Stopped by Literati en route to Detroit Institute of Arts.
Acquisitions
Seen at the museum
My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Detroit Institute of Arts):
✤ “The Wedding Dance” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1566)
✤ “The Last Judgment” by Jan Provost (about 1525)
✤ ”Merrymakers” by Carolus-Duran (1870)
✤ “Study for Painting with White Form” by Wassily Kandinsky (1913)
✤ ”Animals in a Landscape” by Franz Marc (1914)
✤ “Self-Portrait in Olive and Brown” by Max Beckmann (about 1945)
✤ ”Shadow Country” by Yves Tanguy (1927)
✤ ”Peggy Sanderson Hughes and Her Daughter” by Charles Wilson Peale (1789)
✤ ”The Card Players” by Richard Canton Woodville (1846)
✤ ”Floral Still Life” by Charles Ethan Porter (1880-90)
Packing redux
With that settled, I’ll toss in my slippers, and call it a weekender.
Acquisitions
A gentle madness.
If you build it…
he will come; or, adventures with pollinator pockets.
Recently acquired
Stopped by Exile in Bookville while downtown this past weekend.
Art-full
My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Art Institute of Chicago):
✤ “Haunted House” by Morris Kantor (1930)
✤ “Untitled” by Jackson Pollock (about 1938-41)
✤ ”Desert Forms” by Hughie Lee-Smith (1957)
✤ “The Rock” by Peter Blume (1944-48)
✤ ”Movements” by Marsden Hartley (1913)
✤ “Portrait of Marevna” by Diego Rivera (about 1915)
✤ ”Herself” by Robert Henri (1913)
Weekend reading
The Cather bio sent me in search of a more thorough exploration her life and work; perhaps the Hermione Lee already on my shelves. My younger daughter and I are reading the Chiang together. The first two stories reminded me that I do, in fact, enjoy the form; but they must be excellent. And how apt to read Richard II this afternoon: “For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground / And tell sad stories of the death of kings….”
Nerdishly 