This is a list of selected fiction featuring artists and painters.
The Kept Man, Jami Attenberg
The Day Laid on the Altar, Adria Bernardi
A Richer Dust, Amy Boaz
Rock Paper Tiger, Lisa Brackmann
Sunflowers, Sheramy Bundrick
The Sidewalk Artist, Gina Buonaguro
The Dissemblers, Liza Campbell
The Petting Zoo, Jim Carroll
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Great Man, Kate Christensen
The Truth About Delilah Blue, Tish Cohen
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet, Stephanie Cowell
The Creation of Eve, Lynn Cullen
The Body Artist, Don DeLillo
Frida’s Bed, Slavenka Drakulic
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant
The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff
Leonardo’s Swans, Karen Essex
The Dissident, Nell Freudenberger
Changing Light, Nora Gallagher
The Law of Nines, Terry Goodkind
The Forgery of Venus, Michael Gruber
How To Paint a Dead Man, Sarah Hall
The Worst Thing I’ve Done, Ursula Hegi
The Sense of Paper, Taylor Holden
Dead Sleep, Greg Iles
Savage, Jacques Jouet
Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise, Jane Kamensky
A Summer All Her Own, Rosanne Keller
Insatiable, Marne Davis Kellogg
The Death Collectors, Jack Kerley
A Grave Talent, Laurie R. King
The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova
Artemisia, Alexandra Lapierre
The Nude: A Historical Romance, Dorothy McFalls
A Ruffian on the Stair, Gary Newman
The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O’Farrell
The American Painter Emma Dial, Samantha Peale
The Painter of Battles, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Last Van Gogh, Alyson Richman
Paris Never Leaves You, Adréana Robbins
Blue Nude, Elizabeth Rosner
Bridge of Sighs, Richard Russo
The Death Artist: A Novel of Suspense, Jonathan Santlofer
All We Know of Love, Katie Schneider
When the King Comes Home, Caroline Stevermer
The Edge of Pleasure, Philippa Stockley
Violette Between, Alison Strobel
The Late Hector Kipling, David Thewlis
Luncheon of the Boating Party, Susan Vreeland
The Gripping Beast, Margot Wadley
Dancing for Degas, Kathryn Wagner
The Forger, Paul Watkins
The Big Why, Michael Winter
The Lake, Banana Yoshimoto
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