Day Eight: Fredericksburg, VA - Arlington Court Suites, Arlington, VA - Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Freer Gallery

Up to Arlington, VA, then the Metro into DC museums


There is a LOT of road construction/repair around Arlington, but Wendy did a GREAT JOB with Google Maps on her cell phone - the GPS companies are definitely going out of business! I picked a hotel just two blocks from the Metro, so after checking in, we went there, bought 2 cards with $15 each on them, and headed into town. Off at the Smithsonian Metro stop, walked across the Mall, and had a nice lunch outside at the Cafe at the National Sculpture Garden

a Calder


and water fountains


and then one building east to the National Gallery of Art!!!!


There are 17-of-my-22 artists here - Bierstadt, Bradford, Bricher, Church, Cole, Cropsey, Durand, Gifford, Haseltine, Heade, Homer, Kensett, Monet, Moran, Richards, Turner, and Whittredge

Thomas Moran "Green River Cliffs, Wyoming", 1881


Frederic Edwin Church, "El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)", 1877


Winslow Homer, "Right and Left", 1909


Winslow Homer, "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1876


Sanford Robinson Gifford, "The Artist Sketching at Mount Desert, Maine", 1864-1865


Leonardo Da Vinci, "Ginevra de' Benci", c. 1474/1478 ["the only painting by the artist in America"]


Jackson Pollock, "Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)", 1950


We then went down to the Hirshhorn Museum, which actually only had misc modern art. Outside, however, was a cool Calder:
Alexander Calder, "Two Discs", 1965


That's all for Day-1-of-3 in Washington, DC.