My favorite scene in Mr. Turner, the 2014 biopic about the English artist, occurs during the run-up to a Royal Academy exhibition: Turner appears to have deliberately ruined one of his dark & dramatic seascapes by pressing a brush loaded with shiny red...
One of the great joys of our recent trip to Europe was seeing the 16th & 17th C. Dutch art that has thrilled my soul since adolescence. Standing a few, trifling feet away from the very paintings that I had once pored over on the pages of books was,...
At the end of September, Tom & I drove to Les Collettes, the estate where Pierre-Auguste Renoir lived for the last dozen or so years of his life. A 3-hour drive from our rented apartment in Arles, it is located up a narrow, winding road in the town of...
Have you ever felt compelled, for the flimsiest of reasons, to do something & then, having done it, realized your life was immeasurably enriched by it? That was precisely what happened last Sunday when Tom & I drove up to the Milwaukee Art Museum to see...
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...
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...
