01883cam a2200361 i 4500 351620528 TxGeo 20180709120000.0 171128s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017055407 9781640090613 hbk. 1640090614 hbk. (OCoLC)1014011372 TxGeo rda Painter, Nell Irvin. Old in art school : a memoir of starting over / Nell Painter. First hardcover edition. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, 2018. xvi, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In [this memoir], she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful demands of a life fully lived"--Amazon.com. 20180726. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - 2018. Painter, Nell Irvin. Artists United States Biography. Adult college students United States Biography. Older artists United States Biography. African American women artists Biography. Autobiographies. QS5