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Saturday, Oct 10, 2015 - Starting from Belleville, MI, east to the Detroit Institute of Arts, then south to the Toledo Museum of Art, then east to the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH), then east to the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, then east to the Super 8, Brookville, PA:
406 actual miles; 6 hours 32 min
Outside the Detroit Institute of Arts, I like the juxtaposition between the Elephant sculpture and the working-crane:
The DIA has an excellent collection of Dutch/Flemish paintings, and a lovely selection of my-favorite-Italian-artists (Canaletto, Guardi, Panini (also spelled "Pannini"), Bellotto, and an etching by Piranesi).
Canaletto - The Piazza San Marco, about 1738-40:
Other DIA highlights include:
Andrew Wyeth - Sea Boots, 1976
detail
Frederic Edwin Church - Cotopaxi, 1862
William Trost Richards - Beach at Long Branch: Sunrise, 1872
Then one hour down the road to the Toledo Museum of Art - 3 favorite highlights are:
Claude Monet - Water Lilies, about 1922-25
(we will certainly see more of these later today!)
Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Fields with Reaper, 1890
J.M.W. Turner - The Campo Santo, Venice, 1842:
With additional works by Maya Lin, Roy Lichtenstein, Picasso, Inness, Monet, van Gogh, Gustave Dore, Cropsey, Gifford, Cole, Bierstadt, Doughty, Kensett, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Whistler, Heade, Pannini, Anthony van Dyke, and Rembrandt van Rijn (plus a FULL-SCALE Greek Theater!), the Toledo Museum of Art is certainly a worthwhile travel destination!
Then an hour-and-a-half to the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio. To give those of you who have an urban-or-suburban framework, this is what most of America looks like:
This is 1.6 miles north of the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
2 favorites are:
Thomas Cole - Lake with Dead Trees (Catskill), 1825
J.M.W. Turner - View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana, and Part of San Giorgio, 1841
Then one hour east to the Cleveland Museum of Art. I LOVE being a Sponsor Member with the Peabody-Essex Museum (Salem, MA) - they are a Member of the North American Reciprocal organization, and I get Free Admission at almost all the museums I visit. Sometimes I am charged an additional fee for Special Exhibitions, but I was free for today's SPECIAL EXHIBITION!
It says "October 11 - January 5", but I am able to see it today (Oct 10) ... oh well, Thank You God!
This Exhibit will be at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 11, 2015 until January 5, 2016, and the Royal Academy of Arts (London) from 30 January 2016 until 20 April 2016 (so get your tickets NOW!). Of course there is a "no photographs" policy (although half the pictures are in my app, because I've gone to "those other museums already"), but here are some "public images":
Claude Monet - The Agapanthus Triptych, c. 1915-1926
A very nice article about it/them click here
Seeing these three painting put together just sent chills up and down my spine, and benches allowed you to sit and be immersed - WOW.
other Monet beauties include:
Waterlilies, 1903 (Dayton Art Institute)
Irises by the Pond, 1914-1917 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
Back to the "Regular Collection":
There was a wonderful joint-exhibit of works by Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney:
After Huang Gongwang #4, 2009
detail
Catalogues were placed near the exhibition, and I asked a guard if they were available in the Gift Shop, and he said "Please, just take it with you." WOW again!
The best Gustave Courbet I have ever seen - Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi, 1877
usually Courbet's work is very dark - this was so refreshing!
I know some people are bored by art, but do you have to just lounge around drinking the-grape-and-the-grain?
Albert Bierstadt - Yosemite Valley, 1866
Frederic Edwin Church - Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
J.M.W. Turner - The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October, 1834, 1835
Everybody comes to the Cleveland Museum of Art:
Then a quick trip across town:
Everybody comes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
It was nice to see autumn colors in Northeastern Ohio:
WOW DE WOW DE WOW!! Thank you God for a great day!
Music today - albums:
Going into Detroit - The Mask soundtrack, 1994
I know the Zoot Suit stuff is L.A., but it has a little "Motor City" aspect to it also.
More Motown - The Supremes Ultimate Collection
and, before I put Michigan in my rear-view mirror:
Bob Seger - Like A Rock, 1986
various artists - Shrek the Third soundtrack, 2007
various artists - Prêt-à-Porter soundtrack, 1995
Bruce Hornsby at The Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - I Know You Rider, 1995
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band - Live in New York City, 2001
specifically "Youngstown", as I'm driving near that city.
then Bruce - Live 1975-1985 selections:
Independence Day:
There's a lot of people leaving town now
leaving their friends, their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
as the sun is setting behind me, that means that I am driving into the "darkness on the edge of town".
Racing In The Street
"One man's Badlands is another man's Racing In The Street" - Bruce Springsteen
Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little, piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
And go racing in the street
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