“I’m always completely happy when I do get around to painting a small picture—whereas writing is hell, most of the time,” Elizabeth Bishop confessed ... and the small oil sketch by her ...

In her new book, "Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast," Marshall ... Bishop read “Poem,” which describes a tiny oil painting of a Nova Scotia pasture that she knew from childhood ...

"John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I" Henry Gillard Glindoni (1852-1913), Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons A Victorian-era oil painting ... he was sent to Bishop Bonner's ...