I wanted to see the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum WITH MY NEW CAMERA (iPhone 11), and see EVERYTHING!!! I have previously blogged about these museums: 4/28/2014 (Nat'l Gallery), 4/29/2014 (Smithsonian), 7/22/2016 (both), and 5/29/2017 (both) - I will try not to repeat myself.
I left home about 1:30 - nice, quick and easy through Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York (it was a little surprising to see that the Tappan Zee Bridge has been renamed/replaced with the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, but since it is the only "Bridge" in the area, I figured it must be the one):
I hit stopped-traffic-for-an-hour (because of an accident) on the Garden State Parkway, but ate my sandwich and listened to Bruce - it did stretch my arrival southwest of Baltimore from 9:15 to 10:15:
A Good Start to this adventure (456 miles) - Thank you God!
Music for today:
various artists - AM Gold: The Mid 60's Classics, 1960s
Then some more Singles: AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (from "Back in Black"), 1980
Mark-Almond - The City, 1971
The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (from "The E.N.D."), 2009
The Killers - Human (from "Day & Age"), 2008
Then back to Albums: various artists - Zumba Fitness Dance Party, 2012
Carrie Underwood - Blown Away, 2012
Delirious? - Discover: Delirious?, 2011
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies, 1994
various artists - Cardio 3-Disco, 2000
various artists - Desperado: The Best of Country Rock, 2002
Rick Nelson - "Garden Party"
The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band - "Fallin' In Love"
Poco - "Crazy Love"
Michael Murphey - "Wildfire"
Lucius - Good Grief, 2016
Phantom Planet - The Guest, 2002 second album
And when I hit New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen - Soul Crusaders (2 cds), 1977
Wynton Marsalis - Live At The House Of Tribes, recorded 2002, released 2005
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love, 1998
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Friday, Feb. 18, 2022 - Friday I slept until 6 AM. Shower-Shave-and-Shine, then went a mile down the road to Kay's Diner - I was the only one in the place:
At 8 AM I drove down to DC:
I had my "walking map":
I've been trying to figure out what kind of blog this is going to be. I have hit you guys 3 times already with "Beauties of the National Gallery of Art" blogs, so I don't really want to do a 4th.
And I took 472 photos today.
Upon reviewing my pictures, 2 themes emerged:
- compare-and-contrast art that had previously been at The Corcoran Gallery of Art (which Wendy and I visited in 2014, right before it closed permanently), and is now in the collection of, and on display in, The National Gallery of Art
- compare photos from my old iPhone versus photos that I took on MY NEW IPHONE 11
At The Corcoran, the display was "Salon style", which I hate because you cannot see the paintings in the top row:
and then the picture I took at The National Gallery of Art:
Other examples from The Corcoran include:
Frederic Edwin Church - "Niagara", 1857 oil:
Edward Hopper - "Ground Swell", 1939 oil:
I am very happy that many of The Corcoran's pieces are hanging in The National Gallery, where they have enough space to breath.
I got a new iPhone last August, primarily because apps-I-needed were no longer working on my iPhone 5s. I called Apple, and got the oldest-model that they could sell me new, which was an iPhone 11. I knew that pictures I have been taking since then were good, but it wasn't until I compared photos-of-paintings that I was BLOWN AWAY! If you have a camera/cell phone older than 3 years, and you take pictures, do yourself a BIG FAVOR and get a new phone - you will be happy!
Which gives me a chance to compare old-and-new photos:
Edgar Degas - "Before the Ballet", 1890/92 oil:
Thomas Eakins - "The Biglin Brothers Racing", c. 1873 oil:
Thomas Moran - "Green River Cliffs, Wyoming", 1881 oil:
Frederic Edwin Church - "El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)", 1877 oil:
Alfred Thompson Bricher - "A Quiet Day near Manchester", 1873 oil:
J.M.W. Turner - "Approach to Venice", 1844 oil:
It was then time for lunch:
Jackson Pollock - "Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)", 1950 oil:
Before I leave The National Gallery of Art, there are some more beauties I want to remember and share:
Claude Monet - "The Japanese Footbridge", 1899 oil:
Winslow Homer - "Sparrow Hall", c. 1881-82 oil:
Pablo Picasso - "Nude Woman", 1910 oil:
Salvador Dali - "The Sacrament of the Last Supper", 1955 oil:
As you may have noticed above, I kept MapMyWalk on all day - it gives a fun map of me at The National Gallery of Art:
It was also nice to see that they "spruced up" the Rotunda area, from 2014 to now:
So I made my way north a few blocks, to the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Compare-and-contrast:
Andrew Wyeth - "Dodges Ridge", 1947 tempera:
Thomas Moran - "Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone", 1900 oil:
And some beauties not shown before:
Samuel Colman - "Storm King on the Hudson", 1866 oil:
Sanford Robinson Gifford - "Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid", 1866 oil:
The architecture is as BEAUTIFUL as always:
And I had fun with MapMyWalk:
I walked back to the garage, picked up my car at 2:30, and headed back to the Super 8 (a lot of Friday afternoon traffic). 67 miles driving today - Dinner at Five Guys. Thank you God for this Wonderful Adventure Day!
Music for today:
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits, 1974
Neil Young - Hitchhiker, recorded 1976, released 2017
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow, 1985
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine/New York:
hyperlink: dixonheadingnorth
http://dixonheadingnorth.blogspot.com/
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