Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....

While trying to find his friend Art, a young boy accidentally stumbles upon the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and, thinking his friend is inside, gets a tour of some of the most wonderful modern art the world has to offer.

While visiting the art museum, Katie has an adventure stepping in and out of five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Includes information about Post-impressionism and the particular paintings and artists in the story.

Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.

While visiting the museum with her grandmother, Katie has a fantastic adventure going into and becoming part of the pictures she sees.

Jorgen, a store clerk crippled in the Franco-Prussian War, becomes obsessed with a painting he finds hidden in a shipment of ceramic bowls from Japan by a desperately unhappy wife who tries to ease her sorrow by painting memories of her lost love.

While her grandmother naps, Katie steps into the painting of a Spanish princess at the art gallery, and together they meet characters from four other Spanish paintings. Includes information the artists.