The two sisters never were married, spent decades obtaining Old Masters. Initial paintings were donated to San Diego's Fine Arts Gallery. Later, the sisters' acquisitions remained in their possession and were loaned to prestigious institutions around the country. Next, attorney Walter Ames appears on the scene in 1950, helping the Putnam sisters establish the nonprofit Putnam Foundation, and later securing the financial support of the of the Timken family to build the TIMKEN ART GALLERY which is now known as the TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART. In 1965 the Putnam's commodious art collection came back home and was hung in its permanent quarters on the Prado in Balboa Park, and the Timken officially opened on October 1 of that year.

Secondly, we have the Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress. An oil on oak panel about 1530, by Bartolomeo Veneto. Bartolomeo was a northern Italian painter, a native of Venice, who specialized in portraits of extravagantly dressed figures, particularly women. The artist signed many of his works and in this panel his signature appears on the cartellino attached to the heavy ruby-colored curtain. I noticed that the sitter is wearing a hawking glove on her right hand, although European falconers traditionally carried their hawks on the left hand. Perhaps the sitter was left-handed. I especially like the dark background with minute light. This draws most of your attention to the light shading of the face and neck. The detailed lines of the dress and the shoulders of the dress are remarkable. Also there is immense use of texture and pattern for the dress.

Last, I enjoyed the eighteenth century oil canvas called the Fall Landscape by Jasper Cropsey. Cropsey's native artistic abilities were quickly recognized by his employers and he was encouraged to work in watercolors and oils. He completed his course of study and by 1843 was a practicing architect and arti

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