Dear Liza,
Auntie Bridgett and I took the bus down to the Portland Art Museum on Friday for the opening of a show called “Monet to Matisse: French Moderns”. These paintings and sculptures had been borrowed from the collections of the Brooklyn Art Museum in New York.
We were greeted by this wonderful study for Rodin’s Bronze Man.
There were three big galleries of paintings by Monet, Marc Chagall, Berthe Marisot, Edgar Degas, and many others.
These are all impressionists, a style I love, and I was in heaven just walking and staring.
But my favorite painting today was this tiny Marc Chagall, featuring his violin player. The bright colors and careless brush strokes reminded me of paintings by Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead. It just really made me smile.
I will tell you more about our day out tomorrow.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 