Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years

In mid October of nineteen sixty nine, I flew to Chicago for the day;
To visit their very fine museum, that had rare Rembrandt's on display!
It was the Three Hundredth Anniversary, of the year that he had died;
So to mount a major exhibition, in his honor was decried!
 
Private collectors and major institutions, loaned many of his greatest works;
The finest assemblage ever put together, with his rarest etchings as a perk!
When I viewed it I was breathless, for it was hung chronologically;
As I witnessed his whole life’s oeuvre, from seventeen to near seventy!
 
My favorite was a small self portrait, he did when just a teen;
A dashing lad with golden hair, it’s beauty I so gleaned!
My second was “Christ at the Temple”, throwing the Moneylenders out;
Of course, there were so many masterpieces, the greatest known no doubt!
 
When I returned to Cincinnati, I wanted about him to learn much more;
So I bought the novel “Rembrandt”, by Gladys Schmitt at our bookstore!
His life was so amazing, filled with fame and tragedy;
I ingested every chapter, of her remarkable Biography!
 
I strongly recommend it, to anyone who loves his art;
The greatest artist in history, who gave my career its’ initial start!
For the day that I met Rembrandt, he opened up my mind;
To the genius of an artist, each work the only one of it’s kind!
 
 
The greatest artist
The brushstrokes of a genius
Rembrandt, It’s Master