Head over heels

At an exhibition in the Princeton Art Museum today I got to see for the first time a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe ("The Lawrence Tree," 1929) which has - on a Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival poster - been my nearly constant companion for thirty years. Mounted on poster board it's even outlasted the dining table it presided over in several apartments. The aura! But smething else was different beyond being able to see the the oil paint shine, feel the brushstrokes - and to realize just how much the poster's colors have faded. The poster had it the other way 'round!