The Reading Woman 2017 Calendar

A pleasurable entertainment for some, the conduit for higher knowledge and self-actualization for others, reading has long been a force that empowers women to engage their dreams. She lounges in a garden, rifles through the shelves of a library, and steals a moment from her busy day to devour one more page. This calendar celebrates the reading womanher contentment, absorption, and quiet reveriesas well as the fondness that accomplished nineteenth- and twentieth-century painters demonstrated for portraying a woman lost in thought. Quotations by women about readers and reading accompany the artwork.