Women Reading

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Sister reading on tower of books in forest. Photograph by Aks London.

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”  - Arthur Christopher Benson

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Reading. Guy Cambier (French, 1923-2008).

Cambier started to exhibit in 1942, first in Belgium and afterwards in France at the Cote d’Azur as well as in the US and in Paris at the Salon des Peintres Temoins de leur Temps. In 1957, he received the Parisian award, “Le Prix de la Jeune Peintre.”

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“The Studio Almanac” America, 1897 by Plum leaves on Flickr.

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“The Studio Almanac” 1897 London

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Marie-Augustin Zwiller - La liseuse