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Elizabeth Bishop: Daisies in Paintbucket. Watercolor and gouache, 10½ x 9½ inches.

This year is the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Bishop, one of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, and several new collections of her prose, poems, and correspondence have been published to commemorate it. Her work is a widely recognized force in American poetry. Far less known is that Bishop was also an accomplished artist.

William Benton, Elizabeth Bishop’s Other Art