and then a ferry from Orient Point across Long Island Sound to New London, then HOME!!
The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY is a beautiful building:
unfortunately, the permanent exhibition area is closed for exhibition preparation
I'm sorry that I missed their Mythic Landscapes of America exhibition, which was from Nov 15, 2008 to Jan 4, 2009
at least I found the poster!
Down in Roslyn, NY, the Nassau County Museum of Art was closed for exhibition preparation
At this point, I tried directly calling the Long Island Museum (Stony Brook, NY) and the Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, NY), but no one answered at either location - I guess I will take my chances.
The Art Museum at the Long Island Museum looks nice:
and - HOORAY - they had "some ART":
Winslow Homer - Watching the Surf, 1883
2 beautiful Thomas Moran paintings: Glimpse of the Sea, Near Amagansett, 1909
Hopi Village, Arizona, 1916
Although small, they have nice exhibition spaces:
Frederic Edwin Church - Autumn, 1845
John S. Jameson - Saranac Lake, 1861
attributed to Hermann Herzog - Untitled - Rocky Mountains Scene, c. 1874
Albert Bierstadt - Autumn Landscape, n.d.
Thomas Hill - View of Yosemite, c. 1887
3 works by William Trost Richards - Untitled - Seascape, 1901
Conament Shore, 1890
Sea Cliffs, 1870
Mauritz Frederick de Haas - Off the Coast, c. 1870
Alfred Thompson Bricher - Autumn Landscape, Southampton, 1882
additionally, at The Long Island Museum there was a very nice Ansel Adams exhibit (Ansel Adams: Early Works)!!
Whenever I take a photo of a work of art, I also try to take a photo of the information card. Sometimes I read them; sometimes I don't. In the case of the paintings at The Long Island Museum, I didn't read them - I was just so excited to see the art! It turns out that for the 13 paintings listed above:
3 are from The Long Island Museum
5 are from private collections
1 is from the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY (Long Island)
1 is from the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY (Long Island)
3 are from the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY (Long Island)
So I was actually able to see some of the art from the Heckscher, after all! [a Bierstadt, a Church, and a Moran!]
If I had been alert, the fact that one of Guild Hall's finest Thomas Moran paintings was up at The Long Island Museum should have rang some alarm bells. As it was, Guild Hall (in East Hampton) was only 1 hour 15 minutes down the road, so that's where I went. Unfortunately (you can see where this is going), they have no permanent exhibit - the two exhibit areas were "Student Student Arts Festival Part II: Grades 9-12". Two of the students were excellent photographers, and their works were nice to see.
Additionally, I drove right past the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY. Because they do not have a searchable database for their collection, they are not in my Where's the Art iPhone app, and, therefore, they are not on my radar screen. But as I mentioned above, one of their paintings was at The Long Island Museum - a beautiful William Trost Richards (Untitled - Seascape); so maybe if I had just driven in the driveway, I could have seen something beautiful. Oh well, next time ...
To get to the Orient Point ferry (to New London), I drove up NY-24 N/Riverhead-Hampton Bays Rd
I'm really curious about roads that have a single lane in one direction, but two lanes in the other direction? Is it like lemmings - do cars drive south on Long Island, then "jump off the cliff" at the beach at Montauk??
i saw some geese flying north - a sign of spring? The ferry from Orient Point was good to see, even if it reminds me of some sea-monster getting ready to eat me (Jonah's whale?)
I'm heading home, to my wonderful wife!
The ferry is not as roomy as the Steamship Authority
and, of course, always fill up Wendy's car after you have taken it on a trip (no matter how far)
Got home a little before 9 PM - thank you God for safe travels and wonderful adventures!
Listened to the big (160 gigs) iPod today:
after 2 Ultra-Lounge cds at the hotel,
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (2 cds) (1969)
and because I'm on Long Island:
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volume III (1997)
Billy Joel - Songs in the Attic (live) (1981)
after my experiences with museums today, I needed to shed a few tears, so its off to Bill Morrissey:
Bill Morrissey - Standing Eight (1989)
"Love Song/New York, 1982":
And if I seem to be ok
I'm just thinking of the time
I held her near.
hey, it turns out, after listening to the whole album, there are a lot of Bill Morrissey songs that don't make me cry.
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)
while waiting in the ferry stand-by line - The Kinks - Greatest Hits! (1966)
Taj Mahal - Giant Step (1969)
"Six Days on the Road":
Six days on the road and I'm gonna see my baby tonight.
various artists - Woodstock (1970)
I was going for Ten Years After - "I'm Going Home", but I got home before the song played.
That's all, folks! (except for a wrap-up blog tomorrow)
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