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Linda, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) often does have some good stuff hidden away in the last room, after you walk quickly past the atrocious stuff in the main galleries. They recently had a show with works by Sargent, Hals, Van Dyke and Raeburn. For anyone out in this area, THE museum to go to for realist painting in Seattle is really the Frye, though.
Marvin, I'm with you on Renoir. I never liked his stuff. Mush is the right word.
I will hold to my opinion on Ingres though. A lack of heart and soul in a painting is still a fault, in my view. I'm sure he could have created works with more emotion. Too bad he didn't feel like it.
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