Book List

Book Overview (from Amazon.com) The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose—yet whose own story has remained largely untold. In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen…

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Book Overview (from Amazon.com) The remarkable and little-known story of the two groundbreaking winters that Henri Matisse spent painting in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and marked his work until the very end. In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse—forty-two, nearing mid-career, and yet to find lasting critical acceptance, public admiration, or financial…

Book Overview (from Amazon.com) In Vienna, a new century is dawning. The beautiful city is teeming with art, music and radical ideas. In this new world, anything seems possible… This is the story of four women and the elusive artist who changed their lives.Daughters of a prominent Viennese family, Edith and Adele are expected to follow the…

Book Overview (from Amazon.com) An original and revealing portrait of the misunderstood French Post-Impressionist artist. Paul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture.…

We took the months of March and April to read the novel, Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser. With a print length of 368 pages, we choose to read it over the course of two months rather than our usual one month. We will share our first impressions of Mona’s Eyes at our March meeting, with…