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Postcard Story – The Dance Class – Edgar Degas – 1874 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438817 Fourth Sister – 12/14/20 …she had told him she did not like foo-foo, never had, not as a girl or teenager and definitely not now. He said this was not foo-foo, or phoo-phoo, or however you wanted to spell it, but here now before her was a big...
Postcard Story – Georgia O’Keefe – Alfred Stieglitz – 1918 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/271570 Third Daughter – 05/17/21 …and again, Lavita Lamour emerges, and again at night, shedding the intelligent, yes, but mild and unassuming and unimpressive daytime role as near-head accountant for a medium-size, fairly-respected, stable and...
Postcard Story – Stepping Out – Roy Lichtenstein – 1978 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Roy Lichtenstein | Stepping Out | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) (Not in Public Domain) Stepping Out Oldest NYC Grandson – 11/14/22 …and, yes, she was different, more alive than most of the girls he knew, well, all really, and that was good. She was like…a bird, yes, but one you...
Postcard Story – The Lighthouse at Two Lights – Edward Hopper – 1929 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489258 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Oldest Grandson – 02/26/21 ...and when he saw the lighthouse, he stopped to view it to contemplate its meaning…and he thought, quietly without hurrying, for to him…yes, that was...
Postcard Story – Night-Shining White (Detail) – Han Gan, Chinese – ca. 750 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39901 Oldest Sister - 07/16/21 Night-Shining White …and as she studied the horse, Or better, wondered over it, For, yes, it was a horse, The form and features and movements were all there, But something else, she was sure, was...
Postcard Story – Autumn Rhythm – Jackson Pollock – 1950 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488978 Autumn Rhythm Fifth sister – 10/21/20 …and he dragged her to the museum, literally, forgetting it seemed that he had promised her the best pastrami in the Village…they were nowhere near the Village…even she knew that…just in from LA…but this...
Postcard Story – Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) – John Singer Sargent – 1883-84 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12127 Third Daughter – 09/20/21 …and she gazed upon what she had achieved, in her mind, not what she had become, but what she was, reflected back to her in the mirror she stood before, elegant, a woman of style, one with an overwhelming classic pose...
Email Postcard Story – One of Many Ruins of Abbeys and Castles that Dot the Welsh Countryside.
One of Many Ruins of Abbeys …and forever, it seemed, he always felt a touch of melancholy in the late afternoon and early evening, perhaps always regretting the waning of the light, of the golden light of the lowering sun, a fading that reminded his mind and heart over and over, that the day, that...