{"id":61998,"date":"2024-02-02T01:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=61998"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T21:41:45","slug":"the-whistler-exhibit-at-the-smithsonian-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2024\/02\/02\/the-whistler-exhibit-at-the-smithsonian-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whistler Exhibit at the Smithsonian&#8211; Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I had gotten up early to see the sunrise over the capital building Wednesday morning from my hotel room, and I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240110_093626-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62001\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240110_093626-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After visiting several of the new exhibits at the Museum of the Bible, I took the long walk to Old Ebbitt Grill on 15th.\u00a0 This took a while, crossing the Mall and heading towards the Washington Monument.\u00a0 The Museum is much close to the Capital end of the Mall than the White House and Washington monument end.\u00a0 The immediately previous post chronicled what happened at lunch.\u00a0 \u00a0But the Smithsonian, back across the Mall is only about a 15 minute walk down 15th St. by the Washington monument.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105621.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62004\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105621.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By American standards, the Smithsonian is one of the grand old museums in the country, with its Victorian like architecture, and it houses so many different things, including a separate art gallery where I was headed to see the new James Whistler exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_102847.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62007\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_102847.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_102642.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62010\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_102642.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_102542.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62013\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_102542.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Housed in two large rooms in the Freer gallery is an excellent exhibit of some of Whistler\u2019s interesting sketches and paintings and an amazing recreation of his most ambitious work\u2014 the Peacock Room, in a house in London.\u00a0 Whistler was born in Lowell Massachusetts, but from the 1880s on he spent most of his time in Europe as these paintings and drawings will attest.\u00a0 In America he is most famous for his painting called \u2018Whistler\u2019s mother\u2019 but in Europe it is a different story. <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105209-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62022\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105209-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105141-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62025\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105141-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105159-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62028\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105159-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105151-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62031\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_105151-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103253-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62034\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103253-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a>Here is the introductory sign leading to the exhibit\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103318-1.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62016\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103318-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is his piece d\u2019resistance\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a 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