Dennis Dixon is heading West!: Day Two: Mahwah, NJ - Princeton University Art Museum - Philadelphia Museum of Art - Woodmere Art Museum - Reading Public Museum

256 miles driven today, 9 1/2 hours

The first stop today, Princeton University Art Museum,has a wonderful representation of 15 artists in my app:

Albert Bierstadt (2)
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1)
Frederic Edwin Church (1)
Thomas Cole (2)
Jasper Cropsey (3)
Robert Scott Duncanson (1)
Asher B. Durand (2)
William Stanley Haseltine (1)
Winslow Homer (2)
John Kensett (3)
Claude Monet (3)
Thomas Moran (2)
William Trost Richards (3)
JMW Turner (1)
Worthington Whittredge (1)

My favorite at Princeton is Claude Monet's "Water Lillies and Japanese Bridge", 1899

One hour down to the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

Four beauties at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are:

Sanford Robinson Gifford - A Coming Storm, 1863

Fitz Henry Lane - Dana Beach, Manchester, 1860

Albert Bierstadt - Platte River, Nebraska, 1863

JMW Turner - The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, October 16, 1834

Artists Note: there are 11 Winslow Homer paintings, and at least 22 Monet paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

It was very nice to go out the North Entrance and take a picture of the Water Works and Boathouse Row (where I spent my college years)

30 minutes up to Woodmere Art Museum in the Germantown area of North Philadelphia. My favorite is Edmund Darch Lewis's "Morning in the Katterskill Clove", 1874

Lewis was a local Philadelphia artist, a "member of the Hudson River school", but I have only been able to locate about a dozen paintings in 8 locations across the country (CLICK HERE to get taken to the webpage

One hour west to the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA. Although I have a Frederic Church and a Worthington Whittredge in my database, I discovered additional paintings by Jasper Cropsey, William Trost Richards, and N.C. Wyeth! What a nice little museum!
I think my two favorite things were Worthington Whittredge's "Trout Fishing in the Catskills" c. 1870s

and their DIORAMA! (Please Don't Feed The Animals)

One more hour west, checked into the Holiday Inn Express in Hershey, PA, then dinner 15 minutes away at one of our favorite places!!!

Tuesday, April 22
Super 8 Mahwah, NJ
1 1/2 hours -- Princeton University Art Museum
1 hour -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
1/2 hour -- Woodmere Art Museum
1 hour -- Reading Public Museum
1 hour -- Holiday Inn Express, Hershey, PA

here is today's playlist:

Simon & Garfunkle - Bookends

(what else would I listen to today? "Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike; they've all gone to look for America.")

I wanted to listen to Dylan's "Day of the Locusts", his song about getting an honorary degree at Princeton. It is on his "New Morning" album - I don't have it. So instead of "New Morning", we listened to
Counting Crows - New Amsterdam