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