That’s a ~1906 John Singer Sargent portrait — Mrs. Louis E. Raphael (Henriette Goldschmidt)
Last month, thanks to being well post-vax, we celebrated with a trip to Montgomery, and that included a visit to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. In particular, I knew that they had acquired an Amy Sherald piece called ‘Handsome’ that I wanted to see:
The museum here is small, but it has some other really great pieces. To see any closer, click and magnify in Flickr:
Edward Hopper’s ‘New York Office’
Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘Hills Before Taos’
Abraham Rattner, Composition with Three Figures
Thomas Hart Benton, Ozark Autumn
a William Christenberry model
Thornton Dial, Lost Americans
Frank Fleming, Dogman / Rabbitman Container
Margaret M. Law, Feeding Chickens
Robert Gordy, Night Garden — and appropriately, right next to it:
Roger Brown, Homesick-Proof Space Station
…and I really, really think that some museum here in Alabama should adopt the mission to build and put on an impressive permanent collection of Roger Brown works, particularly since he grew up here. Maybe the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn would be the smart choice — they put on the Creative Cadences: Works by Roger and Greg Brown a couple of years ago. Also, if you ever think what you’re in the mood for is Chicago Imagism + Alabama, I give you this Roger Brown perfection.