Above are some of my photos from Friday’s Art Institute visit.
Ways of seeing
Category Archives: museums
Seen
On Friday, we headed to the Milwaukee Art Museum to see Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History and Currents 39: LaToya M. Hobbs, Carving Out Time, as well as some old favorites. Above are my images of detail from the following works:
✤ “Untitled (After Pollock, Convergence)” by Robert Longo (2020)
✤ “Red and Brown Leaves” by Georgia O’Keefe (1925)
✤ “Carving Out Time” by LaToya M. Hobbs (2020-21)
✤ “Still Life with Flowers” by Joan Miró (1918)
✤ “Pillar” by Aaron Bohrod (1954)
Seen on Saturday
My images of detail from the following works at the Toledo Museum of Art:
✤ “Gay Above All” by Roberto Matta (1959)
✤ “Harvester” by Grace Hartigan (1966)
✤ “Nancy and the Rubber Plant” by Alice Neel (1975)
✤ Figure of a Man by an artist in Yemen (4th-3rd Century BCE)
✤ “The End of the Beginning” by Alexander “Skunder” Boghossian (1972-73)
✤ “Man in a Fur-Lined Coat” by Rembrandt (about 1655-1660)
Nostalgic
Visited the butterfly haven at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
before seeing East Texas Hot Links at the Court.
“The 50th”
My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Smart Museum of Art):
✤ “Doors (3 Demolition)” by Gertrude Abercrombie (1957)
✤ “The City” by Alice Neel (undated)
✤ “Title unknown” by Norman Lewis (1947)
✤ “The Snowflower Quilting Bee at Arles” by Faith Ringgold (1996)
✤ “Harbor in Light” by Arthur Dove (1929)
Someplace new
How, in all of these years, had we not visited the Driehaus Museum?
Seen at the museum
My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Detroit Institute of Arts):
✤ “The Wedding Dance” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1566)
✤ “The Last Judgment” by Jan Provost (about 1525)
✤ ”Merrymakers” by Carolus-Duran (1870)
✤ “Study for Painting with White Form” by Wassily Kandinsky (1913)
✤ ”Animals in a Landscape” by Franz Marc (1914)
✤ “Self-Portrait in Olive and Brown” by Max Beckmann (about 1945)
✤ ”Shadow Country” by Yves Tanguy (1927)
✤ ”Peggy Sanderson Hughes and Her Daughter” by Charles Wilson Peale (1789)
✤ ”The Card Players” by Richard Canton Woodville (1846)
✤ ”Floral Still Life” by Charles Ethan Porter (1880-90)
Art-full
My images of detail from the following works (seen at the Art Institute of Chicago):
✤ “Haunted House” by Morris Kantor (1930)
✤ “Untitled” by Jackson Pollock (about 1938-41)
✤ ”Desert Forms” by Hughie Lee-Smith (1957)
✤ “The Rock” by Peter Blume (1944-48)
✤ ”Movements” by Marsden Hartley (1913)
✤ “Portrait of Marevna” by Diego Rivera (about 1915)
✤ ”Herself” by Robert Henri (1913)
