Good Reading

Just finished a wonderful book titled "Intimate Vistas, the Poetic Landscapes of William Langson Lathrop" compiled by Brian H. Peterson, Senior Curator of the James A Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA. An account of William Lathrop's life as a self taught tonalist painter in the late 1800's to 1938 at which time he died on his sail boat named "The Widge" that he built himself . The boat survived the hurricane, but Lathrop was swept overboard at the age of 79. The book gave some interesting insights about the Tonalist painters of the time, along with the Hudson River School painters and the Impressionist painters. It also included many letters that he wrote to family members and friends that beautifully expressed his philosophy and personal insight on nature and human nature.