Benton 79. One of Bishop’s last paintings, a picture of Devil’s Paintbrush, the name given to Orange Hawkweed by New England farmers. The wildflower is common to the Northern United States and Canada, and to North Haven, Maine where Bishop spent the last four summers of her life. Bishop and Frank Bidart first rented a house together there in 1974, and Bishop insisted upon taking him on nature walks and teaching him the wildflowers of Maine.In “North Haven”, her elegy to Robert Lowell, Bishop described their favorite island: This month, our favorite one is full of flowers: Buttercups, Red Clover, Purple Vetch, Hawkweed still burning, Daisies pied, Eyebright, the Fragrant Bedstraw’s incandescent stars, and more, returned, to paint the meadows with delight..