My images of works in the Bob Thompson survey at the Smart Museum of Art.
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At the Art Institute of Chicago
The above are my images of detail in several favorite works. Click to enlarge.
Earlier this month, we visited the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since November 2019. In addition to the pleasures of returning to the old friends in this, one of our favorite places in the greatest city in the world, this introvert enjoyed the non-existent crowds on that warm, sunny Saturday.
At the Milwaukee Art Museum
Detail from José Jiménez Aranda’s “Figaro’s Shop” (1875) 
Detail from Anselm Kiefer’s “Midgard” (1982-85) 
“Dreams of Flight in the Quiet Forest” by Jephan de Villiers (1999) 
Detail from Pauline Parker’s “Frog Hunt” quilt (1999) 
Detail from Alberto Giacometti’s “Large Seated Woman” (1958-59) 
Raoul Dufy’s “Red Orchestra” (1946-49) 
Detail from Paul Klee’s “Hot-Blooded Girl” (1938) 
Detail from Max Beckmann’s “Wally Barker” (1948) 
“Reflex Arc” by Kay Sage (1951) 
Detail from Marc Chagall’s “The Horseman” (1966) 
Detail from Christian Ludwig Bokelmann’s “The People’s Bank Shortly Before the Crash” (1877) 
Detail from Eduard von Grützner’s “The Card Players” (1883) 
Detail from Johann Georg Meyer’s “Girl Reading” (1848) 
Max Pietschmann’s “Study of a Model” (1885) 
Ludwig Munthe’s “Sunset in Norway” (before 1892)
It has been nearly two years since we last visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. We had the place practically to ourselves yesterday.
At the University of Michigan Museum of Art
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I captured the images above during a recent visit. From the top left:
1. Detail from Jacopo del Casentino’s Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels (circa 1325)
2. Detail from Eastman Johnson’s Boyhood of Lincoln (1868)
3. Detail from James McNeill Whistler’s Sea and Rain (1865)
4. Detail from John Francis Murphy’s Landscape (1880)
5. Detail from Max Ernst’s At the Crossroads (1955)
6. Two Girls Reading (Pablo Picasso; 1934)
Museum of Fine Arts
A few more photos captured on my recent trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
■ Morning Sunlight on the Snow, Éragny-sur-Epte; Camille Pissarro, 1895
■ Seacoast at Trouville; Claude Monet, 1881
■ Seascape II; Hyman Bloom, 1974
■ Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism; Josiah McElheny, 2007
■ Olmec mask; 900–600 BC
■ South Sea Whale Fishing II; Robert Salmon, 1831
Matters of Life and Death
The above are some of the images I captured today at Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death, an exhibit I first saw last summer.
■ Boxer in His Corner, 1930
■ Old Woman Climbing, undated
■ Detail from The Bride, 1943-45
■ Detail from The Bride, 1941
■ Detail from Rocks and Autumn Leaves, 1949-51
Rage
The above are my recent images
of detail from Anselm Kiefer’s “Midgard” (1982-85).
Rage — Goddess, sing the rage….
Warhol
Above are three images I captured at “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again,” the major retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago.
At the Palace
Following a private tour of the Gore Place, our guide said he was certain we would enjoy visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He was right.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Detail from Seacoast at Trouville (Claude Monet; 1881)
Detail from Summer Night’s Dream (The Voice) (Edward Munch; 1893)
Detail from Ravine (Vincent Van Gogh; 1889)
I Dreamed I Could Fly (Jonathan Borofsky; 2000) put me in mind of the ceremony in the cheesy but frightening sci-fi flick Logan’s Run.
Detail from Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943)
An Olmec mask
Detail from Double Portrait (Max Beckmann; 1946)
Nerdishly 