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The British Museum

July 2007

Thanks for a great time! got your info on work/study abroad. Who knows? Stay happy, well and in touch!

Love, Beth

Maori door lintel, pare. From a small house of the 1800-1820 period, carved in Poverty Bay Rongowhakaata style, New Zealand. presented by Sir George Grey. Width 98 cm. Ethno. 1854.12-29.89

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Snowgeese

Frank Lanting 1983/Snowgeese in formation, California

1985

We all wish you a wonderful trip to Hungaria, good weather, good food and wine, happy Easter Days and good homecomings.

Love Christa, Hans & girls & pets

PS Virginia, the book about Monet is great, Hans stopped reading “Sirens” he doesn’t like it.

See you soon

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Floriade, Amsterdam

May 1982

Hi

Just got home from the Floriade and A lovely 5 course luncheon with the Board – 51 of us. We drove in a big bus thru the beautiful tulip fields – a lovely sunny day, not too chilly. The cocktail last night was ok – Marilynn’s spinach dip was a real hit! Mary H. Sends her love to you. Hope all is okay in Pl–

Love, Va

Floriade – International Horticultural Exhibition

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The Netherlands

Portrait of Queen Beatrix by Andy Warhol

March 1991

Isn’t this nice? They have a large one hanging as you start upstairs in the refurbished Maruitshuis. Bill and I went this AM – all my old favorites (Steen, F Hals, Rembrandt, etc) are all there, but the bldg is beautiful! We are off to Dorothy’s for tea – ISNAR for weekly get-together at 5.

Love, Va

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Paris, France

National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou

June 1982 (Den Haag)

Hi

K. Leaves this aft. We went to Enkhuizen to see the boats and across the dam yesterday, toured Rotterdam Harbor Sat., took the Elsmeer-Vollendam- Marken tour on Wed. It was HOT. Now I must get the apt & myself organized to leave Sun. Bill will stay the week in Minn. Thanks for Tom’s nice announcement. Will give congrats later. Hope all went well. The wedding sounded nice. Hope to be talking to you soon.

Love, Va

This postcard is of an art museum in Paris – the Georges Pompidou. When we first saw it we thought it was a very ugly thing. It had a big open area in front of it where all kinds of street performers were doing their thing, breathing fire and dancing around. It turned out to be an amazing space with wonderful art – contemporary and modern. It has all it ‘guts’ on the outside so it makes it possible to have large open spaces. It opened in 1977 and I think I must have been there a few years after that.

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Bruges, Belgium

Church of Our Lady – Virgin with the Infant Jesus (1501), Michelango Buonarroti

May 1982

Hi

Happy May Day. It is cold and rainy. This statue is just unbelievably beautiful, done when Michelangelo was 26 yrs old!! This little city is lovely with such pretty bldgs with nice little windows. We did 4 churches, the city hall and lace factory yesterday. Will do a canal trip in the cold today.

Love, Va

Michelangelo did the Pieta, below, two years earlier (at 24 years old). Here, Mary is with the 33 year old Jesus. It is very similar, she is very similar.

Pieta, Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican

The one in Bruges was the first work of his to leave Italy during his lifetime. Wealthy merchants bought it for 4,000 florins (not sure what that means but I’m guessing it’s a lot). The sculpture left Belgium twice after that. The first time it was sent to France in 1794, during the French Revolutionary Wars but was returned after Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo in 1815. The second was in 1944, when German soldiers smuggled it out in a Red Cross truck. It was discovered in Austria a year later and returned.

Below is a postcard of the Church of Our Lady in Bruges where the Virgin of the Infant Jesus can be found.