Life Studies

After writing two novels in which artists are the central heroines in their stories, Susan Vreeland has written a deeply moving, richly textured collection of stories that explore art through the eyes of ordinary people. In this collection, she first takes us back to the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art world of France and Italy and then returns us to the present day with a group of contemporary stories. Vreeland is the author of "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," "The Passion of Artemisia," and "The Forest Lover."