385 total miles driving today!
It is an "Art Day" today - the first stop is an 11 AM appointment with Barbara L. Jones, Chief Curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA for an exclusive "storage room" tour! (note the grill-work):
Beauties downstairs included:
Albert Bierstadt - California Coast, n.d.
Jasper Cropsey - Starrucca Viaduct, 1896
John Kensett - Twilight on the Seashore, c. 1872
Upstairs I was able to see:
Alfred Thompson Bricher - View Near Point Judith, Rhode Island, c. 1880
Alfred Thompson Bricher - Point Judith, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, c. 1885
James Brade Sword - Silver Thread Falls, Pennsylvania, 1874
George Hetzel - Rocky Gorge, 1869
Joseph Ryan Woodwell - Seascape, Magnolia, MA, 1887
(GREAT Picture, but I'm sorry, I don't think it looks like anywhere in Magnolia that I know of.)
George Hetzel and Joseph Ryan Woodwell were members of the Scalp Level School of artists - named for a region of Pennsylvania 40 miles east of Greensburg. James Brade Sword visited occasionally. I have to stop being so PROVINCIAL - thinking that the "Hudson River School" was the ONLY gathering-of-good-artists in the later half of the 19th century.
I then headed 2 hours down the road to Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA - their museum is the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. I had stopped by previously in 2013, but this time I had called ahead, and they are having their special exhibit: The Finest of Forty - Outstanding Art from the Permanent Collection.
Otto Gerhardt - Untitled (Scene in the Grand Canyon), 1923
Hermann Herzog - Untitled Landscape, n.d.
John Sloan - Bright Rocks, Gloucester, 1915
Walasse Ting - Spring Sunshine, 1985
Continuing down the road, I was only 5 minutes late for my 3 PM appointment with Kathryn E. Blake, Director, Juniata College Museum of Art, down in the storage vault:
Albert Bierstadt - Mountain Pool (Emerald Pool), 1869
Thomas Moran - Communipaw, February 1879, watercolor
Thomas Moran - Sketch of Ancient Ruins from Shelley's "Alastor", 1856 graphite and brown ink
Ha ha - I'm going "80 on 80".
Unfortunately, that's not going to work tomorrow, when I'm on 90 (the Mass Pike).
Ah, which way should I go?
Got to the Day's Inn in Scranton, PA after dark. Thank You God for these Great Days!
Music today - more "2nd Albums" (isn't this FUN!):
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy, 1978
Van Morrison - Moondance, 1970
Traffic - Traffic, 1968
Thompson Square - Just Feels Good, 2013
The Killers - Sam's Town, 2006
Sade - Promise, 1985
R.E.M. - Reckoning (studio cd & live cd), 1984
EXCELLENT DRIVING MUSIC!
John Mayer - Heavier Things, 2003
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine (On Sept. 1, I joined Deede and Tad hiking Mt. Katahdin [Hunt Trail] - his final day on the AT!)
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