We had been here for dinner a few years ago, and it was just as nice for lunch:
We got to the Museum by 2:30
As I said, they have an N.C. Wyeth exhibition:
And highlights include:
"Bright and Fair", 1936 oil (Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine)
"Island Funeral", 1939 oil (Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania)
"The Lobsterman (The Doryman)", 1944 tempera (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
"Nightfall", 1945 tempera (Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania)
Other Museum highlights include:
Thomas Moran - "The Lotus Eaters", 1885 oil:
detail:
Frederick Childe Hassam- "Isles of Shoals", 1915 oil:
Claude Monet - "Monte Carlo Seen from Roquebrune", 1884 oil:
Albert Bierstadt - "Royal Arches, Yosemite Valley, California", circa 1887 oil:
Sanford Robinson Gifford - "Study for the View from South Mountain in the Catskills", 1873 oil:
There were paintings by Andrew Wyeth:
"River Cove", 1958 tempera:
"Raven's Grove", 1985 tempera:
and works by Winslow Homer:
"Weatherbeaten", 1894 oil:
"Wild Geese in Flight", 1897 oil:
"Returning from the Spring", 1874 oil:
And then we headed on home - Thank You God for a Great little adventure!!
Audio today - Wendy continued reading me a book she loved, and it sounds GREAT:
Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, 2013
when she wasn't reading, we listened to Various Artists - No Nukes concert, 1979 triple live album
Gil Scott-Heron does an EXCELLENT version of "We Almost Lost Detroit".
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