Pen & Paintbrush Book Discussion
The Pearl, in partnership with our neighbor, the Barbara Bush Branch Library, presents the Pen and Paintbrush Book Discussion series. The book club selects written works that relate to the current exhibitions on display at the museum, and typically meets 3 times a year -- once for each museum exhibition cycle.
Book club meetings include a discussion and a tour of the current exhibitions with a special emphasis on the common themes they share. All are welcome to join the discussion events -- no membership or RSVP required!
Book club meetings include a discussion and a tour of the current exhibitions with a special emphasis on the common themes they share. All are welcome to join the discussion events -- no membership or RSVP required!
Spring 2020 Book Selection
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The Patchwork Bride by Sandra Dallas (2018)
Thursday, April 16, 2020 • 1:00pm Northgate Forest Conference Room, Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts Book summary: From Sandra Dallas, the best-selling author of A Quilt for Christmas, comes The Patchwork Bride, the irrepressible story of a runaway bride. Ellen is putting the finishing touches on a wedding quilt made from scraps of old dresses when the bride-to-be―her granddaughter June―unexpectedly arrives and announces she’s calling off the marriage. With the tending of June’s uncertain heart in mind, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband. Working as a biscuit-shooter, Nell falls for a cowboy named Buddy. She sees a future together, but she can’t help wondering if his feelings for her are true. When Buddy breaks her heart, she runs away. In her search for a soul mate, Nell will run away from marriage twice more before finding the love of her life. It’s a tale filled with excitement, heartbreak, disappointment, and self-discovery―as well as with hard-earned life lessons about love. Another stunning, emotional novel from a master storyteller. . . . A tour of the exhibition Stitched: Contemporary Quilt Art from the International Quilt Festival Collection will follow the discussion. |
Previous Book Selections
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Fall 2019
Book: Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci Exhibition: Grand Canyon Photographs: Celebrating the Centennial 1919-2019 |
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Summer 2019
Book: Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo Exhibition: My Hero! Contemporary Art & Superhero Action |
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Spring 2019
Book: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline Exhibition: An American View Revisited: The Hosek Collection of American Art |
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Spring 2017
Book: The Purloined Paperweight by P.G. Wodehouse Exhibition: A Collector's Passion: Fine Art Glass Paperweights |
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Winter 2016
Book: Riding the Black Cockatoo by John Danalis Exhibition: In the Dreamtime, Australian Aboriginal Paintings from Booker-Lowe Gallery |
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Summer 2016
Book: Flashback by Nevada Barr Exhibition: The National Parks: Select Images by American Photographer Mark Burns |
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Summer/Fall 2015
Book: The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson Exhibition: Dual Nature: Selections from the Chaney Family Collection |
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Spring 2015
Book: River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado by Margie Crisp Exhibition: Painting in the Texas Tradition: Contemporary Texas Regionalism |
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Summer 2014
Book: Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon by Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl Exhibition: “Standing on the Moon” – NASA, the Apollo Program, and Space Exploration |
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Spring 2014
Book: Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling Exhibition: France: Northwest Houston Collects |
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Fall 2013
Book: Gone to Texas: Quilts from a Pioneer Woman’s Journal by Betsy Chutchian Exhibition: Texas Art Quilts, 1993-2011 |
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Summer 2013
Books: What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz - and - Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike Exhibition: Pop at the Pearl |
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Spring 2013
Book: An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin Exhibitions: Mesmerize - and - Northwest Houston Collects: Selections from the Home of Ginger and Fred Palumbo |
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Fall 2012
Book: Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros Exhibitions: My Journey, My Story Mi Viaje, Mi Historia - and - The Heart of Mary El Corazón de María |
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Spring 2012
Books: Houston Then and Now by William Dylan Powell - and - Houston Deco: Modernistic Architecture of the Texas Coast by Jim Parsons and David Bush Exhibition: Drive By Landscape: Lillian Warren |
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Fall 2011
Book: The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko Exhibition: Thresholds: Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak |
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Summer 2011
Book: 36 Views of Mt. Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan by Cathy N. Davidson Exhibition: View of Mt. Fuji: Selections from the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens |
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Spring 2011
Book: Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West by Erin Hogan Exhibition: Richard Long: Measured Spaces |
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Fall 2010
Book: Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Exhibition: The Grand Tour: British and French Portraits from a Texas Collection |
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Spring 2010
Book: True Women by Janice Woods Windle (Joint Selection with the Adult Book Club at the Barbara Bush Library) Exhibition: The Wilson Potters: An African-American Enterprise in 19th-Century Texas |
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Fall 2009
Book: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne Exhibition: An American View: The Hosek Collection of American Art |
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Summer 2009
Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Exhibition: Legends of Texas Maritime: Art and Artifacts from the Texas Seaport Museum |