Allison MacDuffee
@studiousgal.bsky.social
Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Usually teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Canadian. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.
Excitement of Toronto weather this morning:
1. Snow
2. Sunny and no snow.
3. Snow.
1. Snow
2. Sunny and no snow.
3. Snow.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Excitement of Toronto weather this morning:
1. Snow
2. Sunny and no snow.
3. Snow.
1. Snow
2. Sunny and no snow.
3. Snow.
Le Tout Mississauga is here today. 🙋♀️🛍🕶. Sunday Antique Market at Small Arms Inspection Building. The old books and ephemera are quite intriguing but I am an underbuyer with no shelf space.
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Le Tout Mississauga is here today. 🙋♀️🛍🕶. Sunday Antique Market at Small Arms Inspection Building. The old books and ephemera are quite intriguing but I am an underbuyer with no shelf space.
I have ideas that DID work for me, but mostly I will say, "I hear you."
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I have ideas that DID work for me, but mostly I will say, "I hear you."
World Series is best of 7. My local team, Toronto Blue Jays, have won 1 game and the opposing team, the LA Dodgers, have won 2. I looked it up. Do not despair! #IConfessDontWatchSports
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
World Series is best of 7. My local team, Toronto Blue Jays, have won 1 game and the opposing team, the LA Dodgers, have won 2. I looked it up. Do not despair! #IConfessDontWatchSports
I have been enjoying my visit to lovely Denver; I fly home today. "The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism" at Denver Art Museum 'til Feb 8, 2026, is richly worth your time.
Pissarro, _Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat_, 1881, from NGA Washtn.
I love you, kind Americans! Be strong! 💜🩷
Pissarro, _Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat_, 1881, from NGA Washtn.
I love you, kind Americans! Be strong! 💜🩷
October 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I have been enjoying my visit to lovely Denver; I fly home today. "The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism" at Denver Art Museum 'til Feb 8, 2026, is richly worth your time.
Pissarro, _Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat_, 1881, from NGA Washtn.
I love you, kind Americans! Be strong! 💜🩷
Pissarro, _Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat_, 1881, from NGA Washtn.
I love you, kind Americans! Be strong! 💜🩷
Anyone who has ever listened, repeatedly, to the answering machine message of a recently deceased person, will understand the sentiment.
October 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anyone who has ever listened, repeatedly, to the answering machine message of a recently deceased person, will understand the sentiment.
Our Toronto Blue Jays won 4-3 and took the American League pennant!! 🐦🍁🎸!!
October 21, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Our Toronto Blue Jays won 4-3 and took the American League pennant!! 🐦🍁🎸!!
Whoa! My inner nerd agrees.
October 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Whoa! My inner nerd agrees.
It's still the same massive book on Samuel de Champlain!
October 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's still the same massive book on Samuel de Champlain!
It's the tenth day of the tenth month. Drop a 10/10 album.
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It's the tenth day of the tenth month. Drop a 10/10 album.
I am enjoying "Human," part of PBS's Nova. It is all about ealy homo sapiens. Next week:
September 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I am enjoying "Human," part of PBS's Nova. It is all about ealy homo sapiens. Next week:
Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune (Chile)
September 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune (Chile)
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
August 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
It's very good!
August 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's very good!
Gustave Courbet. A bit too self-absorbed to be my therapist!
. . .
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
. . .
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
August 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Gustave Courbet. A bit too self-absorbed to be my therapist!
. . .
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
. . .
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
If you see this, post a redhead.
August 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you see this, post a redhead.
This is the best novel I read recently. Contemporary fiction meets historical fiction meets science fiction.
July 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
This is the best novel I read recently. Contemporary fiction meets historical fiction meets science fiction.
I try to watch only one CBC News TV cablecast daily, and/or listen to their 6 pm radio news show. I buy newspaper occasionally or read paper at public library.
But then ppl refer to news stories here on Bsky....I look up a lot of politicians on Wikipedia!
But then ppl refer to news stories here on Bsky....I look up a lot of politicians on Wikipedia!
July 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I try to watch only one CBC News TV cablecast daily, and/or listen to their 6 pm radio news show. I buy newspaper occasionally or read paper at public library.
But then ppl refer to news stories here on Bsky....I look up a lot of politicians on Wikipedia!
But then ppl refer to news stories here on Bsky....I look up a lot of politicians on Wikipedia!
So good to know this. I am not doing this volunteer work at present, but I found it rewarding. The people inside the system are often remarkable individuals. My husband's cousin Ann Walmsley has written eloquently about volunteering in a prison book club in Canada.
July 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
So good to know this. I am not doing this volunteer work at present, but I found it rewarding. The people inside the system are often remarkable individuals. My husband's cousin Ann Walmsley has written eloquently about volunteering in a prison book club in Canada.
I saw a very enjoyable movie tonight... in Oakville! "Materialists" stars Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who has two suitors: a rich man and a poor man. And if that sounds like Jane Austen... well yes, I think that was the idea.
July 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I saw a very enjoyable movie tonight... in Oakville! "Materialists" stars Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who has two suitors: a rich man and a poor man. And if that sounds like Jane Austen... well yes, I think that was the idea.