A Fresh Look at Old Art

Frederick Remington, The Mexican Major

Mary Cassatt, After the Bullfight

I went to the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday. I decided not to wander the Modern Wing again, having done so in the last several months, at least five times. Instead, I went downstairs in the American wing, to the 19th and 18th centuries. Here's some pleasant surprises.

Winslow Homer, The Herring Net

Today is Sketchbook Day

Sacred Spaces, ctd.

Scientist of the Day: Rosalind Franklin

h/t http://hydrogeneportfolio.tumblr.com/post/32224401551/minimal-posters-six-women-who-changed-science

Rosalind Franklin, Englishwoman, Jew, scientist, discoverer of the structure of DNA, treated badly by Watson and Crick. Died of cancer before the Nobel prizes were awarded, and Nobels are not awarded posthumously.

More Reading on Rosalind Franklin:

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/oct/darklady/

http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Collection/CID/KR

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/franklin.html

Nancy Charak Art at 47th Ward Alderman Ameya Pawar's Office

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