Chapter 13 Summary

"Grandma Ghost"

Tully finishes his breakfast at a café and sees an old woman setting up and an easel and canvas. He watches her as she paints and remembers "Grandma Ghost," who was the other family member who ran off to the tropics.

Tully says that "what connects some people to the art they like is not wishing they could paint it but rather wanting to be in the scene that the artist has painted" (pg. 130). The second painting in Tully's art collection is Heart of the Andes and it is an etching of a painting by Frederic Edwin Church. Tully saw the original at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was a teenager. This painting is responsible for Tully's interest in the tropics.

He explains that in 1859, when the painting was put on exhibit, his great-grandparents Jubal and Sarah Sawyer...