Portraits || El Paso Museum of Art

Today, America honours the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military.

On this very special Memorial Day, let us also take a moment to reflect on the lives of all our fellow humans that were cut short – more recently, in the Covid-19 pandemic. They were someone’s husband, wife, mother, father, son, daughter, friend.

Let us all remember and raise our voices for peace.

Silence the guns. The time is now.

Tom Lea
Sarah (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife), 1939
Oil on canvas


Manuel Acosta
Yolanda, 1956
Oil on canvas


Gerrit Beneker
Telephone Operator, 1921
Oil on canvas


Robert Henri
Carl (Boy in Blue Overalls), 1921
Oil on canvas


Irving Ramsey Wiles
Gladys in Chinese Robes, 1920-29
Oil on canvas


El Paso Museum of Art, TX

October 12th, 2018

A day to remember

Memorial Day 2019

One Hundred Seventh Infantry Memorial @ Central Park East

Photos taken on February 17th, 2018. It was snowing.

Travelling on Memorial Day weekend…?

Roy Lichtenstein
Study for No Thank You!, 1964

That’s what I should have said. Probably. But I figured, if I avoided the rush on Thursday or – worse – Friday afternoon, I could just about manage to make it to destination unscathed. So, the next few weeks I hope to be bewitched, bedazzled and bewildered by the wonders of nature in Yellowstone, the savoury landscape of the Salt Flats in Utah, the coolest urbanity of Portland in Oregon and Seattle in Washington. Now, how about: travelling on Memorial Day weekend – Yes, please…!

The Morgan Library & Museum

May 7th, 2017