Dennis Dixon is heading West!: Florida - Day Fifteen (Durham, NC - Raleigh, NC - Richmond, VA - Norfolk, VA

350 miles today, with all my twists and turns. Partly cloudy 60s all day.

Once again, I had BIG PLANS - visiting 6 museums today! I would have pulled it off, except the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is GREAT (too much time spent there), and then rush-hour going down 64 East in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA. The NCCU (North Carolina Central University) Art Museum opens at 9, while the Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University) did not open until 10, so that timing was going to work out great. Unfortunately, the Duncanson painting I want to see at NCCU was not on display ... but it was on a flyer!

Robert Scott Duncanson - Cottage at Pass Opposite Ben Lomond, 1866

this is the only image of it that I have seen anywhere!

and then off to CVS (plenty of time) before the Nasher. Outside the entrance I had to laugh at the Please Do Not Touch sign - the "art" is BLOCKS OF GRANITE!! I didn't think I could hurt granite.

That was my only laugh at the Nasher - the rest were tears of sadness. they did not have exhibition space for

Bierstadt

Bricher

or Kensett

but they did have space for Genital Drawing, 1989 by Robert Gober

It does make me sad sometimes.

But on to happier, better places! The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is GREAT, and I slightly overstayed my time. They expansively have statues by Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, and classical (Roman/Greek), and paintings by

Thomas Hart Benton
Albert Bierstadt
Thomas Cole
Jasper Cropsey
Elliott Daingerfield
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Frederick Childe Hassam
Martin John Heade
Winslow Homer
William Keith
Louis Rémy Mignot
Claude Monet
Andrew Wyeth (I'll be visiting Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA in 2 days - major Wyeths!)

plus Italian painters:
Bernardo Bellotto
Canaletto
Francesco Guardi
Michele Marieschi

um, the best pieces are
Claude Monet - The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897

Roman marble - Torso of an Emperor in the Guise of Jupiter, 1st century

Louis Rémy Mignot - Landscape in Ecuador, 1859

Thomas Cole - Romantic Landscape, circa 1826

Andrew Wyeth - Weather Side, 1965

the sculptures of Auguste Rodin:
the outside courtyard

and the inside gallery

my selfie with Canaletto - Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore, circa 1750

Then off to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Another exceptional collection, and where I totally lost track of time. (which is a good thing!) Works I photographed include:

stained glass by Georges de Feure - Window, ca. 1901-1902

stained glass by Tiffany

Winslow Homer - Army Teamsters, 1866

they have an excellent space

which seems to be reflected in the paintings by
Hubert Robert - The Finding of the Laocoön, 1773

Anthonie de Lorme - Interior of the Church of St. Laurens, Rotterdam, ca. 1657

Modern Cast of a Relief from the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt, 1473-1458 BC

Frederic Edwin Church - In the Tropics, 1856

an excellent Jasper Cropsey - Mt. Jefferson, Pinkham Notch, White Mountains, 1857

Fitz Henry Lane - View of Gloucester Harbor, 1848

Martin Johnson Heade - A Cloudy Day, 1874

an awesome canvas by Edwin Lord Weeks - The Hour of Prayer at the Pearl Mosque, Agra, ca. 1888-1889

Thomas Moran - Bridalveil Fall, Yosemite Valley, 1904

I just had to take a picture of the clouds - Moran/Turner??

After an excellent half-rack of ribs at Texas Roadhouse, off to bed. Thank you God for a REALLY GREAT day!

Listened to more music from the little green nano:

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Long After Dark (1982)