Last month, I went to Palo Alto to see the big glass and ceramics show they do there every year in the summer. It's always a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours outdoors. Didn't buy anything this year, but there were some interesting pieces.
A visit to Palo Alto wouldn't be complete without a stop at the two excellent art museums on the Stanford Campus, The Cantor Center for the Arts and The Anderson Collection. The Cantor has a diverse collection. The Anderson Collection is mostly 20th century art with a good core of abstract expressionist works. I always enjoy seeing a few favorites in each of the collections. The Cantor has a good Sargent portrait and a good Hopper, among others. The Anderson Collection has a Louis Morris, a De Kooning, a Motherwell, and a Frankenthaler that I like and both collections have good examples from Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series.
On the way home, dinner at La Salette, the Portuguese restaurant of long standing in the town of Sonoma. I particularly enjoyed the cold cucumber soup with shrimp and doing one of the Portuguese wine flights they offer.
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