Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Summer at last! Seems like I’ve waited a very long time for Summer to arrive. And while the weather has been Summer like of late today is rather cool forcing me out of my shorts and short sleeve shirt back into my long sleeved shirt and long pants. But tomorrow promises to bring some warmth so I will refrain from complaining.
This week, after a number of postponements, I was finally able to give my friend a day out. We took the bus to the Newark Museum to see their current exhibition, THE ROCKIES & THE ALPS - Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains.
When we arrived at the museum I asked for one senior and one adult. The woman behind the counter asked me how old I was. I told her 67 and she processed our tickets. I can’t remember the last time I was asked how old I was but I can tell you it’s been years, but she didn’t ask for identification. I laughed because with my gray hair I was able to start requesting senior admission in my late 50’s and I never had anyone say to me, not so fast sonny.
It was a relatively small exhibition but it was filled with wonderful things, although there were far fewer Bierstadt’s than I expected. Alexandre Calame was a 19th Century Swiss landscape painter who is viewed as the leader of the Swiss alpine school of painting. His paintings complement Bierstadt’s in their subject and beauty. There were paintings from other Hudson river painters and there was supposed to be a Sargent but I went through the exhibit twice, very carefully, and I don’t believe it was on display. The museum website doesn’t offer very many images so I was forced to search the web to find what I’ve listed below.
The first link is to a magazine that was on the Newark museum website and it’s well illustrated although the notes about which picture is which are a little confusing. You’ll see paintings by Sanford Robinson Gifford, someone I’ve mentioned many times as being a favorite. They had one of his sketchbooks opened under glass to two pages but below it they had digitized the entire 100 pages and you could flip through that and enlarge the images as if you were turning the pages of the actual book. This was very cool. Another item was a Turner watercolor on loan from the Met which was a surprise. The 19th and 20th Century American wing is closed for renovations but in a corridor on the first floor they had their Hopper, an O’Keeffe and a few others which I remembered and enjoyed seeing again. I always enjoy seeing a Hopper. You can see it here. Click on it to enlarge it as you should try with all images.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-hopper/sheridan-theatre When we exited the exhibit we went up to the third floor for the Asian wing and saw some nice things. One in particular was Paradise Flycatcher Couple on Flowering Branch with rocks, a silk and gold slit small hanging tapestry. It was woven but you would have sworn it was painted. It was magnificently beautiful and also told a story about longevity through a rebus and puns. Unfortunately I could not find it on the web which is frustrating as I really wanted to include it here.
American Art Review – article on the exhibit.
https://www.newarkmuseum.org/sites/default/files/american%20art%20review_2.pdf Albert Bierstadt – Here are three typical Bierstadt landscapes, all very bright and majestic. The first showing what I take to be a clearing sky still showing storm clouds. Then majestic snowcapped mountains. And finally, a brilliant depiction of an enormous waterfall.
Estes Park, Colorado morning
https://tinyurl.com/ya9ewg2x Western Landscape, Mount Whitney
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Landscape,_Mount_Whitney_by_Albert_Bierstadt.jpg Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall
http://www.timkenmuseum.org/collection/cho-looke-the-yosemite-fall/ Alexandre Calame – First a rolling river in Berne, Switzerland and then a woman and her child enjoying a beautiful day of nature.
Berner Oberland
http://www.artnet.com/artists/alexandre-calame/partie-aus-dem-berner-oberland-jP1WAWlMLV8UsF5_ThECfA2 Souvenir of Lake Lucerne
https://www.paintingstar.com/item-souvenir-of-lake-lucerne-s112343.html Sanford Robinson Gifford – First a mountain pass showing people relaxing by the water, then the vast Wyoming prairie.
Stelvio Road
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Gifford_Sanford_Robinson_Stelvio_Road_by_Lago_di_Como.jpg Valley of the Chugwater, Wyoming Territory
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/valley-of-the-chugwater-wyoming-territory/HgHCCMHGQwvG8g Frederic Edwin Church – First, as described on the Olana website devoted to Church, the ethereal apparition of a rainbow among granite peaks. Then, snow covered mountains reflected in the blue water.
Rainbow Near Berchtesgaden, Germany
https://www.incollect.com/sites/uploads/OLANA_059.jpgObersee
https://www.olana.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Prints_8X10_Obersee.jpg This is a link to the Olana website I mention above with many more illustrations from Church.
https://www.incollect.com/articles/treasures-from-olana John Ferguson Weir - Cadenabbia on Lake Como – Weir was a 19th/20th Century American painter, sculptor, writer, and educator, the brother of J. Alden Weir, an American Impressionist painter. I’ve heard of Alden but I was unfamiliar with John and was really taken by the beauty of this seascape. The mountains and the clouds alongside the quietly moving water with just a few boats sailing across it. Very tranquil and serene.
https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=16514 J.M.W. Turner - Fort of L'Essillon, Val de la Maurienne, France – The watercolor I spoke of above.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343384 This is a link to a review of the exhibit with several illustrations that I was otherwise unable to find.
https://njnext.com/newark-museum-opens-the-rockies-and-the-alps-bierstadt-calame-and-the-romance-of-the-mountains/ This is a link to the Hawthorne Gallery which loaned two works to Newark by artists I’m unfamiliar with but which I very much enjoyed.
https://hawthornefineart.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/hawthorne-fine-arts-lends-to-the-rockies-the-alps-bierstadt-calame-and-the-romance-of-the-mountains/ A lovely exhibit well worth waiting for. The Newark museum is a little gem of a place with a marvelous permanent collection that I wish was able to attract more memorable exhibitions. I think it’s vastly underfunded and attendance is not great which is a shame. We were in the exhibition space for over an hour and we were the only visitors the entire time. This is wonderful from my point of view of being able to stroll through the gallery and linger in front of images for as long as I like but from an economic point of view it’s distressing for the museum. At any rate I look forward to going back at some point in the future.
After the museum we went out to a restaurant for dinner. It took my friend some time to decide on what she wanted to eat and the waitress came by several times before my friend came to a decision. She stated her choice and the waitress asked her if she wanted one or two and my friend looked at her with a bemused look on her face and said one. Then the waitress started to walk away without taking my order and I had to call her back. I’m not sure what exactly she was thinking but it’s another good illustration of how we become invisible as we age.
I subscribe to a daily email from Art Daily
http://artdaily.com and every day they have articles and videos that interest me. This week they posted this 9 minute video of New York in 1911 from MOMA. It’s remarkably clear. Everybody is wearing a hat. More horse and carts than automobiles. The automobiles have a driver where we’re accustomed to having the passenger sit. The trolleys and the Elevated trains are up and running. For the most part everyone ignores the cameraman but occasionally you can see someone take notice. I love old videos of New York City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5sUa_2SD8 Last week I wrote about the Antonio Canova exhibit at the Frick and today I found this long article that offers more background on the statue of Washington and how it came about.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/canovas-george-washington-rises-from-the-ashes-at-the-frick-collection_2549180.html I also receive emails from Sotheby’s which are interesting, like this one on Henri Matisse.
21 Facts About Henri Matisse
https://tinyurl.com/y7r4aee7 Now let’s see what the first Summer Flickrs look like.
Andy G.
This sissy wont stop talking. You know what to do
https://www.flickr.com/photos/155087403@N05/26983553087/stockings and a leather mini...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joanna-s-pearson/27040044277/ SUMMER TIME PORTRAIT
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwhitets/40133558290/red lace dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/adrii06/41817038571/Another boy very happy wearng a pink dress.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/158975951@N07/42830980482/ Little girl
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/41035255545/tallulahhh.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallulahhh/38031567814/Remeber me
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nastjona/41819216282/ Super Sonico
https://www.flickr.com/photos/161379147@N08/27121803317/ Early Evening
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amberjolake/28033828368/ 
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