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"For me a picture . . . should be something likable, joyous and pretty--yes, pretty. There are enough ugly things in life for us not to add to them."--Pierre-Auguste RenoirRenoir (1841-1919), a leader of the French Impressionists and one of the world's best-loved artists, was a lifelong optimist. A loving family man, he painted cheerful pictures of everyday life that belied his personal struggles to overcome poverty, criticism, and disability. His story is one that readers of all ages will find both compelling and inspiring.Susan Rayfield recounts how Renoir spent years experimenting until, just as he was finally achieving success, he was struck with arthritis. He continued to paint with a brush wedged between permanently twisted fingers and produced some of the most luminous and ambitious paintings of his career.Illustrated with color reproductions and archival photographs, this biography includes first-person accounts about Renoir from the artist himself, his contemporaries, and his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.Susan Rayfield is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books on painting technique. A staff writer for the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram, she lives in Brunswick, Maine.

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