Finally we made it through the doors of an institution on the National Mall. It's a pretty serious place with a genteel atmosphere and the art, well it's stellar! Picasso by the loo, says it all. I fell for Degas & Ligon (pic); P for Modigliani; D for Cassatt & Manet; M for Fantin-Latour and J for Calder.
It was hard not to keep on strolling through room after room. We found some sketching focus, got mesmerised by Leo Villareal's light installation (him of San Francisco fame), before tiring. The girls heading outdoors to an amazing fountain with mini glass pyramids poking up from the ground and I got a moment with Ellsworth Kelly and Brancusi.
