Visual Entertainment from Near and Far
January 1985, Den Haag
We made it ok, bags and all. Kees met us with 2 bouquets of flowers (tulips, yet!) and wearing his big snow boots! It is cold, snowy and white-foggy. Rather eerie, but pretty and very chilly. Will write more later.
Love, Va
Vincent Van Gogh. Flowering garden with path
Bluhennder Garten in Arles
Venus and the Lute Player
Titian, Italian 1488-1576
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
1985
Dear Mom,
Since you are into self-portraits, here is another. If the one you sent Va. was an Iowa pig, here’s your Chinese one!
I have a self-portrait on the stairway chest – a basket in the shape of a chicken. Its head comes off to get into the basket. I have it displayed with the head off! Me this week!
Love, Sigrid
Chinese Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 9)
Wreath, Netherland
Diet van Beek
La Jaconde (Mona Lisa) by Leonard de Vinci (1452-1519)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Modern Museum of Art, New York
Willem de Kooning, American, born the Netherlands, 1904-1997.
Woman. 1950. Oil, cut and pasted paper on cardboard.
From DeGrazia’s Midnight Fantasies: “the Lone Navajo Squaw”
DeGrazia Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso. Oil on Canvas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Thought you might like this little bug that lives at the Getty museum!
Love, Tim
Albrecht Durer. Stag Beetle, 1505. Watercolor and gouache. The J. Paul Getty Trust.
Winged Victory, The Louvre, Paris
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