2007 The Reading woman wall calendar

A book can stop time, transcend circumstances, conjure a world in which to lose one-self. This calendar's twelve paintings--including Edgar Degas' Visit to a Museum, Laura Coombs Hills' Fire Opal (Grace Mutell), John Singer Sargent's Simplon Pass; Reading, and nine other serene and lovely images--achieve the same thing. Just as the reading woman has temporarily set herself free from her life's narrative, so can we leave ours as we contemplate her image. Well-chosen words on the pleasures of literature, from historic and contemporary readers and writers, accompany each image.