Thanks to a reader, I learned about, and then read a biography about, a relatively unknown Newport artist named Beatrice Turner. Miss Turner was reputed to have been a complete recluse during most of her life. She never married, never moved out of her parents' homes, and when her father died, she painted their Newport house, Cliffside, completely black. Adding to the oddity of Beatrice Turner, she wore Victorian clothes until her death in 1948. In the book I read about her, B