Three Portraits of Miss M. (1932-33)

"This picture may be pronounced a minor sensation." (Edward Alden Jewell, New York Times art critic, 4/3/33).

"Another which attracted a great deal of praise from visitors as well as judges was a painting by William Starkweather entitled “Three Portraits of Miss M.” (New York Daily News, 4/5/33).

"Each night I felt more completely possessed by our love…heedless of where the voyage would end. This was our Eden, and we were alone in it." (Thelma Morgan (Viscountess Furness), recalling her 1930 African safari with Edward VIII, future King of England).