So here we are at 21st Street and Q.<\/p>\n
The Phillips Collection<\/a>, one man’s collection gathered in his mansion dedicated to displaying art in an intimate setting where the works are hung side by side in casual conversation.<\/p>\n 1. In the Rothko Room<\/a>. Four walls and four Rothko paintings glowing in dim light with a single sitting bench in the middle.<\/p>\n 2. In a gallery amid four C\u00e9zannes with Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party<\/a> on the far wall. I will always prefer C\u00e9zanne.<\/p>\n 3. In a room full of Bonnards<\/a>, eight of them. I didn’t even know Bonnard, and here I am standing amid them with the frond of The Palm<\/a> radiating green towards me.<\/p>\n 4. Peering thru a doorway, looking at The Road Menders<\/a> as Van Gogh’s gnarly trees reaching out from the other side of the far room.<\/p>\n 5. Ok, and here we are again: C\u00e9zanne. I told you. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of them. And what’s up with Seated Woman in Blue<\/a>, something I might attribute to him,\u00a0and Garden at Les Lauves<\/a>, something abstract enough that I see no C\u00e9zanne in it,\u00a0both done toward the end of his years?<\/p>\n 6. In the music room. One Bracque. Two Picassos. And others. Picasso’s Woman with Green Hat<\/a> is the best. They have concerts here on Sundays. How cool is that?<\/p>\n 7. And now I sit on a bench scribbling in my notebook beneath Kandinsky’s Succession<\/a> with tears in my eyes. I think the docent standing in the doorway is watching me. Kandinsky next to two Mondrians\u2014words fail me, hence the tears. I gather my wits and turn around. Five Klees<\/a>.<\/p>\n The walking tour is about to start. We have no more time. We have to go, and we were only getting started. We leave the gallery, walk back thru the music room, cross the bridge walkway to the main entrance and find the place where the curator is waiting to take us upstairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So here we are at 21st Street and Q. The Phillips Collection, one man’s collection gathered in his mansion dedicated to displaying art in an intimate setting where the works are hung side by side in casual conversation. 1. In the Rothko Room. Four walls and four Rothko paintings glowing in dim light with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}