Wednesday, June 20, 2007

The visit continues

What a great day yesterday was. It was hot but besides that a very productive day.

We went to the Kreeger Museum and the Hillwood Museum. It is hard to imagine a greater contrast in styles to collecting art.

The Kreeger has a very modern collection. Follow this link to get an idea of one of the exhibits we saw. There were two early works by Mondrian that are completely different from his later abstract work. There were sculptures by Henry Moore. There was a room of Monets as well as a room of Picasos. There was a total of ten people on the tour of the house.

We grabbed a quick lunch on the way to Hillwood.

Hillwood is full of decorative arts. Glassware, plates, Faberge eggs (which were fantastic). A great deal of the art come from Russia. She was the wife to the ambassador to Russia in the 30s. At the time Russia was in debt so they were selling royal artifacts off to raise money. Ms Post got things at bargain basement prices.

If you look at the two web sites you can really see the incredible differences in styles.

We ended up back at my house around 4 or so. We rested for a little while and then made dinner.

Around 6:30 we headed out to see Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theater. It was very well done. The actor who played Hamlet recently had been on All My Children so there was a great deal of interest on Jennifer's part to see how he would perform. She reported back to my dad on how the performance went.

Today it is a littler overcast but supposedly it is going to clear later. All three of us went for a walk this morning. We went to the grounds of the Franciscan Monastery. There was some unfortunate guy whose horn on his car to stop honking. It appeared somehow to be connected to the alarm system on the car. Eventually he was able to turn it off or maybe he just drove the car away.

Today we are hitting the mall.

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