Oliver at the Harvard Natural History Museum

 I stayed with Oliver, my second grandson, while Ken and Erin went to New York to celebrate her 50th. birthday.  Oliver suggested the Harvard Nat. Hist Museum, and I was delighted. There is something there for almost everyone's interest. 

from the glass collection: Curled Octopus  Eledone cirrhosa

glass also: Black-margined Nudibranch
Doriprismatica afromarginata

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Indian Cobra

Splendid Quetzal!

Jackson at the MFA

 It has been quite a while since I have done a blog, and I am delighted to catch up with one of the pleasures of my life, visiting a museum with a grandchild.

Jackson was home from Skidmore, and so we invited him down overnight, and then had a great time at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  Here are a few pictures of new art to me, and some old favorites.

Frank Bowling was a new artist to me, and the exhibition was very well done, and probably as good a representation as one would hope for.

Looking West Again

2020

Suncrush
1976

                                                                         

Corinna's Adam
1974

Rupununi
1971

Doughlah G.E.P.
1968-71

Mother's House and Night Storm
1967

Untitled (Mother's House)
1966

detail

The Cy Twombly exhibit spent a great deal of time showing the contribution of ancient artifacts to his work, and quite frankly, I found the artifacts a hell of a lot more interesting.  Sorry, that's just the way I am.  Surely craft counts for something?

Decree by the city Stratonikeia for Judge 
Amynamenos fron Assos
Greek, after 166 BCE

Cy+Relics
Robert Rauschenberg, photo, 1952

Twombly in Italy

Blue Ridge Mountains Transfixed by a Roman Piazza 
1962
Really? Honest to God?

Il Parnasso
1964

Head of Plato
Roman, mid-3rd century CE

This is probably Paphos, possibly? Well, it must be!

Leda and the Swan
Greek, early 4th century BCE

Untitled, 1988

I'd probably find difficulty titling this too.

Perhaps something phallic?  Yeah, probably.

Death of Pompey
1962
Actually, there is something about this......
The color of the blood is about right, and, and,.....

Mark Peiser
ISO90
1983

A particular favorite

Vincent van Gogh
Houses at Auvers
1890
Oh, Thank God!

Is there anything better than seeing a grandchild enjoying art?

                                           And he admired some of the Twombly.  Some.                                               

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Dante and Virgil
(detail)

Caneletto
Bocino de San Marco, Venice
Gottta have one Caneletto

A great test for a I Phone camera!

Sebastiano Ricci
Phineas and the Sons of Boreas
spectacular small-scale painting

Tray
France, Sinceny manufactory, 1750

Have to have one piece of Islamic Art

The Marlborough Gem
About the sized of a quarter