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 MARY F. BURNS
Portraits of an Artist
Thursday, February 21 at 7 PM
A tour de force of historical and psychological imagination. - Paula Marantz Cohen, author of What Alice Knew and Jane Austen in Scarsdale
Meet West Portal's own Mary Burns, author of The Woman Who Wrote the Bible and The West Portal Mysteries series. She will read from her new book, Portraits of an Artist,
an imaginative historical novel that portrays the motivations and
passions underlying John Singer Sargent’s creative force and brilliantly
revealing art.
Sargent, once living in Paris and intimate with the fin de siecle
celebrities there and in London and
Venice, retreated in disgrace to London to start a new life. During this
dark time, he produced two of his very finest paintings, the "Daughters
of Edward Darley Boit" and "Madame X" - haunting portraits that both
engage and puzzle the viewer.
Burns, book reviewer for the Historical Novel Society
and member of the HNS Conference board
of directors, has won a number of short story contests, including the
JerryJazzMusician Short Fiction contest, and the 15th Dame Lisbet
Throckmorton
short fiction contest.
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