The Reading Woman (Calendar, 2010)

A book can stop time, transcend circumstances, conjure a world in which to lose oneself. These paintings achieve the same thing. Just as the reading woman has temporarily set herself free from her life's narrative, so can we leave ours as we contemplate her image. Well-chose words on the pleasures of literature, from historic and contemporary readers and writers, accompany each of the twelve paintings in this calendar. Artists represented are Henry Bacon, John George Brown, Mary Stevenson Cassett, Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, Lilliam Westcott Hale, Edward Wilbur Dean Hamilton, Laura Coombs Hills, William Morris Hunt, Eastman Johnson, Alice Ruggles Sohier, Edmund Charles Tarbell and Micah Williams.