Middlebury College Museum of Art & Hood Museum (Dartmouth College)

Saturday, May 25, 2019 - Wendy has a conference out in Marlborough (also known as Marlboro - don't ask), so I decided to START MY HIKING FOR 2019. Over the past 2 days I hiked 6 mountains over in the Adirondacks - yesterday was a BIG DAY (see dixonheadingnorth), and "they" closed the road to the trailhead for today's mountain, so I'm just coming home.

Well, anytime I get to drive 255 miles/5 hours, I'm sure I can fit in a museum-or-two:


Beautiful farmland in Eastern New York State:

Does it look flat - or is it just me, after two days of hiking in the Adirondacks?

I got to Middlebury College Museum of Art at 12:05 (it opens at noon):

Frederic Edwin Church - "Otter Creek, Middlebury, Vermont", 1854 oil:

and a section of Li Xubai - "Mountain Home with Pine and Chrysanthemum", summer 2006


Lunch at an old favorite:


Another 2 hours down the road, and I was at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art:

I had visited here once before, but they have undergone a large expansions, and display much more of their wonderful art!

A wonderful display of their collection of 6 Assyrian Relief Panels:

They had copies of a booklet that they had published:

and when I asked how I could get a copy, they JUST GAVE ME ONE! Thank You!


Regis Francois Gignoux - "New Hampshire (White Mountain Landscape)", about 1864 oil


Thomas Hill - "Mountain Landscape", late 19th century oil:


Winslow Homer - "Enchanted", 1874 oil:


And from there I headed home! Thank you God for these wonderful adventures!

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

Lou Rawls - The Essential


Neil Young - Unplugged, 1993


various artists - Toga Rock, 1990


Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love, 1987


Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?, 1972 double album


America - History: America's Greatest Hits, 1975

Sotheby's NYC May 2019

Sunday, May 19, 2019 - I really enjoy my trips with Wendy to NYC to see Auction House and Gallery exhibitions. Sotheby's is actually having another "American Art" auction this month, and there are a bunch of pieces I would like to see:


Wendy served at the 7:45 AM Service at Christ the Redeemer, so I went to that service and we left there at 9 AM. I just reviewed past Sotheby's blogs (5/21/2018, 3/24/2018, 5/22/2017), and I see that in the past we left at 7:15, 7 and 6:30. There were a lot of cars on the road, and traffic would sometimes just stop (no cop car, no accident). At 11:30 - we're heading to NYC!


It took 4 hours to get down to the Henry Hudson Parkway on the West Side, but then it took another hour to get across town (Sunday in the City - walkathons, fundraisers, roads closed). SpotHero parking, and a great lunch at Cafe Luca:


Then a quick walk over to Sotheby's:


Wonderful highlights include:

Sanford Robinson Gifford - A Lake Twilight, 1861 oil:

Andrew Wyeth - Open Water, 1977 watercolor

Alfred Jacob Miller - Two Arapaho, ca. 1860 watercolor:

Childe Hassam - Spring Woods (In the Orchard), 1921 oil:

Francis Augustus Silva - Sailing on the Hudson near Nyack, 1872 oil:

Albert Bierstadt - Mountain Lake, circa 1865 oil:

Frederic Edwin Church - Ruins at Baalbek, 1868 oil:

Jasper Francis Cropsey - On The Hudson Near West Point, 1877 oil:


Sotheby's has many other auctions coming up, that I'm really not interested in (Timepieces, Modern Art), but it was VERY EXCITING to see pieces that had been flown to New York in anticipation of their "Old Master and British Works on Paper" auction in London 3 July:



Canaletto - The Presentation of The Doge in S. Marco, 1763-66 pen, ink, wash:

J.M.W. Turner - Sun-Rise: whiting fishing at Margate, 1822 watercolour:

J.M.W. Turner - Landscape with Walton Bridges, oil:


Note from the Future - these American Art pieces sold for:

Lot 39 - Sanford Robinson Gifford - A Lake Twilight - $2,900,000
(estimate 1,200,000 - 1,800,000)

Lot 35 - Andrew Wyeth - Open Water - $150,000
(estimate 150,000 - 250,000)

Lot 73 - Alfred Jacob Miller - Two Arapaho - unsold
(estimate 150,000 - 250,000)

Lot 65 - Childe Hassam - Spring Woods (In the Orchard) - $481,250
(estimate 250,000 - 350,000)

Lot 79 - Francis Augustus Silva - Sailing on the Hudson near Nyack- $740,000
(estimate 700,000 - 1,000,000)

Lot 45 - Albert Bierstadt - Mountain Lake - $112,500
(estimate 60,000 - 80,000)

Lot 46 - Frederic Edwin Church - Ruins at Baalbek - unsold
(estimate 1,000,000 - 1,500,000)

Lot 42 - Jasper Francis Cropsey - On The Hudson Near West Point - unsold
(estimate 120,000 - 180,000)

Picked up the car at 4, dinner at Five Guys in Peabody! Excellent Adventure-Time with my Beautiful Bride! Thank You God for these Great Days!

Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking in New England (the 4,000 footers; the 100 Highest; WATERFALLS)
hyperlink: dixonheadingnorth
http://dixonheadingnorth.blogspot.com/

Reynolda (NC) & Chrysler (VA) Art Museums, Day 3/3

Saturday, May 11, 2019 - Wendy has a 3-day Clergy Conference (Thursday-Friday-Saturday), so I'm HITTING THE ROAD:

I hope to see 6 art museums, have lunch with my Best Man in Raleigh, North Carolina, and cover over 1700 miles - "Road Trip" indeed!

This is Day 3 - Today I logged 453 miles:

What could go wrong.

Because the Delaware Art Museum opens at 10 AM, I left the Super 8 at 8:30. At 9:30 I crossed the bridge over Back Creek:

Pretty Cool Bridge!

The Delaware Art Museum is a very nice place. I had been here once before - March 12, 2015 blog - and it is nice to be back:



Howard Pyle - "Another rush of breakers pitched the boat, corklike into the air", 1900 oil


Thomas Doughty - "Landscape", 1829 oil


I was a little behind-time, so when I reached the Newark Museum, and it was closed-for-a-private-function, I was a little relived:

That gave me plenty of time to stand in stop-and-go traffic on the George Washington Bridge:


I reached the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York at 2:30:

Wendy and I had visited here once before - May 2, 2014 blog.

I did a little research ahead of time, and discovered they have an Exhibition - The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art - and it is CLOSING TOMORROW!

The next stop for the exhibition the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania in the Summer of 2019.

There is a wonderful collection of "moon based" paintings, including:

Thomas Cole - "Landscape (Moonlight)", ca. 1833-34 oil (The New-York Historical Society):


Jasper Francis Cropsey - "Mediterranean Sea Coast" 1855 oil (Newington-Cropsey Foundation):


Frederic Edwin Church - "Moonrise", 1865 oil (Olana State Historic Site):


Winslow Homer - "Moonlight", 1874 watercolor (The Arkell Museum at Canajoharie):


And to bring this into the 20th Century: Jamie Wyeth - "Apollo XI - To The Moon, July 16, 1969", 1969 watercolor (Adelson Galleries)


I then drove 4 hours to the City Winery in Boston, where I had a cheeseburger and heard Graham Parker (the cheeseburger was good, Graham Parker not so much). Home and in bed a little after 11 PM - 1,760.5 miles!! Thank you God for this beautiful art and these Wonderful Adventures!

More albums from my gold nano:

The Chainsmokers - Bouquet, 2015 EP


The National - Boxer, 2007


Marc Cohn - Burning the Daze, 1998


various artists - Casey Kasem - 1960's The Folk Years


various artists - Casey Kasem - The 70's Singer/Songwriters


The Persuasions - Chirpin', 1977


Christian Scott - Christian aTunde Adjuah, 2012 (2 cds)


cool Hendrix - mostly live stuff from original Hendrix in the West, 1972 live


various artists - Countdown To The New Year, 2010


Linda Ronstadt - Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind, 1989


Ed Sheeran - Divide, 2017