Author Description

The Gallery of Hope & Joy is a carefully curated collection of classic art and poetry by the masters, all focused on hope and joy and appreciating the challenges and happiness that life brings. The following writers and artists are exhibited in the Gallery of Hope & Joy: Robert Browning, Marvell, Cottle, Campbell, Beauchene, Sir H. Davy, Leonard Bacon, Pope, Spenser, Milton, Robert C. Winthrop, Phillips Brooks, William Winter, Bishop King, Walter Scott, Bishop Berkely, Cottager and Artisan, J. Beaumont, Demosthenes, Massinger, Maltbie Babcock, Plautus, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Krishna, Glanvill, Dean Stanley, George D. Prentice, Nat. Lee, John Ruskin, Beecher, Julia C. R. Dorr, Johnson, Sunday School Times, Bulwer-Lytton, Maturin, Ben Jonson, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Charles Willson Peale, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrandt, Trumbull, Hogarth, Rivera, Delacroix, Picasso, Benozzo Gozzoli, Titian, Blume, Klee, Dali, Jan Van Eyck, Bruegel the Elder, Edward Hicks, Magdalen Master, Seurat, El Greco, Whistler, David, Turner, Benozzo Gozzoli, Gerome, Botticelli, Bruegel the Elder, Henri Rousseau, Rivera, Chardin, and Kokoschka. Blending the words and works in this Gallery of Hope and Joy has been a journey into the consciousness of yesteryear. Life has always been an individual journey; occasionally, we are captured by the forces of nature. The journey through life obligates us to experience the joy of living. The one constant that drives our life is hope, and the reward of striving for better tomorrow is the occasional joy of living. Please cherish your life today, because tomorrow's journey is not guaranteed to anyone. I would like to personally acknowledge the memories of the writers and artists that graced the Gallery of Hope and Joy.