Famous Artists Course

Did you know that the great Pablo Picasso had many pets, from a white mouse to a goat? And that Andy Warhol loved his dachmunds, Salvador Dali enjoyed ocelots and anteaters and Georgia O'Keefe shared her passion for pets with her chows and a Siamese cat? Artists and their Pets tells these stories and many more with full-color illustrations and a chirpy narrative that will be delight for both artist buffs and pet enthusiasts.

Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body and move it to the family plot about 100 miles away. This undertaker refused all help, and only worked at night.