Upper Midwest - Day Twelve (Berkeley - Haggin Museum - Modesto)

Deede and I walked around University of California, Berkeley, visiting the Bancroft Library and the Berkeley Art Museum:

Then I dropped Deede off at the movies, and I headed over to the Haggin Museum in Stockton, then down to the Super 8 in Modesto:


The UC Berkeley campus has some beautiful spots:




Nick Hadley was out here for the Physics program (Masters? or was this his PhD?)
Unfortunately, the Bancroft Library has a "no photographs" policy - they had 2 Thomas Hill paintings, and a nice Herman Herzon painting of Yosemite.
Unfortunately, The Berkeley Art Museum had neither their Bierstadt nor their Heade nor their Thomas Hill paintings on display.

So I dropped off Deede and headed off to the Haggin Museum in Stockton. Wow de wow de wow!!!
1) They have an EXCELLENT collection of Hudson River School artists.
2) They currently have an exhibition titled "Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross". (no photos allowed in the exhibition)
3) They are closed Monday and Tuesday, and the Wednesday hours start at 1:30 PM, which is right when I got there!


I was allowed to take photos of the regular collection - I took pictures of 26 works of art:
Albert Bierstadt (9)
Robert Albert Blakelock (2)
William Bradford (2)
Alfred Thompson Bricher (1)
Jasper Cropsey (1)
Childe Hassam (1)
Thomas Hill (1)
George Inness (1)
David Johnson (2)
William Keith (1)
Homer Dodge Martin (1)
Thomas Moran (1)
Julian Rix (1)
Auguste Rodin (1)
and a combination: John Frederick Kensett and Daniel Huntington - Morning Mist, 1873

I will limit this blog to six:
Albert Bierstadt - After a Norther, Bahamas - after 1878

Albert Bierstadt - Yosemite Valley - c. 1863-75

Albert Bierstadt - Sunset in the Yosemite Valley - c. 1868

William Bradford - The Berg - 1870s-80s

Alfred Thompson Bricher - Marine - n.d.

George Inness - the Juniata River - 1856 (very early in his career)

This is the upstairs gallery - the museums I have visited seem to have the most beautiful spaces:


And then it was time to check into the Super 8 in Modesto:




Wow - thank you God for a GREAT day, and God Bless Deede on her adventures!

Wednesday, October 29, 2014
110 miles!

since the Grateful Dead are from the Bay Area:
The Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault (2 cds)