The Late Christopher Bean

This play is about a family of New Englanders who have, years before, given refuge to a great artist. The play opens some years after Bean's death with an excited world in pursuit of his work and any details they can gather about his life and character

Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill tempered

It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of his greatest paintings which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away

She is the only one who really understood and appreciated the artist besides, she had been married to him!