A stroll through some of the masterworks at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO. Georgie's favorite is in here. It was a good opportunity to practice taking pictures with my camera (that I promise to use in DC to amp up this blog). We'll call it my new year resolution. Until then, no making fun of my amateur photo skills.
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| Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun's Portrait of the Duchesse de Caderousse. Both barely escaped from the French Revolution, heads in-tact. |
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| A bust by Augustin Pajou, the infamous du Barry's favorite sculptor. She was not so lucky as the Duchesse. |
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| Cupid and Psyche by Boucher. |
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| A portrait by Hyacinthe Riguad, the famous painter of Louis XIV. |
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| A nice picture of Marian devotion. |
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| David with Goliath's head. |
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| The famous Caravaggio. St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness. |
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| A favorite: St. Cecilia. Needless to say the pictures (or is it my camera) just can't do them justice. |
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| Monet's famous Boulevard de Capucines. You can see the pink balloons from here. |
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| Another Monet. |
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| I've always liked these cows. |
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| A Chinese horse. |
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| A scene of revolutionary war. This one became a book jacket. I like it a lot. |
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| What museum collection is complete without Georgia O'Keefe's flowers. |
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| My favorite of the Thomas Hart Bentons. A minstrel show. |
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| A nice Madonna and Child. |
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| Period room from the French Neoclassical Period. |
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| Another view. |
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| Another period room with wood paneling. |
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| Period room from the Colonial Period in America. |
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| Another view. |
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| A favorite. John Singleton Copley's wedding portrait of the Barretts. |
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| Raphaelle Peale's Venus Rising from the Sea. |
