National Gallery of Art - Part II

Sam has joined a kickball league that plays on Sunday afternoon on the Mall. This probably deserves a post of its own... maybe if I play one day. I accompanied her to the Mall though and went to the National Gallery of Art while she went to meet up with her team. I wanted to complete by tour of the main floor of the West Building so I started in the Dutch masters of the 17th century and proceed counter clockwise into the east wing of the building. I was only their for an hour. Standouts were Aelbery Culp's The Mass at Dordrecht and Andrew Wyeth's Wind from the Sea. I found myself skimming through French and German painters of the 18th and 19th century. I suppose the most interesting thing about the Frnech 19th is the beginnings of impressionism but nothing really stood out. I am not sure if that is because of the collection, or if their was really the evolutionary equivalent of an explosion at the turn of the century.