North By Northwest To Chicago

We set forth from Cary July 8th...

Ready to depart

Departure pic by Rebecca

Farewell to Norm and Marie, Knoxville, July 10th

Arrival in Chicago...gotta' like a place that once gave discounts
to union members...

And has tons of interesting architecture

We thought we'd spend a day at the Art Institute of Chicago

But quickly discerned the AICs warrants more than a day...

Adam, by Mr. Big Hands; cast by someone other than Rodin

The Impressionist collection is huge, and warrants more time

All the usual suspects

Morisot

Said to be an oil on panel, 1425, by an unknown south German
master; if so, one of the earliest known European oil paintings; 
no acknowledgement of this in the description...

Botticelli

Very ample decorative arts

And more Impressionism, post-Impressionism...

And the architecture in the neighborhood

Odysseus trying out something new...

Homage to van Eyck

Mary Cassatt, Bull Durham, 1877

Not our route, but in the spirit...

Farewell with Tawana and Wes