ARKHAMA Living Survey · Autumn 1926
Portrait of Vivian Sterling, private art tutor (illustration)

Vivian Sterling

Private art tutor

Age
34
From
Boston
Lives
Hill Avenue
Now
In Arkham

Before Arkham's business

Born in Boston and trained at the Museum School, Vivian came to Arkham to escape a minor society scandal. She now instructs the untalented daughters of Hill Avenue in watercolor and oils.

Observant, highly aesthetic, and slightly cynical. She maintains a polite society veneer while quietly judging the artistic merits of everyone she meets.

Afraid of

Losing her sight · The figures in paintings turning to look at her

Believes

Art reveals the truths we politely ignore.

From the journal

Sunday, 7 November 1926

The town has the jitters. One can feel it in the shops.

Monday, 1 November 1926

My mother always said to write things down. I am starting now, rather late. I am a private art tutor, and until lately that was all anyone needed to know about me. A quiet day, and I was grateful for it. Something is going on in Arkham, and I seem to have decided to find out what.

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