Title: Exchanging hats : paintings /
Authors: Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979; Benton, William.; Benton, William, 1939-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Bishop, Elizabeth, Catalogs.; Authors as artists Catalogs.
Abstract: When the distinguished art critic Meyer Schapiro said that Elizabeth Bishop "writes poems with a painter's eye," Bishop was "very flattered: I'd love to be a painter." The fact is - though not many knew it - she painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her works, demonstrates. The paintings were tracked down, identified, and collected by the poet and art writer William Benton, who arranged the first exhibit of Bishop's.