Susan and I try to visit any art museum in the area if we have time, and on Sunday afternoon, after the farewell breakfast (see blog 3), we went to the Asheville Art Museum, and saw a very rewarding collection of glass, and contemporary art worthy of any museum.
I really enjoyed these!
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| Yaffa & Jeff Todd "Glenn Ayer Forest"1986 |
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| Robert Levin "Curved Goblet" 1993 |
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| Richard Ritter "Floral Core Series #108" 2006 |
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| Shave Fero "Miro Bluebird" 2006 (Great title!) |
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| Richard Ritter "Vase" 1971 |
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| Harvey K. Littleton "Lemon/Cranberry/Lyrical Movement" 1989 |
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| Jess Dugan "Sky, 64, and Mike, 55, Palm Springs, Ca." (from the To Survive on This Shore series, 2017) |
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| John Coplans "Interlocking Finger, No. 17" 2000 |
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| Leon Niehues (born Seneca) "Basket No. 3" 2004 |
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| David Sengel "Putting Our Heads Together" 2007 |
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| Michelle Holzapfel "Linenfold" 1989 |
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| George Inness Sr. "Evening on the Hudson" 1886 |
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| Childe Hassam "The Old Elm" 1916 |
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| Harry LeRoy Taskey "Twilight for the Old Mill" c.1935 (I immediately thought of your recent work, Barbara) |
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| Pisgah Forest Pottery Walter B. Stephen Mug, 1949 |
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| James Ormsbee Chapin "Nine Workman" 1942-45 |
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| detail of above |
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| Arshile Gorky "Time is Running Out" 1936 (This is about the way I felt half-way up the Craggy Gardens Trail!) |
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| Dorothy Cole Ruddick Untitled, c. 1980 |
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| detail of above |
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| detail of above |
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| Lawrence Mazzanovich "Landscape of Mt. Pisgah" not dated |
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| Pisgah Pottery |
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| Stone Roberts, (born Asheville, 1952) "Lemons, Lilies and Gourds" 1986-87 |
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| Red Grooms "Traffic!" 1999 |
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| sideview of above |
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| detail of above |
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| Mab Graves "Ewok Village: A New Arrival" 2024 |
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| Todd Schorer "The Hidden Neanderthal" 2011 |
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| Beau Stanton "Psychic Tug" 2022 |
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| Jakeli Swimmer "EGWA: The Gluttonous Warrior" 2020 (I burst into laughter) |
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| Roxy Peroxyde (great name!) "Through the Grapevine" 2022 (Roxy's take on Caravaggio's "the Sick Bacchus") (and what superb technical skills!) So, Don, and everybody else who could be in the area, I heartedly suggest you visit this wonderful and adventurous museum. I certainly will again! |
