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December 17, 2016
Maximilien Luce: "Port of London, Night."
"Port of London, Night" (1894), oil on canvas, by Maximilien Luce (French, 1858 – 1941).
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Rebecca Bricker's new novel: The Secret of Marie.
"The Secret of Marie" is a new novel of art history set in Claude Monet's Giverny, France. It is two love stories set in the same village: a modern-day romance between a French architect and American writer in 2004, and one between storied American impressionist painter Theodore Robinson and his Parisian model, known to this day only as "Marie," 100 years earlier. "The Secret of Marie" is the third novel by my friend Rebecca Bricker, an American expat based in Florence, Italy.
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December 11, 2016
Tidal Basin photo taken December 10, 1941: "Oriental cherry trees."
Below in an Associated Press photo taken on December 10, 1941, a woman named Joy Cummings poses on saddle horse with one of four Japanese cherry trees vandalized at Washington, D.C.'s Tidal Basin near Jefferson Memorial. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of course occurred three days earlier, and the United States had just entered World War II. For the next six years, until 1947, America's Japanese cherry trees--first received from Japan and planted in 1912--were referred to as Oriental cherry trees.
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