University of Chicago - Art History/Physics. 3 1/2 years of the physics major, 1 1/2 of Art History. But I did study at Taft Studios there. Mother was an art major there and grandmother studied at the Art Institute when Taft was teaching.
From the note I sent to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts docent friend:
I’m preferring his early work. But the later! Do you see the colors that Turner eventually used in Romney’s backgrounds!
He’s got one pair I didn’t use that are almost identical. Wonder what the backstory is. Guessing someone didn’t like their portrait as one of the two is more balanced.
And he’s got a version of blue boy in pink that has almost the same pose and clothes, made the same year, but the kid is chunky and it’s terrible next to Blue Boy.
Sometimes his heads are on wrong. Sometimes they’re too narrow. And the necks look like he was fixated on mannerism. And sometimes you’d swear they’re all the same person and then he comes up with total individuality.
Basically chronological over a couple years.
FUN!
I figured as much because you know whereof you speak. My wife is an art major but I am not so much!