A Stroll in the Gallery: Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day

Claude Monet. Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day. 1906. National Gallery of Art, Washington

What’s He Smoking in that Pipe?

Auguste Renoir. Claude Monet. 1872. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

As the old mountain song about a bear goes, “He ain’t ever been caught, ain’t ever been treed. Some folks say he looks a lot like me.” But we were so much younger then. My goal now is growing old with a Monet graybeard and water lilies in the garden.