Dennis Dixon is heading West!: Long Island Art Museums: Day 2/2

Friday, July 26, 2019 - This is Day 2 of my 2-day-trip to see Long Island Art Museums:

My first museum, the Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio (part of the East Hampton Historical Society) is only open Fridays & Saturdays 10 AM - 4 PM. Since it is less than 2 hours away and I am going against rush-hour traffic, I figured that if I left at 8 AM I should be fine. The internet was bad in my room, so I just left at 7:20. Everything was fine until, after driving over 1 hour, I hit stopped traffic. I (along with everybody else) struggled through 5 miles of stop-and-go traffic because of a stop light (red-then-green-then-red) in Tuckahoe (part of Southampton). I then stopped for a cup of coffee, and a nice phone chat with Wendy, and continued on to East Hampton. I actually saw 3 of the Historical Society's properties - their main house at 101 Main Street:

their "Clinton Academy" house (151 Main Street):

and the "Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio" (229 Main Street):

Um, you realize that God had me "hit the road early" because he knew about the 5-mile traffic jam, which allowed me to keep to my original schedule.

The Exhibition at Clinton Academy is "Antique Maps of the South Fork":

nice, but the one I'm here to see is "Thomas Moran Discovers the American West"

This exhibit was mentioned to me in an email I received from the "Yellowstone National Park Museum Collection" (I'm thinking about visiting them during my August cross-country trip), and they said "There is also an exhibit being mounted at the East Hampton Historical Society in New York that includes a few of our Morans on loan."

There are 3 exhibition areas, with the biggest being in Thomas Moran's downstairs studio:

It was a great display of oils, watercolors, etchings and engravings. Highlights include:
"Lower Falls of the Yellowstone", circa 1885 oil, Dept. of the Interior, Yellowstone National Park:

"Cinnabar Mountain, Yellowstone River", July 20th, 1871 watercolor, Dept. of the Interior, Yellowstone National Park:

"Sand in the Canyon", 1871 watercolor, Dept. of the Interior, Yellowstone National Park:

"Above Tower Falls, Yellowstone", 1917 oil, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY:

There are a number of beautiful wood engravings, including "Mary's Veil, Utah", circa 1878 wood engraving, East Hampton Library:

and "the Grand Canyon", circa 1871 wood engraving, East Hampton Library:

I then headed 11 miles west, to the Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY). It is kind-of unusual:

and maybe just a bit understated:

They have a cool wall-piece by Maya Lin - "Bay, Pond, & Harbor (Long Island Triptych)", 2014 (done in recycled silver):

and an exhibit of large photographs by Renate Aller.

"Mountain Interval Plate 53 #28s, Nepal, Himalayas Everest Region, December 2016":

The interior space is pretty cool:

Then it was a lovely drive around Great Peconic Bay to get up to North Fork:

I got to the ferry a little after 2, for my 3 PM reservation:

It was nice hanging out at the beach for a while:

good trip back across The Sound. It was really nice to see the Coast Guard's "Tall Ship" USCGC Eagle in New London:

For all my friends on the North Shore, The United States Coast Guard Barque Eagle is sailing toward Salem this summer! She will arrive mid-morning on Friday, August 9 and she will be in port at Salem Wharf, 10 Blaney Street, until August 12. I think you can just generally "go onboard" and walk around, but there is also a Special Tour (an exclusive Academy Admissions Information Session and private tour) Sat Aug 10 9 AM to 10 AM click here for info link

From New London, it was back up I-395 North, then the Mass Pike East. There was an accident on 495 in Chelmsford, so I came in to 95 (128) North, continuing up 95 to the Hampton Beach Casino:

It worked out GREAT, and I got to Dark Star Orchestra just after 8 PM:

um, the lights went down 1 minute after I took that picture.

Excellent show - great music, with no "rock star stuff" to get in the way. Everybody had a GREAT TIME. (and there was a lot of tie-die!) Cool t-shirt:

By 10:30 I had had enough and headed home - in bed by midnight! Thank you God for these Super-wonderful adventures! (And Thanks to you for coming along!)

Today, for my listening pleasure, I am listening to one of my mp3 cds that I burned back in February 2000:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Southern Accents, 1985