The Art Colony Author:Leland Cooley They came from all over America, searching for a destiny that would make them free-striving to find the one place where secret fantasies, consuming ambitions, and turbulent desires could flame at last into fulfillment. They came to the Art Colony to paint, to struggle, to sacrifice, to buy and sell, to betray, build, and destroy...and some-a fe... more »w-would succeed.
Jac Ambrose, a strong, sensual, talented painter, weas one of many who found the Art Colony a haven for creativity, and an ambiguous Eden where dreams exploded into nightmares. In the passionate arms of young Beth McCabe, and the notorious Barba Hayden-and the soul-destroying embrace of a ruthless gallery owner-he discovered the stuff of which dreams and delusions are made.
The saga of Jac Ambrose-artist and seeker-sweeps with surging force across the broad canvas of human experience to reveal for all time the shattering destiny of one man who paid the price of life in the Art Colony.« less