Kimberly Tilley rescues forgotten stories of early twentieth century America from obscurity. Her books, Grievous Deeds (2023); Has it Come to This? (2022), Cold Heart (2020), and The Poisoned Glass (2019) were Amazon category best-sellers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
Kimberly owns OldSpirituals.com. She's very grateful for the wonderful community and two outstanding contributors to help fulfill the site's mission of rescuing fascinating stories from obscurity.
Kimberly is the cofounder of Pivot Talent Development LLC, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. PIVOT offers workshops, training, consulting, and coaching to help professionals improve performance, drive business impact, and transcend limitations.
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Ever wonder what it would be like to go on vacation with Claude Monet?
Here’s a snapshot of Monet and his wife Alice with some new friends at San Marco in Venice in 1908.
From the French History podcast
Oh wow. This one gives me the creeps. I wouldn’t let one of those creatures perch on me. Not even for Monet.
I wouldn’t fancy that either Ruby!
Wish Monet used this photo to paint one of his “impressionism” paintings. I am not a connoisseur of art but it seems to me that Monet was an enigma. Some of his paintings, in my opinion, are more “realism” than “impressionism.”
He did paint Venice but it didn’t look much like this!
I love Art Nouveau and Henri Matisse’s expressionist work but I’m not a connoisseur either!
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/TQUhwOmSAhkOLA
From the look on her face, Mrs. Monet doesn’t like pigeons any more than I do. Bless her heart!
Lol, Alice Monet was a good sport about it! I don’t like pigeons either. I read the other day that Nikola Tesla loved them. It astounded me!