Impressions of the St. Louis Art Museum

My 2019 holiday travel included a visit to the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park. On exhibit was Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

My focus was narrowed to the work of the Impressionistic Masters. I was delighted with Claude Monet's Water Lilies, the central panel of a 42 ft. triptych he worked on for over 10 years! 

I viewed a new acquisition from American artist John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Charlotte Cram from 1900, portraying a 7-year-old just trying to sit still.

Favorite paintings included Georges Braque's Blue Mandolin for being painted in oil with sand, Edouard Vuillard's A Seamstress for its up-close vagary, Renoir's The Dreamer, and Edgar Degas' The Milliners. An interesting related video: Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade