"Of course Claribel wasn't wearing a hat."

The subject line's the first line of Susan Fillion's Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. On the next page, there are portraits of the two women by Henri Matisse, who wrote to a friend about the process: "I've been working on them every morning for nearly a month now . . . it's hard but I'm learning a lot."

One of the paintings the Cone bought for their collection was Interior with Dog. Doggie!

(That be my brain after 90 minutes of yoga. "Doggie! Pretty! Post!")