the RISD Museum

Nice time this morning in the Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, (or “rizzdee,” as it is pronounced in its acronymic form).

There’s a good mix of exhibits there… ultra-contemporary, Greek, Etruscan, Egyptian, colonial American design, and modern European painting (Monet, van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, though not the promised Picasso– perhaps on loan, in storage, or perhaps I simply missed it).

The Museum is also mentioned in Lovecraft, in “The Shunned House,” where the narrator horribly-hilariously recognizes some of the faces shimmering in the monster because he had seen portraits of those faces in the museum “of the School of Design.”