"Reconciliation Elegy" (1978), by Robert Motherwell, in the atrium of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 20161127
#WashingtonDC #nationalgalleryofart #robertmotherwell #reconciliationelegy #painting #IGMem

Detail of Art Deco Elevator Doors (c 1931)--entire door in next photo--by Raymond Hood (designer) and Rene Paul Chambellin (maker), at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware [USA]. 20161229
#Delaware #Wilmington #DAM #DelawareMuseumofArt #ArtDeco #ElevatorDoors #IGMem

Three views across the tidal marsh, toward the Chesapeake Bay [USA], from the back of the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center visitor's center. I've heightened the contrast some, but these remarkable colors are realistic: the view was simple and breathtaking. On Kent Island, Maryland [USA] 20170120
#maryland #chesapeakebay #tidalmarsh #chesapeakebayenvironmentalcenter #reflections #IGMem

Your humble scribe (photo 1), Isaac (photo 2), and Pat (photo 3) in the photo-op "Selfie with a Saint" spot at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, in Washington, DC. 20170211
#selfiewithasaint #johnpaulii
#washingtondc #saintjohnpauliinationalshrine #JNS #SJB #P:S #IGMem

A tree that interested me on the grounds of His Lordship's Kindness, near Clinton, Maryland [USA]. 20170218
#Maryland #HisLordshipsKindness #mansion #colonial #trees #IGMem

Main door of the Chase-Lloyd House (built 1769-1774), in the historic section of Annapolis, Maryland [USA]. 20170318
#Maryland #Annapolis #ChaseLloydHouse #doors #IGMem

Here's Pat, almost lost to view, inside The Annapolis Bookstore, on Maryland Avenue in the historic section of Annapolis, Maryland {USA]. 20170318
#Maryland #Annapolis #Bookstore #books #TheAnnapolisBookstore #PLSself #IGMem

Three views of bust of "Gustav Mahler" (1909), by Auguste Rodin, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC [USA]. 20170709
#washingtondc #nationalgalleryofart #myngadc #sculpture #bust #Rodin #Mahler #bronze #IGMem

The entrance to the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, at the US National Arboretum, Washington DC. 20171007
#washingtondc #USNA #NationalArboretum #NationalBonsaiandPenjingMuseum #Bonsai #IGMem

A longhouse at the American Indian Village at Patuxent River Park (a replicated Eastern Woodland Indian Village), Croom, MD. 20171015
#Maryland #Croom #AmericanIndianVillage #PatuxentRiverPark #EasternWoodlandIndians #longhouse #IGMem

A corner detail (first photo), and an obligatory front view (second photo), of the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II ("National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II"), in Rome, Italy. 20171029
#italy #rome #VictorEmmanuelMonument #IlVittoriano #IGMem

Selfie in “Un giovanotto (La smorfia)” (1962-1985), by Michelangelo Pistoletto (the subject is painted on a mirror, so this interaction with the viewer is expected), in the National Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy. 20171031
#italy #rome #NationalMuseumOfModernArt #painting #JNS #mirror #IGMem

View of the cloisters and garden behind the Cathedral of St Peter and the Church of Our Lady, Trier, Germany. 20191009
#Germany #Trier #CathedralOfStPeter #ChurchofOurLady #cloister #IGMem

From the balcony at Neuschwanstein, there was this lovely view of Hohenschwangau, Germany. 20191015
#Germany #hohenschwangau #neuschwanstein #castle #IGMem

"Tall, nine-piece, ovally turned stacking box" (1610 / ivory), In the Bavarian State Museum, Munich, Germany. 20171016
#Germany #Bavaria #munich #BavarianStateMuseum #bayerischesnationalmuseum #ivory #oval #turned #box #IGMem

Several azalea specimens in the azalea collection at the US National Arboretum; these are all "Glenn Dale" hybrid varieties, distinguished by the spotted throats, bred by the National Arboretum at an introduction station in Glenn Dale, Maryland (about 2 km from my house!). In the Arboretum, Washington, DC, 20180505.
#WashingtonDC #NationalArboretum #USNA #Azaleas #Rhododendron #RhododendronShirokujaku #RhododendronOrage #Chloe #RhododendronTrouper #GlennDaleAzalea #IGMem

Funerary relief bust from Palmyra, Syria (c. 231 CE / limestone), unknown artist, on the the lower-level of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 20190203
#WashingtonDC #Smithsonian #FreerGalleryofArt #FuneraryRelief #IGMem

"Furisode with Fireflies and Irises" (detail in second photo / Edo Period, 18th century / silk crepe, paste-resist dyed, embroidery), artist unknown. In the exhibition "The Life of Animals in Japanese Art". At the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 20190623

#WashingtonDC #NGA #nationalgalleryofart #EastWing #TheLifeOfAnimalsInJapaneseArt #FurisodewithFirefliesandIrises #Furisode #kimono #silk #embroidery #EdoPeriod #IGMem

I call this one "Enough of El Greco", taken looking into a gallery at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 20190630
#WashingtonDC #NGA #NationalGalleryOfArt #EnoughOfElGreco #ElGreco #IGMem