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Postcard Story – The Rehearsal Onstage – Edgar Degas – 1874 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436155?ft The Rehearsal Onstage – Edgar Degas – 1874 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art Third Granddaughter – 07/12/21 …and as she sat on her bed, listening now to the sound of the warm Midwest summer rain outside, she held the postcard from her...
Postcard Stories – Morning Glories – Suzuki Kiitsu – Early 19th Century – The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Our Eyes Upon the Horizon & Details – A Thought Piece
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48982 Morning Glories – Suzuki Kiitsu – Early 19th Century Our Eyes Upon the Horizon & Details - A Thought Piece Second Sister's Spouse – 06/28/21 …and of course, it is good to see the whole, as much as one can, to get the “big picture”, for as a...
Postcard Story – Young Woman with a Water Pitcher – Johannes Vermeer – Dutch – 1662 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437881 Postcard Story – Young Woman with a Water Pitcher – Johannes Vermeer – Dutch – 1662 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Oldest Sister - 12/18/20 …and she thought this was the way she always wanted her life to be, balanced, uncluttered, simple yet...
Postcard Story – Magnolias and Irises – Louis Comfort Tiffany – 1908 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/9819 Magnolias and Irises – Louis Comfort Tiffany Second Daughter – 12/10/20 …and when she first saw the window, she knew that it was beautiful, even with the fleeting glance and hurried steps past it, more interested in a certain boy, well, at least...
Postcard Stories – The Flowering Orchard – Vincent van Gogh – 1888 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436527 The Flowering Orchard Oldest Daughter - 06/30/14 …and then for no reason she knew, not in response to another’s word or the calling of a child, or a query from the workers, she stopped, and after a moment, she quietly leaned against her rake...
Postcard Story – Venice, from the Porch of Madonna Della Salute – Joseph Mallord William Turner – 1835 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437853 Venice, from the Porch of Madonna Della Salute Third Granddaughter – 12/11/20 ...and, of course, her grandfather was, let’s say interesting, yes, and funny at times, and, well odd, yes…she’ll stick with that story, but this postcard was...
Postcard Story – The Four Trees – Claude Monet – 1891 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437121 Postcard Stories are stories actually written on postcards, most from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, usually on both sides of the postcard. The date shown with the story, is the date on the postcard when I wrote it. I process the...
Postcard Story – The Gulf Stream – Winslow Homer – 1899 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11122 Second Grandson – 09/10/21 …and it was…and he was…just a man…what more was there to think or say as he looked more from instinct than sight and saw, to him, the final sign, the waterspout, a deadly snake from the water to the sky, swaying and...