Harvard Art Museum

Barbara and Bill's first visit to the new Harvard Art Museum coincided with meeting up with
Bruce and I in Cambridge.  She was particularly interested in an exhibit on animal-shaped vessels, and it was fascinating.
The HAM is a small but very perceptive collection of a few masterpieces by most of the great artists of the 19th. and 20th. centuries.  It must be a great teaching museum because of its huge range of arts represented.  It is a great day's visit.

Stirrup-spout bottle in the form of a puma attacking a prisoner

Peru, 350-850 CE

Beaker with the forepart of a crested and winged lion

Iranian, 6th century BCE

Amphora pitcher with monster-shaped handles

Achaemenid, 480 BCE  Bulgaria

detail of above

Lion-headed mug

Attributed to Douris

Greek, Attic, early 5th. century BCE

Rhyton with the forepart of a griffin

Achaemenid, 5th-6th century BCE

Diana and stag automaton

Joachim Fries c. 1610-20 CE

This was a wine server, which rolled around the table offering wines to guests

Ram head mug depicting a symposium

Attributed to the Syriskos Painter

Greek, Attic, c. 460-470 BCE

Rhyton  with the forepart of a zebu bull

Seleucid or Parthian 2nd. cent. BCE

Iznik tile

How delightful to find some Gustave Moreau.  When Barbara and I visited the Moreau museum in 

Paris, it was a revelation. 

Joseph and the Angel

Salome

and a Canaletto!

Paul Klee

"Dried Up Cataract"  1930

detail

Wassily Kandinsky

"Jocular Sounds"  1929

Fangyi Wine Vessel 

Chinese 

Shang or Zhou period

10th - 11th. century  BCE

Paul Klee

"Hot Pursuit"  1939

Bruce's Visit

Terrific time with Bruce visiting with us for four days.  Among the highlights, visiting the Harvard Art Museum (next blog), visiting the Fuller Craft Museum, visiting with Scott and family, and a walk at Pratt Farm.

Bruce at Pratt Farm

The exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum

"Beckoning Cat"

Bruce and a hand-made tuna knife

"Yo no bi" (Beauty in use)

Iwakuta Youji

Wall Calligraphy

detail of tuna knife

Tea ceremony box

Wooden tub and utensils for simmered tofu

bento box presentation

the entire thing, including food, is plastic

Assorted chopstick rests

Soba noodle knife

and on to more at the museum

"Street Glyph 2, 2017"

Jennifer Davies

"Got Eggs?"

Mary-Ellen Latino

detail of above

"Ballad of Blossom Sweet" 2011

Tommy Simpson

"Joseph's Coat IV" 1995

Caron Cohen

"Untitled Bowl" 2013

This bowl is ceramic (!)

Eric Serritella

"Feather Boxes" 2017

Miriam Carpenter

These are feathers carved out of wood.

and on to an exhibit of fashion and jewelry of "discomfort"

"Snake Glove" 2014

Leah Aripotch

"Study of Snapping Turtles" necklace  2000

David Freda

"ROR: Release on Recognizance"

(Rosary of Rounds)  2016)

Boris Bally (with Irene LaVon Walder)

"I Said No!" 2010

Nancy Worden

and a visitor on a window at the museum,

a work of art in itself. 

Bruce at Pratt Farm.

While we were visiting Scott in Bridgewater, a tornado siren sounded, 

and I hurried out to see if I could get a photo, but no tornado. 

This is the Taunton River