hello, neighbor

...of a sort. William Ackland was a son of Adelicia Acklen, who led quite a life in Nashville some 150-ish years ago.



There are three Picassos on display in one of the galleries, but my favorite painting in the collection is Rose Piper's Slow Down Freight Train:



On the opposite wall, there's a recently restored Rousseau painting of Paris. That captured my attention as well.