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| Lunch at Einstein's
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| A bagel with cream cheese, lox, tomato, onion, and capers, alongside
potato salad.
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| Dupont Circle
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| A view south down Connecticut Avenue.
Connecticut Avenue is the street by Dupont Circle with the most shops.
| Unusual fountains with a surface that looks like rice krispies treats.
| A street of nice, tall town houses.
| Slightly more ritzy town houses, with lawns and all.
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| The inside of St. Matthew's Cathedral. (The outside wasn't worth
photographing.)
| Charles E. Sumner School Museum and Archives. Can you imagine going to
a school like that? (It's not a school any longer: it's mainly a museum
and conference center. We didn't enter.)
| The main entrance to the National Geographic Society building. Notice
the magazine covers in the windows.
| The National Geographic Society has a park in back. Apologies that the
National Geographic sign is so hard to read in this photo.
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| The society has many displays, even outside.
| The fountains in front of the Geographic Society are actually
topological maps.
| The modern edifice that is the American Chemical Society.
| The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is gothic,
stately, and amazingly pristine.
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| An appropriately opulent manor for the National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
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| The Phillips Collection
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| The Phillips Collection buildings are bland for a museum -- not
surprising, when one realizes the buildings are simply converted houses.
| A 360-degree panoramic video of the room housing the special exhibit
Lyrical Color. There's a lot of contrasting colors in this room,
but I admit many of the combinations have some lyricism to them.
| Gene Davis's Jasmine Jumper is vibrant.
| Pablo Picasso's Bullfight, probably one of my favorite paintings by him.
I think it exemplified his style quite well.
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| Van Gogh's Entrance to the Public Gardens. He's clearly at the
top of his game. Simply stunning.
| Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire.
| Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party catches one's eye from a
distance
and never lets it go. It feels to me much like it's painted on felt or
another fuzzy surface. In any case, every detail is perfect from the
faces to the food to the fur to the fabric. My mom summed it up well:
"amazing."
| Monet's The Road to Vetheuil does an excellent job at capturing
the
feel
of the play of light on the ground.
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| A panoramic video of a room full of Bonnards. I like his style.
| Bonnard's Open Window. I'm not sure why I find it appealing.
Incidentally, the actual painting is lighter than this photograph makes
it appear.
| Kadinsky's Succession. I often like Kadinsky. He does such
creative
work.
| Klee's Tree Nursery. Like the last image, it has so many
symbols, I
wouldn't be surprised if there was a message hidden here.
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Klee's The Way to the Citadel. Is it a maze? A puzzle? Yes,
the arrows are part of the painting.
As with the previous painting, this could be a Game clue. Indeed, many
of Klee's works could be.
| All of Corot's paintings are incredibly detailed. This one, a mere 10
inches tall, is View from the Farnese Gardens, Rome.
| Kane's Across the Strip. I took a picture of this because one
rarely sees paintings in which individual bricks are painted. The
Phillip's Collection has comments
on this observation and more.
| Van Gogh's The Road Meanders.
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| Franz Marc's Deer in the Forest I. Funky.
| A panoramic video of a room filled with paintings by Marjorie Phillips.
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Part of the Phillips Collection is Phillips' house. The "music room" in
this house feels like it ought to be a dining room and play host to
nineteenth-century formal dinner parties.
It turns out one can rent the music room for events.
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