"Give me a museum and I'll fill it" (--Pablo Picasso)

MUSEUM PIECE

The good gray guardians of art

Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,

Impartially protective, though

Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.

Here dozes one against the wall,

Disposed upon a funeral chair.

A Degas dancer pirouettes

Upon the parting of his hair.

See how she spins!  The grace is there,

But strain as well is plain to see.

Degas loved the two together:

Beauty joined to energy.

Edgar Degas purchased once

A fine El Greco, which he kept

Against the wall beside his bed

To hang his pants on while he slept.

(--Richard Wilbur)

Recently, Joe and I traveled to Chicago, and while we were there, we visited the Art Institute, which was amazing.   I did these sketches of some of the folks we saw at the museum while we were there: I'm so out of practice painting that I may try to do a bunch more, since they're fun and just a good exercise.   (These are on Yupo.  What WAS I thinking!)

(With many apologies to Rick Tulka!)

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."  (--Edmond de Goncourt)