Ben Shattuck: Six Walks
Six Walks (published 2022) follows author Ben Shattuck as he retraces journeys throughout New England taken over a century earlier by writer, philosopher, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. “Drawings from the book Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau” exhibits the original pencil drawings made along and after those journeys, depicting summits in northern Maine, beaches of Cape Cod, Thoreau’s Walden cabin, and sunlit fields. The six paintings also included in the show are in conversation with Thoreau’s writing, drawing on moments and descriptions in his journals.
About the Artist
Ben Shattuck, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a recipient of a PEN America Story Prize and a 2019 Pushcart Prize. His writing can be found in the Harvard Review, The Common, the Paris Review Daily, and Kinfolk Magazine. Six Walks, his first book, is a A Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a Town & Country Magazine Must Read Book of Spring, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Week, a Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of the Year, and a New England Indie Bestseller. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs a general store built in 1793.
