Under the Gables

Family Life on the Frontier by Caleb Bingham, c. 1845 Hymns by Firelight Now the sweet cloudy voices rise and fall, Blurring the soft damp a...

Janet Lewis Janet Lewis wrote Against a Darkening Sky in the early 1940s (published 1945) about the life of women with families in Encino,...

A Clambake. (As always, click on the painting to see it in a larger size.) The spirit of summer--fun!--led to me thinking about Winslow Home...

This is close to the way I imagine the bower of lilacs near the Victorian mansion in Alcott's book. Louisa May Alcott is rightly renowne...

Janet Loxley Lewis I am enjoying The Wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis (1899-1998), a novel based on a true story that shook the French ...

Àcorn Street, Boston, by Childe Hassam, 1919

At the Seaside by William Merritt Chase (As always, click on the painting to see it in a larger size.) It's summertime, and here we are ...