
by Laurie King
The artist depicted here has a dark past, which new detective Kate Martinelli unearths as she investigates a string of child murders

Frida
by Barbara Mujica
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and the revolutionary politics that spurred her and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, are depicted in this fictional biography

The Mask Carver's Son
by Alyson Richman
The creative urge propels the son of a traditional Japanese artist to forsake his heritage and flee to Paris to paint his dreams

The Handyman
by Carolyn See
A sometimes amusing take on the nature of creativity as an aspiring artist spends a summer working at odd jobs

Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland
The provenance of a portrait attributed to Vermeer is traced in these stories of people who owned the painting from its creation

The Forger
by Paul Watkins
An American studying art in Paris struggles with the realization that his greatest gift is the ability to copy the works of the masters

Paradise Farm
by Brenda Webster
A complex novel portraying the bohemian lifestyle of a female artist in the changing world of the late 20's

Additional Titles

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon

Cyber Bride
by Annette Couch-Jareb

The Body Artist
by Don DeLillo

The Danish Girl
by David Ebershoff

Goya, Are You With Me Now?
by H.E. Francis

The Years With Laura Diaz
by Carlos Fuentes

Insatiable
by Marne Davis Kellopp

The Third Eye
by David Knowles

Artemisia
by Alexandra Lapierre

The Artist's Widow
by Shena Mackay

Lighthouse: A Trifle
by William Monahan

Stone Field, True Arrow
by Kyoko Mori

Gabriella
by Earl Murray

Paris Never Leaves You
by Adreana Robbins

All We Know of Love
by Katie Schneider

When the King Comes Home
by Caroline Stevermer

The Funeral Party
by Ludmila Ulitskaia

The Gripping Beast
by Margot Wadley