The National Gallery

Annamaria on Monday

With apologies for my absence last week.  

A longtime friend lives in Bethesda.  Since I was there for Malice, I played hokey on writing a blog so that I could spend last Sunday with her.  We spent a lot of that time wandering around the National Gallery.  Here are some highlights of what we saw:

James McNeil Whistler's Symphony in White. Blogger will not

let me enlarge the picture, but it will let me enlarge the detail

 of the head of the animal that was sacrificed to make

 the rug on which the woman in white stands!

(Good thing you cannot hear me cursing.)  

I am giving up trying to upload the names of all the artists and their works.

Henri Matisse

I love the skeptical look on her face!

She mirrors my feelings about struggling with Blogger. 

Here are some of Alexander Calder's delightful animals.  Just looking at them dissolves my cranky attitude over tech difficulties.

Notice the shadow on the wall.

The view from one of the windows.  

It reminded me of this: