false 5561332 1 <p><strong><strong>“A racy, muscular, enlightening beauty of a novel.” —James McManus</strong> </strong> 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.<p></p>Samantha Peale writes with astonishing insight about a young woman who risks everything to fulfill her ambitions as an artist.<p></p></p> 5732474 11 5 2009 The American Painter Emma Dial: A Novel total:50|5:5|4:11|3:21|2:7|1:6| 50 152 122 14 0 0 false false Mon Jul 27 13:47:10 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:11:00 -0700 2009 The American Painter Emma Dial - Samantha Peale

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