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We’re back home from a week-long vacation. Like all vacations, it was simultaneously relaxing and exhausting. I plan several posts about our virus-shadowed adventure through the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, we visited the Knoxville Museum<\/a> of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Knoxville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Today, I had time to clean this painting in preparation for its final varnishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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