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Postcard Story – Mada Primavesi (1903-2000) – Gustav Klimt – 1912 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436819 (In Public Domain) Second Granddaughter - 09/20/20 …so here she was, now fourteen, all dressed up, ready for the party, her party, of course, not really the one she wanted, but nevertheless, the one she was going to, all arranged in her honor,...
Postcard Stories – The Bodmer Oak, Fountainebleau Forest – Claude Monet – 1865 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437131 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Fourth Sister - 10/05/20 …and, yes, he was right, there was something refreshing and even quietly breathtaking - deeply calming - about the beauty of the trees, of the oaks,...
Postcard Stories – Still Life with Apples And A Pot of Primroses – ca. 1890 –Paul Cezanne, French – 1839-1906 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435882 (In Public Domain) Fifth Sister –10/24/14 …and then, well, really, she just didn’t want to rearrange the fruit in the fruit bowl and that’s all there was to it, so there! Ha! She can live her very well own life anyway she wants to and anyone...
Postcard Story – Regetta at Sainte-Adresse – Claude Monet – 1867 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437136 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Fourth Granddaughter – 05/11/21 …and she was so happy to be at the beach, and she said to her brother, who was younger than her and did not yet see all things she would see, she...
Postcard Stories – Study of a Young Woman – Johannes Vermeer – 1665-67 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437879 (In Public Domain) Third Granddaughter - 09/28/20 …and as she gazed at her finished portrait, she was pleased, more pleased the longer she beheld it, not even hearing the painter…hmm, a nice looking young man, but still too old for her, one...
Postcard Story – The Bridge at Villeneuve-La-Garenne – Alfred Sisley – 1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437680 (In Public Domain) Spouse of Sister - 10/08/20 …ok, so she lived in a desert, yes…she liked it, most of the time, and if she didn’t, she could get away, after a drive…but never in the dark now, too many curves, too many bright lights coming at...
Postcard Story – Women Picking Olives – Van Gogh – 1889 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436536 (In Public Domain) Youngest Daughter – 04/07/14 … and as the years wore on, after she and her husband returned to California, occasionally, for it was to get them together because of their full and busy lives. But at least once, sometimes...
Postcard Stories – The Flatiron – 1904, printed 1909 – Edward I. Steichen, American, 1879-1973 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267803 Third Daughter – 11/24/14 … and as Lavita Lamour approached the Flatiron in the gloom of a drizzly November evening – her signature deep red stiletto high heels reflecting almost as a bleeding wound upon the wet pavement in the light of the...