28 miles; 1 hour 21 minutes.
Morning view of San Francisco Bay:
Views from the Marin Headlands, with a sailboat race going under the Golden Gate Bridge:
There are 5 Monets at the Legion of Honor. The 2 best are:
Claude Monet - The Grand Canal, Venice, 1908
Claude Monet - Water Lilies, ca. 1914-1917
At the Legion of Honor was a very nice exhibition:
Luminous Worlds: British Works on Paper 1760-1900
J.M.W. Turner - View of Kenilworth Castle, ca. 1830
Edward Lear - Mount Sinai, 1869
After a lovely drive through Golden Gate Park, we got to the de Young Museum (which is now one of my FAVORITE museums!) We started with the Turner Exhibition - J.M.W. Turner - Painting Set Free
What An Excellent Exhibition!!!!
The 5 best pictures I have are:
Regulus, 1828, reworked and exhibited 1837:
Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight, Exhibited 1840[?]:
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet, Exhibited 1842:
Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water. and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich, Exhibited 1842:
Europa and the Bull, ca. 1845[?]:
They have a beautiful collection of Hudson River artists - the best are:
Thomas Moran - Grand Canyon with Rainbow, 1912
Thomas Hill - Mount Tallac from Lake Tahoe, 1880
William Stanley Haseltine - Indian Rock, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 1863
Frederic Edwin Church - Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866
John Frederick Kensett - Sunrise among the Rocks of Paradise, Newport, 1859
And of course I LOVE being 3000 MILES FROM HOME AND SEEING THIS:
Martin Johnson Heade - Singing Beach, Manchester, Massachusetts, 1863
Having FUN between waterfall paintings!
After a lovely lunch at the de Young
we went across the park and saw some Macaws at the California Academy of Sciences!
Then fun cheeseburgers at Super Duper Burgers on Chestnut Street - Five Guys West, maybe? Thank You GOD for a Great Day!
Music today: just driving around town, so nothing.
Those VIEWS! Wowie wow. - Love, CCD
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