On Seeing a “Girl” & a “Goldfinch”

A mere three days after we viewed Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter in Los Angeles, Tom & I were standing in front of yet another Vermeer in San Francisco, the much-beloved Girl with a Pearl Earring.  Popularized in recent years by both a novel & a...

On “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter”

Last week Tom & I visited the Getty Center in Los Angeles.  This time we were there specifically to feast our eyes on Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, but anytime spent at the Getty is cause for excitement because it presents to the visitor the simply...