At the Chicago Botanic Garden orchid show.
Category Archives: museums
Or, The Whale
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.
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
Hast seen the White Whale?
At 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)
Rose Art Museum
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.
Hand copied
That gives new meaning to “pressed into my commonplace book,” eh? I get hook-hand while writing thank-you notes, so it’s hard for me to imagine copying an entire book.
The image was taken at the Lost Valley Visitor Center’s “19th Century Scientists” exhibit.
Reclining woman
My photo of “Reclining Woman” by Fernand Léger (1922).
