The inspiration for this trip is a Rowing Luncheon in Philadelphia, and excellent Museum Exhibits in Norfolk and Washington!
419 actual miles today; left at 8 AM, 5:30 check-in at Super 8, Newark, DE.
4 hours and 15 minutes got me down to the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey. Wendy and I visited here before (May 2, 2014), but they currently have an Exhibition I want to see: American Visions: 1870–1940, Works from the Bank of America Collection. In the past year, my "awareness of art displays" has expanded to include "Exhibitions" - temporary display of Special Collections. Although they often have a "no pictures" policy, and include pieces from private collections, they are now certainly on my "radar screen" for when I want to plan a trip. In this case, the Bank of American Collection does not have a "permanent home", so if I have the opportunity to see it, I should go for it!
In their Collection are pieces by Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hermann Herzog, Thomas Moran, William Trost Richards and Charles Woodbury. The one I liked best is:
Childe Hassam - Old House, East Hampton, 1917
Another 2 hours+ down to the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. I had been there before (March 12, 2015), but they have 2 exhibitions I wanted to see:
The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting
New Terrains: American Paintings from the Richard M. Scaife Bequest
The first consisted of paintings from the New York Historical Society, and consisted of different paintings from, and was therefore complementary to, the Nature and the American Vision exhibition I saw last month (March 5) out at the Milwaukee Art Museum! In this exhibit, photography was allowed, but a majority of the pieces were behind glass. My personal favorites were:
Frederic Edwin Church - Sunset in the Berkshire Hills, 1857, on loan from Woodmere Art Museum
Thomas Cole - Mountain Landscape, ca. 1827, from the New York Historical Society
From their Permanent Collection: N.C. Wyeth - Late Spring Morning, circa 1915-1917
And then Beautiful works from the Richard M. Scaife Bequest (2014). Highlights include:
Martin Johnson Heade - New Jersey Salt Marsh, ca. 1875-85
Thomas Moran - A Passing Shower, 1885
Alfred Bricher - Maine Coast, n.d.
and an excellent new accession: Herman Herzog - The Sanctuary-Adams Brook, ca. 1880
Some beautiful Spring Flowers right outside the Museum:
And then down in Newark, Delaware, there was a street fair right next door to the Super 8! Cheesesteak for dinner!!
Check-in at 5:30 - Thank You God for a really Great Day!
Music today was albums (alphabetically) from my new silver nano:
The Central Park Concert (3 cds) by Dave Matthews Band, 2003
Cheap Thrills by Big Brother & the Holding Company, 1968
Clocks (cd single) by Coldplay, 2002
Continued Silence by Imagine Dragons, 2012
Cookbook: Their Greatest Hits by Canned Heat, 1970
Cupid Deluxe by Blood Orange, 2013
Dangerously In Love by Beyonce, 2003
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire (I have done 41-of-48 thru October 2015)
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