Saturday: to Williamstown, MA. We stayed at a mom-and-pop motel. Accommodations were okay. The flower gardens were still beautiful (no frost yet).
Bottom center: a revenant, or re-blooming, iris.
Saturday afternoon: Sterling Clark (1877-1956) was a noted art collector and philanthropist. (His father was Isaac Singer’s business partner.) Clark and his wife Francine invested in Impressionists. (He got a money back guarantee on one Renoir.) The Clark Art Institute opened in 1955.
The original building was the largest order of Vermont marble since the Supreme Court.
Renoir.
Winslow Homer, George Inness, and a statue (by?)
John Singer Sargent.
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