The Turner exhibition at Mystic Seaport Museum

It was everything the critics said it was, an almost overwhelming collection of mostly water colors from the Tate Museum, London, and only visiting the US at Mystic.  Very large crowds every day
of the exhibit, I was told, and no wonder.  The chance to see these artworks, some very early, some very unlike what we think of with Turner, and a few of the great oils to gaze at in wonder.
Here are just a few examples.

JMW Turner Exhibition

Loch Long, Morning

c.1801

Durham Cathedral: The Interior, 

Looking East along the South Aisle

1797-8

Holy Island Cathedral

C. 1806-7

Arundel Castle, on the River Arun

c.1824

Dryburgh Abbey

c.1832

Jumieges

c.1832

Venice Quay, Ducal Palace

Exhibited 1844

Venice: An Imaginary View of the Arsenale

c.1840

A Shipwreck in a Stormy Sea

1823

Stormy Sea with Dolphins

c. 1835-40

Whitby

1824

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice,

Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves

1846

One of the few huge oils included in the show.

(The blue spot in the middle is an unfortunate reflection from behind).

(detail)

(detail)

Blog 2 Sub museum. Lyman Allyn

Sunday consisted of visiting the Sub Museum, home to the "Nautilus", the first nuclear powered sub, and in between, having lunch with Todd and Karna Millen, he a former student, and now teaching music at a private school, and Karna plays trombone with the US Coast Guard Band.

It is a wonderful museum, vastly improved over the former site, and 

Susan and I had the whole sub to ourselves. 

Lyman Allyn Museum

"Interior" 1931

Wanda Gag

"Zenaida Dove"

John Audubon

"Landscape with Cows"  1883

William Hart

"Peaceable Kingdom"  1950

Fritz Eichenberg

"Singing Man" 

Ernst Barlach

"Still Life with Flowers"  

Jean Baptiste Belin de Fontenay the Elder

"Still Life with Fruit, Shells, and Shrimp"

Attributed to Cornelius de Heem

"Still Life"

"Classical Roman Landscape"

Jan Frans van Bloemen

"Interior of the Pantheon, Rome"

after Giovanni Paolo Panini

Unfortunately, so much of the permanent European art was "Attributed to" or

"from the circle of".

I must, must see this building before I die. 

"Young Boy with a Dog"

attributed to Sir Peter Lely

"Mother and Child" (detail)

attributed to Wybrand de Geest

The Tiffany collection is truly wonderful

Here are some examples

"View of the Coast of Morocco"  1870

Louis Comfort Tiffany

"The Catskills, Toward Evening"  1870

George Inness

More Tiffany

"Primrose"

Alfonse Maria Mucha

More Tiffany

"Chubb"  1944

Beatrice Cuming 

"Abigail Dolbeare Hinman"

Daniel Huntington

(This is her getting ready to take aim at Benedict Arnold, the traitor, but

unfortunately the gun miss-fired.)

"The Green Meadow"  1919

Willard L. Metcalf

"Church on the Hill"

Guy C. Wiggins

"Mount Etna from Taormina, Sicily

 1844

Thomas Cole

"New England Landscape"

Frederic Edwin Church

"On the Bowery"

Reginald Marsh

"Untitled"

Louise Nevelson

Todd Millen and Oskar

Also at lunch was Karna, and girls Ingred and Anika