A great pleasure in life is seeing art. Here are some of my favorite images from a year of museum crawls. Joan Brown Retrospective At San Jose Museum Her enamel self-portraits on masonite were completely different from her earlier, and better-known, work. And she was the star of every canvas. Loved it. At London’s National… Continue reading Seeing Art, 2012
Category: Art
Les Cousins
We’re heading to Europe where we’ll visit London, Switzerland, Paris and my French cousins in Alsace (Eastern France.) My new painting, Les Cousins, is coming with us. It shows me with two of my cousins, Gaston and Charles Dann. It’s a gift for their 95-year-old mother, Lucie. All are descendants of the brother of my… Continue reading Les Cousins
That’s MY Merry-Go-Round!
I was watching House Hunters International on HGTV yesterday (a guilty pleasure.) The house hunters where seeking a home in Florence, Italy. As they arrived for a meeting with their realtor, they passed a carousel that caught my attention. “I know that merry-go-round,” I thought. I knew the shape and colors of the “crown” around… Continue reading That’s MY Merry-Go-Round!
Joanne Taeuffer 