Bass Trombone Wauchope: August 2023

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Jackson and Oliver, Whaling Museum, Fuller Craft Museum

What a cool visit here with Jackson and Oliver visiting, Susan taking Oliver shopping for his dorm at Skidmore, where he is a freshman this fall.

Jackson and I took off and visited the very splendid New Bedford Whaling Museum, and then the next day all of us visited the Fuller Craft Museum, always an entertaining look at very talented people doing very interesting and unique art works.

The blog.

Jackson on the "Lagoda", a one-half size ship model of a whale ship. The largest ship model in the world, it is a great, great exhibit.

South Pacific war clubs, etc.

Panorama of New Bedford

Charles Sydney Raleigh
Bark Veronica of New Bedford, c. 1860

Jackson, Right Whale skeleton

Anonymous
Jonah Cast Overboard

Willy Makrozhirski
Saluting the Sailors, Port of Odessa, Black Sea
1958

Joyce J Scott
Mz. Teapot 2021
An exhibition of Scott's bead artworks at the Fuller

Bib Necklace 2012

Amy Genser
Shifting
Huge installation at the Fuller

Tom Eckert
Colt 2018
This is a wood (!) sculpture of a cloth covering a Colt pistol.

Carol Long
Hare in Poppies and Iris 2022
An exhibition at the Fuller celebrating the Chinese year of the Hare

Jan Huling
Dudaway 2022

Kelsey Brown
Let's Go Back 2023

A few photos from a walk at Burrage Wildlife Sanctuary

Friday, August 11, 2023

The great Clark Institute Art Museum, Williamstown, MA

A not-to-be-missed collection of great artworks by so many important artists. The Homer collection is worth a visit alone.

I've visited the Clark a number of times, and seeing so much of it is like visiting old friends. And the collection of silver, dinnerware, etc. is spectacular.

I will have presented a lot of this before, but, well, here goes.

Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910
West Point, Prout's Neck 1900
Sterling Clarke thought Homer was America's greatest artist.

Winslow Homer
Eastern Point 1900

detail

Winslow Homer
Sleigh Ride c.1890-95
A very strange painting indeed. And I would not be at all surprised if
Andrew Wyeth was familiar with it.

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Spanish 1841-1920
My apologies, I lost the title to this really charming painting.

detail of above

Madrazo was part of a large and very influential family of artists; one uncle was head of
the Prado Museum.

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Woman with a Parrot c.1872

detail of above

Remarkable. The artist (unknown) painted each insect with a shadow, increasing the realism, and
allowing some to seem to crawl over the edge of the center depression.

Johan Barthold Jongkind
Dutch 1819-1891
Frigates c. 1850-55
Oh, to be able to create such a work!

Eugene Boudin
French 1824-1898
Plougastel, the Ferry Crossing 1873
This somehow reminds me a great deal of the painting of a scene in Florida
which our parents owned and which now resides in our bedroom.

Part of the vast silver collection

Vincenzo Gemito
Italian 1852-1929
Giuseppe Verdi 1873

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
Confidences c. 1870

detail of above

Francois-Joseph Navez
Belgian 1887-1869
Musical Group 1921

detail
The face reminds me of that fierce woman in
Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People"

below.

Master of the Foliated Tappestry
C. 15th. Cent.
This is a small painting, roughly the size of a letter, but it is filled with such detail: most of the
areas shown below are perhaps a square inch.
Master, indeed!