“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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...