Cafe Art

Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin, 1888, National Gallery of Art.

Known as the Volpini Suite, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, have organized and exhibition that re-creates Gauguin's ground-breaking show that is widely considered to be the first exhibition of Symbolist Art.

Rose Bowl

White and Pink Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour, Private Collection.

A friend of the Impressionists Manet and Bazille, in his early career Fantin-Latour was part of the traditional academic salon. He loosened his brush strokes after he came to know the Impressionists and their techniques.

More information from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Mad Architecture

The Old Pennsylvannia Station, NYC, 1910-1963, McKim,Mead & White Architects.

When the original Beaux-Arts station was torn down in 1963 there was such an uproar from the citizens of NYC that the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was established.

Interior Old Penn Station

An Apple a Day

Rebel in the Making: Schoolboys Exercising, with One Eating an Apple, Tokyo, Japan, 1936 by Fritz Henle, University of Texas.

There was a wonderful show of the photography of Fritz Henle at that Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin; unfortunately it just closed. Henle was a master of many different types of photography. There is an excellant catalog of the exhibition published by the University of Texas Press called Fritz Henle In Search of Beauty.

Masterpiece Cards Guest Blogging

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Check out the site for Masterpiece Cards - they invited me to do a guest blog.

UPDATE: They are offering a special discounted price through Labor Day - check it out!

Nimble Fingers

Gee's Bend Quilters Collective, Gee's Bend Alabama

The ladies of Gee's Bend have been making quilts for more than six generations. Largely using scraps of old material, they have created some of the most original and beautiful piecework ever done.

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