Senin, 02 April 2018

Fine Art Takes Wing

It’s time aviation artists were given the respect they so richly deserve. On a recent trip to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, I discovered among the dazzling collection of impressionist art a marvelous 1910 oil painting of a Levavasseur Antoinette monoplane, Le seul oiseau qui vole au dessus des nuages (The Only Bird That Flies …

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