Clark Institute (2)

Here is some other art I am particularly fond of at the Clark.  I've probably blogged some of this art before, but forgive me for that, I just tend to gravitate to certain things.
I hope you enjoy the art.

Jan Gossaert

Flemish  1472-1532

Anna van Bergen

1526-30

detail

Susan and

Mary Cassatt  

American  1844-1926

Child with Red Hat

1904

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Spanish, 1841-1920

Reverie-The Letter

1870's

Giovanni Boldini

Italian 1842-1931

Return of the Fishing Boats, Etretat

1879

This painting is extraordinary.  It is only slightly larger than this image (6x9 perhaps?)

I can't imagine the size of the brush and the patience!!

When you google "Boldini" you find huge amounts of portraits and figures, but its his landscapes I love.

Plate, paste porcelain, Lippert & Haas, Manufactory

painted by Zacharias Quast

(Look at the insects trying to crawl out of the plate!)

Jacob van Ruisdael

Dutch 1628/9-1682

Landscape with Bridge, Cattle and Figures

c. 1660

Gotta show a Ruisdael, somehow. 

Sevres Procelain Manufactory  

Plate, hard-paste porcelain, c. 1845

Johan Barthold Jongkind

Dutch  1819-1891

Frigates

c. 1850-55

Another favorite

Phillippe-Joseph Brocard

French, died 1896

Mosque Lamp

c. 1880

The famous very decorated piano in the main salon. 

I couldn't find the write-up, sorry.

I remember that the Clark had an enormous Asian rug under this piano, a spectacular piece with

enormous calligraphy figures going around the entire edge.  I enquired about it, but evidently it was 

becoming so worn, that it had to be removed.  

Jean-leon Gerome

French, 1824-1904

Snake Charmer

c. 1879

Gerome's attention to the detail of every square inch of this large painting, his phenomenal technique, 

and his disturbing subject matter, all combine for both amazement, and questioning. 

Soft porn disguised as art in the 19th. century?

detail of above. 

Claude Monet

French, 1840-1925

The Cliffs at Etretat

1885

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French, 1841-1919

Sleeping Girl

1880

This could be my favorite Renoir.

And that bare shoulder!
She is far more erotic than any of his nudes!

And this great detail:

Detail

Maker unknown

English, 18th. century

"Japanned" Bureau Cabinet

Joseph Mallord William Turner

English, 1775-1851

Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand)

to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water

1840

It's hard to believe the date of this painting!  Can you imagine how un-acceptable this must have been

to the contemporary arbitrators of art?  Truly a glimpse of the future of art. 

Clark Institute, Williamstown (1)

On our trip out to western MA, we took two days on our own before joining Barbara and Bill to witness Sam's Bar Mitzvah.  The Clark Institute had an exhibition entitled "Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900" and it was wonderful.  Here is the first of several blogs from the museums, including MoCA and Worchester A.M.

The building and environment of the Clark Institute are magnificent.

Upon entering the Clark, the first exhibition you see is iron art, exceptional pieces of 

decorative art, rescued from Paris during Haussmann's renewal during the 19th. century. 

This is a door to a household safe.  Notice the flintlock pistol incorporated into it

which would explode to warn the owners of the door being tampered with. 

Anna Ancher

Judgement of a Day's Work

  1881

The beginning of the main exhibition.  It is a great tribute to the artistry  of many woman artists who were banned

from exhibiting in the upper levels of art exhibitions of the time, but who were able to paint, and exhibit, on their own. 

Louise Breslau

The Friends 

 1884

Louise Breslau

Tea at Five o'clock   1883

Mary Cassatt

Child Picking a Fruit

1893

Marie Bracquemond

Three Women with Parasols

(The Three Graces)

c.1880

Marie Bracquemond

On the Terraced at Sevres

1880

Marie Bracquemond

The Woman in White

1880

It say a lot about the final recognition of this treat artist that this 

is now hanging in the Musee d'Orsay.  What a splendid work!  And that dress!

Cecilia Beaux

Sita and Sarita

(Woman with a Cat)

1893-4

Sita is the cat.

Elin Danielsom-Gambogi

Girl and Kittens in a Summer Landscape

1892

There was a large Scandinavian representation in the exhibition

Marianne Stokes

Death and the Maiden

1908

T.C.Cannon exhibition, PEM

Tommy Wayne Cannon, known as "T C Cannon" was an American Indian artist, born in the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma.  His Kiowa name, Pai-doung-a-day, means "One Who Stands in the Sun". He was born on September 27, 1946, and died tragically in an automobile accident in Santa Fe, NM on May 8, 1978, at age 31.  A painter and printmaker, song writer and  poet, he became famous for his almost op-art pictures of American Indian culture.  He joined the 101st Airborne Division, and served in Viet Nam from 1967 to 1968, earning two bronze stars.  He also was inducted into the Black Leggings Society, the traditional Kiowa warriors' society. He was inducted into the National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians.

Barbara brought to my attention this exhibit, which was at the Peabody-Essex Museum, and it was a very emotional experience to visit.  His sense of color could almost be linked to Mark Rothko, it was so mesmerizing. And the history!  The American Indians provided the armed forces during the Viet Nam conflict with the largest percentage of soldiers than any other ethnic group in America.  This for a country which treated them throughout our history worse than any other ethnic group.

Here are some of the artworks.  The landscape and skies remind of the Canadian artist Lawren Harris.

Two Guns Arikara

Beef Issue at Fort Hill

The US government provided beef, often rancid, to the Indians, who were often at starvation levels, to coerce them to 

accept white religion and culture. 

Cloud Madonna

A Remembered Muse (Tosca)

I would love to think what these two women think of Puccini!

Waiting for the Bus (Anadarko Princess)

Hopi with Manta

Collector #2

(Note the Van Gogh in the background)

All the Tired Horses in the Sun

Collector #3

Indian with Beaded Headdress

Rain Priest

His Hair Flows Like a River

Those Close to the Heart of God

Self-Portrait in the Studio

I can't find any reference to him having ever been displayed at the Guggenheim. 

Their mistake.