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Britannia, spring of 2020 - It’s decided. I’ve bought the round trip plane ticket and booked the first (nonrefundable) hotel. Here’s the gist; I’m coming to London to park myself in museums large (I’m looking at you, Victoria & Albert) and small (Hello there, Soames, I’ve heard great things.) I arrive the last week of March and [...]

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I’m a past writer, present painter, autodidact and idiolect. What thrills me is world-class art and I travel to look at it closely and at length. This blog is about those journeys; the planning, strategies, eager anticipation, doubts at 3 a.m., and my actual, boots-on-the-ground experience. I always pack a sketchbook and my best manners. […]

SHORT TRIPS

Blame it on the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. This is the second time they’ve hooked me with one of their bewitching lures – an exhibit of works by William Merritt Chase, prolific painter and teacher. Of course I know and admire his work. Of course the show opens in October and closes in January. I […]

Rembrandt House, Amsterdam, 2014
Monkeys, Alabama 2014
Art Institute of Chicago, 2014
Belcanto, Lisbon, sea & sand
Getty, LA 2014
Velazquez, Prado 2015
Paris, 2014
Lobkowicz Palace, Prague 2016
Atlanta, 2014
da Luce Trastevere 07
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, 2016
NYC 2007
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