Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Tappan-Hayes reunion blog 4 The Asheville Art Museum

 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!

Yaffa & Jeff Todd
"Glenn Ayer Forest"1986



Robert Levin
"Curved Goblet" 1993



Richard Ritter
"Floral Core Series #108" 2006



Shave Fero
"Miro Bluebird" 2006
(Great title!)



Richard Ritter
"Vase" 1971



Harvey K. Littleton
"Lemon/Cranberry/Lyrical Movement"  1989



Jess Dugan
"Sky, 64, and Mike, 55, Palm Springs, Ca."
(from the To Survive on This Shore series, 2017)


 

John Coplans
"Interlocking Finger, No. 17" 2000




Leon Niehues (born Seneca)
"Basket No. 3" 2004



David Sengel
"Putting Our Heads Together" 2007




Michelle Holzapfel
"Linenfold" 1989



George Inness Sr.
"Evening on the Hudson" 1886



Childe Hassam
"The Old Elm"  1916


Harry LeRoy Taskey
"Twilight for the Old Mill"  c.1935
(I immediately thought of your recent work, Barbara)



Pisgah Forest Pottery
Walter B. Stephen
Mug, 1949



James Ormsbee Chapin
"Nine Workman" 1942-45



detail of above

Arshile Gorky
"Time is Running Out"  1936
(This is about the way I felt half-way up the Craggy Gardens Trail!)



Dorothy Cole Ruddick
Untitled, c. 1980



detail of above

detail of above

Lawrence Mazzanovich
"Landscape of Mt. Pisgah"  not dated



Pisgah Pottery


Stone Roberts, (born Asheville, 1952)
"Lemons, Lilies and Gourds"  1986-87



Red Grooms
"Traffic!" 1999

sideview of above

detail of above






Mab Graves
"Ewok Village: A New Arrival"  2024



Todd Schorer
"The Hidden Neanderthal" 2011



Beau Stanton
"Psychic Tug"  2022



Jakeli Swimmer
"EGWA: The Gluttonous Warrior" 2020
(I burst into laughter)





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!




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