Exchanging Hats: Elizabeth Bishop Paintings

Edited with an introduction by William Benton.

Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996. First Edition. Very Good+ in dust jacket.

 Though not many people know it, noted poet Elizabeth Bishop painted throughout her life, as this handsome book, reproducing in full color forty of her watercolors, demonstrates. Benton gives the provenance, dimensions, and (where possible) the date of each painting; he also cites painterly passages from Bishop’s writing.