Last month

 I Visited a couple of museums and enjoyed:

Oscar Kokoschka’s self portrait, 1913

Henry Lyman Sayen, Valley Falls II, 1915

Oscar Bluemner, Old Canal Port, 1914

John Marin, White Horses-Sea Movement off Deer Island Maine, 1926

Max Weber, Chinese Restaurant, 1915

Albert Bloch, Mountain, 1916

Marsden Hartley, Landscape, New Mexico, 1919-1920

The main event was a visit to MoMA’s The Red Studio, 1911

The Red Studio is a painting of Matisse’s studio which he created for and sent to his patron Sergei Shchukin.  It was rejected and eventually ended up here

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The Gargoyle Club, a 1920s London cabaret frequented by artists, intellectuals, writers and probably poets because the club was owned and operated by David Tennant husband for a time of Hermione Baddeley, and brother of Stephen Tennant.  Stephen Tennant, known as one of the Bright Young Things, was the lover for 6 years of Siegfried Sassoon, until Tennant broke off the relationship with a letter from his doctor. I mentioned Hermione Baddeley, actress, because she was the sister of Angela Baddeley, actress, who married Glen Bryan Shaw a lover of Stephen Tennant and Siegfried Sassoon.  Glen and Angela, you may know her as Mrs. Hudson in ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’, we’re married in 1929 until his death in 1986.  They had one daughter and we’re reportedly a very happy family.

John Singer Sargent’s portrait of the Wyndham Sisters, 1899

In the middle is Pamela Tennant, 1871-1928, writer, mother of David and Stephen and member of The Souls, a salon devoted to the discussion of anything but politics. 

She’s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art