Yesterday, at the Art Institute.

The images above are my photos of detail from the following paintings:

■ “David Garrick as King Lear” by Richard Westall; about 1815
■ “The Penitent Saint Peter” by Jusepe de Ribera; about 1630
■ “Study Head of a Bearded Man” by Frans Floris; about 1565
■ “The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge)” by John Philip Simpson; 1827 

We attended member hours to to see Among Friends and Rivals: Caravaggio in Rome, but what really captured our imaginations was Remedios Varo: Science Fictions.

The above are my images of detail from the following works:

■ Janitor by Duane Hanson, 1973
■ Wet Saturday by Martin Lewis, 1929
■ Le Penseur de Notre Dame by John Taylor Arms, 1923
■ The Fiddler by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1859
■ Untitled Anxious Audience by Rashid Johnson, 2017
■ Portrait of Frederick Layton by George Henry Yewell, circa 1888
■ Portrait of Dr. Karl Schwartz by Lovis Corinth 1916
■ The Card Players by Eduard vin Grützner, 1883
■ Triple Profile Portrait (The Mignons of Henry III) by School of Fontainebleau, 1570s

Seen at the Milwaukee Art Museum this weekend.

Detail from paintings in Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape:

— “Roadway with Underpass, Asnières“ by Vincent Van Gogh (1887)
— “The Fortification of Paris with Houses” Vincent Van Gogh (1887)
— “The Restaurant Rispal at Asnières” by Vincent Van Gogh (1887)
— “Railway Junction near Bois-Colombes” by Paul Signac (1885-86)
— “Strolling Man next to Tree on a Bank (Study for ‘La Grande Jatte’)” by Georges Seurat (about 1894)

The above are my images of detail from the following works:

— Congress of the Peoples for Peace by Frida Kalo (1952)
— Ballerine — Tête de mort (Ballerina — Skull) by Salvador Dalí (circa 1939)
— Foundation Tablet of Sin-kashid, King of Uruk (1800 BCE)
— Ewer with Ginseng Leaves (1100s to 1200s)
— Robert Barr by James McNeill Whistler (circa 1884-95)
— The Power of Satire by J. Michallon
— Untitled by Zao You-ki (1957)
— Animals in a Landscape by Franz Marc (1914)