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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I want to wish Betty and my fellow board members a very Merry Xmas and I hope some of you who haven’t supported Betty’s in the past will consider a donation over the Holidays so Betty really has a merry Xmas.
It’s not especially cold but it’s been a damp, dank miserable day weather wise. I’ll be driving to the Jersey shore on Monday to spend Xmas with my friends and I’m hoping the forecast for some snow in the morning turns out to be incorrect, I really hate driving in bad weather. But I’m looking forward to spending time with people I’m very fond of.
This week I was at the Met for their current David Hockney exhibit. Hockney is someone whose paintings I’ve seen at auctions but he isn’t an artist I’ve followed. He’s an Englishman who has spent many years in the United States and at 80 years of age has been creating art for six decades. He is gay and has expressed this in his paintings. This is a link to his Wikipedia biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney
He’s very prolific, the exhibit filled a number of galleries in chronological order and showed his progression through his different styles. His very earliest works are dark, muddy, abstract and fairly ugly as you can see from this.
Tyger Painting No 2
http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/david-hockney/13114
His subsequent paintings were more representational but still rather crude in my opinion.
The Hypnotist
http://www.680news.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/2/2017/02/06/LMD115-26_2017_085831_hd.jpg
He visited California in 1963 and painted images he saw there.
A Bigger Splash
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-a-bigger-splash-t03254
A Lawn Being Sprinkled
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/h/hockney/sprinkle.jpg.html
He painted portraits of friends.
Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
https://gerryco23.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/hockney-christopher-isherwood-and-don-bachardy-1968.jpg
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-mr-and-mrs-clark-and-percy-t01269
Wikipedia explains Hockney’s next phase. In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages, which he called "joiners" first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed colour prints. Using Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Because the photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has an affinity with Cubism, one of Hockney's major aims—discussing the way human vision works.
Don and Christopher
https://photomuserh.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/don-and-christopher.jpg
My Mother, Bolton Abbey
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/97/59/e9/9759e9a1fd5a3724e2b8f533e7b551d8.jpg
Pearblossom Hwy., 11 - 18th April 1986, #2
https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/09/gm_11257401_2000x2000-1024x703.jpg
There was a wall of his drawings which I found very nice.
Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater
https://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Ossie-Clark-720x872.jpg
Dr. Eugene Lamb, Lucca
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/25/c9/ea/25c9eacd176ee90b8af9fa90f7015ec6.jpg
Colin St. John Wilson. London. 16th June 1999
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/fc/9c/af/fc9caf60070b249d139faf5e88f2fbad.jpg
Andy, Paris, 1974
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/dc/28/86/dc288635c41a10ed34fd8831329c9184.jpg
His later works are very large, very bright and colorful paintings
The Road Across the Wolds
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/14/article-0-0F6FD36500000578-5_634x498.jpg
The Road to Thwing
http://primacy-of-your-eye.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/David-Hockney-The-Road-to-Thwing-2006.jpg
A Closer Winter Tunnel
https://www.artfund.org/gallery/800x450/assets/general-content/galleries/wintertunnel620.jpg
Once again the Met has chosen not to load the images from the exhibit as you can see from the varied websites to which I’ve linked the images above. Here’s a website with a bunch of images.
https://artssummary.com/2017/12/05/david-hockney-at-the-met-fifth-avenue-november-27-2017-february-25-2018/
Here’s the New York Times review with liberal illustrations
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/arts/design/david-hockney-art-review-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html?_r=0
This is a link to the Met press release.
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2017/david-hockney
This is a link to the Met overview page with a brief video.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/david-hockney
This was certainly, aside from the early works, a much more cheerful and pleasant exhibit than Munch and I enjoyed strolling through the galleries. The Holiday season is a busy time for the Met and the galleries were well attended but due to the enormous size of so many of the paintings getting a good view was never a problem. I have a better appreciation now for someone I knew so little about prior to the exhibit. I’ll certainly pay closer attention when I see his work in the future.
Now let’s see who’s at the Flickrs.
Andy G.
tallulahhh.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallulahhh/37858397602/
Experimentation in femininity...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137337412%40N02/26510236724/
IMG_3894-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134316048%40N06/36322856353/
Gold Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/39797176%40N06/37881605616/
IMG_5122-2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134316048%40N06/38180682281/
IMG_0003
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10792226%40N00/38157239022/
nov sissy d1 a
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pansy_the_sissy/38097619101/
Lucienne
https://www.flickr.com/photos/154583853%40N07/38028522556/
claudia!!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/41640018%40N06/8934556689/
IMGP1998a
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanied/35835640253/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Let me begin by wishing Betty and my friends on the board, as well as all the lurkers, a slightly early very Happy New Year. Hope it's a good one for everybody everywhere.
We remain in the deep freeze here in the Northeast, temperatures not getting out of the teens and feeling like single digits when the wind blows. Forecast calls for this to continue at least through this week. I continue to take my walks but I’m very glad when I finally get back home. Had another dusting of snow this morning which unfortunately was just enough to require my guy to come and move it. It’s hard for me to believe but it’s one year since I retired. Like so much of my life it passed very quickly but I certainly enjoy being retired and don’t regret the decision at all.
This week I took the long walk up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to see the exhibition Modigliani Unmasked. It’s an exhibit of his early drawings and when I queried my brother about it he said he didn’t think he would go as the drawings weren’t anything special. But I’m always looking for venues to visit and I decided I would check this one out. In addition to the drawings were sculptures and paintings and the paintings more than made the visit a success. The drawings were done in anticipation of his sculptures and were very simple and repetitive. Many of the drawings and paintings came from the collection of Paul Alexandre. This is an old article from the UK newspaper The Independent which speaks of the discovery of a trove of 440 of Modigliani’s drawings, all of which were owned by Alexandre. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-market-mystery-of-the-modiglianis-a-cache-of-secret-drawings-has-been-discovered-in-paris-1453242.html Amadeo Modigliani was an Italian Jew who painted in the early years of the 20th Century. This is a long review of a previous exhibition which explores his Jewish identity, how the museum promoted it and whether it’s valid. http://www.zeek.net/art_0408.shtml This is a link to his Wikipedia page with many illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Modigliani#Jeanne_H%C3%A9buterne
This is representative of the many drawings for his sculpture heads.
https://tinyurl.com/yd6pavuk
And while not the head depicted in the drawing this is representative of the actual sculptures in the exhibit.
https://tinyurl.com/y8f4cc5f
There was a large drawing in watercolor and crayon of a caryatid. From the web I learned that a caryatid is a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building. Modigliani painted the one below which he gave to Jacob Epstein when they were friends in Paris together in 1912. Their intention was to set up a studio together and they dreamed of creating a Temple of Beauty, a vast temple dedicated to all mankind and held aloft by a series of stone caryatids which Modigliani named 'The Pillars of Tenderness'. This Rose Caryatid is from the Norton Simon museum
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Rose_Caryatid_1914_Amedeo_Modigliani.jpg
This is a watercolor of Maud Abrantes, a married woman who for a time was his mistress. She was American and returned to America supposedly carrying his baby but nothing further about her or the baby was ever recorded. The wall card noted his depictions of her emphasized her eyes and ineffable sadness.
http://www.modigliani-drawings.com/Maud%20Abrantes.htm
This painting, The Jewess, probably used Maud as a model.
https://tinyurl.com/yckzgz3g
Jeanne Hébuterne was his final lover. They lived together and she had his child but when they announced their engagement her family protested because he had a reputation of being a drug and alcohol abuser. When his diagnosis of tuberculosis was received the wedding was called off. Jeanne was pregnant with his second child when Modigliani died and she subsequently committed suicide the day after his funeral.
Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater
https://tinyurl.com/y77kk9w8
Portrait of Roger Dutilleul – This is a portrait of one of his patrons who unable to collect the works of more established artists acquired thirty-four paintings and twenty-one drawings of his, virtually ten percent of Modigliani’s late work.
https://tinyurl.com/y9pacaod
Portrait of Doctor Devaraigne – The doctor was probably a friend of his. The wall card said that when a subject’s features were particularly striking he would exaggerate them.
http://the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=1495
Hanka Zborowska – This is a portrait of the wife of the poet Leopold Zborowska who was also Modigliani’s last art dealer. The wall card noted it was also likely the first of 12 portraits he painted of Hanka. He usually made multiple copies of his portraits. This one is from a private collection as were several others on display which was another incentive to see the exhibit.
http://www.secretmodigliani.com/rastellini/45.jpg
Lunia Czechowska – This is the accompanying wall card to this painting. It speaks of her friendship with the Zborowska’s and also mentions his instantly recognizable long necks.
Modigliani saw himself primarily as a sculptor. Even when declining health forced him to abandon the medium, he continued to think, draw, and paint as one. Lunia Czechowska, a good friend of Leopold and Hanka Zborowski, became acquainted with the artist and emerged as one of his favorite models. Here, Modigliani suppresses descriptive identity in the service of a universalized presence: he graphically captures Czechowska’s aristocratic bearing, depicting her like an icon. Her smooth, ethereal features and exaggeratedly long neck emphasize the image’s sculptural quality.
http://the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=11824
This is a link to an installation view of the exhibit.
https://richardnathanson.co.uk/exhibitions/23/installation_shots/
This is a link to a video discussion of the exhibit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5c2RvFnVw
I’ve always enjoyed his portraits and this was a very enjoyable show which in addition to allowing me access to paintings in private collections also had material from venues I’ll probably never have a chance to visit.
Now let’s carefully walk across the ice pond to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
小美_17
https://www.flickr.com/photos/14650868@N07/4628051317/
Sweet & Innocent look
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cutiemaria/9931359404/
Ice Queen, little blue dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliapanther/24166879818/
Christina Naye's White Light Summer Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/naye_ts/23717518828/
TGirl_Nights_10-31-17Ben_967
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgirlnights/38151858616/
nov17 (248)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kbw456/26504926629/
Tsukiko-.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tsukiko/26575978199/
Glitter.23
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellystar518/25135344778/
maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/151092724@N08/38366791102/
Sissy maid or boy?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joannabitch/26617621579/
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As always andyg0404,
I love your adventures to the galleries and your posted comments and pictures. It is the only way I can keep in touch with the Art world other than with my computer. Oh and of course I love the flickr pics also as a way to escape my Male self and dream of what may come in the afterlife.
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Thanks Angela, let me reiterate that I hope the New Year is a good one for all of us.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Like Betty we here in New Jersey have been experiencing the ongoing polar freeze this week with our first snowstorm and remarkably cold weather. This morning the thermometer read 3 degrees when I went out for my walk and the wind chill brought it well below zero. It wasn’t quite as bad as it could be as the wind wasn’t really blowing although as I sit here typing this I can hear it howling. The morning of the snowstorm though it was so bad that I had to curtail my walk because the wind was freezing my face and the walking was treacherous. Looks like Tuesday will bring us some respite with temperatures in the 40’s.
I went back to the Metropolitan Museum this week. The museum has been in the news this week as they’ve instituted a fixed price admission fee for non-native New Yorkers. This would affect me if I wasn’t a member but I’ve had membership since 2000 when my brother gave me the first year as a gift. I certainly get my money’s worth based on the number of my visits during the year. There were two small exhibits, the first being in the drawing corridor. I usually find things to enjoy in the drawings show and there were some nice things in this one although it was hardly one of their better offerings. The first half of the exhibit was turned over to a contemporary artist, Matthew Day Jackson, and a group of his four-color, four-plate etchings, none of which particularly moved me. This is one: https://tinyurl.com/yaphr4so But there were other items from more established artists that caught my eye and I’ll mention a few.
James McNeill Whistler is an artist I’ve always enjoyed, both his full length portraits and his etchings. Childe Hassam as well. Below are four images, two by each artist. For each artist there are two versions of the etching, an unmarked image and another showing it after the plate had been cancelled. Artists cancel their plates when they’re finished making prints, this is done by scribing crosshatch or “X” lines across the plate to indicate that further impressions are not from the original edition and to discourage further prints being made. But images made from cancelled plates can still have value. I found a website which explains why images from cancelled plates might still be collectible.
Artists like Degas often produced very few impressions of a work before cancelling the plate. Later in life he gave about 20 cancelled plates to his dealer Ambroise Vollard for Vollard to publish an extended edition. Thus, the Vollard edition of Degas’ etchings from cancelled plates were the artist’s intent … hence they are good. Since impressions of Degas’ prints from the pre-cancelled state of the plate are more rare, and therefore much more expensive, collectors often purchase impressions from the cancelled plates. For many of these Degas etchings, the cancellation marks are not very obtrusive.
You can see that Whistler really defaced the plate while Hassam carefully inscribed his lines not to cover his face.
James McNeill Whistler - Nocturne
https://tinyurl.com/y8zzvmnf
Nocturne – Cancelled plate
https://tinyurl.com/yckerq9r
Childe Hassam – Self-Portrait
https://tinyurl.com/y7vdkzpl
Self-Portrait – Cancelled plate
https://tinyurl.com/y8rnug5q
Samuel Palmer – Sabrina – According to the website this bucolic watercolor depicts Sabrina, a legendary nymph of the River Severn who oversees drinking cattle. Sabrina comes from John Milton’s Comus and the painting replicates the dazzling effects of sunlight.
https://tinyurl.com/y8j2b9ac
Jost Amman - Procession of the Doge to the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, with a View of Venice, ca. 1565 – This large, roughly 6ft x 2.5ft, woodcut print is hard to appreciate on the small screen but there’s a lot going on to look at with all the people and the boats and the buildings. The website says the artist never visited Venice and probably based this on an earlier representation of the event.
https://tinyurl.com/y9hn43ql
Plate 1 from 'Los Caprichos': Self-portrait of Francisco Goya – Los Caprichos consists of 80 plates and I’ve been fortunate to have seen them in different exhibits. It’s always nice to come across them again, this was the only one in the corridor.
https://tinyurl.com/ycg3fnke
Manuel Salvador Carmona - Portrait of Pedro de Salvador Carmona and his wife María García – This etching caught my eye because of the trompe l’oeil effect of his showing the picture as appearing on another engraving, with curling edges that project toward the viewer.
https://tinyurl.com/yajsgr2y
Mariano Fortuny - Portrait of the painter Eduardo Zamacois seated at a table – I found this evocative of Rembrandt’s etchings and was also drawn to it by its bareness and simplicity.
https://tinyurl.com/yahcenqy
The second exhibit was Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs. De Meyer was a photographer of the early 20th Century who depicted celebrities as well as taking fashion photographs being the first official fashion photographer for the magazine Vogue. This is a link to the website with an overview and a link to all the images. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/quicksilver-brilliance
Josephine Baker in 1925-26 – Baker was a black entertainer and activist who had to go to France to find her fame and fortune. For copyright issues the image on the Met website can’t be enlarged but I found a larger version on Pinterest which is directly below the first link.
https://tinyurl.com/yaysns58
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/319896379756999378/
Lady Ottoline Morrell – Morrell was known mainly for her friendship with the Bloomsbury group of artists and writers, the most well-known of whom were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.
https://tinyurl.com/y8oc82vz
Olga de Meyer – His wife was a fashion and artist’s model modeling for Sargent and Whistler among others.
https://tinyurl.com/y9anvm62
Etienne de Beaumont – The Count was a French aristocrat, patron of the arts and collector. You can read about him at the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/y9sluf4s
https://tinyurl.com/ybf25m4c
So, no blockbusters but as with every visit to the Met there are always worthwhile things to seek out and admire.
Some time back I wrote about the wonderful drawing exhibit at the Morgan Library which consisted of the collection of Eugene V. and Clare Thaw. Preceded by his wife in June, Eugene passed away this week. This is a link to his obituary in the Times. I just read the newspaper and saw paid notices in the obituaries but not the actual obituary article. But when I Googled him I found the obituary which will be in the print edition tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/obituaries/eugene-v-thaw-dies-art-collector-and-dealer.html?_r=0
And now the Flickrs.
Andy G.
SHINY SISSY DRESS WITH MINCING RIBBONS
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22979184%40N05/19845000738/
leslie barloa
https://www.flickr.com/photos/147947699%40N04/36701359612/
French maid Louann
https://www.flickr.com/photos/empresslouann/14285948935/
PVC maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/46288322%40N08/36796686954/
Ready for inspection
https://www.flickr.com/photos/150101413%40N05/34408599985/
new141567-IMG_8074t
https://www.flickr.com/photos/49049803%40N00/38395809541/
Stefania Visconti
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefaniavisconti/38381001816/
Coral Dress and Black Pumps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/134008694%40N07/38478912046/
IMG_20171119_020836
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76363647%40N05/38478538942/
Sandals ;)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155837364%40N02/26666257239/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This week we had a brief respite from the bitter cold, the other morning I took my walk in just my flannel shirt but that ended quickly as today was once again cold and blustery due to the wind. At least the thaw melted all the snow and I was able to turn my car around in the backyard; this is a very good thing as backing up is not something I’m equipped to do easily. I’ve mentioned that I don’t drive very much and every New Year’s Day I calculate my annual mileage. This year I drove 703 miles. I’ve had my car for 12.5 years and in total I’ve put on 11,400 miles. So you can see I only use my car when I have no other choice. It’s very convenient that I can take the bus and train wherever I want to go and getting the senior discount helps keep it affordable. And I hope to continue to be able to take my long walks for the years going forward.
I find myself in a bit of a cultural lull as I’ve seen all the current art exhibits at the museums I’m familiar with and I haven’t come across any new galleries to visit of late. I have things on the horizon, several that I know of in February, and next week I hope to take a friend to a small exhibit but this week found me searching for something to do. I decided to visit the Ronin Gallery and see whatever Japanese woodblock prints were currently on display. I was about to go last Saturday but luckily I checked the website and reminded myself that they’re only open Monday to Friday so I decided to go in on Monday. Which I did and when I arrived at 11:30AM I was very surprised to find their office dark. No one answered the bell and it was clear that the gallery was closed. I was annoyed at myself for not remembering they open at Noon but I didn’t want to stand in the hallway for half an hour so I went home. Once home I went online and checked their website and discovered that I hadn’t been wrong about their opening at 11AM not Noon so I speculated that their clerk had been held up in the subway system which would explain their not being open. Once before I had arrived at opening time and found the clerk waiting outside until the employee with the key arrived so I imagine that’s what happened again.
At any rate, I was able to view the prints that line the hall of the building in the entrance as well as the prints that are in the hall outside their gallery. And they have most of their works on the Internet so this week I will join you in visiting through the website.
Hasui Kawase - Evening at Tagonoura – Kawase is a new artist to me but I liked this image of the farmer leading his horse or donkey and the wagon of hay through the hills.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/evening-at-tagonoura
Hasui Kawase - Nagoya Castle – A castle looming up behind a stone wall
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/nagoya-castle
Hasui Kawase - Zaimoku Island in Matsushima – Rocks jutting into the water, very blue water opposed by a very blue sky with clouds, with a boat drifting slowly by.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/zaimoku-island-in-matsushima
Gakusui - Two White Egrets in Snow – Another new name, the two blindingly white birds against the very black background of what I take to be a star streaked sky.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/two-white-egrets-in-snow
Sozan - Red and Blue Macaws – Two more birds in vibrant blue and orange from another artist new to me.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/red-and-blue-macaws
Hiroshige - Dawn at Kanda – A favorite of mine, the orange sunshine just showing at the horizon, the large tree standing dead center dividing the frame
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/dawn-at-kanda
Hiroshige – Shono – Men caught in a sudden downpour, wind blowing the trees sideways.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/shono
Hiroshige – Mishima – A busy street
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/mishima
Yoshitoshi - Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight – Always like to include at least one picture of the moon if I can.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/fujiwara-no-yasumasa-playing-the-flute-by-moonlight
Hokusai - Old View of the Pontoon Bidge at Sano in Kozuke Province – Another favorite of mine, one of his Remarkable Views of Famous Bridges in Various Provinces.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show/old-view-of-the-pontoon-bidge-at-sano-in-kozuke-province
Hokusai - Great Wave Off Kanagawa – The Met owns one of these.
http://www.roningallery.com/artists/hokusai/working-6283
Yoshida, Hiroshi - Carp and Tortoises – I like Yoshida’s style, cartoon like and I find similarities to the Victorian children’s book illustrator, Kate Greenaway. You can see one of her images at the link below Yoshida’s
http://www.roningallery.com/artists/yoshida-hiroshi/carp-and-tortoises
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Greenaway#/media/File:Kate_Greenaway_-_May_day.jpg
This is a link to all the items in the exhibit.
http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/la-art-show
While I was disappointed at the gallery being closed it’s always fun to visit their website as there are always lots of great prints to admire.
Now let’s admire our current selection of Flickrs.
Andy G.
Purple and white dress with purple tights and a cream cardigan :) it’s getting chilly again brrrr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129208657@N04/38036598735/
ANOTHER GENDER GUESSING GAME
https://www.flickr.com/photos/73087894@N08/25572298128/
Shelly prn
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shelly_prn/27428992163/
after pit stop and tire change again everything ok
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156160697@N06/38487952142/
Sissy ballerina....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/45384820@N05/26705355609/
Revealed Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/38331647801/
Am I a sissie?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/38745560@N07/24521028788/
IMG_0131
https://www.flickr.com/photos/89611075@N02/30525455014/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nancyball1/6802569746/
sissy gina with Lolita wig and pink collar
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10974572@N05/35103477120/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
We had a little snow this week but the weather is much milder than it’s been, the temperature reached 50 degrees this afternoon. I will enjoy it while I can.
For those of you who enjoyed the Flickr post about my Washington trip to see the Vermeer exhibit at the National Gallery this is a link to a long article on Vermeer which deals with the author’s visit to Amsterdam, a trip I hope to emulate someday, and then goes on to review the exhibit which he refers to as amazing, an opinion I share. http://newyorkarts.net/2018/01/intimate-heroism-vermeer-time-beyond/
I subscribe to an email newsletter from ADAA, The Art Dealers Association of America. I receive random emails concerning current art exhibitions at galleries, mostly in New York but they also list other areas as well. The majority of the art is modern which doesn’t especially interest me but occasionally it tips me off to galleries with art that I like. That was the case with the current email which had a notice about an exhibit at Debra Force Fine Art, Inside and Out, 19th Century American Genre, Marine and Still Life Paintings. The gallery is located at 13 East 69th Street, just one block from the Frick, in a tiny little apartment on the fourth floor. I had to buzz in to gain access but when I got upstairs they couldn’t have been more pleasant, greeting me, taking my coat and making me feel welcome. I always feel like a fake as they are looking at me as a potential buyer when I am there strictly to see the exhibition. That being said let me show you some of the things I liked.
Winslow Homer – Sailboats at Gloucester – For me this is the star of the show, one of my favorite artists, a beautiful watercolor of boats off the rocky coast under a blue sky with white clouds.
https://tinyurl.com/yb69ye3r
Winslow Homer – Green Apples – And one of his oils to accompany it.
https://tinyurl.com/yctg5t39
Albert Bierstadt - View of Niagara Falls from Prospect Point – One of the Hudson River painters depicting the rushing water and the rocks of Niagara Falls.
https://tinyurl.com/y79mvxp9
William Michael Harnett - Still Life with Portrait by Raphael – Harnett was known for his trompe l’oeil still lifes but what strikes me about this painting is the rather ugly reproduction of the Raphael painting. Clearly Harnett did better with objects than people.
https://tinyurl.com/y76w6efn
Thomas Alexander Harrison - Misty Morning – Harrison was a marine painter but he found time to paint this bucolic rural scene set in late Fall judging from the leaves on the ground.
https://tinyurl.com/y7zb5nof
Martin Johnson Heade - Cluster of Roses in a Glass – I’ve linked to Heade a number of times from auctions and this is a lovely small representation of roses.
https://tinyurl.com/ybofjq26
Edward Moran - The Winning Yacht:“Countess of Dufferin”and “Madeleine” – Another marine painter, this time of yachts with their large white billowing sails on churning waters. The buoy and bird are a nice touch.
https://tinyurl.com/y7pmlrgh
Thomas Sully - Girl with a Fan (Blanche Sully) – Sully was a portrait painter and this is a small head and shoulders painting of one of his daughters.
https://tinyurl.com/ydy738u9
Jasper Francis Cropsey - Autumn Landscape – Cropsey is another Hudson River painter. I had to go to a different website to find this image which the website says is in private hands so it appears that the owner has decided to see what he can garner for it.
http://the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=31856
Jervis McEntee - Evening Light, Winter – McEntee was one of the lesser known Hudson River painters, he apprenticed with Frederic Edwin Church and remained friends with him as well as other members of the group. This is a nice representation of the isolation of living on a farm in the 19th Century, no neighbors for probably miles.
https://tinyurl.com/ycbnylt6
Frederick William MacMonnies - Pan of Rohallion, 1890 – I thought this a wonderful bronze statue. MacMonnies was a sculptor and painter born in Brooklyn who achieved great success early in his career overseas in France. He studied under Augustus Saint-Gaudens prior to being accepted at the École des Beaux-Arts. The original version of this sculpture was as a decorative fountain sculpture for Rohallion, the New Jersey mansion of banker Edward Adams. He made many of these small reproductions and I see that one of them is in the collection at the Art Institute of Chicago.
https://tinyurl.com/ya64rbkp
Now let’s mosey over to Flickr and see who’s dressing up for us.
Andy G.
Another Boxing Day pic, this one made the papers!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138852143@N02/25478780918/
2 Maid (5)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127246885@N03/26808310449/
He's my Brother
https://www.flickr.com/photos/junibears/24727384987/
IMG_3479
https://www.flickr.com/photos/60660709@N04/37737157152/
sissy susie-ann
https://www.flickr.com/photos/susie-ann2/14859408759/
Sissymaid Sunday
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142955841@N07/36578012394/
2017-11-13_06-10-50
https://www.flickr.com/photos/121662364@N04/26619573049/
Prissy dolly me
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissycindy/26703873865/
DSC00149
https://www.flickr.com/photos/isabel_girl1970/28491862421/
LFF December 2017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmasmith_tvuk/24943012978/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I haven’t been in the City on a Saturday in a while so I didn’t think to check subway alerts. Big mistake. When I went down into the station at 72nd Street there were no downtown trains. I had to walk to Broadway which didn’t thrill me as I had already walked close to 7 miles at that point. The IRT had a bunch of changes as well and the trains were crowded. On the board with the notices it looked like every line in the City was affected. Not thrilled but at least it’s no longer a weekly occurrence for me.
Earlier this week I walked over to Christie’s for their Old Master’s drawing auction preview. This was a very small grouping, the entire back of the gallery was closed including the second and third floor. Still, there were some nice things which I’ll describe below. Click on them for enlargement.
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s portrait of Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina – This is obviously not a drawing and actually is on display as an early preview of Christie’s April Old Masters paintings auction when it will be displayed with all the other items up for sale. It’s a painting that I was lucky enough to see at the enormous Le Brun exhibit at the Met that I wrote about some time ago.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7B31a1bee1-137f-4d0d-bf0c-751b9354bb6c%7D&oid=650080
Sometime in the Spring Christie’s will host the auction of the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller. Selected items are touring the world before the actual auction takes place and there was a small room with several items. Two Daumier prints which I can’t reproduce as they’re not on the website yet along with this nice piece by Camille Corot – Maison Sur Le Quais which I found on Wikipedia.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot_-_Honfleur%2C_Maison_Sur_le_Quais.jpg
There was also a fine drawing by Ingres which just appeared on the website with this related essay.
Ingres’ - Fräulein Ritter
https://tinyurl.com/y9lvj82t
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel - Portrait of the daughter of Dr. Karl A. von Maercker – Menzel was a German artist of the 19th Century who became friends with the Maercker family. He did many paintings, watercolors and oils, of the family and the lot essay on the site points out that the watercolors of the Maercker children are particularly charming which is exactly the word I would use to describe this one. This was the first thing I saw when I entered the gallery.
https://tinyurl.com/y7uyrg24
Pieter Withoos - Butterflies and insects – Withoos was a Dutch artist of the 17th Century and someone I’ve never come across. The colors and lifelike appearance of these bugs also charmed me.
https://tinyurl.com/ybb4stv5
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino – Guercino was a 17th Century Italian artist, the nickname translates to squinter, so called as he was cross-eyed. There were a number of his drawings and I especially enjoyed these two.
A woman looking up to the left, bust length - This drawing is apparently a study for the head of Saint Helen, not previously recognized, in the oil painting Saint Helen discovering the true Cross
https://tinyurl.com/y6vg4vdz
Cato – This drawing appears to be a sketch for a painting of the old Roman, Cato the Censor. His fur trimmed hat, to me, makes him look more like a Dutch burgher.
https://tinyurl.com/yd7cd72y
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - The nursing of Punchinello – I’ve mentioned Tiepolo a number of times and there are usually drawings by him at these auctions and also at the various drawing exhibitions I attend. The Met owns quite a few. There is a long essay on the website about the character Punchinello discussing who he was and the chronological depiction of his life by the artist.
https://tinyurl.com/ycqhuwdl
Jean-Baptiste Greuze - Head of a girl with her eyes downcast (study for 'The marriage contract') – This is another sketch for a larger picture which is discussed in great detail at the website. It’s a very delicate drawing enhanced by the restrained use of the red chalk.
https://tinyurl.com/y737gum2
Giuseppe Bezzuoli -Folly driving the chariot of Love – This is the first time I’m seeing Bezzuoli, a 19th Century Italian painter. This is an enormous drawing, roughly 13 x 15.5 feet, drawn on four sheets of light brown paper. Again, there is a very long essay describing the work on the website. It was executed as a cartoon, or full-scale design, for a ceiling fresco in Palazzo Gerini, Florence. I wonder where the winning bidder would hang something this large.
https://tinyurl.com/ybj86ojw
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - View of the double staircase of the Fountain of Dragons at Villa d'Este, Tivoli – I’m drawn to still lifes like this one, depicting a large estate with statues and cypress trees and an enormous villa.
https://tinyurl.com/y837k4ol
So, a small show but still many beautiful things.
And now, the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Boys in dresses –
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rushay/39812475451/
Mirror Mirror on the wall.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rushay/38914358335/
The Group
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/28021969089/
Mom with transvestite. Very common here if family doesn't have a girl then the youngest boy will become one!!! Weird tradition
https://www.flickr.com/photos/158040638@N03/39733070142/
Oh yes, I'm going down.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyplaything/24699552728/
An early effort.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sexykellie/23973647027/
Pretty In Pink
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stacycuk/11228223905/
Lovely Pretty Maid MISAKKY 009
https://www.flickr.com/photos/misakky/6268655851/
Christopher Street Day Cologne2017
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samgi2/35671987812/
033
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130352799@N08/36371236234/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr
This week I visited Sotheby’s for their Old Master’s auction preview. It was an immense exhibition, floor after floor of art. I started on the tenth floor and worked my way down through the building. There was art on most floors. The drawing gallery was the most crowded, to the point that I gave it short shrift since it was on the second floor and my last stop of the day. But there were many nice things there as well, multiple drawings by Ingres for example. Among the oil paintings, there were several rather nice Van Dycks, Orazio Gentileschi, Jan Brueghel the elder, Salomon van Ruysdael, a Valentine De Boulogne which I think was in the large Met show of his work, Titian and workshop, 2 really fine Canaletto’s, a number of Spanish painters, Murillo, Sorolla, De Ribera and a small rather rough Frans Hals. Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Gilbert Stuart and Lucas Cranach. There’s also a lot of second class stuff, the unfamiliar names that fill museums, but are nice nevertheless. I was exhausted at the end of my tour. I’ll link to examples of what I saw below. Be sure to read the lot essays as there is a wealth of information about the art and artist.
The Dutch and Flemish
Anthony Van Dyck – PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN NOBLEMAN – This painting has never been publicly exhibited as it’s been in private hands for over 40 years. It’s also signed and dated which is very rare for paintings from Van Dyck’s Italian period.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.24.html
Anthony Van Dyck - PORTRAIT OF PRINCE WILLEM II OF ORANGE AS A YOUNG BOY, WITH A DOG – There are two versions of this painting, one painted for the parents of Prince Willem II, and another version made for King Charles I of England. The former descended in the family and is today in the Schloss Mosigkau museum This painting recently reappeared after a careful cleaning and subsequent public exhibition at the Rubenshuis Museum in Antwerp and had its status as a true Van Dyck confirmed. It had been considered lost.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.42.html
Jan Brueghel the elder - A WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A LANDING STAGE, BOATS, VARIOUS FIGURES AND A VILLAGE BEYOND – This is a lovely little river landscape painted on copper. It’s only 10” x 14.5”. There’s a lot going on here, the people in the boats getting ready to come ashore, the people waiting to greet them and off in the distance we see people who had disembarked and are heading home.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.40.html
Saloman van Ruysdael - A WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A FERRY AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF A VILLAGE – I love the Dutch and this is another lovely little landscape, a little larger than the one above. As the website says: “Two trees to the left and right of the picture plane frame the charming scene and serve as repoussoir devices (a pictorial device used to achieve perspective) that invite the eye to explore a quiet day in a village on the banks of a river.”
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/master-paintings-and-sculpture-day-sale-n09813/lot.104.html
Frans Hals - PORTRAIT OF A MAN, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A BLACK CAPE WITH A WHITE COLLAR – This little portrait by Hals is only 12” x10”. It had been badly retouched and only recently, in 2016, cleaned and restored and finally confirmed to be legitimate. As I commented to my brother it’s really not one of his brilliant paintings but how often do you get to see a Hals up for auction.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.34.html#
The French
Valentin Boulogne – A FORTUNE TELLER, BRAVO, LUTE PLAYER, DRINKING FIGURE, AND A PICK-POCKET – I saw this wonderful painting of a soldier being cheated at the Met’s exhibition of Boulogne at the end of last year. It was filled with wall size paintings like this one.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.21.html
Nicolas Lancret – Winter – Lancret was a painter of the 18th Century who apprenticed under his mentor, Antoine Watteau and his influence can be seen in this domestic interior scene. Again, this is a painting with a lot going on. These women are involved in one activity or another and I especially like the woman with her head down as she toys with the cat. Also the way cloth has been painted, the tablecloth with its patterned design and folds and the ladies dresses. The painting hasn’t been displayed since it was sold at auction in 1889 where it remained with the buyer’s family until now.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.69.html
Spanish
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida – VIEJO CASTELLANO SIRVIÉNDOSE VINO (THE OLD MAN OF CASTILLE) - Sorolla was a Spanish artist of the 19th/20th century. It was exhibited in one of his first exhibitions in London and then at the Hispanic Society in New York. I’m patiently waiting for the Hispanic Society to reopen as ostensibly after extensive renovations they will have much more gallery space to exhibit their vast collection, something that in the original venue was very limited.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/the-otto-naumann-sale-n09810/lot.37.html
Jusepe de Ribera – SAINT TERESA OF AVILA - de Ribera was a 17th Century Spanish artist. I had a heck of a time bringing up a link to this. Sotheby’s has a Spanish paintings group as part of the Old Masters week but there doesn’t appear to be a link to any of the paintings. This link is from the last time the painting went up for auction in December 2014.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l14036/lot.21.html
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - THE PRESENTATION OF THE VIRGIN – Murillo was another Spanish artist of the 17th Century. This was done towards the end of his life and showed a theme he rarely depicted. He was known as a sensitive painter of children. Much more information at the link.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.46.html
There appears to be a bug on the Sotheby's website which will not allow this painting to be seen. This is an outside link to what the picture looks like but unfortunately the essay on the site that accompanies it is currently unavailable.
http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/N09/N09812/127N09812_7ZMTC.jpg
German
Lucas Cranach – LUCRETIA – Cranach was a 16th Century German painter and this is one of the big attractions in this auction. This is one of the earliest known treatments of the classical subject of Lucretia. … this can be considered the most sensual and beautiful and it is a supreme example of the type of erotic historical painting produced for the artist’s private patron. A very powerful image.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.10.html
English – 3 Portraits
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. - PORTRAIT OF ROBERT PRICE, ESQUIRE OF FOXLEY (1717-1761), HALF-LENGTH – Gainsborough was a personal friend of the Price family.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/master-paintings-and-sculpture-day-sale-n09813/lot.312.html
George Romney - PORTRAIT OF LADY EMILIA KERR (1756-1832), HALF-LENGTH – This was painted for Lady Emilia and looks to have remained in the family until 1931.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/master-paintings-and-sculpture-day-sale-n09813/lot.311.html
Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. - PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM MURRAY, ESQ., THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, SEATED WEARING A WHITE STOCK AND A DARK COAT
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/fine-old-master-19th-century-european-art-n09814/lot.609.html
American
Gilbert Stuart - PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY A MEMBER OF THE DALRYMPLE FANSHAW FAMILY, BUST LENGTH –Only confirmed as a Stuart in 1999.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/fine-old-master-19th-century-european-art-n09814/lot.606.html
Italian
Orazio Gentileschi - THE MADONNA AND CHILD – I thought I had referred to the Gentileschi’s, Orazio and his daughter Artemisia, recently but my notes show it was in January of last year and also involved a painting at Sotheby’s by Orazio. This is a newly discovered painting.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.58.html
Titian – SAINT MARGARET – This has been described at different times as Titian and his workshop and his workshop guided by Titian. The former is the way it is going on the block this time and obviously should bring more of a return than the latter. Van Dyck who has two paintings listed above was inspired by Titian when creating his Italian portraits.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.27.html
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - SAINT ROSE OF LIMA; SAINT DOMINIC – Don’t see many paintings by Tiepolo at the auctions, mostly it’s his drawings like the one of Punchinello in last week’s listing.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.52.html
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto - VENICE, THE CHURCHES OF THE REDENTORE AND SAN GIACOMO; VENICE, THE PRISONS AND THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, LOOKING NORTHWEST FROM THE BALCONY – What a treat this is, two really fine paintings by Canaletto, in pristine condition.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/master-paintings-evening-sale-n09812/lot.54.html
Francesco Guardi - A CAPRICCIO OF AN ARCHWAY, WITH FIGURES BENEATH AND A LAGOON BEYOND – And this lovely small, 8x5, imaginary archway by Guardi to accompany the Canaletto’s.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/master-paintings-and-sculpture-day-sale-n09813/lot.345.html
Well I hope I haven’t lost too many of you with this very long list but I wanted to include all the stars as this was one of the better auctions I’ve visited. Let me reiterate that if you enjoy any of these paintings you’ll want to read the lengthy essays on the website.
Now let’s go to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
sissy debbie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499%40N02/24869242368/
23795114_1545695218843393_5671131440404135990_n
https://www.flickr.com/photos/101231236%40N08/37730032185/
tumblrme
https://www.flickr.com/photos/153218420%40N04/38523933806/
Memories of Halloweens Past - TV Show "Hee-Haw"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robynmichaels/4035978072/
IMG-20160812-WA0016
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146123649%40N03/29649332301/
Urban Lights Cover
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vivianchen05/38203453651/
Silky & sissy meets sexy & seductive
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91219737%40N08/38994762542/
P1040840
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156147874%40N07/38873932311/
17412_1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lololatex71/27635609921/
Sexy Pirate
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaseybabe/38237150971/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Some time ago I wrote about the Berkshire Museum and its plan to sell 40 of its paintings and use the proceeds to increase its endowment, renovate its building and expand its programming. This goes against the unofficial museum code that art is never to be sold unless the proceeds are used to purchase different art. Not surprisingly the news engendered protests and a lawsuit; in particular to prevent the sale of a Norman Rockwell painting. You can read the article below which details that the sale will be allowed to take place although the Norman Rockwell must be sold to another institution so it will remain in public hands and not wind up in a private collection. I’m happy that the Rockwell will remain on view but I think the overall decision sets a bad precedent. Coincidentally a number of the paintings to be sold are from the Hudson River painters, a group which I will now discuss.
Massachusetts Agrees to Allow Berkshire Museum to Sell Its Art
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/arts/massachusetts-agrees-to-allow-berkshire-museum-to-sell-its-art.html
This week I went back to the Met for their new exhibit, Thomas Cole's Journey, Atlantic Crossings. It’s a very large exhibit filled with masterpieces. My brother says it will be the sleeper hit of the season and I agree. The Wall Street Journal gave it a rave review which I’ve copied below. Cole is referred to as the father of the Hudson River painters, men like Frederic Edwin Church, Asher Durand and Albert Bierstadt, artists I’ve mentioned numerous times. As the WSJ predicts I was very surprised to discover that his designation as Father of the genre was meant to be derogatory, implying in the light of Impressionism that Cole and his followers were old fashioned. In addition to Cole’s work there are many paintings by his peers and followers as well artists he was inspired by such as JMW Turner, John Constable and Claude Lorrain. The number and quality of the works was a bit of a surprise until you find that the Met’s co-organizers in the exhibit are the National Gallery of London and a Yale University art professor.
This is a link to the Met website with an Overview of the exhibition and links to the exhibition galleries and all the objects in the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/thomas-cole
This is a link to the Met press release announcing the exhibit with two short videos, one concerning the life of Thomas Cole and the other which looks at two works using radiography to show drawings beneath the paint and also discusses Coles feelings about protecting the environment from industrialization.
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/thomas-cole
This is a direct link to all the objects in the exhibit. Everything in the exhibit is worthwhile visiting but I’ll make some selections and list them below.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=6d5e931d-aa7f-461e-bd51-f29337ff40d5#!?perPage=100&offset=0
Thomas Cole - From Nature – This is an early pen and ink drawing of an aged and weather-beaten tree.
https://tinyurl.com/y9b9dq3g
JMW Turner – Leeds – Leeds was the first Industrial city in the UK and this watercolor was the first depiction of it.
https://tinyurl.com/y85vjdml
John Constable – Stonehenge – Another watercolor. It is owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. My brother tells me this is a very famous painting, he was surprised the V&A would loan it out, and I came across this discussion of it. “Constable painted this at a sad time in his life. Both his wife, Maria, and his closest friend, John Fisher, had died, and his two eldest sons had left home. He is perhaps expressing his personal unhappiness in the watercolor, for the image is certainly a melancholy one. The painting was exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1836. Some of the lines that accompanied this painting in the catalogue describe ‘The mysterious monument of Stonehenge, standing remote on a bare and boundless heath…’. Constable himself probably wrote them.”
https://tinyurl.com/y9xwm2j3
Claude Lorrain - Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula – Another very famous painting and rather different from the pastoral paintings of his that I’ve come across. This is a brief discussion of it. “According to legend Saint Ursula was a British princess who made a pilgrimage to Rome with 11,000 virgin companions. She returned with them to Cologne, where they were all martyred. St Ursula is shown here, in yellow and holding a flag with her emblem, watching her companions embark on the return voyage. The girls carry bows and arrows, the instruments of their martyrdom. The building at the left is based on the Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio, Rome. The canvas was painted in 1641 for Fausto Poli, who was made a cardinal by Pope Urban VIII in 1643.”
https://tinyurl.com/y98jmyyr
John Constable - The Opening of Waterloo Bridge ("Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817") – This is a link to the Tate where the painting lives. It’s a very large painting and this is a better reproduction than at the Met website and there’s also an essay about it. The clouds are quite striking and it’s interesting that he painted the bridge itself in the distance and not the immediate focus of the painting.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-the-opening-of-waterloo-bridge-whitehall-stairs-june-18th-1817-t04904
JMW Turner - Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps – This is another very large picture and again the clouds and sky take up the bulk of the canvas. So despite the subject being Hannibal and his army they are very small figures at the bottom of the image.
https://tinyurl.com/yczjp4ds
Asher Durand – Kindred Spirits – This picture pays homage to Thomas Cole showing him with his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant. There was a major controversy over the way the Crystal Bridges Museum acquired the painting, through auction, from the New York Public Library. Many people and institutions wanted the painting to stay in New York and the Met and the National Gallery made a concerted effort towards that purpose but Sotheby’s held a closed bid auction which helped Crystal Bridges win the auction. You can read about that in the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/yb3ahqf5
http://www.artnews.com/2005/06/07/the-durand-sale-dismay-and-anger-linger/
Frederic Edwin Church – Niagara – This is a small version of the enormous painting of Niagara Falls that hangs in the National Gallery. It was painted the following year and is in private hands. The version in the National Gallery is an awe inspiring picture, I always say you can feel the water coming off it when standing in front of it. The second link is to the National Gallery website.
https://tinyurl.com/yadsjg8p
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166436.html
Thomas Cole - The Titan’s Goblet – A fantasy, it’s described on the website as: “The massive, vegetation encrusted goblet around whose rim are found classical ruins, and on whose glassy surface boats sail, has been linked to Norse legend and Greek mythology.” You see the water leaking out the sides cascading down below.
https://tinyurl.com/y7dqaczy
Thomas Cole - Aqueduct Near Rome – Two wonderful paintings of Roman ruins that chronicle Cole’s interest in the rise and fall of civilization as ultimately depicted in The Course of Empire.
https://tinyurl.com/y73dxvgh
Thomas Cole - Interior of the Colosseum, Rome
https://tinyurl.com/y8g6wkqb
Thomas Cole - The Garden of Eden – Lush depiction of the origin of man, we see the small Adam and Eve standing in the unspoiled garden.
https://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/7872.jpg?v=1515660880
Thomas Cole - The Oxbow – This is a paean to the beauty of the wilderness and a warning against deforestation and the advancement of industry and agriculture. You have to look closely at the bottom of the image to see that Cole has painted himself at work.
https://tinyurl.com/y94t643w
Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire (5 paintings) – I’ve linked to Wikipedia for this as it has all five of the paintings available to see as well as a discussion about them. They’re owned by the New York Historical Society and hung in the second floor galleries for years. The really wonderful thing about this current exhibit is that rather than being hung high like at the
Society, all five paintings are hung at eye level in an alcove. You can move about in front of them and see the progression of man’s beginning to his destruction. A brilliant series, his masterworks.
https://tinyurl.com/h82dy2s
This is a review from the Washington Post.
https://tinyurl.com/yb3d7rj7
This is a review from the Observer.
http://observer.com/2018/02/review-mets-thomas-coles-journey-atlantic-crossings-exhibition/
This is a review from Antiques and the Arts
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/thomas-coles-journey-atlantic-crossings/
There was so much great work in this exhibit that it really was hard to pick and choose but I chose what I considered to be the best items.
If you’re looking for the Flickrs they follow this review from the Wall Street Journal. I copied the actual review as the site is behind a paywall.
Andy G.
Wall Street Journal
‘Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings’ Review: Hudson River School Headmaster
Cole is so firmly identified with American painting that his oeuvre has rarely been considered in an international context—until now.
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Jan. 30, 2018
New York
When, in 1848, the painter Thomas Cole suddenly died at age 47, his funeral oration was delivered by his celebrated friend William Cullen Bryant, the poet and journalist, who recalled the “enthusiasm awakened by…pictures which carried the eye over scenes of wild grandeur peculiar to our country…and into the depths of skies…such as few but Cole could ever paint.”
Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings
The Met Fifth Avenue
Through May 13
For those “scenes of wild grandeur” Cole is generally regarded as the father of the “Hudson River School.” The term has for so long designated America’s first indigenous school of landscape painting that many admirers today would be surprised to learn it was initially coined in derision. Cole’s dramatic imagery, like that of such followers as Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand and Albert Bierstadt, was being deemed old-fashioned compared to French Barbizon and Impressionist paintings. But without Cole there might have been no Winslow Homer.
Cole is so firmly identified with American painting that his oeuvre has rarely been considered in an international context. Now the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s deeply absorbing new exhibition “Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings” is doing exactly that.
Organized by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, the Met’s curator of American paintings and sculpture, and Tim Barringer, Yale professor of art history, with Christopher Riopelle, curator of post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery, London, the exhibition and its richly informative catalog depart from our traditional view of Cole chiefly as a home-grown American artist. Instead, for the first time, they examine the English-born patriarch of American landscape painting beside the European contemporaries and old masters whose works he studied firsthand during several voyages to England, France and Italy—especially John Constable, Claude Lorrain, John Martin and Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Cole was born and raised in a northwestern English village begrimed by the coal smoke of burgeoning industry. Among the first works in the show is Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s 1801 “Coalbrookdale by Night,” its rustic, half-timbered houses silhouetted against an infernal sky set aflame by the town’s iron-smelting forges. Such a scene formed the backdrop to Cole’s Lancashire youth, and suggests why he would later glorify America’s virgin, wooded landscape while implying a warning against its deforestation not just by industry but even by agriculture. This is the essential message of his beloved “View From Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow” (1836), also in the show.
Cole briefly worked for a Liverpool engraver whose prints of contemporary paintings may have introduced him to fine art. Intent on becoming an artist after immigrating to America with his parents in 1818, he was principally self-taught and began painting the Hudson Valley as he wished to see it—unmarred by development and dramatically tinged with his poetic fervor. The success of Cole’s initial landscapes, including “The Garden of Eden” (1828), prompted him, in 1829, to make his first European voyage.
In London, Cole made a beeline for the newly opened National Gallery, delighting there in Claude’s 1641 “Seaport With the Embarkation of St. Ursula,” its combination of figures, Classical architecture and soft, crepuscular lighting influencing his own work thereafter. At the Royal Academy, Cole was astounded by the stark ruins and sumptuous clouds in Constable’s recently finished “Hadleigh Castle, the Mouth of the Thames—Morning After a Stormy Night.” At Turner’s private gallery, Cole was awed by “Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps,” though not by Turner’s crude appearance and manner. Though he would later regard Turner’s more radical style with disdain, Cole virtually quotes Turner’s menacing arc of cloud as the departing storm in “The Oxbow.” And to come upon these great works—respectively lent by London’s National Gallery, Yale Center for British Art and Tate Britain—hanging together in the show is to feel Cole’s own wonderment and understand the challenge he faced in formulating his own aesthetic.
Cole’s ambitious pentalogy, “The Course of Empire” (1834-36)—lent by the New-York Historical Society—forms the exhibition’s centerpiece. Magnificently displayed at eye level in its own five-sided alcove, it invites viewers to examine every finely conceived detail of its grand and cautionary narrative. Here, the music-loving Cole produces a psalm of nature as eloquent as Beethoven’s “Pastoral” symphony. In retrospect, we can acknowledge that Cole had every reason to fear that his beloved American landscape was threatened.
The show’s thoughtfully selected paintings, drawings, oil sketches and related works by Cole, by the Europeans who influenced him, and by the American painters who perpetuated his legacy clarify the dynamic balance between his indebtedness to foreign tradition and innovation, and also his own original vision: Cole’s fantasy “Titan’s Goblet” (1833) anticipates the surrealism of Salvador Dalí and René Magritte a century in the future.
Ultimately, it is hard to imagine any visitor departing this moving exhibition without a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of Cole’s extraordinary activity not just as an American, but as an actor upon the world’s stage.
—Mr. Scherer writes about music and the fine arts for the Journal.
Party Dress all buttoned and bowed...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137337412@N02/24531471746/
Magic Theatre memories by Ricky Dixon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tanyadawnhughes/25292950508/
Another one leather dress in my collection
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50965933@N02/25293665118/
LOVE this dress !!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146138013@N06/38272266886/
Happy Halloween to all the creatures of the night.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/debbie_lewissmith/37998219006/
Power of Love (Huey Lewis)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55377997@N05/38585957802/
The legendary Holly White
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/39141484791/
Crystal Transformation
https://www.flickr.com/photos/boyswillbegirls/36653500056/
really bad
https://www.flickr.com/photos/katvarina/24036163237/
Party Dress 2
https://www.flickr.com/photos/anne_zoe/37818082322/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
The weather has been fluctuating this week; several days brought us temperatures in the upper 50’s reaching 62 one day, while the remaining days were much cooler. And there is snow looming tonight with the big question being how much. I’m rooting for not much.
This week found me at the Frick Museum for their exhibit ZURBARÁN'S JACOB AND HIS TWELVE SONS: PAINTINGS FROM AUCKLAND CASTLE. Thirteen paintings by the Spanish artist
Francisco de Zurbarán of the Biblical patriarch Jacob and his twelve sons. The paintings are based on “The Blessings of Jacob,” the prophetic poem from Chapter 49 of Genesis. The series of paintings is first recorded in England in the 1720s, when it was purchased at auction by a Jewish merchant, James Mendez. In 1756, all but one of the paintings passed into the hands of Bishop Richard Trevor of Auckland Castle, County Durham, an advocate for the rights of Jews in England. The paintings have remained in Auckland Castle ever since, traveling to the United States for the first time on the occasion of this exhibition. The portrait of Benjamin, which was the only one that Trevor wasn’t able to acquire, has been lent by Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire. It has been reunited with the other paintings for the first time since their creation.
These are links to all 13 paintings.
Benjamin – In the notes for the painting it says that the image of the wolf came from an engraving by Jacques de Gheyn II who also depicted Jacob and his sons. A link to that image is below. Zurbaran was influenced by de Gheyn’s series of engravings and I’ll link to those images.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/13
Jacques de GHEYN II
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/33073/
Gad – Zurbaran based this image on the biblical interpretation of Gad and his tribe as adept in battle rather than an existing image.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/9
Naphtali - For Naphtali’s pose, costume, and attribute, Zurbarán turned directly to the figure of Christ in Albrecht Dürer’s Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene from his Small Passion series of woodcuts. The Durer engraving is below.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/11
Albrecht Dürer
https://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/6155_christ_appearing_to_mary_magdalene
Joseph - Details of his costume are taken from Jacques de Gheyn II’s series.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/12
Jacques de GHEYN II
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/434383
Asher
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/10
Zebulun – Zurbarán borrowed aspects of the composition including the facial type, anchor, and viewpoint, again, from Jacques de Gheyn II.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/6
Jacques de Gheyn II
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/434376
Judah - Jacques de Gheyn II’s print of Judah, which includes a lion, scepter, and crown also informs Zurbarán’s imagery.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/5
Jacques de Gheyn II
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/434371
Dan - The pose and gesture of Dan are lifted almost directly from a figure in Jonadab Counseling Amnon, a print by Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/8
Jonadab adviseert Amnon, Philips Galle, after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1559
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1904-3266
Issachar - The donkey appears as an awkwardly cropped head cutting in on the left side of the canvas, a detail taken from Jacques de Gheyn II’s print.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/7
Jacques de Gheyn II
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/434377
Reuben - The primary visual source for Reuben has been identified as the standing figure of Pontius Pilate dressed in a turban and robe from Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut The Flagellation from the Small Passion series, a source perhaps for the column as well.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/2
Albrecht Dürer
https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/387417
Jacob
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/1
Levi - Levi is shown in fanciful garb derived from a Mesopotamian figure in Philips Galle’s print The Story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, after Maarten van Heemskerck.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/4
Philips Galle
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shadrach,_Meshach_and_Abednego._Engraving_by_P._Galle_after_Wellcome_V0033269.jpg
Simeon - Simeon strikes a pose that appears to have been taken from a sixteenth-century print of King Darius by an unknown artist, published by Gerard de Jode which I couldn’t bring up.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran/3
So, Jacob and his sons by Zurburan. These are all life size paintings and the story of their creation and the quotes from the Bible made it an interesting exhibit although my brother did not think it was particularly worthwhile saying he found the paintings ugly, something I don’t agree with.
This is the main link to the exhibit on the Frick website with a number of other links off to the left if you want to explore this further.
https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/zurbaran
This is a review from the New Yorker.
https://tinyurl.com/y8mlonps
Prior to arriving at the Frick the exhibit traveled first to the Meadows Museum in Dallas. This is a video from that website.
https://vimeo.com/235786485
While I was there I was pleased to see that Vermeer’s Lady with Maid was back on view and I got a chance to revisit the Murillo self-portraits I wrote about last year.
And now, the actual weekly Flickrs.
Andy G.
So..something a little different..this is all me
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicasatin79/38978864892/
Ombre 6th Former Lucy 07
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25697386%40N07/38515379704/
Wine-Boots Sequine Skirt 2.s
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jenniferfetish/38681400774/
CHRISTMAS 2017 (15)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/153026177%40N08/27638234409/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/lololatex71/39361472222/
186a
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155280012%40N04/38689141294/
Crazy for hose
https://www.flickr.com/photos/catchqueen/24453579267/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I’m not thrilled with the weather today. It’s mild which is good but it’s also rainy which is bad. Normally I wouldn’t particularly care if it rains late in the day but I’m meeting my brother in the City for dinner tonight and I’m not looking forward to a soggy commute. It opens up the possibility of delays on the bus, especially going through the Lincoln tunnel. And as I plan on walking to the restaurant from the Port Authority, a distance of roughly 18 blocks it won’t be fun if it’s raining. But I’m looking forward to seeing my brother. Since I retired I’ve made it a point to try and have dinner with him every two months just to physically stay in touch although we email back and forth daily. Looking forward to discussing movies and books.
I was back at the Metropolitan museum this week to see the just opened Asian exhibit, Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art. Korean art is much like Japanese and Chinese with scrolls and screens as well as wall art. It was a small exhibit, just one room, but had many beautiful things in it. Most of the items in the exhibit are from the National Museum of Korea and have never been exhibited in North America prior to this exhibit. The Diamond Mountains are in North Korea so there are no photographs as few outsiders visit them. The items range from the 18th Century to contemporary times.
Here are some of things I though nice.
Elizabeth Keith – The Diamond Mountains, Korea, A Fantasy – I was very pleased to find two colorful woodblock prints in this exhibit, oddly enough by a Scottish artist. She was one of the few to visit Korea in the early 20th Century. The fantasy comes from the mythical beasts shown, Buddhist Gods floating while tigers crouch in the landscape
https://tinyurl.com/ydxn2xa7
Shin Jangsik - Raining on Manmulsang Rocks – This is one of the contemporary paintings which in its black and white acrylic sets a moody and eerie atmosphere.
https://tinyurl.com/yacbrf66
Unidentified Artist - Mount Geumgang – This is, I guess, something similar to the Venetian capriccio paintings in that the peaks don’t exist the way they’re depicted, moving vertically rather than horizontally. I like the orange sun way up on top on the left side of the mountain, the source for the flame like edges of the peaks.
https://tinyurl.com/ybuubj5d
Jeong Seon - Manpok Valley, from the Album of Divine Paintings by Gyeomjae [Jeong Seon] and Hyeonjae [Sim Sajeong] (Gyeomhyeon sinpumcheop) – The four tiny travelers contrast the immensity of the mountain range.
https://tinyurl.com/ybknfmws
Sin Hakgwon - General View of Inner Geumgang – On this long scroll, moving from right to left, the artist takes you on a tour of the mountain range showing the grass covered hills along with streams and Buddhist temples. If we could read Chinese we would see that he names 46 different sites.
https://tinyurl.com/y84yqu7b
Jeong Seon - Album of Mount Geumgang (Pungak-docheop) – When you click on the first link you go to the Met website and see one of six images from the album, General View of Inner Geumgang and when you click on the second link you see, Baekcheon Bridge. The actual bridge isn’t shown but you can see the travelers and the different modes of transportation, sedan chairs and horses.
https://tinyurl.com/ybon44f6
https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-XJ401_MOUNTA_16RH_20180207164409.jpg
This is an overview of the exhibit from the Met website and the second link is to all the objects in it.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/diamond-mountains
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=819ce136-609d-427a-9d49-2d5ddd39ac7f#!?perPage=50&offset=0
This is a well-illustrated review from the NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/arts/design/south-korea-north-korea-metropolitan-museum-diamond-mountains-olympics.html
This is the press release from the Met Website
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/diamond-mountains
I’ve reported on my many visits to the Frick Museum and I thought you would enjoy this video about the museum’s history and collection.
http://watch.wliw.org/video/3009768303/
And now, let’s visit the Flickrs.
Andy G.
Halloween fun
https://www.flickr.com/photos/veronica_mendes2013/26337776469/
One year ago vs today :0 i’m so glad i became a girl!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/129208657@N04/39327109102/
Happy new year 2018
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mayuko_vienna/38707759994/
IMG_4839
https://www.flickr.com/photos/100293865@N08/37206712881/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/kristeedress/33188668283/
A very subtle photobomb of my stunning and beautiful VC sisters Jenee and Stephanie
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samantha_sami_prescott/37378905961/
One of those nights
https://www.flickr.com/photos/100963005@N04/27038041279/
The legendary Terry-Ronnie Morales, Terry Noel, and others
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/5809312410/
F**k me!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137759630@N08/38829823364/
Happy Halloween from TG Miss Shoot
https://www.flickr.com/photos/151917751@N05/38043164472/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
The Nor’easter has come and gone and we were lucky in New York/New Jersey. I went out for my walk Friday morning and it was absolutely miserable, snowy rain, cold and very heavy winds which unfortunately continued into today. I can hear the wind howling now, but I’m very happy that we didn’t receive any accumulation of snow. I had my handyman tighten up the bolts that hold the awning on the side of my house so I no longer have to fear coming home and finding it in the middle of my driveway. The old saw says March comes in like a lion and I’m hoping to see the lamb soon but you can never count on anything when it comes to Mother Nature. I remember snow flurries in April around my birthday when I was a child.
I visited the Met for the latest rotation in the drawing corridor, Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Portraits and States. I wrote to my brother saying I thought this was a bit of a disappointment and he replied that he liked the Old Master drawings finding them impressive. I agree but my disappointment stems from the fact that half of the exhibition is contemporary and not really of interest to me. And while the drawings are beautiful none are of the more recognizable names, at least to me. That being said, here are some of the things on display.
Bust-Length Portrait of an Ecclesiastic - Carletto Caliari – Caliari was the second born son of Paolo Veronese who worked as his father’s assistant. It’s a colorful chalk drawing of a middle-aged cleric.
https://tinyurl.com/y7agvcvc
Saint Peter - Bernardo Strozzi – Black chalk depiction of a quizzical Saint Peter drawn in a naturalistic style, which was at the time a movement away from elegant Mannerism. Below is also a link to a Wikipedia discussion of Mannerism.
https://tinyurl.com/yc3gj5n9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism
Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman - Agostino Carracci – Another rebel against Mannerism – This is from the website description of the drawing. Agostino's depiction of a partially blind woman (her glazed right eye is unseeing), drawn from life, exemplifies the new naturalism that lay at the heart of the Carracci reform. The unknown sitter is both physically and psychologically present: even with her impaired vision she confronts the viewer with an unwavering gaze. Details such as her slender neck scarf, hoop earrings, and braided coif dressed with bows or flowers (adornments indicating that, unlike Annibale Carracci's portraits of blind subjects, this sitter is not impoverished) are confidently rendered. This powerful, exceptionally lifelike portrait is among Agostino's most important and accomplished red-chalk drawings.
https://tinyurl.com/y98gkrw7
Head of a Bearded Man - Giovanni Serodine – An artist influenced by Caravaggio, this is apparently his only drawing, watercolor over black chalk.
https://tinyurl.com/ybk3meyg
Head of a Bearded Man - Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) – Possibly a study for a figure in one of his paintings although it can’t be connected directly to any of his known works. Black chalk drawing of a serious, respected individual.
https://tinyurl.com/ydedsrtr
This is the overview page for the exhibit which also has a link to view all objects in the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/drawings-and-prints-february-rotation
While at the Met I visited a second exhibit, a small one in a single gallery on the mezzanine, Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art. It consisted of mostly objects that depicted Medusa and other female half-human beings from Greek mythology. The Met didn’t post any images from the exhibit but I’ll link to a few of them.
Head of Medusa - Studio of Antonio Canova – This plaster cast was created to accompany the full sculpture, a marble version of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, that Canova created for Countess Valeria Tarnowska. You can see the statue here. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/204758 It’s a replica of the one in the Vatican. Canova wrote the Countess that he was shipping the head in case the marble one added too much weight to the statue's outstretched arm. She would then be able to replace it with the plaster one
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/204759
Limestone funerary stele (shaft) surmounted by two sphinxes – The Sphinx is another female hybrid, half woman, half lioness. The sphinx stele’s served as watch dogs to guard tombs against defilement.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/242050
Head of Medusa Cameo, Italian 1880 – White onyx on a black background showing Medusa’s beauty framed by voluminous hair with writhing serpents.
https://tinyurl.com/y97dmqdt
Gilt bronze mask of Medusa – The website speculates that this may have been part of a clock
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/190001
There were only two hanging items in the exhibit, an etching and a painting, both of which appealed to me.
Perseus and the Sleeping Medusa - Alexander Runciman – Perseus about to slay the sleeping Medusa
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/745938
The Sin – Edvard Munch – This lithograph depicts a femme fatale with long flowing red locks, emerald-green eyes and a blank expression. Her hypnotic, alien stare is reminiscent of Medusa’s petrifying gaze.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364581
This is a link to the Met’s overview page for the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/dangerous-beauty
This is the Met’s press release.
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/dangerous-beauty
These exhibits are good examples of the wonders of the Met, little shows that can be put together from the permanent collection. Despite the size and scope of the physical museum there is so much of the permanent collection which isn’t on regular display. I was concerned about the dearth of available exhibits but it looks like there are a bunch in the offing which I’m looking forward to and will report on.
And now, the Flickrs.
Andy G.
LG AB Sissy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nikki_e-cd/40413577102/
Tgirl in London
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alina_694/38603087016/
White tight miniskirt_15
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_kyoko/4865781321/
Usual pose..
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
We had our second encounter with a Nor’easter this week and while it wasn’t as benign as the previous one it certainly could have been worse. At least for me and the people from my community. There were wildly varying amounts of snow in New Jersey with some accumulations reaching two feet but we were lucky and only received about six inches. And the next day was milder and the snow started to melt. Today was a bit chilly as it was windy and felt colder than it should have. Daylight savings seems to have come very early this year and I hadn’t given any thought to it until today. Usually it pops up on my radar at least a few days before. Not looking forward to losing the hour of sleep as I plan to call friends at 10AM and I’ll have to get up very early to get in my usual Sunday morning routine.
I was back at the Met again this week for the recently opened new Japanese rotation, The Poetry of Nature: Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while, the Met generally rotates their Japanese collection twice a year so each iteration is up for some time. Since I’ve become attuned to Asian art I’ve enjoyed each version, albeit some more than others. This particular exhibit is wonderful as it plays into my likes with many scrolls, screens and wood block prints. Out of the more than 100 objects in the exhibit 40 come from the Fishbein-Bender collection and are gifts or promised gifts to the museum. Many have never been displayed in the western world. Longtime residents of New York and supporters of The Met, Estelle P. Bender and her late husband, T. Richard Fishbein, shared a love of art and travel, especially to Europe and Japan, since the time they met in the late 1970s. I expect the second rotation to appear in the summer.
I’ll list some of the many things I liked. Be sure to read the descriptions on the website.
Fudō Myōō Threatening a Novice - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi – I’ll start with my favorite form of Japanese art, the wood block print. This brilliant triple panel is a colorful depiction of a dream by the monk, Abbot Yūten. You can see the implicit violence as a statue of a deity comes to life and threatens the monk with his sword.
https://tinyurl.com/yb3hvl8s
Honoring the Three Gods of Poetry: Women Composing Poems - Chōbunsai Eishi – Another triptych wood block print, this is a busy illustration of women at work composing poems. The women are depicted in their beautifully decorated robes while we can see the landscape through the open windows at the back and also the artwork adorning the walls of the room behind.
https://tinyurl.com/y8eefmth
The Courtesan Hinazuru of the Chōjiya Brothel (Chōjiya Hinazuru), from the series Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters as Six Floral Immortals (Seirō bijin rokkasen) - Chōbunsai Eishi – Here’s a single panel by Eishi of one of the six courtesans, the courtesan, Hanaōgi, also appears in the exhibit.
https://tinyurl.com/y7a6xelt
Courtesan Holding a Poetry Slip - Chōbunsai Eishi – Another of Eishi’s courtesans, this time depicted on a scroll. We see her red kimono decorated with cherry blossoms and spider webs while her outer robe seems about to drop off her shoulders.
https://tinyurl.com/ycrpdopp
Puppies in the Snow - Nagasawa Rosetsu – These four sliding panels have been in previous exhibits and I linked to them a few years ago but its sparse playfulness appeals to me so I’m bringing it back for an encore.
https://tinyurl.com/yakobbdu
Crane and Pine Tree with Rising Sun - Suzuki Kiitsu – This remarkably beautiful hanging silk scroll vibrates with vivid colors, the bright red of the sun, the lush green of the tree and the black and white crane with the dab of red at its crown.
https://tinyurl.com/y9mfvbhe
Egrets and Crows - Shibata Zeshin – The whiteness of the egrets shown isn’t painted, the artist cut them out of the gold leaf paper. The whiteness of the two egrets offsets the blackness of the three flying crows.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/77169
Red Shōki, the Demon Queller - Katsushika Hokusai – While there were none of his wood block prints in this exhibit we have this hanging silk scroll. It was painted towards the end of his long life, he was 87 and passed away at 88. Shōki appeared as an exorcist in a dream of a subsequent Chinese emperor and vowed to quell demons and banish disease. Hokusai used red pigment for the painting as folklore thought it warded off smallpox.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45818
Winter Scene with Ducks and Pine Trees - Matsumura Goshun – A snowscape depicting a brisk but not bitter cold day with ducks floating gently in a serene setting.
https://tinyurl.com/y8aajnju
Seiken-ji and Mount Fuji - Soga Shōhaku – This large hanging scroll is a panoramic view showing Mount Fuji looming over the landscape and the small village with the Seiken-ji temple.
https://tinyurl.com/y7de9f9k
This is a link to the overview page of the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/poetry-of-nature
This is a link to the Met’s press release.
https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/poetry-of-nature
This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=74a68abf-52fa-4240-9460-cf7909d2d83a#!?perPage=100&offset=0
Lots of beauty here to be appreciated. Look forward to the second rotation.
I visited the Met a second time this week for another of their small exhibits consisting entirely of works from the permanent collection, American Painters in Italy: From Copley to Sargent. This was a wonderful compilation of drawings and watercolors with heavy emphasis on John Singer Sargent. As I’ve commented before, how amazing to be able to just pull all of this out of your attic for an exhibit.
There wasn’t anything I didn’t like so I’ll just show some examples.
Perseus - John Quincy Adams Ward – This pencil sketch is of Perseus holding the head of Medusa, a topic that I addressed in the Medusa post recently. Very spare and beautiful.
https://tinyurl.com/y8zqwbuq
Creation of Adam; Sleeping Adam, after Michaelangelo; Other Figures; Profile of Head of Man in Helmut - Thomas Sully – This is an ink drawing based on Michelangelo’s Adam. Very timely after the recent post on Michelangelo. Down below we’ll see Sargent’s recreation of Michelangelo.
https://tinyurl.com/y86jzr27
Torre dei Schiavi, The Roman Campagna (from Cropsey Album) - Jasper Francis Cropsey – Cropsey is one of the Hudson River painters and the notes on the website point out that the Roman Campagna was a favorite milieu for American painters and mentions several who also painted the ruins, one of whom is Sanford Robinson Gifford , another painter I’m fond of. His oil painting is the second link. This drawing is fairly tiny, roughly 4” x 6”.
https://tinyurl.com/yblx7cgk
http://hoocher.com/Sanford_Robinson_Gifford/Torre_dei_Schiavi-Roman_Campagna_1857.jpg
Castel San Elmo (from Cropsey Album) - Attributed to Jasper Francis Cropsey – It’s authenticity as a genuine Cropsey may be in doubt but regardless it’s a wonderful depiction of a 14th Century Neapolitan Castle.
https://tinyurl.com/y9hcphv8
Girgenti (The Temple of Juno Lacinia at Agrigentum) - William Stanley Haseltine – More ancient ruins here, a splendid pencil and watercolor depiction of the Temple. It’s hard to conjure how men were able to build these giant monuments without the aid of modern day devices. The number of men it took must have been phenomenal.
https://tinyurl.com/ycokxp6x
Interior of Church, Sienna - Julian Clarence Levi – Levi was an architect and this pencil and watercolor painting was created with an architect’s eye.
https://tinyurl.com/y8nob6no
Note in Pink and Brown - James McNeill Whistler – Whistler is someone else I’ve always enjoyed, both his paintings and etchings of which there are many. I’ve been lucky to see a number of exhibits of both. The website says this is one of a hundred pastels he created in Venice and based on that I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of them over the years.
https://tinyurl.com/yav6b5ea
Night - John Singer Sargent – Sargent was born in Italy and spent his childhood there. He especially admired Michelangelo and was only 14 years old when he drew this recreation of Michelangelo’s sculpture. You can see that in the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/ydaplok6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(Michelangelo)#/media/File:Florenz_-_Neue_Sakristei,_Nacht,_Grabmal_Giuliano_II.jpg
The Marriage at Cana (from scrapbook) - John Singer Sargent – He created this pencil and watercolor drawing just a few years after Night. This is a recreation of a work by Tintoretto, who along with Titian was someone else Sargent admired. You can see the original at the second link.
https://tinyurl.com/y8bg6vgv
https://www.wikiart.org/en/tintoretto/marriage-at-cana-1561
There are 12 paintings in the exhibit by Sargent and I thought the four below were a nice representation of his vibrant watercolors. In several it’s commented that he painted them as if from a gondola looking up.
Garden near Lucca - John Singer Sargent
https://tinyurl.com/ya5zrhnj
Venetian Canal - John Singer Sargent
https://tinyurl.com/ybxuayel
Giudecca - John Singer Sargent
https://tinyurl.com/y76fr83l
Venetian Passageway - John Singer Sargent
https://tinyurl.com/yd64u74n
This is the overview of the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/american-painters-in-italy
This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/objects?exhibitionId=75478179-fe6a-457b-98b3-ed4f35ee6a5a#!?perPage=100&offset=0
A good week all around for viewing art.
Now let’s view this week’s Flickrs.
Andy G.
I brought you daffodils in a pretty string, but they won't flower like they did last spring
https://www.flickr.com/photos/158316858@N03/39761432695/
Book Cover - Paul to Paula – Having come across this the other day I see the link has now been disabled. But apparently the book is legit, see second link. And the third link is the author's Facebook page.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/159957718@N03/26719515298/
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/PaulTravers
https://www.facebook.com/paultopaula/
dressed perfectly
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10129697@N08/37599903606/
Carol33
https://www.flickr.com/photos/153136683@N05/36155192896/
I'm a full service French maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rgaines/30013630154/
Lace and legs...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/107544285@N05/25966339638/
summer dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152202283@N04/24950671657/
Prom Night
https://www.flickr.com/photos/147817670@N03/24765576007/
That Next Sequin minidress.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmasmith_tvuk/39681688122/
sissy maxine
https://www.flickr.com/photos/149738729@N02/39723703272/
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
This is an early Flickr as in a little while I will head down to the Jersey shore to spend some time with friends.
We had our third Nor’easter this week but like the first it didn’t bring any accumulation of snow. While we’re now just a few days away from Spring on the calendar the weather forecasters are saying that the cold weather will linger for a while. It was a pretty chilly week here, again due to the wind which has been higher than usual. I’m just hoping we see no more snow.
I visited Swann’s Auction House for the first time this week. Swann’s isn’t on a par with Christie’s and Sotheby’s but they’re still a player in the New York auction market. It was their prints and drawings auction and the room was filled with many beautiful things, literally hundreds. But I don’t like their viewing system, all of the art is tagged with a number without any identification so you have to carry the catalogue with you while you view. Being an enormous collection the catalogue was very heavy and the art isn’t exactly in numerical order which made for awkward cross referencing. I was particularly interested in seeing two Edward Hoppers I noticed on the website and on my initial pass through I didn’t find them. This was annoying but then I noticed they were set up in a separate display case at the front.
This is a link to all the items in the auction. There are three pages from the catalog, well over 400 items. Click on the individual images to enlarge.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?pg=1&sale_no=2469&st=D&viewby=lot_asc&ps=200
These were the only Hopper items in the auction but for most of the other artists there were multiple pieces and I’ll just provide a random sampling.
EDWARD HOPPER - House by a River.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469+++++145+&refno=++741951&saletype=
Six American Etchings, Series I. – One is by Hopper and at the same link you can click on images of the other five.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469+++++146+&refno=++743209&saletype=
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET - Les Glaneuses. – Millet was a French 19th Century painter of peasants. This is a drawing of arguably his most famous painting which translates from the French as The Gleaners. The second link is for the oil painting.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469++++++14+&refno=++742872&saletype=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners#/media/File:Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet_-_Gleaners_-_Google_Art_Project_2.jpg
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER - Quiet Canal. – An etching from his second set of Venice drawings.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=2469++++++34+&refno=++742916#j2lot
JAMES A. M. WHISTLER - Fumette. - Fumette, or 'Racy' as her nickname translates, was also known as 'La Tigresse' because of her hot temper. Her real name was Héliose; she was a milliner from the Latin Quarter of Paris and one of Whistler's models and mistresses during the late 1850s.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469++++++30+&refno=++742111&saletype=
ÉDOUARD MANET - Le Chat et les Fleurs. – Not many of Manet’s drawings survived. This is from a long essay about the artist, his life and work. “Alongside painting Manet enjoyed drawing and print making. Although not many of his drawings still exist, those that do are certainly impressive. Again, he worked from reality and like in his paintings, the lines in his drawings are firm and strong. Manet was partly responsible for the revival of print making. Many of his prints were copies of his paintings and Manet believed in 'pure' etchings. Manet's goal was to produce paintings that accurately reveal to the viewer his reality.” The second link goes to the website.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469++++++47+&refno=++743780&saletype=
https://www.artble.com/artists/edouard_manet
CLAUDE MONET - Maison au toit de chaume, Gainneville. – 17 year old Monet showing his precocity in this simple drawing of a thatched farmhouse.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469++++++62+&refno=++743181&saletype=
ANDERS ZORN - The New Maid. – Zorn was a Swedish artist of the 19th/20th Century. Some time ago I saw an large exhibit of his work at the National Academy of Design which showed that he was brilliant in whatever medium he was working in.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469++++++93+&refno=++742698&saletype=
THOMAS MORAN - Morning on the St. Johns, Florida. - Moran was a Hudson River painter known for his large landscapes but he also created these beautiful engravings. This particular one also hangs in the National Gallery of Art.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2469+++++134+&refno=++743696&saletype=
MARTIN LEWIS - New York Nocturne. – Lewis is someone I discovered at the auctions and he quickly became a favorite. Not surprising as he more or less taught Hopper the basics of etching.
https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=2469+++++166+&refno=++743891#j2lot
I could keep going but I’ll end here as I think it’s a good sampling of what I saw. Go to the full list to see the rest of the selection which is equally good.
And now, the Flickrs.
Andy G.
All black
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindaw567/20884252544/
TGirl_Sat_1-6-18Otola_814
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgirlnights/38898449735/
Flickr Flasher
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hello_monique/11460165773/
033
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130352799@N08/31074374732/
Ready Sir...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/150101413@N05/39816677661/
7
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93384274@N00/4372076417/
Disobedience Will Be Punished
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stacycuk/35742879461/
Lindy Lou wants to play
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindaw567/17142738661/
Maidalice 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alice_uk_cd/38787743525/
Susie759
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24899087@N05/36838622775/