Archive Page 47 - Bronze Buffalo, Bethesda Metro, and Washington DC

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Archive Page 47

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Sketchbook People

Reverse

Sketchbook page 1867 pixels

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Photos from the National Portrait Gallery
and the Smithsonian Museum of Art in Washington DC March 2008

U.S. Grant Takes A Meeting

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A short history and many large photographs of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art / National Portrait Gallery here.

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Friday, March 28, 2008

Metro

Riding the Red Line in Wash DC
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[Below] Row of newspaper stands outside the Shady Grove Road Metro Station entrance. Incidentally, saw at Editor and Publisher online that newspapers in general are at a 50 year low on advertising revenue. In the days of yore around Washington DC, the subway stations had actual human beings hawking newspapers for a quarter a piece, often from atop multiple stacks of thousand of newspapers, piled up in quickly diminishing rows. The stink of fresh newsprint filled the air. The generation of people that used newspapers in such numbers has passed, and the internet has leveled a terrible blow to the idea of paying for information.
Metro Newspaper Stands

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Comic Book Page

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Riding Down the Buffalo
Bronze Sculpture from 1914 by A. Philmister Proctor
Smithsonian Museum of American Art

Buffalo Riding
This picture of "Riding Down the Buffalo" is pretty poor. Simply don't have the knowledge to get my camera to accommodate the strange "ambient" lighting inside the museum. However, it gives you a pretty good view of an angle of the bronze.