Betty's Pub 20.1
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I think this will be quick today. It’s a beautiful day but I had no plans as we really are in the dog days of summer, at least insofar as art is concerned. There are no new exhibits to see and we’ll probably have to wait until mid-September before they start up again. Consequently I just went into NYC and took a long walk downtown. Stopped in a few stores looking for denim shorts which apparently don’t exist. I guess I’ll have to see about purchasing them online.
My second week of vacation starts next Saturday and I’m wondering how I’m going to spend it with no new exhibits to see. It’s possible I’ll go to the Met every day, there’s still plenty of areas I haven’t explored and lots of galleries I haven’t been in for a while. And hopefully there may be a gallery show sometime.
In lieu of an art discussion let me end with this link to a video. It’s completely off topic but all of my Saturday posts are so I won’t let that deter me. I am not a fan of rap music but I read about this in the Daily News and decided I should check it out. It’s the actor Daniel Radcliffe, familiar to most of you I would imagine as Harry Potter, doing a rap number, "Alphabet Aerobics." He’s very good and it’s very funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKdV5FvXLuI
On to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
tbs5
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come on in
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Shot with a Sony ILCE-7R.
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red rubber 1
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Once again a fashion model pose
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ddt493l
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pretend to be a model (a dreaming girl_♥︎)
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DSC07148
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Spring Bebe
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IMG_7333_gl1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahmorgan1978/19291974519/
Hippy Girl Jen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sesquipedalian_girl/19542616656/
Long
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Andyg, every week i look forward to your Flickr posts, I have to say this week you have surpassed yourself. Every picture is excellent, and if like me you go to the users flickr I have had a couple of hours looking at some amazing pics! Thankyou for all your hard work.
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Hi sissybaby,
Thanks. From the beginning I've always recommended checking out the other pages from the links that are listed. Glad you find things that you like.
Andy G.
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Always enjoy your weekly effort, Andy. Also enjoyed the Daniel Radcliffe piece.
If others watch and enjoy, try his "Elements" song made famous by Alan Sherman years ago. It is on You Tube.
Also, Daniel Radcliffe starred in the Broadway re-make of "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying".
He reprised the role done by Robert Morse many years ago. You can see the number "Fellowship of Man" on You Tube.
Daniel has become a mighty fine young talent in his post Potter years.
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Hi Sisiam,
How to Succeed is one of my favorite Broadway plays; I have the original soundtrack album, so many good songs. Radcliffe definitely has a long career ahead of him, he's shown that he can do any genre and be good at it and he seems to be well centered and pleasant. I have Alan Sherman's first three records as well, and when I was a kid at camp I would entertain the adults singing the chorus from Shake Hands with your Uncle Max.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btFefWIlaNs
Andy G.
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I made a mistake above. The Elements Song was by Tom Lehrer not Alan Sherman. But I loved them both as a kid and still do. Enjoyed "Shake Hands" which I hadn't heard in years.
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Sorry, but Radcliffe has no musical or rap soul. Listening to most white people rap is like watching most white men try to dance. They just can't do it. Rap takes a bit more than reciting a rhyme with a little bit of rhythm. It takes some emotion, feeling, & energy too. Also rap should flow with the beat, not hit with the beat. You have to roll the words like playing a musical instrument or dancing well rather than use the words like a drum beat strike. Not that I'm a rap fan either, but it does sound better, & is more entertaining when it's done good.
Here's a 33 minute mix of a few of my favorite rap tunes:
http://unclegadget.com/aud/OldSchool.mp3
If it don't play when you click on it, you probably don't have updated flash or HTML5 (HTML5 is recommended for this file) on your browser or it's disabled. Open the link in a new window or tab, if you want it to play & continue surfing elsewhere. You can also right-click the link & click "save as" to save it as a compressed mp3 in a folder of your choice to play through your media player. It's less than 4mb in file size (handy for portable devices with limited memory, data speeds, or data limits - yes, this low-bandwidth file will even play in HTML5 on a dialup connection).
Use VLC player to make highly compressed audio file sound beyyer. VLC has almost all the codecs for modern compressed media files - even my custom special compressed files I make myself like this one. Just for the codecs alone, VLC is worth installing on your machine. When windows or Apple machines try to play media, it searches for the best codecs to use to play it. More often than not, it will be the superior codecs included with the VLC player. For a file like this, even your flash or HTML5 player will prefer the better VLC codecs to play it properly. Although most players will play the file, for this type of custom mp3 file, VLC codecs will make it sound best played using VLC, Flash, or HTML5.
Sorry about the compressed form of this mix, but I'm only allowed to host or post this kind of material in a highly compressed form.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Another beautiful day made even more beautiful to me as it is the first day of my second week of vacation. More practice for retirement. And this week will really give me a glimpse of retirement as there is very little going on so I will have to decide how I fill my days. I found a website that lists all the art galleries in New York City with links to their websites but unfortunately doesn’t tell you the genre of art they exhibit. So I’ll have to go through a bunch of them to determine if they are things I like. Much of what I’ve seen so far is contemporary and I’m not a big fan of contemporary art. I did find one exhibit at Hirschl & Adler, scenes of home life from the 18th Century to the present which I plan on visiting. The website initially said it was located on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street so when I found myself standing on the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue this morning I looked around and didn’t see it. When I went back a little while ago it said it was located in the Crown Building and then it gave an actual address, 730 Fifth Avenue, so I’m confident I’ll be able to find it.
Beyond that I will visit the Metropolitan Museum of art a few times and continue to look for other venues. I walked up to the Met this morning to see the one remaining exhibit that I hadn’t seen yet, Grand Illusions - Staged Photography from the Met Collection. I wasn’t sure I was going to see it but my brother recommended it and yesterday Roberta Smith in the New York Times gave it a very good review so I went. It was remarkably good. A small show, 40 items, all from the Met’s photography collection covering a broad period of time from the early days of photography to current times. Lots of interesting pictures, the star of the show is Fright, a collaboration between a photographer, an artist and Virginia Verasis, Countess of Castiglione. She arranged to have her portrait photographed, dressed in an elaborate costume as if for a night out at a ball during which a fire erupts. The photograph of her was then colorized by the artist who also painted the scene of a conflagration behind her with flames licking at her feet as if she is fleeing for safety. It’s a remarkable piece and the star of the exhibit as they blew it up to 7 feet and mounted it on the wall at the entrance of the gallery. The original is further into the exhibit. This is a link to an illustration from the Met website. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/682875 Among the other highlights is a Lewis Carroll photographed staging of St George and the Dragon as portrayed by three children. The card explained that Carroll had a room built and stocked it with toys and theatrical costumes so as to stage the pictures and shoot them. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/283093 A few years before that a Swedish born Brit took this picture of a brother and sister, Mr. and Miss Constable. They are posed affectionately with her hand around his shoulder and his clasping hers and they are staring at something. His gaze is so intense you wonder what they’re looking at. I thought it resembled a still picture from a 1930’s movie starring Robert Donat or someone like that. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/283096 This is a link to yesterday’s NY Times review. You will see several additional illustrations as well as another look at Fright. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/arts/design/review-grand-illusions-showcases-deceptive-photography.html?_r=0
I always keep a very small flash light in my pocket when I go out as I always read on the bus. The buses all have reading lights but often aren’t on, or are broken, or too dim to actually read by. But it’s awkward holding the light and reading the newspaper as you need to keep turning the pages. When I visited my dentist recently I noticed that she wears a headlamp so as to shine an intense light on the teeth in my mouth as she works on them. The doctor’s version of the miners lamp the men wore in the bowels of the mines. I thought it would be exactly what I could use and wondered if it was available commercially. I went to Amazon and found lots of them. So I purchased an inexpensive one and it just arrived. It’s exactly what I wanted. Luckily there is a review on Amazon that explains the lamp comes with absolutely no instructions and then goes on to explain how it works using illustrations. It takes three AAA batteries but doesn’t come with any installed which explains why nothing happened when I pressed the button. But without the help I don’t think I would have been able to open the device to put the batteries in. I would have thought it was an out of box failure which actually is what I thought before I went back to Amazon and read the review. It has four settings, one very bright white light, one a little less bright, one solid red light and finally a blinking white light. It’s great for me at my kitchen table where my overhead light isn’t so good for reading and it will be really great for reading on the bus when the reading lights aren’t available. And when I go for my long walk in the complete darkness of a winter morning I can wear it with the red or blinking lights on and possibly avoid being run over by someone who was talking on their cell phone and didn’t see me. Very pleased.
When I posted the Daniel Radcliffe video I did so as I was impressed by his memorizing the routine. Betty panned it saying he was a lousy rapper but that was really beside the point for me, I don’t like rap music so it didn’t matter if his rapping style was weak, I was just amazed at his ability to rattle it off fautlessly. So here is another short video of The Tibetan Memory trick. I first saw Jerry Lewis do this on one of his television programs from 1963. That was the series where the theme was Think Pink as his wife was pregnant, they had four boys and wanted a girl. As it turned out the fifth child was a boy as well and came to a very bad end which I won’t go into here. It also showed that Jerry was not the greatest parent or person in the world. Anyway, some of you may remember the music group The Turtles whose two main artists were Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan who went on to do an act as Flo and Eddie. I always loved the Turtles and Flo And Eddie were wonderful as well, I have a live concert of theirs on tape where in addition to playing their original material, they do spoofs on other rock bands. This is a video of a live concert, the audio portion only, in which they do the Tibetan Memory trick. I never was able to go beyond nine myself.
Flo and Eddie (The Sanzini Brothers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52AS1q3kqM
So now, if I remember correctly, this must be where we go to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
IMG_2685
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Twiggy's Choice
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Man maid ?
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Blue & Aqua
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Libby Lauren
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White Dress and Glasses
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Vivienne Westwood suits
https://www.flickr.com/photos/otokonomusume/6486070063/
Untitled
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lovelymaco/20072622315/
Mr.taxi dance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/myy_mee/16863811436/
Pink housemaid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/20096426325/
vibes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128199758%40N02/16807006285/
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Finally a pretty dress in your art. Not exactly a frilly sissy dress, but I'd enjoy wearing it if i had it around.
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Scarey stuff with animal skins & swords at such a young age. Then they wondered why we had nightmares in those days, or they thought it was normal to have them all the time.
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I used to play George and the Dragon with my cousin back in 1956, and as he had a full set pf plastic armour and swords I got to be the dragon most often. He didn't like to lend out his toys but you always had to play the games he wanted. Funny thing was his house was just down the road from the George & Dragon pub where our fathers went to quench their thirst. He was a spoiled youngest child with a much older brother who was away at school most of the time. His mother even let him stay home from school most of the time when he didn't want to go.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
My ancient Aunt was always fond of telling at the outset of my vacation that before I knew it, it would be over. And just like she said, before I knew it, here we are. I’ve had a very pleasant week off and I regret it’s coming to a close. Spent the week relaxing and viewing the art I enjoy so much.
I went back to the website with the enormous listing of art galleries in New York City and clicked on every link to see what kind of art they specialized in and what they had on view. Only found a few that had things I like and I wound up visiting two of them.
The first was QuestRoyal at 903 Park Avenue, just off 79th Street. It’s in an apartment building on the third floor and has an enormous gallery. It looks like they took up all the apartments on one floor, many rooms filled with quality art. They specialize in the Hudson River painters; I took home a very nice illustrated catalogue and they asked me if I wanted to be on their mailing list to which I readily agreed. Notable artists in the collection who have multiple paintings include, Jasper Cropsey, Study for Ramapo Valley http://www.questroyalfineart.com/14614/study-for-ramapo-valley.html Asher Durand, Duchess County http://www.questroyalfineart.com/14478/dutchess-county-new-york.html# George Inness, Woods at Montclair http://www.questroyalfineart.com/14215/woods-at-montclair.html Albert Bierstadt, A Trail Through the Trees http://www.questroyalfineart.com/13120/a-trail-through-the-trees.html William Trost Richards, Bouquet Valley http://www.questroyalfineart.com/12793/keene-valley-adirondacks.html and what I believe to be the star of the collection, Sanford Robinson Gifford, The Wilderness http://www.questroyalfineart.com/14795/the-wilderness.html. The Wilderness absolutely glows off the wall. All of the art is for sale and there were “reasonably” priced items if you have money to spend on wonderful art. The Wilderness was the only one without a price tag being marked available on request.
There were other interesting items as well. A Winslow Homer ink drawing, Fresh Air http://www.questroyalfineart.com/13390/fresh-air.html Reginald Marsh, an American painter of the 20th Century who started out as a cartoonist, I have a bound volume of the NY Daily News from the twenties with one of his cartoons, has a number of works but the one I was most taken by is, Off to the Movies, Love Affair is Playing!
http://www.questroyalfineart.com/13992/off-to-the-movies-love-affair-is-playing.html Finally there were multiple works by two artists I had never come across before. Henry Martin Gasser, a 20th Century American artist whose A Street Corner in Paterson, New Jersey I very much liked, http://www.questroyalfineart.com/14402/a-street-corner-in-paterson-new-jersey.html and Harry Roseland, a 19th Century American artist who depicted realistic portrayals of Black Americans. This is The Palmist showing a fortune teller and her client, a young upper class woman http://www.questroyalfineart.com/14261/the-palmist.html
The website is filled with information. You’ll see when you click on the links that below each illustration is a biography of the artist. And you can enlarge each of the paintings to full screen as well. QuestRoyal was a real find and I look forward to visiting again when they have new items on display.
The second gallery which I mentioned last week is Hirschl & Adler.
They had an eclectic mix of artists with the Hudson River school represented by a brilliant Thomas Cole, Italian Autumn http://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-cole/an-italian-autumn-1844 a charming scene of houses in Pennsylvania by Charles Sheeler, Ephrata http://www.hirschlandadler.com/view_3.html?type=GALLERIES&id=17&num=7 Sheeler was a 20th Century artist/commercial photographer who was known as a precisionist as his paintings were very linear and could be quite as faithful to the original as his photographs. He liked to paint buildings, machinery and industrial sites. A wonderful portrait of a child, Josiah Lasell by William Merritt Chase, http://www.hirschlandadler.com/view_3.html?type=EXHIBITION&id=5213&num=12&artist=true Gilbert Stuart George Washington http://www.hirschlandadler.com/view_3.html?type=EXHIBITION&id=3538&num=30&artist=true Fairfield Porter portrait of Jerry which struck some nerve with me, perhaps because it appears to be a portrait of a young man who passed away at a very early age http://www.hirschlandadler.com/view_3.html?type=EXHIBITION&id=4709&num=2&artist=true and another artist new to me, Peter Poskas who painted a neighborhood scene, Stonington Sunset which I enjoyed much in the same way I liked the Gasser painting of Paterson, New Jersey. http://www.hirschlandadler.com/view_3.html?type=EXHIBITION&id=5213&num=8&artist=true There were several others that I would have liked to include but they weren’t available on the Gallery website or on the web.
I visited the Met twice during the week. Once I was up on the mezzanine in the Greek and Roman galleries where they exhibit their pottery, vases, shards, busts, jewelry and other artifacts from ancient times. The most wonderful item there is the Monteleone chariot. The chariot was unearthed in Italy in 1902 and dates back 2600 years to the Etruscan era. I remember reading an article in the NY Times on the chariot which gave its history but also explained that it had been reassembled incorrectly and it wasn’t corrected until 1989 when an Italian archaeologist visited and pointed out the error. This is a link to the Met website description of the chariot and the NY Times article follows it. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/03.23.1 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/arts/design/29char.html
The second visit took me up to a different mezzanine, this one in the American Wing. It’s literally the attic of the Met. It’s where they store art which isn’t on display. I had been up there many years ago and it was pleasant to go back again for another look. Lots of wonderful paintings that should be on display but don’t warrant wall space. This is a link to a John Singer Sargent painting of Henry G. Marquand, the second President of the Met. He gave them a collection of his Old Masters paintings prior to joining the board. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/12108 I also got a kick out of the latest rotation of Jefferson Burdick’s baseball card collection.
So I managed to keep busy and at the end of every day I wondered where the day had gone so I don’t think I will have any problems adjusting to retirement when the time comes. I’m certainly looking forward to giving it a try.
And now, the Flickrs.
Whenever I post to the board I always do a preview and click on the links to make sure they’re still active. I just did this and a couple of the links said adult content and told me to sign in to view them. They aren’t anything different from any of the other links so I don’t know why they are designated adult but I clicked on sign in anyway. But it didn’t remember me and didn’t have my email address in the Yahoo database. So I went to create a new account, not the first time I’ve done so as they had locked me out previously. But this time they asked me for my cell phone number, and you faithful readers on the Flickr posts will remember my recent tale of not having a cell phone number. And guess what, without a cell phone number you can’t open an account. So I went to a different browser and pasted in the link and it opened right up. There is nothing too simple for them to screw up.
Andy G.
IMAG0141 Check out his folder)
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54 Everyday - Thinking
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Mayumi Saito
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Womanless
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Sissy Maid Simone
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Sissy Garden
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Adventures in Drag
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2015miranda4116
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Thanks for the links Andy. I love seeing the art you and I love. I love the Albert Bierstadt work "A Trail Through the Woods" it reminds me of the English countryside. Glad you had a wonderful week enjoying your time away from work and doing something you love. Once you retire you will wonder where the time goes as everyday seems to fly by like your vacation time does. I love the art almost as good as the weekly Flickr pics.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It will be a quick Flickr this morning. I have my oldest friends in from Puerto Rico coming for our annual visit. They have requested that they take me out to eat rather my making dinner as I usually do so I’m looking forward to a nice Chinese meal. I’ve made the apple cake for dessert so I think we will have a very nice time. It’s a beautiful day and I’m hoping the weather holds up so they can make it home before the thunderstorms. Hope everyone on the board has a great weekend as well.
Andy G.
Transgender news from 1952 AD when George Jorgensen became Christine, 1
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New Alexzander
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White front zip dress-08
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Pink!?
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P1010100
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School Girl
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PicsArt_1438877481250
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2015miranda4337
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The Pet in the Penthouse
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Corset negro y pollera Pin Up vaporosa!
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Claudia
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#wonderwoman #crossplay #mcmMCR15
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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
It’s a beautiful day today and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed myself which I will expand on shortly. This past Sunday the NY Times printed its Fall preview issue which among other things listed upcoming exhibitions across the Country and in the New York Metropolitan area. The newspaper weighed a ton but I was disappointed to read through it as the upcoming exhibits are sparse. Normally I’ll see a dozen or so exhibits I want to see and there were really just a few this time. I have to hope that as the season continues things will pop up that weren’t on the schedule when the newspaper ran its calendar. I’m sure the Met will have shows that aren’t listed but for now there’s really not a lot to plan for.
But I’m pleased to say that earlier this week there was an ad in the New York Times for an exhibit at the Ronin Gallery in Manhattan. It’s located at 425 Madison Avenue, just off 49th Street, on the 3rd floor. I had never been there and was happy to find another venue devoted to Japanese art. This is a link to the site. http://www.roningallery.com/ It’s all Japanese woodblock prints and it was an absolutely splendid show celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Gallery, “40 for 40: Forty Artists, Forty Masterpieces, Celebrating 40 Years.” 40 woodblock prints that ranged in age from when new technology to enhance the prints was developed in the late 1700’s to the 20th Century. Artists that I’m familiar with included Utamayo, Hiroshige, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and there were many others that I was meeting for the first time, all very beautiful. When I arrived at the building I was greeted by 8 prints in the lobby, several by Hiroshige, and then when I got off the elevator on the third floor, there were even more in the corridor outside the gallery. Once inside I was met by a young man who greeted me and asked if I was there for something in particular or just for the exhibit. I told him the exhibit and he told me to enjoy. There was also a young woman working and she greeted me as well. Twice while I was there I was asked if I had any questions or needed any help and was handed a copy of their catalogue to browse. They were very pleasant and helpful and not pushy or anxious to get me out of the gallery. The catalog was beautiful and if it didn’t cost $45 I probably would have bought it. In addition to the 40 prints on the walls they had three large stacks of prints sitting on a desk. I would have been reluctant to go through them but the young man pointed them out and told me to feel free to peruse them. I was glad I did as there were many more beautiful things. I was there for about an hour and greatly enjoyed myself. I was the only visitor the entire time. There were a number of items where the price had been covered over with a red circle indicating it had sold and just about everything else had a price although a few said price on request. The prices ranged from several hundred dollars to $7200.
The website is an absolute trove of art, everything at the exhibit is online. I want to point out a few that I was especially taken with.
The earliest work that I enjoyed is by Utamaro from 1798 - Courtesan Hisui from Ogiya, two women looking over fabric rolls. http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/40-x-40/courtesan-hisui-from-ogiya Moving chronologically the next is by Hokusai in 1830 - Inume Pass in Kai Province, a beautiful landscape with two small travelers leading horses with supplies. http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/40-x-40/inume-pass-in-kai-province Next is Hiroshige from 1830 - Plum Garden at Kameido, the picture and garden is framed through the thick branches of a tree and you can see people in the distance gathered together in a gated area. Hiroshige’s prints are very colorful and they are what initially generated my interest in Japanese woodblock prints. http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/40-x-40/plum-garden-at-kameido Two from the 20th century which I particularly admired are, Bunjiro Kawase - Zojo Temple in Snow from 1925, which depicts a lone person walking past a temple during a snowstorm carrying an umbrella that completely covers their head and shoulders. Snow is falling lightly and has started to cover the ground, the trees and the low roof of the temple. http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/40-x-40/zojo-temple-in-snow-at-shiba Next is Hiroshi Yoshida, Sacred Bridge from 1937, a landscape showing a bridge crossing a river with mountains and trees surrounding it. http://www.roningallery.com/exhibitions/40-x-40/sacred-bridge
I liked everything in the lobby which I now realize are reproductions which in retrospect makes sense as it would be too easy for someone to come in and pull them off the wall. Be that as it may I especially enjoyed Hiroshige’s Snow at Kiso, a triptych, the original of which I discovered resides at the Metropolitan Museum. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/36545?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=snow+at+kiso&pos=1the large banks of white set off by the sparse trees and the flowing water makes for a beautifully serene image. I hope it makes it into one of the Met’s many Japanese rotations. And I’ll end this section with another image that was in the lobby but also resides at the Met, another magnificent triptych by Hiroshige, Full Moon at Kanazawa, showing a beautiful full moon in a clear blue sky over blue water with a few boats drifting alongside land jutting out from the shore. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/57068 Be sure to enlarge it.
In yesterday’s NY Times there was an article on the reopening of the galleries at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Connecticut. I was there many years ago, once with my brother and once by myself. It’s a magnificent old structure and has a first class collection. Now that it’s been completely renovated I’d like to go again although I’ll probably wait for a special exhibit. But my memory of traveling doesn’t gibe with what I see on the web now. I assumed I could take the Metro North which I see doesn’t stop in Hartford. It’s Amtrak that has the franchise. I also don’t remember it being so far away. It would be a 2 hour drive from my house, something I wouldn’t consider. But Amtrak’s schedule is deplorable. There are only 9 trains on any given day, three of which show as canceled no matter what date you put in, three that involve transferring to a bus and only two on the schedule run direct to Hartford, both at odd times. Odd for me anyway. The direct trains take 2 hours 45 minutes. While I do want to go I’m not sure I want to spend three hours going and coming home. At any rate this is a link to the article with illustrations. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/arts/design/review-wadsworth-atheneum-a-masterpiece-of-renovation.html?_r=0
And now I guess we should wander over to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
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