Thursday, October 14, 2021
This is a crossover blog, harkening back to the time-tested comic book tradition of having comic hero B appear in comic hero A's issue, then A appears in B. One of the best examples is Spiderman/X-Force from 1990:
(Yes, the issues were printed sideways/landscape-orientation, and meant to be read sideways [don't be stupid and turn your head sideways]). The plots might be silly, but the art was EXCELLENT: Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man and Rob Liefeld’s X-Force!!
What makes this blog a "crossover" is dixonheadingwest concerns itself with Art Museums and National Parks, while dixonheadingnorth documents my hiking endeavors - 4000-footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine/New York. So today is the 4 Museums in Massachusetts, while tomorrow will cover hiking
Mount Colden in the Adirondacks.
After my Thursday Men's Breakfast in Boston, I was going to head west to 2 museums in Springfield. Then over to Pittsfield, and Williamstown, then Middlebury, Vermont, and spend the night in Ticonderoga, New York.
Nice sunrise as I headed into
Boston:
Driving in
Springfield was a nice loop-de-loop:
Springfield, Mass. has some very nice architectural details:
My first visit was the
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum:
They have a very nice collection of American Art (even though I am not a fan on the "Salon-style" of display):
My favorites here are:
John Bunyan Bristol -
Summer, 1878:
Albert Bierstadt -
The Brother's Burial, 1861:
Albert Bierstadt -
Sunrise in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, 1873-75:
I then went across the courtyard to the
Michele and Donald d'Amour Museum of Fine Art. It has some wonderful display spaces/galleries:
Bernardo Bellotto -
Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1740-41:
Claude Monet -
Grainstack, 1893:
Albert Bierstadt -
The Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, no date:
Samuel Colman -
Gibralter, 1866:
George Inness -
Clearing Up, 1860:
John Kensett -
Rydal Falls, Lake District, England, 1858:
Then it was time to get back out on the road - the Mass Pike, heading west:
I was at the
Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield at 12:30
Thomas Hill -
Yosemite Valley, about 1890:
Edward Moran -
Painting, City and Harbor of New York, 1889:
George Inness -
Leeds in the Catskill, 1865:
Back on the road, I continued up Route 7, and at 1:30 I was up at the
Williams College Museum of Art:
George Inness -
Twilight, c. 1860:
William Morris Hunt -
Niagara Falls, 1878:
It was a pretty beautiful day leaving the Museum:
"Photos-crossing-state-lines" is a hard habit to break:
I visited Uncle Jon and Aunt Libby in Middlebury for an hour:
And then it was time to "race the setting sun" through western Vermont:
Into
New York State at 5:44
An hour later I was down at the Super 8 in Ticonderoga, ordering my pizza for tonight and sub for tomorrow. Thank you God for a GREAT DAY!
To follow the blog tomorrow, please go to
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Music for today:
Oscar Peterson Trio -
We Get Requests, 1964
Melody Gardot -
My One and Only Thrill, 2009 second album
Page & Plant -
No Quarter, 1994 live album
Pearl Jam -
Live On Ten Legs, 2011 live album
Van Halen -
Van Halen, 1978 debut album
John Lennon -
Lennon Legend: The Very Best Of John Lennon, 1997
U2 -
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, 2004
Michael Franks -
Tiger in the Rain, 1979
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine/New York:
hyperlink:
dixonheadingnorth
http://dixonheadingnorth.blogspot.com/
