The MFA and "Monet and Boston" exhibit

 Dropping Susan off at her medical appointment, I drove over to the MFA, and visited for the first time since 2019.  I secured a timed entrance into the Monet exhibit, and was treated to one of the best collection I've seen at the MFA.  It was themed with how the MFA acquired many of it's unique collection, and paired many of them with art by Millet, Rodin, and Japanese prints.      The exhibit is there through October 17th.  

I brought only my 50mm 1.4mm Sigma "Art" lens, which is turning out to be as
versatile a lens as one could have.  

Above the stairway, Huntington Entrance.

Ekua Holme
"Idyll of the South: Root of Jesse"  2012

Ekua Holme
"Idyll of the South: Portrait of Aunt Mary"  2012

Claude Monet
"Rue de la Bavole, Honfleur"  1864

Claude Monet
"Ships in a Harbor"  1873

So many of these Monets were new to me. 

Claude Monet
"Cliffs of the Petites Dalles"  1880

Claude Monet
"The Seine at Lavacourt"  1878

Claude Monet
"Late Afternoon, Vetheuil" 1880

Utagawa Hiroshige I
"Boat Landing on the Canal"  1852
When Barbara, Sally, Neal and I visited Giverny, Monet's house and garden,
the house was filled with dozens of Japanese prints. 

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)
"Grape Arbor (Budo Tana)" 1827

Keisai Eisen
"Standing Courtesan"  1830

Claude Monet
"Valley of the Petite Creuse"  1889

Auguste Rodin
"Psyche"  1899

Claude Monet
"Morning on the Seine, near Giverny"  1896

A few things on the way out:

Kreg Kallenberger
"Osage Series - View from Saddleback Ridge" 1990
How well I remember this piece from the now legendary show of  glass sculpture at the MFA.
Many of those pieces became part of the MFA's permanent collection. This piece is about
two feet wide, and the detail of the landscape is photographic.  A masterpiece. 

Joseph Tetteh-Ashong (known as Paa Joe)
from Ghana
"Eagle Coffin"
This piece, I think, is new to me (how could one forget?).
Enormous, about 7 feet long.

Jan Brueghel, the Elder
"Village Scene with a Canal"  1609
A tiny work, about 8X10" but what mastery of such a small space.  
This is oil on copper.

Wadsworth A. Jarrell
"Revolutionary (Angela Davis)  1972
This is huge, about 3X4 feet. 

A view into the courtyard.

It is such a blessing to live in an area where artworks of every conceivable style are
available within an hour's drive.