Monday, July 15, 2013

I find there are people from my area in New York City staying at The Porches Inn; we spend time chatting after breakfast and visit with Sabine the mascat. Everybody loves little “Bean.”

Sabine

Then off to Williamstown to “The Clark,” The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute for my annual visit. The Clark is undergoing a major transformation and many paintings are out on world-wide tours, but there was a wonderful exhibit on George Innes and Winslow Homer.

A few highlights by Winslow Homer. Homer was a businessman who knew how to parlay his work into bucks. He began as an illustrator and a prolific one at that, doing painstaking linecuts for books and magazines.

An array of some of my favorites at the Clark. John Singer Sargeant … had last seen a beautiful array of his work at The Brooklyn Museum.

John Singer Sargeant

John Singer Sargeant Fumée d’Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris) 1880

John Singer Sargeant

That evening I had a wonderful meal at The Gramercy Bistro located within mass MoCA. Vacation is good. Food is better.

mojito

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