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Two Gentlemen
This portrait stunned me at Newport’s Rosecliff Mansion. The hypnotic blue eyes looked deep into mine as if casting a spell. I felt I knew him. There was no identification on the wall…
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Sisters
I met Miss Mary Sears last Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She becharmed me so much that I have been googling her as well as the painter of her…
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Mrs. Delany
I must tell you about a book that has been entrancing me for several months. “The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins her Life Work at Age 72” by Molly Peacock has been on…
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When a Man Loves a Woman
My favorite painting is the one you see at the right above my profile. It’s called “At Breakfast” and was painted in 1898 by the Danish artist Lauritis Andersen Ring (1854-1933). There are…
