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The American Painter Emma Dial
Samantha Peale
A Novel
W. W. Norton
May 2009
On Sale: May 11, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 039306820X
EAN: 9780393068207
Hardcover
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Emma Dial is a virtuoso painter who executes the works of
Michael Freiburg, a preeminent figure in the New York art
world. She has a sensuous and exacting hand, hips like a
matador, and long neglected ambitions of her own. She spends
her days completing a series of pictures for Freiburg's
spring exhibition and her nights drinking and dining with
friends and luminaries. Into this landscape walks Philip
Cleary, Emma's longtime painting hero and a colleague and
rival of her boss. Philip Cleary represents the ideal
artistic existence, a respected painter, fearless and
undeterred by fashion. He is unmatched by anyone from Emma's
generation. Except, just possibly, Emma herself. Emma Dial
must choose between the security of being a studio assistant
to a renowned painter and the unknown future as an artist in
her own right. Samantha Peale writes with astonishing insight about a young
woman who risks everything to fulfill her ambitions as an
artist.
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