The premise is to pull together works that showed historical events in the 1700's; actually, it is a WONDERFUL excuse to pull together works by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Luca Carlevarijs, Bernardo Bellotto, Antonio Joli, Michele Marieschi, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Hubert Robert. The paintings come from collections ALL OVER THE WORLD: Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), Minneapolis Institute of Art, The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Musei Civici di Como (Como, Italy), Museo di Capodimonte (Naples, Italy), The Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA), Musee du Louvre (Paris, France), The Royal Castle (Warsaw, Poland), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, England), National Gallery (London, England), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA), Gemaldegalerie (Berlin, Germany), National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), Musee Carnavalet (Paris, France), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX) and private collections.
After being at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA) from May through July 2017, and then the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN) from September through December 2017, the exhibition has its final stop at The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH) from February through May 2018:
I asked Wendy, and she said YES, so I bought tickets and started planning:
The Museum tickets were for 2 PM Sunday, April 8, so Saturday we would go out I-90 through New York State, spending the night in Hamburg, NY. Sunday we would go to St. Anne's Anglican Church (Madison, OH), then Cleveland, and spend the night in Brookville, PA; and Monday just head on home (almost all museums are closed on Mondays).
We left home about 7:30 AM, and were at the Albany Institute of History & Art at 11:
I had visited here only 10 weeks ago (at the end of January), and I knew I wanted to get Wendy out here! They have two excellent exhibitions:
plus an exhibition that the ladies in my household love:
"45th Station: Shono", woodblock print, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA:
To quote the Display Info Card: The image is considered the masterpiece of Hiroshige' Hoeido version of the Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road.
The Hudson River School exhibition was as beautiful as I remembered it:
This time I will show you the five beauties by Homer Dodge Martin:
Bash Bish Falls, 1859
View on Lake George, c. 1859
Hudson River Waterfall, c. 1860
Storm King on the Hudson, 1862
Landscape with Boat, c. 1860-1870
We had a nice lunch in their cafe, then headed down the road.
Because we weren't "Museumed Out" just yet, we stopped at The Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, NY:
I had visited Arkell only once before, in November 2014, and I remember them having a wonderful Winslow Homer collection. Highlights today include:
Winslow Homer, On the Beach, c. 1869
Childe Hassam, Provincetown, 1900
Albert Bierstadt, El Capitan, ca. 1872-74
Then 3 1/2 hours down the road, and we got to Letchworth State Park, which contains the "Grand Canyon of the East". I loved my stop here at the end of my cross-country trip last August, and I'm really glad I got to show Wendy.
Then a little over an hour to get up to Hamburg, NY. Nice dinner at The Waterstone Grill, then bed at the Super 8.Thank you God for a GREAT Adventure DAY with my Wonderful Wife!
For my listening pleasure, I have been doing Shuffle Songs on my iPod. 17,869 songs means that I can certainly "shuffle off to Buffalo"!! and also Wendy read my book out loud:
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