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Washington DC 2017

After my trip to Manhattan, I stopped to visit my boyhood best friend, Nick Heffter, in Bethesda, Maryland. I was best man at Nick's wedding. We spent the better part of a day in DC where I snapped photos of some federal buildings and large-scale sculpture.
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  • Nick and Naphtali in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden

    Nick and Naphtali in the National Gallery Sculpture Garden

    In front of Moondog, by Tony Smith, 1998

  • The Capitol from Pennsylvania Ave

    The Capitol from Pennsylvania Ave

    Taken from 7th St NW, two-thirds of a mile away

  • Capitol Building from the Mall

    Capitol Building from the Mall

  • "Still Life with Spirit and Xitle," Jimmie Durham, 2007

    "Still Life with Spirit and Xitle," Jimmie Durham, 2007

    At the Hirshhorn Museum. Made in Mexico out of lava stone from the Xitle volcano in Mexico, acrylic paint, and a 1992 Dodge Spirit—a car that Durham says “is the fastest and roughest on the road, used by both the police and crooks all over Mexico at the time.”

  • Alexander Calder mobile

    Alexander Calder mobile

    National Gallery, East Building

  • National Gallery, East Building

    National Gallery, East Building

    Alexander Calder mobile (above) and Ellsworth Kelly's "Color Panels for a Large Wall" (background)

  • Squirrel, with "Cubi XXVI" by David Smith, 1965

    Squirrel, with "Cubi XXVI" by David Smith, 1965

    In the National Gallery Sculpture Garden

  • Roy Lichtenstein, House I, 1996-98.

    Roy Lichtenstein, House I, 1996-98.

    Four flat pieces, painted both sides, are joined, as the National Gallery explains, to “exploit the illusionistic effects of a third dimension. The left side of the house at once projects toward the viewer while appearing to recede into space.” But as you approach on the path from well to the left or right you see something very different. This 1:34 video explains (stay with it until the end): https://youtu.be/V3Xe70oqMDA

  • "Graft" (not what you're thinking)

    "Graft" (not what you're thinking)

    "Graft (Roxy Paine, 2008) presents two fictive but distinct species of trees—one gnarled, twisting, and irregular, the other smooth, elegant, and rhythmic—joined to the same trunk." National Gallery Sculpture Garden.

  • "Graft" (Roxy Paine, 2008) and "Cheval Rouge" (Alexander Calder, 1898-1976)

    "Graft" (Roxy Paine, 2008) and "Cheval Rouge" (Alexander Calder, 1898-1976)

    "Graft (left) presents two fictive but distinct species of trees—one gnarled, twisting, and irregular, the other smooth, elegant, and rhythmic—joined to the same trunk." National Gallery Sculpture Garden.

  • "Color Panels for a Large Wall," 1978

    "Color Panels for a Large Wall," 1978

    National Gallery, East Building: Ellsworth Kelly. Nick Heffter on stair at top left.

  • National Gallery, East Building: Ellsworth Kelly

    National Gallery, East Building: Ellsworth Kelly

    "Color Panels for a Large Wall," 1978

  • National Gallery East Building entry

    National Gallery East Building entry

    Henry Moore, Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece, 1976-78

  • Smithsonian Arts and Industries, 1879

    Smithsonian Arts and Industries, 1879

    As seen from Independence Ave at 9th Street

  • Smithsonian Castle

    Smithsonian Castle

  • Washington Monument

    Washington Monument

  • 601 Pennsylvania Ave saved a façade

    601 Pennsylvania Ave saved a façade

    The later building maintained the six-story facade of a late 1980s or early 1900s Romanesque building

  • Newseum, First Amendment museum

    Newseum, First Amendment museum

    555 Pennsylvania Ave. Capitol to the right; White House to the left.

  • DC Metro Friendship Heights station, Bethesda, Maryland

    DC Metro Friendship Heights station, Bethesda, Maryland

  • DC Metro subway car

    DC Metro subway car

  • Adrienne Nassau and Nick Heffter

    Adrienne Nassau and Nick Heffter

    Dinner at Clyde's of Chevy Chase, Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Maryland

  • Reston East Metro Station

    Reston East Metro Station

    Looking east along Dulles access road from Wiehle-Reston East Metro Station to Tysons, Virginia

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    Smithsonian Arts and Industries, 1879
    Smithsonian Castle
    Washington Monument