INDIANAPOLIS — Rosanna Hardin Hall, an Indianapolis-based artist whose paintings and watercolors reflect her journeys from her childhood in Woodruff Place to many locales around the world, is releasing her book, Poesia: Painting in Venetian Gardens with Giorgione (Mesa Verde Press, $37). Hall will give a brief lecture and sign copies of her book at Indy Reads Books, 911 Massachusetts Ave., on Wed., Oct. 25, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Her book is lavishly illustrated with her art and photographs, primarily from her many painting trips to Venice, but also from Rome and Florence, the American Southwest, and Hawaii (where she received her Master’s in Fine Arts). Poesia shares the story of her journey as an artist.
She was married to the late Robert Novak, the well-known columnist and TV commentator. After their brief marriage, she moved to Paris to live the life of a Bohemian artist. In addition to Paris, she has lived in many areas now represented in her body of work: Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico; Honolulu; and Washington, D.C.
Today, she lives in the large Queen Anne-style home in historic Woodruff Place, first occupied by her family in 1915. Behind the house at 700 Middle Drive is Villa dell’Artista, her two-story gallery where her art from Indianapolis, Italy, England, France, Hawaii, New Mexico, and the South Pacific is on display at First Fridays and by appointment.
Hall’s book will be available at Indy Reads Books, by contacting alannerd@transcendent-travel.com, and at functions held at Villa dell’Artista (317-972-0898).
