Before we get to the rhyme, your weekend bonus fun: Art critic Peter Plagens was featured on NPR quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! last week. I’m jealous. (And yes, I was on ‘Wait Wait’ once, but it was about eight or nine years ago and I was just a random call-in contestant.)
This morning’s rhyme — Pirkle Jones and Helen Torr — was almost certainly pure coincidence. This one I’m not so sure. Pictured at right is Jacob van Ruisdael’s 1665-1670ish Three Great Trees in a Mountainous Landscape with a River. It’s in the Norton Simon’s collection, and it’s completely terrific.
After the jump is my favorite Courbet, MFA Houston’s Gust of Wind. It seems possible — if not likely — that Courbet saw a print of the van Ruisdael.
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