Luke 10:27: At the Art Institute of Chicago

Last Thursday Jan and I took the train in to Chicago to go to the Art Institute. What a fabulous time we had! Jan was my personal guide, helping me to see the artwork not only historically, but from an artist's eye "I can only handle one Rembrandt at a time," she said, rapt before The Old Man with a Gold Chain. Or before Chagall's The Praying Jew: "Look, he's painted one eye looking upward, and one eye looking outward." Or her disappointment that there were no Rothkos available: "I love those blockes of color. I wanted to be able to share them with you."

Jan, we may not have been able to share Rothko, but we shared so much more together last week! Thank you, and thank God for you.

Francisco de Zurbarán
The Crucifixion.
1627
Oil on canvas

Sano di Pietro,

Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino of Siena, and Angels
1450/60
Tempera on panel

Rembrandt, Old Man with a Gold Chain.
c.1631
Oil on panel