According to the Washington Post, a Virginia woman found a Renoir, Landscape on the Banks of the Seine, in a box of knickknacks she bought in a West Virginia flea market for $7. The best part? The painting was once owned by Alphonsine Fournaise–she who flirtatiously leans against the railing in our Luncheon of the […]
It’s the rare workplace where folks don’t complain about the lunch room. Ours is no different. But no one can argue that these happy blooming orchids rival even the strongest works in our museum’s collection. Quite a few plants, mostly amaryllis, jade, and orchids, have made a home in our light-filled lunch room, and it […]
The two Repentant Peters are back up, or as Installations Manager Bill Koberg refers to them, Pete and RePete. Yet the two Saint Peters are hardly alike. The El Greco is elongated, influenced by the icon tradition of his native Crete and the Venetian painters; it flickers with an inner light. The Goya, painted 200 […]
