A Journey of Untold Memories

Ever since I can remember, I have admired my mother's painting of "East Indian Dancers." After visiting Doris Duke's Shangri La, now a museum, in Hawaii, I came home and looked again at my mother's painting. The same time Doris was beginning to build Shangri La mother in Berkeley, California painted this egg tempera on plastered board. In 1937 there was a love of the exotic and a favorite book was the "Arabian Nights." I remember my father reading it to me when I was very young. Doris likened her home to the "Arabian Nights."