Friday

If there is one thing you can count on in Sweden, it’s certainly isn’t going to be the weather. Most everyday here we check it for the next day only to have it the opposite.  Today was supposed to be sunny; but we woke up to rain. That being said, it was a museum day today. Robert Duncan wanted to see Prins Eugen’s Museum on Waldemarsudde and the Thiel Museum. Both of these were located on Djurgarden Island. We climbed on the bus to the end station and took the trolley the rest of the way under blue skies, what else was new?! 

We did see a lot of new Zorn paintings and Rick and I decided to pick up another one!!!

Prins Eugen was a wealthy nobleman and a “want-a-be artist”; so he hung around Anders Zorn, Carl Larsson and Bruno Liljefors.  They all became really good friends and most likely helped Prins Eugen in his artistic struggle to get better known amongst his piers. 

Here is this fantastic headshot Zorn did at the museum there.  It makes me sick at how good he was early in his age.

We then walked down the coast to the Thiel Museum, a wealthy patron, who became friends to these artists and collected many of their works, including a lot of Edvard Munch from Norway.

Here is Duncan contemplating the work.

This afternoon since being inspired from Zorn’s water paintings we all set out for the harbor area in Stockholm, once again under fairly blue skies, with in an hour the clouds rolled in and the sky turned an ugly dark blue, the kind of color before a major downpour. Sure enough within half an hour we were running for the bus in heavy rain.  Thank God water and oil doesn’t mix. 

Now Rick Graham likes to work in Acrylic paints, soooo he had problems!  

Richard Boyer