INTO NASHVILLE

After lunch, we left Chattanooga.  

We made a brief stop in Murfreesboro, mostly to stretch our legs, then it was on into Nashville.

We went to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.   It is in a repurposed Art Deco building that was originally built in 1933 as the main Post Office of Nashville.  The building is spectacular.  Made with Georgian marble and grey-pink Minnesota granite.  The inside features cast aluminum doors and grillwork, as well as colored marble and stones on the floors and walls.

We were lucky in that the current exhibit was "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times:  The Mellon  Collection."

Degas!

George Braque "Fruit Dish and Fruit Basket"

Roger de la Fresnaye "Still Life with Bottle, Pipe and Pot of Tobacco"

Pierre Bonnard "The Dining Room"

Edouard Vuillard "The Gilded Chair, Madame Georges Feydeau and her Son"

Camille Pissaro "The Royal Palace at the Hermitage, Pontoise"

This is the one I'd take home with me - a little Van Gogh "The Wheat Field behind St Paul's Hospital, St Remy"

Vincent Van Gogh, "Daisies, Arles"

Gustave Caillebotte, "A Man Docking his Skiff"

Edgar Degas, "At the Milliner"  (why is the face blanked out?)

Paul Cezanne, "Victor Chocquet"

Maurice Utrillo, "Street in Sannois"