Thicker than paint

"This is the autobiography of the late Sandra Wittow, an artist of renown from Denver, Colorado. In it she talks at length about her paintings and the most significant influence on her work as an artist, Vladimir Nabokov, one of her teachers at Cornell University. She completed her life story shortly before her death of cancer in 2011. The book includes more than 100 vivid reproductions of her distinctive paintings"--Amazon.com.