I went to a media preview today of Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from the Baltimore Museum of Art. This exhibit opens Friday at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in downtown Nashville. The title is misleading; it’s not just Matisse and Picasso, although it’s heavy on those two artists because it is built around a number of paintings collected by two sisters from Baltimore, Claribel and Etta Cone. But if you click on the link above, the two paintings you’ll see on the page are a Monet and a Gaugin! The Monet, by the way, was my favorite painting in the exhibit, and the image of it on the web page does not do it any sort of justice.

It’s a wonderful exhibit, and well worth your time.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I always think of my paternal grandfather when I go to the Frist. Papaw, who died when I was six years old, was head of parcel post in that building when it used to be Nashville’s main downtown post office.