Journal of Alta California

Renoir Sparks in Me an All-Consuming Urge to Paint

Mom, we’re not going to the picture place, right?”

My six-year-old son, who has a habit of trying to guess where we are going, senses that we are on our way to yet another art museum. As is often the case, his intuition is

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