The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021 - The family is in Houston for a wedding this weekend, and we are visiting The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today:

I was here once before (Nov. 7, 2014), so I am anticiapting seeing some beauty that I did not see last time. They have a wonderful "open space" entrance, and I like the "Donor's Wall":

"Hudson River School" beauties include:

Thomas Cole - "Indian Pass", 1847:

Frederic Edwin Church - "Cotopaxi", 1855:

Jasper Francis Cropsey - "Autumn on Greenwood Lake", 1861:

Martin Johnson Heade - "Marsh Sunset, Newburyport, Massachusetts", c. 1876-82:

other beauties:

Childe Hassam - "Rainy Midnight", late 1890s:

Claude Monet - "Water Lilies", 1907:

Georges Braque - "Fishing Boats", 1909:

Pablo Picasso - "Le rameur (The Rower)", 1910:

Amadeo Modigliani - "Leopold Zborowski", c. 1916:

Jackson Pollock - "Number 6, 1949", 1949:

and, of course, The Venetians:

Francesco Guardi - "Santa Maria della Salute and Dogana, Venice", c. 1783:

Canaletto - "The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice", 1740s:

Bernardo Bellotto - "The Marketplace at Pirna", c. 1764:

Michele Marieschi - "View of the Dogana and S. Maria della Salute, Venice", c. 1740:

The "Nancy and Rich Kinder Building" has Great Space:

and a FUN MIRROR WALL:

We got back to our car/the garage at THE END OF A LONG HALL:

Thank you God for this wonderful "Museum Adventure"!