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Postcard Story – Four Tulips: Boter Man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote Geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One), and Voorwint (With the Wind) – Jacob Marrel – ca. 1635-43 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Apr 21, 2022 | Postcard Stories

(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337769 Second Sister's Spouse – 04/08/21 …and then of course what caught her eye and mind was the differences in what she initially assumed, like everyone else…probably…was all the same thing, just two colors red and white put...

Postcard Story – Mihrab (Prayer Niche) – 1354-55 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Apr 4, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/449537 (In Public Domain) Fifth Sister – 11/30/20 …and, of course, the color blue was on her mind, having just finished her term paper on Islamic art and specifically on the Mihrab, the “blue” prayer niche within her own mind, sometimes focusing on...

Postcard Story – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold – Charles Demuth – 1928 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mar 30, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488315 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of Painting taken at Met) Oldest NY Grandson – 02/25/21 …and he was puzzled when he saw the number, for five meant nothing special to him, no more than any other number…well, he did like twenty, for when...

Postcard Story – The Dancing Class – Edgar Degas – 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mar 20, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436141 (In Public Domain) Second Granddaughter - 07/05/21 …and as she stood before the painting, observing, studying, beholding – as her grandfather had taught her – she smiled, for he never knew that they all thought he was quite a character, one to...

Postcard Story – Dad’s Coming – Winslow Homer – 1873 – National Gallery of Art, Washington

Feb 23, 2022 | Postcard Stories

Dad's Coming! (nga.gov) (In Public Domain) Second Grandson – 04/13/14 …and so the boy would sit upon the boat, still and unmoving upon the sand of the beach, and he would look straight ahead, gazing upon the horizon to the northeast from where his father would come. And how many times he had done...

Postcard Story – Pool Parlor – Jacob Lawrence – 1942 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Feb 16, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488043 Sister's Spouse – 10/26/21 …and the darkness of the painting pulls you in, you need to stop, the blackness of two of the images enticing you even more, so unusual, insistent, and then everything begins to shout, “Alive”. The pool players, the...

Postcard Story – The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil – Edouard Manet – 1874 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Feb 4, 2022 | Postcard Stories

(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436965 Second Daughter – 10/15/20 …and at first, when he was just a baby, there was not a real difference between him and his older sister, a baby is a baby…but still there was a difference…she could sense it, she could see it…yes,...

Postcard Story – Notre-Dame-De-La-Garde (La Bonne-Mere), Marseilles – Paul Signac – 1905-06 – The Metropolitan Museum of

Nov 15, 2021 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437672 Oldest Daughter – 05/10/21 …the walk along the harbor in the still cool misty air of the morning was full of peace and…life, for the work of the harbor, small group of fishermen rowing out to their fishing boat, the rhythm of the oars dipping...

Postcard Story – Four Tulips: Boter Man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote Geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One), and Voorwint (With the Wind) – Jacob Marrel – ca. 1635-43 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – Mihrab (Prayer Niche) – 1354-55 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold – Charles Demuth – 1928 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – The Dancing Class – Edgar Degas – 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – Dad’s Coming – Winslow Homer – 1873 – National Gallery of Art, Washington

Postcard Story – Pool Parlor – Jacob Lawrence – 1942 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil – Edouard Manet – 1874 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – Notre-Dame-De-La-Garde (La Bonne-Mere), Marseilles – Paul Signac – 1905-06 – The Metropolitan Museum of

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