Maybe it's because I am going to be traveling on and off for a month but I am enchanted by the depictions of the Holy Family traveling. I stumbled across them serendipitiously. The Art Institute of Chicago had loads of stamps with the image. This is Monaco's version. Then, Hungary. Then this lovely brown ink [...]
I have an old post that says, February! How did that happen? So I didn’t call this post, August! How did that happen? But it’s how I feel. The Shy Museum Goer has a new post about a Mexican artist, a woman who is not Frida Kahlo. Maria Izquierdo has a fascinating story of struggle, [...]
When I was maybe five years old my family used to go to the National Gallery of Art on Sundays. ~Occasional Sundays.~ I probably don't really remember how often... When I look back I realize that the museum was very new at the time. The building was opened in 1941. I wonder how much traffic [...]
Michele Bourdeau was 81 when she died Sunday, July 26. Explaining my relationship to her is either very simple or very complicated. But dusty today ... She was married to my brother for seven months. Then he died. Now, fifty-eight years later, she has died. I have been going through emails I had from her [...]
This statue is actually quite small, nothing close to life size. It's from the old Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary building, now closed with the students moving to a new location. I have no idea what became of it. Some of the windows moved. Some of the paintings moved. ... Saint Thomas Aquinas -- I think. [...]
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