My mother put herself through college in the late 1930's. She started at the University of Wisconsin, took some classes in Chicago while working there for Barnhardt, the dictionary people, and then finished through the University of Wisconsin extension. She used to talk about going to the Art Institute, and I had no idea what [...]
Today is the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch. I went looking for images that included him and found a picture of Saint Ignatius Loyola first, because I had been careless in my prompt. Here it is. https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/viewer/M.1975.03.P On the Norton Simon website it's not listed in the public domain, but it is very beautiful [...]
My new book will be out in less than a month… I hope. It’s difficult to stay on track but I’ve done a monster edit over the last six months. Like this drawing, my story was missing some legs. Miss May Belfort Drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec National Gallery of Art, DC public domain Separately, [...]
I'm almost finished with my new book and need to work on it steadily. I'd say this picture, minus the FAA, is about where I'm at. Or maybe FAA stands for Fulfilling Artistic Ambition. That definitely slows down the production of fiction designed to give people a few hours of fun... I have appointments galore [...]
I enjoyed perusing the online art collection from the Freer Art Gallery in DC the other day. It is called the Arthur Sackler, etc, etc, something or other, but it was the Freer fifty years ago. It is actually part of the Smithsonian so that's where you find the public domain pictures. The rules for [...]
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