Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Jan 17, 2025

Friday, Jan 17, 2025 - I wanted to have a "Date Day" with my beautiful bride, so last week I grabbed Library Passes to the MFA for today. NOTE: the phrase "Library Pass" refers to a credit-card piece of paper that the Library used to give you, which was torn out of perforated sheets of paper. You handed it to The Museum, and they let you in at a discounted price (or free!). You could also be given a larger paper in a plastic sheath, which you returned to The Library after your Museum visit. Now a days, you are sent an email, which you open and click on a link, which takes you to a page that you print and give to The Museum.

It was easy driving in after my Step Class (and shower-shave-and-shine). We parked and walked around to the front:

The Library Passes allowed us in at a discounted price ($10 per person), but also included EXHIBITIONS, so we saw their "Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore" Exhibition (it closes Jan 20, 2025):

Georgia O'Keeffe - "Ram's Head, Blue Morning Glory", 1938 oil (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM):

Henry Moore - "Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae", 1968 bronze (Tate Modern, London, U.K.):

For lunch, we went to the downstairs cafeteria - it was perfect! After lunch it was time to head back into The Museum.

Today's trip was inspired by two things: take photos of art that I have not seen before (6 pieces), and take "new photos" of pieces that I had photographed with my old camera-phone (40 pieces). New Art includes:

Martin Johnson Heade - "South American River", 1868 oil:

Eugène Louis Boudin - "Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from San Giorgio", 1895 oil:

"Comparison Photos (Old-then-New)" include:

Robert Scott Duncanson - "Dog's Head of Scotland", 1870 oil. Old photo was taken April 18, 2019:

Albert Bierstadt - "Valley of the Yosemite", 1864 oil. Old photo was taken April 18, 2019:

Thomas Cole - "View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains", 1827 oil. Old photo was taken Dec 3, 2015:

Giovanni Paolo Pannini - "Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome", 1757 oil. Old photo was taken Dec 3, 2015:

We left The Museum a little after 2 PM. I like the look of the whole 2.2-miles:

Thank You God for this wonderful art/adventure day!

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