As they paint together on the Bavarian mountainside, young Gabriele (Ella) Munter falls in love with her married teacher, Wassily Kandinsky. While their illicit love faces the disapproval of early 20th century European society, the two artists forge a partnership that will offer the world its first taste of Abstract Expressionism. Along with Alexei Jawlensky, Franz Marc, and other members of the Blue Rider, Munter and Kandinsky give birth to something truly new in art. Yet the delights of that heady time together are not to last, certainly not past the time of the Nazi purge of "Degenerate...

Poor Phoebe is sick and she has to go home from Day Care. She's so sick she can't to tell everyone what she needs. Grandma does the best she can, but no one helps as much as the mysterious visitor who whisks Phoebe to another world - and a colorful one at that Phoebe's rescuer is a jolly cloud who puts her to work scrubbing rainbows. As Phoebe and the cloud polish and shine, art museum docents Mary "Peetie" Basson and Jim Maki introduce young readers to Roy G. Biv and the fundamentals of color -- primary and secondary, warm and cool. Ages 4-8