Bob Eckstein may, by his own admission, not have especially enjoyed being dragged to museums by his parents as a child. But something changed along the way, which is readily apparent If you take a look at Bob’s new book, “ Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums. ” It features 155 beautifully painted depictions of more than 75 museums in North America, accompanied by stories that help get to the essence of what makes them so special. Bob Eckstein Creating the paintings wasn’t as difficult an undertaking as it sounds, according to Eckstein. “What I did was based on what the museum called for — I simply was the background music to the beautiful museums. And I just kind of tried to lend my skills to what was needed,” Bob says. “But I was very much a secondary person in this whole process, in the sense that the museum itself told me what style I should try to do." Bob spent about as much time tracking down the fascinating stories behind the museums that he included, several of th