Betsy has written a book All that Remains that will be published this fall. She treated us to a sample poem from the book at our last meeting. One hopes our studies have inspired her Art History Morning class, pajamas under raincoats lights go down, anticipation up, slides make a carriage ride from rural Virginia to the Met, the Jeu de Paume, Picasso’s aerie, Rodin’s atelier, Monet’s garden, the Louvre, to Paris, London and Bruges. Dreams of being a painters’ muse obsess cla

Sarah Cash - Associate Curator of American and British Paintings at the National Gallery of Art “Only The Roar Left Out” - Frederic Church and Niagara Falls She is working on 2026 exhibit of Church and Niagara Falls and presently working on a retrospective of artist John Singer Sargent and his 6 trips to Spain to open in 2022. She is hoping Nancy Heller will write a chapter in the Singer book that will accompany the exhibition. Niagrara - Painted by Church in 1857 In 1944 bec

​The only East Coast venue, VMFA presents sixty-five paintings and works on paper by Hopper, along with thirty-five works by other artists including John Singer Sargent, David Hockney, Berenice Abbott, and others who explored similar themes. Hopper’s spare depictions of familiar public and private spaces are often understood within the contexts of isolation, loneliness, and ennui of early and mid-20th-century America. As this exhibition shows, however, Hopper’s immersion in