Book List

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…

Book Overview (from Amazon.com) “Replete with emotional interactions that bring the sisters and their world to life, The Cassatt Sisters is hard to put down, intensely revealing, and a work of art itself.” –Midwest Book Review In 1877, the Paris art scene is very competitive for men but nearly impossible for thirty-three-year-old Mary Cassatt, an American woman.…

Book Overview (from Amazon.com) “Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation.” -Michael Finkel, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Art ThiefA deliciously entertaining, never-before-told history of a residence for American women artists in Paris from 1893 to 1914. In Belle…