GetPublished! Radio – Episode 2 – Pictures

The Baptism – Paris 1892 by Julius LeBlanc Stewart (LACMA)

The Morning Room at Lorillard House (the Breakers) Newport (Redwood Library)

Gertrude Vanderbilt by Madrazo

Maria Louisa Vanderbilt by Porter (Biltmore)

Rev. Samuel Cooke, Rector of St. Bartholomew’s (Geneva Hist Soc)

Portrait of Dr. Kohne by Raimundo Madrazo (Buenos Aires Museum)

Inscription – Sunday 11 AM and Stewart Note (LACMA, National Archives)

Coinciding with the second day of Book Expo America 2016 #BEA16
We’ve released the podcast of Episode 2 – LACMA Field Trip
Included in this post are pictures to support Gerald’s museum talk. As he explains:

In today’s special Episode 2 of GetPublished! I’ll take you on a field trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA. It’s behind the scenes at an after-hours closed session of the American Art Council. I’m giving a talk on the scandal behind Julius Stewart’s painting The Baptism, which is the basis for my sixth novel, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts.

You’ll find pictures mentioned here on our blog Gerald’s Page at getpublished dot guru (in this blog post). They’re also in the book. I gave the presentation standing in front of the painting.

Now, why am I taking you here? One of our mantras on GetPublished! Radio is that no one is stopping you. I don’t have a degree in art history – I’m just an enthusiastic researcher. But if I had waited for scholars in this field to bless my results or for a mainstream publisher to vet the project – it probably would never have happened. But as it was, I self-published in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.

As you listen, realize that even now the museum doesn’t necessarily agree with all my findings. But they were impressed enough to invite me to speak behind closed doors to this influential group.