My timing was excellent - I left Duluth at 7:30, and got to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts at 9:55 (for its 10 AM opening!)
It is a major museum, and I knew that I was not going to be fair by limiting myself to 45 minutes. They have wonderful works by Canaletto, NC Wyeth, Renoir (2), Van Gogh, Frederick Childe Hassam, Homer Dodge Martin, Philip Little (a nice painting titled "The Upper Ipswich River" [yes, that Ipswich River]), and Roy Lichtenstein. Maxfield Parrish has a very good piece "Dream Castle in the Sky" (1908):
They have three by Claude Monet, two by Albert Bierstadt, and single works by Jasper Cropsey, Thomas Moran, and William Trost Richards. The Hudson River School piece I select today is "Quiet Seascape", 1883 by William Trost Richards
the Monet I love is "Grainstack, Sun in the Mist", 1891
but the knockout piece is the sculpture "Kiss of Victory", 1878-1881 by Sir Alfred Gilbert - it took my breath away
To go southeast to Winona, MN (the Minnesota Marine Art Museum), you travel on US 61 alongside the Mississippi River - this section is known as Lake Pepin
I am adding US 61 to my list of "favorite roads"!
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is an absolute treasure! First, they had a special William Bradford exhibit titled William Bradford and the Arctic
Second, they had an Ansel Adams exhibition: Classic Images
and third, on long-term loan from a private collection, is a super-impressive collection of Marine, Hudson River School, Impressionist and Modern Art
There is a "no photography" policy, so I will just say that the works include:
Albert Bierstadt - Sunrise
William Bradford - Ships Off a Northern Headland, c. 1862
William Bradford - Bark Panther Among the Icebergs, 1876
William Bradford - Arctic Sunset with Rainbow, 1877
William Bradford - Morning on the Arctic Ice Fields, c. 1880
Alfred Thompson Bricher - On the Mississippi Near Winona, Minnesota Shower Clearing, 1868
Alfred Thompson Bricher - Mississippi River (Dubuque, Iowa), 1870
Alfred Thompson Bricher - Near Cape Elizabeth, Portland, Maine, 1887
Thomas Cole - A View of Boston, 1837-39
Frederic Edwin Church - Autumn, 1853
Jasper Cropsey - Watching the Stream, 1868
Robert Seldon Duncanson - Mount Orford, Summer Evening After a Thunder Storm, 1864
Asher Brown Durand - Landscape, 1855
Sanford Robinson Gifford - The Beach at Cohasset, 1864
Sanford Robinson Gifford - Long Branch Beach, 1867
William Stanley Haseltine - Off Newport, Rhode Island, 1863
William Stanley Haseltine - Rocks at Halibut Point, Cape Ann, Massachusetts, 1863
Martin Johnson Heade - Seascape at Sunset, c. mid 1860's
Martin Johnson Heade - View From the Fern-Tree Walk, Jamaica, 1887
Winslow Homer - Winding Line, 1874-1875
Winslow Homer - Three Schooners at Anchor, Gloucester, c. 1880
Richard William Hubbard - A Mountain Stream, 1867
David Johnson - The Natural Bridge, Virginia, 1860
John Kensett - At Newport, c. 1870
Claude Monet - La Seine a Vetheuil, 1881
Claude Monet - Pres de Fecamp, 1881
Thomas Moran - Near Southampton, 1891
JMW Turner - Hampton Court Palace, c. 1825-28
Worthington Whittredge - Autumn on the Delaware, 1875-76
Luckily, some images are available on commons.wikipedia
This is Thomas Moran - Near Southampton, 1891
and Frederic Edwin Church - Autumn, 1853 (also known as Autumn on the Hudson)
Then back on the road for a beautiful fall day
Who did the lighting?
Thank you God for a beautiful day! (although it was a bit long - I pulled into the Super 8 in Rantoul, IL after driving an hour in the dark)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
for this trip I am listening only to double-albums - let's see where that takes us
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (double album, released 1976)
(It contains the song "Summer Soft" and the lyrics:
When you find it's October
And she's gone, and she's gone
Summer's gone)
Grateful Dead - Live Dead (live recording, released 1969)
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk (live recording, released 2008)
Yes - Yessongs (live recording, released 1973)
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