![]() His artistic style was a curious hybrid of American and European traditions that combined such disparate influences as folk art and precisianism with aspects of Parisian purism and cubism and, later, surrealism. Blume was a masterful draftsman and a skillful builder of pictorial compositions, with a penchant for epic narratives and humanist themes. * Peter Blume, 86, a Russian immigrant whose dreamlike, obsessively detailed images made him one of this country's best-known painters in the 1930s and '40s, died of a stroke Nov. ![]() ![]() "Canterbury Tales" (1988) re-creates the flavor of the time and the spirit of Chaucer's words for young readers. "Molly's Pilgrim" (1983) is the story of a Jewish immigrant girl who enhances the meaning of Thanksgiving for her entire third-grade class a movie version won an Academy Award in 1986 in the short-subject category. "The Long Way Home" tells of a family coming to terms with cancer. It won acclaim as a modern classic, enough to encourage her to leave her teaching position and devote more of her time to writing. Cohen's first book, "The Carp in the Bathtub," was published in 1972 when she was 39. ![]() ![]() * Barbara Kauder Cohen, 60, author of more than 30 books for children and young adults, died of cancer Nov. ![]()
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