Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H.

Friday, Oct 28, 2016 - Wendy and my day trip to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, N.H.:

2 1/2 hours driving; 141 miles. I was so excited to get there I got on 95 North by mistake, but it is easy taking 101 west to Manchester, N.H.

The reason for this trip is the Currier has a wonderful exhibition - Mount Washington: The Crown of New England - Oct 1, 2016 through Jan 16, 2017:


We left home at 11, and got their in time for a very civilized lunch in their dining courtyard:


Then into their exhibit. The Currier has done a fabulous job gathering beautiful works-of-art from many museums, including:

the Davis Museum at Wellesley College
the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2)
the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, New York
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
the New Hampshire Historical Society
the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk Connecticut
the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (2)
private collections (3)
the Currier's own collection (5)

John Kensett - Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway, 1851, Davis Museum


Jasper Cropsey - Mount Washington from Lake Sebago, Maine, about 1867


Sanford Robinson Gifford - Indian Summer in the White Mountains, 1862, Mint Museum


Albert Bierstadt - The Emerald Pool, 1870, Chrysler Museum of Art




Jasper Cropsey - An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains, 1857, Currier Museum of Art


David Johnson - Study, North Conway, New Hampshire, 1851, The Cleveland Museum of Art


Thomas Cole - Storm near Mount Washington, about 1828, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate


Thomas Cole - View in the White Mountains, 1827, Wadsworth Atheneum


I have previously described a visit to the Currier, and their Permanent Collection (link to May 30, 2015 blog), so I won't repeat myself today.

WHAT A GREAT ADVENTURE!! Thank You God for these Great Days!

Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine (On Sept. 1, I joined Deede and Tad hiking Mt. Katahdin [Hunt Trail] - his final day on the AT!)
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