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The career of Henri Rousseau, one of the great self-taught modern artists, began at age forty, when he was an impoverished Parisian toll collector. Markel starts her story here and goes on to present Rousseau as a lover of nature, a dreamer, a painter relentless in the pursuit of his art, and, above all, underappreciated during his lifetime. The sometimes straightforward, sometimes flowery text (“the trees spread their arms, and the sun is a blushing ruby, all for him”) is consistently informati...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Markel's informative text conveys self-taught modern artist Henri Rousseau's groundbreaking flat perspective, inspiration by faraway lands, and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More