Welcome to the Spring Flickr even if it's only spring on the calendar.

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

We’re in the midst of beautiful weather here in New Jersey, sunny and mild and forecast to last through the long weekend.

This is the end of the auction season for a while, the last being American art at both the houses. I went to Christie’s last Saturday and Sotheby’s on Monday. One of the things I enjoy most about retirement is that I have the time to visit both. When I was working I always had to choose between the two. There were lots of beautiful paintings and I’ll show some below.

These are links to two Christie’s auctions, one was held on Tuesday and the other was an online auction. I watched some of the Tuesday auction live. I thought the auctioneer for Christie’s did a much better job than the one doing Sotheby’s auction which I’ll discuss below. This auctioneer was lively and did a good job of coaxing bidders. There were fewer surprises in this auction than in Sotheby’s. One was the O’Keeffe Red Canna which didn’t reach the low estimate and the two Gifford’s neither of which drew enough attention. The big ticket Bellows below was withdrawn just before the sale. I think Christie’s has to be much happier with their results than Sotheby’s, their total was $32.7M. Out of 86 lots, only 18 didn’t sell and aside from the artists I mentioned the rest were for the most part lower tier. Sotheby’s brought in $19M and out of 83 lots, 33 didn’t sell with many more noted artists failing to meet the low estimate as I mention below.

American Art – You can see the results at this link.
https://www.christies.com/american-art-28047.aspx?lid=1&dt=220520190357&saletitle=
American Art Online
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/american-art-online/lots/1494?lang=en-us

Edward Hopper - Windy Day – I’ll start with one of my favorites. This is a watercolor landscape. As with other works on the site the lot essay is very informative. It speaks of him being drawn to the water as a major compositional element in many paintings.  The wind permeating the scene and the lack of life give the painting the disquiet that’s also found in so many of his paintings. The one that immediately came to my mind is Rooms by the Sea which I’ve always imagined was the scene after a suicide by drowning. No one does desolation and alienation better than Hopper. I’ve copied that link below the first one.
https://tinyurl.com/y3w4hvms
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52939

Sanford Robinson Gifford - The Mouth of the Shrewsbury River – There were three paintings by Gifford and I could have chosen any of them. Wonderful Hudson River painter. The group was well represented in the auction. This shows an impeding storm over Sandy Hook, New Jersey. As I said, I’m surprised that two didn’t sell as all of them were quality.
https://tinyurl.com/y3oskdpo

Frederic Edwin Church - THE HIGHLANDS OF THE HUDSON RIVER – Church was probably the most famous Hudson River painter and you don’t see many of his paintings on the block. There was quite a stink when the Berkshire Museum sold a number of their Hudson River paintings last year, one of which was a lovely Church. Museums aren’t supposed to sell paintings from their collections unless the funds are used to purchase other paintings and that wasn’t the case with Berkshire which resulted in a lawsuit. If I remember correctly the auction was allowed to proceed but some of the money had to be earmarked for other art acquisitions. The link is actually to the 2005 Sotheby’s auction since for reasons that escape me this auction has disappeared from the Christie’s website. It’s possible it was withdrawn.    https://tinyurl.com/yxft9zcm

Thomas Moran - Ducal Palace, Sunset – There were two Moran’s, both done in emulation of Turner’s Venice paintings, and I could have chosen either.
https://tinyurl.com/y4donsjq

Jasper Francis Cropsey - Mount Washington from Lake Sebago – There were two of his paintings this time and I thought this was the better of the two. The other was part of the online auction. This one didn’t sell but that’s not overly surprising as Cropsey is usually well represented at the auctions. It’s also disappeared from the website so I had to find a different site for the image.
https://www.lotsearch.net/lot/jasper-francis-cropsey-1823-1900-45745187

Albert Bierstadt - View on the Hudson – This is the last Hudson River painter I’ll show, Bierstadt was a member of the group but attained his most fame for his large paintings of the landscape of the American West. The Brooklyn Museum owns a magnificent wall size example which I’ve copied below.
https://tinyurl.com/yy588csb

Albert Bierstadt - A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Storm_in_the_Rocky_Mountains,_Mt._Rosalie

George Wesley Bellows - Shipyard Society – This was one of the big ticket items in the auction with an estimate between $4M-$6M but it was withdrawn before the auction took place. It’s the property of the VA. Museum of Fine arts but unlike Berkshire it’s being sold to benefit future acquisitions.  It’s too bad it was removed the site as there is another long essay on the site that spoke of Bellow’s fascination with Maine’s ship building activities and the people who were part of it. Below is a link to an image.
https://www.1000museums.com/art_works/george-wesley-bellows-shipyard-society

Norman Rockwell - The Homecoming – There are two paintings and a drawing by Rockwell in this auction and this is the star, another big ticket item estimated at $4.5M-$6.5M which came in a little over $6M. It’s the painting for a Saturday Evening Post cover that appeared at the end of the European conflict during World War II. I love Rockwell and it’s only in recent years that he’s become an accepted great artist as opposed to just a magazine illustrator.
https://tinyurl.com/y6zhauea

Douglass Crockwell -Movie Date – I’ll stop here with another Saturday Evening Post cover, this one from 1942 by an artist I haven’t come across before. He did magazine illustrations as well as the art for many advertising campaigns. This appears to be done in Rockwell’s style and is very of its time. I also got a kick out of seeing a Crockwell next to a Rockwell.
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/american-art-online/douglass-crockwell-1904-1968-147/70296

On Monday when I went to check the NJ Transit website both routes showed no buses arriving. I wondered if there was a problem with the site but it turns out there was a problem with the Lincoln Tunnel. A truck caught fire and had to be towed out shutting it down and causing delays of up to an hour. I was finally able to catch a later bus which took a very long time and got me home much later than I like but I had no choice as it was my only chance to see the American art at Sotheby’s, the auction was held the next morning at 10AM.

I watched some of that auction live that morning. It’s interesting to watch the way each auction unfolds. Some of the lots must have had a reserve as I watched bidding take place but not achieve the low estimate so the auction ended with the auctioneer saying passed and it was marked as unsold. Unlike when he had serious back and forth bidding the auctioneer seemed to rush through these lots not waiting to see if he could coax higher bids but ending the auctions quickly.  When it ended I was surprised at how many unsold lots they had, they couldn’t be terribly happy.  The big stunner to me was that the Hopper didn’t sell. Also the Church, all three Winslow Homers, the Hassam I liked, the more expensive Cassatt, one of the Coles and one of the Rockwell’s.

I’m glad I went although like the Impressionist auction I don’t think the selection was as good as Christie’s although as you’ll see there were some very nice things.

You can see all 84 lots at this link with results on how they did.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2019/american-art-n10074.html?locale=en

Edward Hopper - SHAKESPEARE AT DUSK – This is the star and I was pleased to see it. Once again another Hopper painting evinces loneliness, the empty park as day is ending. There’s a very long essay on the site. I was stunned that this didn’t sell.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.16.html?locale=en

Winslow Homer - THE CHESTNUT TREE – Homer is always wonderful and this is one of his watercolors, as I said none of his work sold.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.83.html?locale=en

John Singer Sargent - LANCELOT ALLEN – A very straightforward presentation of a little boy of seven. The lot essay says, “The American writer and critic Mariana G. Van Rensselaer wrote: "It is one of Mr. Sargent’s greatest distinctions that he never fails of entire success when he has a child before him"
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.47.html?locale=en

Maxfield Parrish - VILLAGE SCHOOL HOUSE – We all love Parrish and it’s unfortunate that when transferred to the screen you don’t get the full effect of his luminous colors.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.34.html?locale=en

Childe Hassam - WHITE ISLAND LIGHT, ISLES OF SHOALS – A really beautiful watercolor that until this auction has been in the hands of the owner’s family. Celia Laighton Thaxter, who was a friend of Hassam, is the first owner either by purchase or as a gift.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.57.html?locale=en

Norman Rockwell - LITTLE BOY WRITING LETTER – An early cover illustration for the Saturday Evening Post. The second link is a brief video about it.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.29.html?locale=en
How Norman Rockwell Captures the Innocence of Young Love
https://youtu.be/qSmBi3X-3rw

Thomas Cole - SUNSET ON THE ARNO – I’ll close with three more, first Cole who was more or less the father of the Hudson River movement, then two splendid paintings by Frederic Edwin Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.43.html?locale=en

Frederic Edwin Church - RUINS AT BAALBEK – The original owner of the painting, Edward F. de Lancey, commissioned it in 1868 and it was painted on Church’s only transatlantic trip. You can see Turner’s influence here.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.46.html?locale=en

Sanford Robinson Gifford - A LAKE TWILIGHT – If things remain on the present course paintings like this will be the only evidence we have of nature’s beauty.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10074/lot.39.html?locale=en

Lots of wonderful tings to see, check out the links to the other items as well.

In other art news.

I got a particular kick out of this first article, especially the three New Jersey brothers who saved their mother’s creepy painting not knowing it was a Rembrandt. Below that are two Christie’s stories on four great American artists, the three Wyeth’s and Georgia O’Keeffe.

From the Rembrandt in the Rec Room to a Degas on a Bus, These 10 Priceless Artworks Were Found in the Unlikeliest Places
https://tinyurl.com/yxfb2xdx

10 things to know about Georgia O’Keeffe
https://www.christies.com/features/Georgia-O-Keeffe-7330-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#FID-7330

The Wyeth dynasty of painters
https://www.christies.com/features/The-Wyeth-dynasty-of-American-painters-9860-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#FID-9860

And now it’s time for the Flickrs.

Andy  G.

unikaren spring dress – Hi Samantha.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissysamantharebecca/46972212085/

Sissy Pet

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissypet12/32348305688/

DSC_6951E

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91434869@N04/47502659631/

Kat with a garter belt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/katvarina/47704292551/

i really did enjoy this with my Aunt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/153848527@N03/32193383377/

Megan wood bride

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41669838@N00/43069826322/

Gothic lolita dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/149512189@N04/40733476383/

Felt like looking super cute

https://www.flickr.com/photos/132057539@N03/47687417131/

Something Pretty of Easter

https://www.flickr.com/photos/144380692@N07/47642355961/

Loving this dress.....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/charlotte-periwinkle/40755547883/

[sissysamantharebecca]

wow, i am the first page on your list. Blushes.

thank you very much Andy. Yes there will be more new pictures coming onto my flickr page in the next month.

Yes i have new outfits. 

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

This week I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their current Japanese exhibit, The Tale of Genji. Wikipedia describes Genji as “… a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century.” I actually read it many years ago but as with so many books I don’t remember it at all. This is a link to the Wikipedia page which delves deeply into its history and significance and describes the plot.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji  This is a link to the Overview page from the Met website. On this page are links to the Galleries with descriptions of what is in each section, Places and People which describes where the action of the novel takes place as well as listing the main characters and finally the objects in the exhibit. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/tale-of-genji.  There were many beautiful things and I’ll link to some of them below.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi  - “‘A Molted Cicada Shell’ (Utsusemi): Soga Gorō Tokimune,” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase),ca. 1845–61 – For me the most enjoyable items in the exhibit were six wood block prints by Kuniyoshi. I wouldn’t have noticed but my brother pointed out that five of them were gifts from the Ronin Gallery, a venue I enjoy visiting. In them the artist isn’t actually portraying a scene from Genji but  instead is painting a contemporary scene which he compares to a scene in Genji. The Molted cicada shell is a chapter in Genji and Kuniyoshi has painted a reference to it at the top of the print along with a Genji poem. He makes similar references in the other five prints which I’ve linked to below. Remember to enlarge them.
http://tinyurl.com/y4wqcb2q

Utagawa Kuniyoshi – ''‘Lady of the Evening Faces’ (Yūgao): Yazama’s Wife Orie (Yazama-shi no shitsu Orie),” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase),1845–46 - A Kabuki scene of a streetwalker in the snow with her dog is compared to the tragic heroine Yūgao, a word for moonflower which is painted at the top.
http://tinyurl.com/y5xc5oy2

Utagawa Kuniyoshi - ‘A Boat Cast Adrift’ (Ukifune): Omatsu and Akabori Mizuemon,” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase),1845–46
http://tinyurl.com/yyc5r3yx

Utagawa Kuniyoshi - “‘Little Purple Gromwell’ (Wakamurasaki): Shōshō,” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase),ca. 1845–61
http://tinyurl.com/yxav8w6q

Utagawa Kuniyoshi - “‘Exile to Suma’ (Suma): Tamaori-hime,” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase),ca. 1845–61
http://tinyurl.com/yygfgtgk

Utagawa Kuniyoshi - “‘A Lovely Garland’ (Tamakazura): Tamatori-ama,” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase),1845–46 – I think this is my favorite, love the octopus and the woman poised to skewer it. This is the one not donated by Ronin.
http://tinyurl.com/y2329ox9

Circle of Tosa Mitsuyoshi - “A Lovely Garland” (Tamakazura) – This is an illustration from the same chapter of the book as the one above. It’s a folio leaf from a 17th Century edition that has been mounted on a scroll.
http://tinyurl.com/y3odkemh

Tosa Mitsuoki - Murasaki Shikibu Gazing at the Moon (Murasaki Shikibu kangetsu zu) – A hanging scroll illustrating the author of the book getting inspiration for the tale from bodhisattva Kannon.
http://tinyurl.com/y55n5362

Utagawa Hiroshige - Murasaki Gazing at the Moon at Ishiyama Temple – This wasn’t in the exhibit although it should have been and I’m including it because it’s the same scene and by Hiroshige.
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/63327/murasaki-gazing-at-the-moon-at-ishiyama-temple-utagawa-hiroshige

In the style of Tosa Mitsuyoshi - Little Purple Gromwell” (Wakamurasaki),early 17th century – This is a two panel folding screen depicting events in Chapter 5 which is also shown above in one of the woodblock prints.
https://tinyurl.com/y4zuwnbr

Tosa Mitsuyoshi  - “Butterflies” (“Kochō”),late 16th–early 17th century – This is a six panel screen depicting two separate events in the tale.
https://tinyurl.com/y5tq8a2y

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyamadera Temple, based on the print “The Moon at Ishiyama,” from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi: Ishiyama no tsuki),ca. 1892 – This again shows Murasaki at her desk waiting for inspiration to write the novel.
https://tinyurl.com/y6n4sy8b

Utagawa Kunisada - Parody of the Third Princess and Kashiwagi: “Chapter 50: A Hut in the Eastern Provinces,” 1858, second month – I’ll close with this wood block print which is one in a series based on an erotic version of Tale of Genji which was privately commissioned. I love the cat. I’ve also linked to a illustrated article on who commissioned the erotic Genji series.
https://tinyurl.com/y3h8je9b

Who Was the Client That Commissioned Kunisada to Portray The Erotic Genji Series?
https://shungagallery.com/the-tale-of-genji-kunisada/

Review of the exhibition from the Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2019/03/06/entertainment-news/major-exhibition-tale-genji-launches-new-yorks-metropolitan-museum-art/

Review from The New Yorker
https://tinyurl.com/y5nlxq33

Installation view
https://artssummary.com/?s=genji&submit=Search

In other art news.

I don’t know if this is remarkable or frightening, probably both. The five minute video at the linked story shows how it’s done and then in the last minute you see the examples referred to in the article. Seeing the paintings come to life is truly remarkable but the thought that this will be used to create fake videos about prominent people is truly frightening. There will be no way to easily detect what’s real and what’s not. Interesting it’s the Russians who have devised this.

Russian Researchers Used AI to Bring the Mona Lisa to Life and It Freaked Everyone Out. See the Video Here
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mona-lisa-deepfake-video-1561600

And now it’s the Flickrs.

Andy G.

honey, are you coming to bed?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/158274655@N05/46801947135/

Lucy WolvesTV

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucywolvestv/42228063191/

Trying on the lace jacket for my wedding gown

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tammybrowncd/47716341351/

04 Red dress girl posing

https://www.flickr.com/photos/savannasteel/33903488308/

Gettin' Ready 4

https://www.flickr.com/photos/145162776@N03/47389038041/

Cute Playsuit

https://www.flickr.com/photos/71414348@N00/29675185037/

DeeDee 501a - variations on today's original photo

https://www.flickr.com/photos/deedeelassen/47693741612/

Wearing my retro 1950s black and white polka dot swing dress and black mules

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157801917@N08/46810011021/

More pretty latex 3

https://www.flickr.com/photos/46859890@N03/7286312254/

Pretty Maid dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pettisue/4672867756/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

I visited MOMA this week. I don’t go there very often as their exhibits usually aren’t for artists that I really care about but additionally I don’t like the layout and quite often it is far too crowded to make it worthwhile. I guess I take Yogi Berra’s attitude about it, no one goes there anymore it’s too crowded. A number of years ago I went to a Magritte exhibit which was timed entry and I wound up going through very quickly as there were so many people in the galleries it was impossible to get close enough to get a good look. The atmosphere was oppressive. They’re shutting down on June 15th for the entire summer to do renovations which I discuss below. Their last big renovation was not a success with critics and museum goers.

I went because there’s not a lot doing in the art world right now and I was looking for something to see. The main current exhibit is Joan Miró: Birth of the World. I would have described his work as abstract but he is known as a surrealist. Wikipedia does say that his work strongly influenced the abstract expressionists so I wasn’t far off the mark.  I can appreciate much of his work due to his colors and imagination. The Times gave the show a great review which you can read below and I’ll also include some images. I also got to see some of my favorite paintings from the permanent collection and a wonderful exhibit of old movie posters, lobby cards and videos.

What Price Hollywood press kit with images
https://press.moma.org/exhibition/what-price-hollywood/

What Price Hollywood installation view – The entire exhibit but not closeup
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5062?installation_image_index=0

New York Times
Miró’s Greatness? It Was There From the Start
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/arts/design/miro-review-moma.html

Joan Miró Dutch Interior (I) – I like the way he copied the painting from a postcard he received and made it his own. You can see the original following it. And I love his dog and cat.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79023

Hendrick Maertensz Sorgh – The Lute Player
https://www.wga.hu/html_m/s/sorgh/luteplay.html

Joan Miró - Portrait of a Man in a Late Nineteenth-Century Frame – A friend sent him the actual painting as a joke and he basically graffitied it. He added the little swirl on the man’s head to indicate him wondering what had happened to him.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79153?locale=en&location_id=Room_95&page=1&sov_referrer=location

Joan Miró - Self-Portrait I – He apparently started out to create a representative image but then let his creativity and imagination take over winding up with this cosmic image.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80604?locale=en&location_id=Room_95&page=1&sov_referrer=location

Joan Miró - Portrait of Enric Cristòfol Ricart Barcelona – I was drawn to this for the Japanese image on the right but I was surprised when I learned that he hadn’t painted it, he had pasted it into the frame. Ricart shared his artist’s studio.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80389

Joan Miró - Still Life with Old Shoe Paris – It’s described as being psychedelic and it was the colors that drew me to it.
https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/225/2913

Joan Miró - The Table (Still Life With Rabbit) – This is from a private collection and more representational than the other works.
https://tinyurl.com/y28he8ae

They had two Hoppers on view, House by the Railroad and New York Movie but the one I really wanted to see wasn’t available, Gas. This is a wonderful painting of a rural gas station showing the attendant intently working at the pump while across the road is a dark forbidding woods. A perfect setting for something evil to emerge.
Edward Hopper - Gas
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80000?artist_id=2726&locale=en&page=1&sov_referrer=artist 

Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night - There is always a crowd around Van Gogh’s Starry Night as described in Jason Farago’s article below.
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889/

Paul Cézanne - Still Life with Fruit Dish – Lots of Cezanne and this is a good one
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78670

Pablo Picasso - Girl Before A Mirror – The first time I ever saw this painting was on the cover of Mad Comics 22, their special art issue. That’s another great artist within the painting, Bill Elder, a comic genius.
https://www.pablopicasso.org/girl-before-mirror.jsp

Mad 22
http://ilikecomicsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/035.jpg

In Friday’s New York Times there was a section devoted to MOMA’s closing and below are four articles. One good thing I gleaned from the first article is that the renovation will expand gallery space by 40,000 SQFT which hopefully will make visiting less like being at Penn Station as Jason Farago describes in his article on van Gogh’s Starry Night.

Last Call: MoMA’s Closing, and Changing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/arts/design/moma-closing-renovation.html?searchResultPosition=1

Will the Renovated MoMA Let Folk Art Back In?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/arts/design/moma-folkart.html?searchResultPosition=4

A Noisy Half-Hour With van Gogh’s Masterpiece
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/arts/design/starry-night-museum-of-modern-art.html?searchResultPosition=8

Mondrian Sparked My Love of Painting
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/arts/design/broadway-boogie-woogie-moma.html?searchResultPosition=9

In other art news.

Article from the NY Times on the results of radiography of a Monet painting, two articles from Sotheby’s on Impressionist art and an article on the policy of the Harvard Art Museums which if I lived in Boston I would definitely take advantage of.

Under a Monet Painting, Restorers Find New Water Lilies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/arts/monet-wisteria-water-lilies.html

A Spectacular Pissarro that Escaped Theft by the Nazis
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/a-spectacular-pissarro-that-escaped-theft-by-the-nazis?locale=en

La Nouvelle Peinture: A Distinguished Family Collection
https://tinyurl.com/y2g9lu8j

At Harvard Art Museums, they’ll bring the Rembrandt right to you — and this retiree has made a habit of asking
https://tinyurl.com/y6oxvopr

And now let’s visit the Flickrs.

Andy G.

This is me in 01/2019

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157774352@N05/33594641748/

picnic in the park?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/158274655@N05/47603753502/

Stay clear of red pasta sauce

https://www.flickr.com/photos/13219604@N03/32787673697

Happy Mother's Day!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22263446@N05/47779998872/

Caprice

https://www.flickr.com/photos/translifeltd/47016982004/

Reflected, Rotated, Framed

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessica-jane/46870432401/

Sue_bld3

https://www.flickr.com/photos/76488687@N00/47645011412/

QUEEN IN KNIGHTS COURT

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwhitets/47043417234/

IMG_1096_ppp

https://www.flickr.com/photos/113408194@N07/31256809658/

sissy gina as french maid on stairs

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10974572@N05/33874230798/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

I visited Princeton last week meeting friends at the Art Museum. I’m always stressed on these trips due to the need to change trains twice with a narrow window for connecting. I’m also at a loss when walking across the campus to find the museum as it’s not set up with actual streets with names, no one can give you detailed instructions other than follow the signs. Like Blanche in Streetcar I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers to get me there and help me find my way back to the train station. My stress level was increased by having to setup my cellphone voice mail which was an interesting experience for this technophobe. It appears there is no way to change the number of rings before voicemail picks up. When I called myself again it rang six times which I guess will have to do. I guess I should add that I’ve only had a cellphone for the last few years and had never received a call on it. Haven’t made very many either. I use it mostly when I go into the City to text the NJ transit APP that gives information on bus arrival times at the bus stop.   

I stood on the platform and waited for the 10:26AM train to Secaucus which didn’t arrive until 10:45AM making me miss the connecting train. I was resigned to having to wait for the 11:46AM. I looked at the departure board which showed what I took to be a Princeton train at 11:16AM so as I was going through the gate I asked the attendant if that train went there and was told no. I waited on the platform and when that train arrived I checked with a conductor who confirmed it did and I took that train.

I had called my friends as soon as I arrived in Secaucus explaining I would be an hour late. They were already on their way as they had misunderstood what time we agreed on but said they would just stop and visit their son and his family for a little while. I decided to wait until I arrived in Princeton to call them back when I caught the earlier train. When we arrived at Princeton Junction I found the bus stop for the shuttle and using the NJ Transit APP I texted to check the arrival time. None came up even though the printed schedule showed one. Then, at the right time, the original DINKY train arrived and I was smart enough to realize it and catch it. I only knew to do that because on my first solo visit I didn’t realize the shuttle was a train and let it pull away while I waited for a bus. On subsequent visits the DINKY was out of service and I did take the bus. There was nothing on the schedule or the NJ Transit website about the train being put back in service but I Googled it and it appears to have just been reinstated a few weeks before my visit. Good to know for the future. 

The exhibition’s title is Gainsborough's Family Album and below are some of the items in it. I had to take them from the web as Princeton’s website had no images beyond the PDF I mention in the next paragraph.

This is the link for the museum website where there’s a link to a PDF (Download the exhibition checklist) which shows every item in the exhibit in a thumbnail image. It was really an excellent exhibit and I’m really glad I went despite the unfortunate travel experience. NJ Transit has been taking flak about their on-time schedule for a long time and deservedly so.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3415


The Painter's Two Daughters – This painting was separated and sold to different collectors. Subsequently it was reunited but the restorer incorrectly put the girls on the same level when in the original the girl on the left would have been taller than the other one and looking down. You can see her arm is mismatched at the split.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17303/the-painters-two-daughters-oil-painting-thomas-gainsborough/

Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough – The artist’s wife
https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/collection/18th-century/thomas-gainsborough-portrait-of-margaret-gainsborough 

Mary and Margaret with cat – His daughters. Neither my friends nor I can find the cat although I imagine it’s in the girl on the left’s arms.
https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w800h800/NG/NG_NG_NG3812.jpg

Gainsborough Dupont – The artist’s nephew and apprentice. He finished some paintings for his Uncle.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gainsborough-gainsborough-dupont-n06242

Self-portrait – This is one of his paintings completed by his nephew – The second link is to a review of the exhibit with other illustrations as well.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2019/01/29/Thomas-Gainsborough-1200x1448.jpg
https://www.theepochtimes.com/portraits-painted-for-love-not-money_2782747.html

The Artist’s Daughter Mary
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gainsborough-the-artists-daughter-mary-n05638

Edward Richard Gardiner – Another nephew, in this portrait he wears the Blue Boy costume which Gainsborough kept in his studio and used on occasions.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gainsborough-edward-richard-gardiner-t00727

Miss Susan Gardiner – His niece.
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670968

Mary and Margaret Gainsborough, the Artist's Daughters, at their Drawing,
https://www.worcesterart.org/collection/European/1917.181.html

John Gainsborough ("Scheming Jack"), the Artist’s Brother – A neer-do-well who depended on his sibling’s for handouts. You can get an idea about the artist’s feelings towards this black sheep by noting he signed the painting “Gainsborrow.”
https://tinyurl.com/yybbq29d

When I emailed my brother about my trip he wrote back and said, “One of the things I look forward to in the Chatsworth exhibition at Sotheby’s is Gainsborough’s portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.  I’ve never seen it.  It once belonged to J. P. Morgan and it might have ended up in the Morgan Library but sadly the family chose to sell it."  You can see it below as well as article in the Times from 1994 when it was auctioned off at Sotheby’s and sold to Chatsworth.

The Disappearing Duchess
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/magazine/the-disappearing-duchess.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

https://painting-planet.com/images/4/image022.jpg

This was a wonderful opportunity to see many paintings that I probably would never have the opportunity to as some were from private owners and many were from museums in the U.K. I would love to take trips to Europe to see great art but I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to do that.

In other art news.

I thought this was a very convincing argument for the authenticity of the Leonardo painting but I’m easily swayed. I asked my brother and he said:

“I never thought it was by Leonardo.  As far as I’m concerned, the nail in the coffin was the news that Carmen Bambach of the Met doesn’t accept it.  She put together the Michelangelo show and has immense authority.  There was a story about her and the painting in the Guardian just within the past few weeks.”

I read the article and I agree about her authority but this guy also appears to be an eminent scholar. I guess it’s a matter of who one chooses to believe. There do seem to be more naysayers than people who offer a positive attribution. Even if it is real it’s a ridiculous amount of money for a painting.

‘Debunking This Picture Became Fashionable’: Leonardo da Vinci Scholar Martin Kemp on What the Public Doesn’t Get About ‘Salvator Mundi’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/martin-kemp-talks-salvator-mundi-new-book-1570006

Two videos discussing a beautiful watercolor by Turner and a portrait by Modigliani, both up for auction at Sotheby’s London.

The Magical Light of Turner’s Margate
https://tinyurl.com/y5eodlsx

The Modigliani Portrait Not Seen in a Century

https://tinyurl.com/y68lhz6t

And now let’s do the Flickrs.

Andy G.

stepfordnessmaybe

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallulahhh/7682211172/

sissy gina all in pink

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10974572@N05/46961995114/

Prissy Sissy Slut

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyukslut/40136686653/

CIMG0053

https://www.flickr.com/photos/122472945@N05/13944683919/

Pink sissy dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/146518092@N06/46641231795/in/dateposted/

Bunny Babe

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninajay/47589794682/

DeeDee 521

https://www.flickr.com/photos/deedeelassen/33981349468/

Maid Posing

https://www.flickr.com/photos/emmalouisetgirl/47104610384/

Purple prom dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22092915@N05/14751583885/

now a feminine sissy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/carol38/47066424684/

[sissysamantharebecca]

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Big hugs

[andyg0404]

Hi Samantha,

If you're asking me I have no idea. Perhaps Betty can answer that.

Andy G.

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