Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Edwin Arlington Robinson House in Gardiner, Maine
Robinson in 1888; taken when he graduated from Gardiner High School
1916 portrait by Lilla Carbot Perry
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones
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Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones was an American painter who lived in New York City, Philadelphia, and Paris, France. She had a successful career as a painter at the turn of the century, exhibiting her works
Edwin Arlington Robinson
…regular summer resident at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where several women made him the object of their devoted attention. Robinson and artist Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones visited MacDowell at the same times over a cumulative total of ten years. They had a romantic relationship in which she was in love with him, devoted…
1910 portrait by Alice Kent Stoddard
Sparhawk-Jones in her studio c. 1905
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, The Porch, 1907