It turns out that Deerfield Academy has one of his paintings! On Thursday April 26 I visited the Boston Public Library to view their copy of "The Charles P. Russell Collection" - a 1969 book published by Dearfield Academy listing their art collection:
The five pieces I found interesting are:
George Inness - Passing Shower, c. 1865 oil:
Winslow Homer - Girl Resting on a Hillside, c. 1868 aquatint:
Homer D. Martin - Criqueboeuf Church, c. 1890 oil:
Frederick Childe Hassam - Rainy Evening - New York, 1891 oil:
Frederick Childe Hassam - Rainy Day - Boston, 1886 oil:
The black-and-white reproductions only whet my appetite to see the real paintings!
Over the next two weeks I exchanged emails with Lydia Hemphill - as is the case at many boarding schools, Lydia wears many hats: Director of Studies, Visual Arts Teacher, Director of the von Auersperg Gallery, Visual and Performing Arts Department Chair. We agreed on this Thursday, so after my breakfast in Boston, I headed west:
I stopped in the Concord Free Public Library to do an hour of work, and got to Deerfield right at 12:30:
We walked over to a house that had the Childe Hassam paintings:
Rainy Day - Boston, 1886 oil
Rainy Evening - New York, 1891 oil
We then went to the Hess Center for the Arts, through the Von Auersperg Art Gallery:
and then through a labyrinth of doors-and-stairs to get back into the storage area:
(I LOVE getting behind-the-scenes)!
Homer D. Martin - Criqueboeuf Church, c. 1890 oil:
it is fun to contrast it with his painting-of-the-same-name out in The Los Angeles County Museum of Art:
(Criqueboeuf Church, Normandy, 1893)
And then back to the Main School building
George Inness - Passing Shower, c. 1865 oil:
I headed back home from there, avoiding (most of) rush hour. Thank you God for a GREAT Adventure DAY!
For my listening pleasure, I have been doing Shuffle Songs on my iPod. 17,869 songs!
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