We drove to Virginia Beach yesterday, to meet up with three distat-ish cousins today (more about that tomorrow). We stopped at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk. And I took some pictures. So no heavy reading today.

let’s start with an Egyptian glass eye, to insert in a statue that is over 2000 years old.

There is an extraordinary glass collection (rooms and rooms with shelves and shelves), and there is a large studio where they offer classes, and have workshops and the like.

This is by Gustave Dore, who I know mainly as a book illustrator….Dante’s Inferno and the like. This oil depicts a new recruit on his first day in the monastery. Not what he expected?

These are two (of four) that were entered into a contest to decorate the Pension Building (now the Building Museum in Washington) showing the participation of African Americans in the country’s early wars. Who knew?

So was this painting serious or a spoof? I don’t remember looking at the signage, but…. let’s set a date at Mt. Vernon for a disinterment ceremony so we can find out the truth.