Here are some further pictures from the MFA trip of yesterday.  I have taken some of these photos before, but I tend to gravitate back to the art I love, and their is so much there to love.

Warren Prosperi (Am. B.1949)
Museum Epiphany III
2012

William Stanley Haseltine  (1835-1900)
A View from Mount Desert
1861
 

Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865)
Boston Harbor
about 1850-55
When did Fitz Hugh Lane become Fitz Henry Lane?

Martin Johnson Heade  (1819-1904)
Passion Flowers and Hummingbirds
about 1870-88
A perfect example of why I need to go to Peru, where there are
1800 species of birds (one fifth the known species in the world), and there are over
100 species of Hummingbirds alone.

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933)
Hanging Head Dragonfly Table Lamp
C. 1905-10

William Merritt Chase (1848-1933)
Still Life-Fish (detail)
about 1860

John Singer Sargent  (1856-1925)
Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood)
and Her Daughter Rachel (detail)
1903
 

100 Gun Ship-of-the-line
The builder would have made this model before the Admiralty Board would
approve the construction. 

John James Audubon
Blue Jay
The following is Audubon's notes about the Blue Jay

Long-billed Curlew

Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Now believed extinct, the Ivory-bill was claimed to have been sighted (a video was produced)
but current thinking is that the video was a Pileated.  The last officially-approved sighting was in 1944.
There is a wonderful documentary called "Ghostbird" about the furor over the sighting

Feather Pelerine
This was worn over dresses
made by native Indians about 1830-60

Susan, Jack and Anne Ricco ready for the ride home.