Word: barbizon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first days at Harvard, everyone told me I ought to meet Alan. However, my freshman year came and went and, although I got involved in theatre, I still never met him. In the middle of February, however, I received an e-mail from him inviting anyone interested to the Barbizon Lighting Open House. Only two of us responded, and on a cold Thursday afternoon, I found myself riding in his big black SUV as we headed off on our road trip. I always knew Alan was a theatre legend. After all, along with other Harvard and Radcliffe alums...
...latter he deemed "unforgettable," adding that "long ago that same painting struck Pa the same way." Van Gogh found landscapes and rural scenes just as uplifting - first Ruisdael and Constable, and then his contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield...