Manet Self Portrait with a Palette

Mondays with Edouard Manet!

private collection, New York, 1879

Dancer posing by Degas

Wednesdays with Edgar Degas!

Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia, 1878

Madame Boursier and her daughter by Berthe Morisot

Tuesdays with Berthe Morisot! 

Frankly, there's nothing quite like an exquisite painting to forget the ugliness in this world, at least for a moment or two.

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 1873

Plum brandy by Manet

Mondays with Edouard Manet! 

Also known as "The Prune" the model is Ellen Andrée; we'll meet her again later.

National Gallery, Washington, DC, 1878

I remember you

Denny Nicola, class of 1965, Champaign High School. Killed in Vietnam 1967. Information. A good friend I turned around one day and realized he was gone before I made my way "down south."

Ronny Lovellette. Class of 1966, Champaign High School. Killed in Vietnam 1969. Information.

We spent our last night together in Chicago before you headed off to the Army and I left for the Marines. The last time I saw you. But it was a wild night, eh Ronny?