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
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
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
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
(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
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 – Piazza San Marco – Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) – Late 1720s – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435839 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 05/17/21 …well, so what if she lives in Oklahoma City… Oh, it just chafes her butt when they say “Oklahoma City” like it was some sort of disease. Just chafes her butt and she downright told them so. And...
Postcard Story – Bouquet of Sunflowers – Claude Monet – 1881 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437112 Oldest Daughter - 09/25/20 …and for her they were always evocative of life, of happiness, warmth, joy even, and of course with sunflowers, of the sun. She loves seeing those at the entrance to the small market where she shopped, brilliant...







