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)
Earlier this week, we explored the Kelsey’s collection of ancient and medieval artifacts.
At the Chicago Botanic Garden orchid show.
On Monday, in addition to Robert Salmon’s South Sea Whale Fishing II (1831), the Barry Moser-illustrated Moby Dick put me in a “Hast seen?” mood.
On Wednesday, I watched the activity in the penguin exhibit on the main level of the New England Aquarium through the skeleton of a North American right whale.
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
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
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.
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)
Untitled. Pieter Vermeersch. 2017.
It reminds me of Anselm Kiefer’s Midgard (1982-85).
Both works are by German artists.
Aren’t we all?
Detail from a charming poster near the museum entrance.
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