HIRSHHORN GALLERY
(mostly closed for renovations)
Jeremy Deller’s “English Magic” (2013)
[worth waiting for or fast forwarding to 09:00]
NATIONAL GALLERY
(West Wing, which now that I’m in my 30’s I’m more interested in than the more modern East Wing)
Alexandre-François Desportes’ “Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit” (1734)
All of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s paintings
Joseph Wright’s portraits
[web file doesn’t do its color or light justice]
Wagguno’s “Fruit and Baltimore Oriole” (1858)
[and all of the American Naive stuff on exhibit]
Again, because I love it so much: Wagguno’s “Fruit and Baltimore Oriole” (1858!)
John Singleton Copley’s “Eleazer Tyng” (1772)
Everything ever by John Frederick Peto
James Nares’s “Street” (2012)
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY’S MAMMAL HALL
(famously depicted in a certain paperback)
Also the black panther, orangutan, tapir, and the Chinese water deer I didn’t take any pics of, but here’s a decent one:
ARCHIVES OF THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM
(super secret access granted in the name of research)
Kermit the Frog, original prototype
Phyllis Diller’s Joke file
(incl. ca. 50,000 jokes typed on index cards)