The Passport To Paris exhibit at the Denver Art Museum (The DAM) ended this past weekend, and due to a variety of reasons, my sister Susan and brother-in-law George (seen above in my bestselling Blurb book "Denver People and Places") were unable to get down to Denver to see it. On the bright side, Frederick C. Hamilton, whose collection of impressionist paintings made up over a third of the exhibit, has more or less said "what the hell, let the museum keep them," thus giving Susan and George and everyone else a second chance to see these works. Hamilton's collection is estimated to be worth over 100 million dollars, and I can't imagine keeping a collection worth that much money in your house, which I assume in Hamilton's case is probably just a humble little bungalow. He must have slept with a shotgun by his bed all these years. Now that Hamilton has given his paintings to the museum, I am sure he will sleep much easier.
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