"I am 3/4ths Canadian, and one 4th New Englander - I had ancestors on both sides in the Revolutionary war." - Elizabeth Bishop
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Two Arts – EBSNS Virtual Exhibit 2020 – Part 6

Bishop’s maternal family was an essential element in her childhood, and not only the most immediate members, but also distant relatives such as her Great-Uncle George W. Hutchison, a painter and illustrator who lived in England. He was very much alive during her early years in the village. Her poem “Poem” describes a small painting he did of Great Village, one Bishop was given and kept until her death. This painting was a nexus of contemplation and an aesthetic force, for Bishop. And in the poem it generated she asks one of her most penetrating and mysterious questions, as Natallia shows in this image of echoes.


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