Nina Cronan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1886. She graduated from Buckingham, Brown & Nichols high school in 2004 and is now enrolled in the Princeton University class of ’08. A painter herself, Nina has always been interested in art and art history. She became specifically intrigued by Gauguin’s work after seeing his Tahiti exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in the spring of ‘04. Nina also relates to Gauguin on a more personal level, having traveled to a number of exotic locations herself. Nina spent a semester living in Tanzania and has returned there to visit and she has also taken numerous trips to Honduras. These interests combined to inspired Nina to research Gauguin for this project and to expand her knowledge of the painter by studying some of his pre-Tahitian works.