Audubon at the Currier, Manchester. NH

What a jewel of a museum!  First of all, it is small enough to be a wonderful days visit, and the permanent collection is as good a representative of great art (and great artists) as a small museum can be.  I mean, Picasso, Bierstadt, Hopper, great glass, and wonderful special exhibitions like the current Audubon exhibit of mostly animals, (with a few of his great birds thrown in).  And a representative of his son, John Woodhouse, who was enormously talented in his own right.  So here is a few shots from a visit with Susan and my sister Barbara, and husband, Bell Humm.

The entrance, Barbara and Bill waiting.

John James Audubon
Grey Fox

John James Audubon
Common American Wild Cat (Bobcat)

John James Audubon
Canada Lynx
(Look at the size of those paws!)

 

John James Audubon
American Red Fox

Goerge Catlin
Attacking the Grizzly Bear

Charles F Goodhue
Red Fox

John James Audubon
Texan Lynx

John James Audubon
Barred Owl

John James Audubon
Jaguar

John James Audubon
Rough-legged Hawk

Richard Estes
Qualicraft Shoes, 1974
A recent acquisition of the Currier.
A painting you can spend quite some time gazing in awe.

Jere Osgood
Spring Desk 1996
My father, a wood worker, would love this.

Looking into the courtyard/cafe

Walt Kuhn
Lancer 1939
What a great personality she must have been!

Albert Bierstadt
Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire
Oh! To be able to paint like that!

Second Floor Gallery
There is no better art museum of its size that I know of.
Something from almost every genre and period
Lacking only a huge representation of ancient art.