homes and haunts

Catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition held Aug. 18-Oct. 21, 1990, at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.; Nov. 17, 1990-Jan. 13, 1991 at the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Ill.; Feb. 8-May 27, 1991, at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and June 22-Sept. 2, 1991, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.

Thoreau details his solitary and simple life on the shores of Walden Pond.

The author chronicles his adolescence and young adulthood, describing the sexual and psychological abuse he suffered in the home of his mother's psychiatrist after she abandoned him there when he was twelve years old.

A memoir of the author's childhood in the Bronx during World War II, where his father was an air-raid warden and made fur-lined vests for the Navy, and his mother, a Russian immigrant, became a poker dealer to a cicle of powerful Bronx politicians who dealt in the blackmarket.

Provides a chronological examination of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural works, including his prairie homes, the Taliesin structures, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and many of his plans and drawings that were never completed; and discussing how contemporary buildings were influenced by Wright's designs.

Thoreau discusses his philosophy of life and observations of nature written while spending two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

The author describes her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years before returning to Denmark in 1931 to write.

A little girl visits the home and garden of Claude Monet at Giverny, France, and learns about the artist's paintings and his life. Includes photographs of the painter and his family as well as examples of his work.

Ralph loves growing up in Marshfield but learns that life is full of adventures and changes.