The Nelson Atkins Museum

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.

Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun's Portrait of the Duchesse de Caderousse.  Both barely escaped from the French Revolution, heads in-tact. 

A bust by Augustin Pajou, the infamous du Barry's favorite sculptor.  She was not so lucky as the Duchesse.

Cupid and Psyche by Boucher.

A portrait by Hyacinthe Riguad, the famous painter of Louis XIV.

A nice picture of Marian devotion.

David with Goliath's head.

The famous Caravaggio.  St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness.

A favorite:  St. Cecilia.  Needless to say the pictures (or is it my camera) just can't do them justice.

Monet's famous Boulevard de Capucines.  You can see the pink balloons from here.

Another Monet.

I've always liked these cows.

A Chinese horse.

A scene of revolutionary war.  This one became a book jacket.  I like it a lot.

What museum collection is complete without Georgia O'Keefe's flowers.

My favorite of the Thomas Hart Bentons.  A minstrel show.

A nice Madonna and Child.

Period room from the French Neoclassical Period.

Another view.

Another period room with wood paneling.

Period room from the Colonial Period in America.

Another view.

A favorite.  John Singleton Copley's wedding portrait of the Barretts.

Raphaelle Peale's Venus Rising from the Sea.