Article: Art for little people: captivated by drawing as a child, Synthia Saint James nourishes that love in young people.(children's bookshelf)

Synthia Saint James, whose work conveys family, harmony and unity, is an internationally acclaimed artist with dozens of commissions and projects in the works. Her paintings hang in the collections of such high-profile people as Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Danny Glover and Terry McMillan.

It was her work for the cover of McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992) that helped launch Saint James commercially. At this point in her life, she says she has attained what must be every artist's dream, "to actually be able to support myself with my art within my lifetime." While her prints and posters begin at $40, her original works sell for as much as 825,000. She creates all of ...

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