Peabody-Essex with Mark Slawson

     Mark Slawson had not been to the PEM is years, and so we took up a trip up and enjoyed the "Passion for American Art" exhibit, some John Thomson's photos along the Min River in China, and a lot of the great permanent exhibits, many of which I've presented in this blog before, but still give me such pleasure.
     I guess, more that anything, I see the wood, glass, porcelain and oils and still stand awe-struck by the inspirations that created the art, and the exalted techniques that brought them to us.  And not to be discounted are the people who had the foresight to conserve, and present, such greatness.

     Here we go.

Cicada Cabinet, 2006

Brian Newell

detail of above

African Blackwood Vessel, 2002

Matthew Hatala

Mega Megaplanet, 1999

Josh Simpson

Steps to Illusion, 1990s

Martin Rosol
How strikingly beautiful can a glass object be?

Pod

From the Kentucky Series, 2000

Marvin Lipofsky

Seven Deadly Sins: 2003: Envy

Russell Biles

Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony

detail, above

Dressing chest, about 1810

Thomas Seymour

detail, above

Center Table, 1869

attributed to Israel Fellows

detail of above

detail of above

Portsmouth Doorway, 1910

Abbott Fuller Graves

Sunset on the Marshes, 1867

Martin Johnson Heade

Mount Washington from the Intervale, 1873

John Ross Key

Portrait with Circle Cloth, 1999

Jane Smaldone

Portrait of Marjorie Saltonstall, 1916

Marie Danforth Page

Portrait of George Crowninshield Jr. 1816

Attributed to Samuel F.B. Morse

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton  1792

John Trumbull

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1840

Charles Osgood

Painting:

East Headland, Appledore, Isles of Shoals  1911

Miniature ceramics, 17th, 18th century

View of Shanghai Bund, 1857

Attributed to Chow Qwa

detail above

Orchid and Hummingbirds near a Mountain Lake  1875-90

Martin Johnson Heade

Approaching Storm, 1871

Francis Augustus Silva

Ship under Full Sail, Storm Clouds, 1851

Fitz Henry Lane

Low-back settee, Music Stand

Sam Maloof

A Pine Raft, Min River

John Thomson

Yuen-Fu Monastery

John Thomson

Island Pagoda

John Thomson

Six-panel screen depicting the Sumiyoshi Festival, Edo period, 1660

Six Artists in Kyoto workshop

detail of above

details, Japanese collection