July 14 -- art museum, part 2

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I included this next for artists who want to represent people, and are concerned about ending up with non-matching eyes.

It doesn't matter.  Your drawing can be in an art museum, regardless.....

Quite a number of Cezannes.....  "Still Life with Apples and a Glass of Wine, 1877-79"

This pitcher is another thing I love and do not need to own.  Love the decoration!  This is huge, for a ceramic pitcher (working on 2' tall, as I remember it).  It would be so heavy.....  Not altogether practical, but I love it.

1887, salt-glazed stoneware, designed and made by Martin Brothers, London.

A terrible pic, to show you the overall idea....

A nice crispy detail, to show you it is all inlay!  Goodness.  Hard enough to draw with a drawing implement.  To do it with very thin pieces of wood?  My.

More things I love but do not want.

I love this, too, and would take it if it were offered.  Monet, "Marine View with a Sunset," c 1875.

Another Cezanne.  "Quartier Four, Auvers-suer-Oise," 1873.

Ceramic fireplace surround.  I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before.

"Designed c 1895, Glazed stoneware, wood, metal, Designed by Hector Guimard, made by the firm of Alexandre Bigot, Mer, France."

Another Cezanne.  "Still Life with a Dessert, 1877 or 1879."

This may be my favorite two-dimensional thing of the day.  I'm not a big fan of fancy frames, but love the shadows!  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "Follette, 1890, Oil on cardboard"

Wow, eh?  What a great sketch.

Cezanne.  "Winter Landscape, Giverny, 1894"

There were two of these, side by side....  "Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-4"

Mary Cassatt.  (again with the frame/shadows!)  "Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879"

I love her choice of lighting.  So interesting............

Very nice little table, with delicate turned legs.  "Rosewood.  Made by Gregory and Company, London, c 1850-?"

And a gorgeous top.  This looks so new -- wondering if the top is a replacement.....  Or "just" refinished?

Another excellent chest.  "Wardrobe.  Designed 1910.  White oak."

Detail.

I'm rather fond of the things on top, too.  The leaves/flowers on the glass, and the dots/bumps on the ceramic......

Another Monet.  "Bend in the Epte River near Giverny, 1888"

All of these shots are chronological as I encountered the items.  Not, perhaps, as cohesive a story as I could have told if I rearranged.........

Modern work.

One of the few textiles in the museum -- the only current textile I saw -- and of course it's made by a man......  No quilts in the modern section; just the one in the Pennsylvania Dutch section..............

Alighiero e Boetti, "The New Autonomies, 1988, Embroidery on muslin."

I mentioned yesterday that the camera remembered things as WAY yellower than I remembered, and I said that I'd done what I could to restore things to the way I remember seeing them.

 "Composition with Blue and Yellow, 1932"

Here's an example.  A Mondrian, with yellow and dark blue rectangles, remembered by the camera this way:

Here's my attempt at what I remember......

The thing that caught my eye about this is that it is encaustic on top of a silk flag.  That feels like cheating, to me.  And yet, like the squint-eyed drawing, here it is, validated by appearing in an art museum.....

Jasper Johns, 1983

I walked upstairs to the second floor.  The staircase walls were embellished with part of the museum's tile collection.  "Young Lady in Green (Love in a Mist), c 1903, Tin-glazed earthenware with stenciled decoration under a transparent lead glaze.  Pattern probably designed by Adolf Le Comte, Made by De Porceleyne Fles"

Looking out the window, a light whose design would fit right in with the previous.....

I failed to get pics of the info about the tiles in the next two pics, but they were with Dutch tiles from the mid-17th century....

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