Becoming Bone would not have happened without Annie Boutelle giving a 1995 gallery talk at the Smith College Museum of Art, on the topic of Childe Hassam’s painting White Island Light, Isles of Shoals, at Sundown. The talk led to a study of the relationship between Childe Hassam and Celia Thaxter, and then an academic [...]
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On Becoming Bone
February 25, 2009
On Nest of Thistles
February 24, 2009
Like Becoming Bone, Nest of Thistles had its origin in a Smith College lecture, this time one that Annie Boutelle delivered in honor of Robert Burns manuscripts donated to the Mortimer Rare Book Room. Researching Burns’s life and poems reconnected Annie to her Scottish childhood (she lived there until she was 21), and plunged her [...]
