Rain, Snow and Freezing temperatures, I guess it’s time for the Winter Flickr

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Quite a week for weather here, rain, snow and below freezing temps the last few days. One morning the thermometer in my back yard read 16 degrees when I went out for my walk. The following day when I went for my walk the sidewalks and roads were very icy and despite being cautious, I still fell. I was unhurt but angry. I brought out my cleats the next morning but after cleaning my sidewalk and throwing calcium chloride I decided I probably didn’t need them and I didn’t. One negative to wearing them is it makes walking around in the Shop Rite difficult due to their floor surface and I thought it would be ironic to wear the cleats so as not to fall in the street and then slip in the store. I will reiterate how much I hate the winter.

I went back to the Met to see Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet. My brother says he is a minor artist and prior to this exhibition I had never seen any of his paintings which I guess isn’t that surprising as the bulk of those in the exhibition are from overseas and from private collections. He was fairly prolific and painted in a realistic style over the whole genre of art; landscape, portrait, still lifes, etc. I found it a very enjoyable exhibit; his paintings, for the most part, are bright and appealing. The cards on the wall discussed the many influences that affected his paintings. This is a link to the Met website overview page where you can also link to the galleries and all the objects in the exhibit. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/felix-vallotton-painter-disquiet

Below is a review of the show from when it first appeared in the U.K. It’s a good article in that it gives background on who he was and how his fame is not widespread.

Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet review – a uniquely strange vision
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/07/felix-vallotton-painter-of-disquiet-royal-academy-london-review

Here are some images I enjoyed.

Félix Vallotton - Gertrude Stein – These two paintings of Stein hang side by side in the exhibit and make a nice contrast. The Picasso is from the Met’s collection and there is a famous anecdote about it. When Picasso presented it to her she said it didn’t look her. To which he replied, it will. She didn’t like it and didn’t care for Valloton’s portrait either. Neither are especially flattering. Though only a year or two apart there’s a fairly big difference in her physiognomy, her face is much chubbier in Valloton’s portrait which indicates Stein gained a fair amount of weight in the interval between portraits.

Valloton – Gertrude Stein
https://tinyurl.com/r9lzs96

Pablo Picasso – Gertrude Stein
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488221
 
The White and the Black (La Blanche et la Noire) – Valloton’s take on Manet’s Olympia, reversing the effects of the two woman making the black woman the dominant figure in the scene, the one in charge. She is clearly not subservient.
https://tinyurl.com/u8mfsye

Box Seats at the Theater, the Gentleman and the Lady (La loge de Théâtre, le Monsieur et la Dame) – The Guardian article speaks of  how his interiors anticipated Edward Hopper and Hitchcock and this is a painting that echoes Hopper’s theater paintings.
https://tinyurl.com/rr5no84

The Pond (La Mare) – The card describes this as eerie and the pond itself is definitely creepy, not someplace you’d want to be after dark. It seems to be malevolently encroaching onto the grass.
https://tinyurl.com/rr2kk5h

Sunset, Grey-Blue High Sea (Coucher de soleil, mer haute gris-bleu) – Below this painting is one by Mark Rothko, a painter I’ve noted many times whose art eludes me. I found it interesting that I enjoyed Sunset which is not so different from Rothko’s No. 14 which is below it. It’s the difference in the Valloton painting that appeals to me.
https://tinyurl.com/wp6sbqm

https://en.artbooksonline.eu/img/600-800/art-15827-1.jpg

The Sick Girl (La malade) – The wall card mentioned this as being a good representation of Jean-Etienne Liotard’s influence, a painter I much enjoy. Like Valloton Liotard was Swiss and a realist.
https://tinyurl.com/uljxowo

The Shower (L'averse), Paris Intense VII – There were a number of woodblock prints in the show, a medium he explored to a great extent early in his career and these show the influence of the Japanese woodblock prints that had become popular around the same time with the Impressionists. Another reason for my appreciation of his work.
https://tinyurl.com/uympklv

Juliette Lacour – I was drawn to this melancholy portrait set against the industrial City background. Juliette was one of his models and she just looks so sad.
https://tinyurl.com/saplhqn

Apples (Pommes) – I’ll close with this still life which puts me in mind of Cezanne, another great painter of apples. Perhaps it’s also because there is a famous painting of Cezanne’s father reading a newspaper and I like the way the newspaper is part of the still life. I’ve copied the Cezanne below.
https://tinyurl.com/vs7z5o5

The Artist's Father, Reading "L'Événement"
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52085.html

In other art news.
The first article below cheers me up, hope it applies to me. The second article has an interesting short video which is part of a series on how artists work.

Want to Live Longer? Go to a Museum, Says a New Study
Apparently even one or two cultural events a year could cut your risk of early mortality by 14%.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/live-longer-museum-study-1740243

‘You Risk Falling on Your Face, But That’s a Risk You Have to Take’: Watch How Comic Artist Chris Ware Invents Characters Totally Unlike Himself
As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chris-ware-art-21-1738566

Now it’s Flickr time.

Andy G.

Danny and his sister
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinaralt/33884623/

Girl's choice dance
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37079574@N00/120333960/

Being Alana

https://www.flickr.com/photos/knessia/49102441076/

Casino.5

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellystar518/48905372913/

Here's that pink dress again

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tammybrowncd/49091177461/

fairy dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/183723827@N07/48606779157/

Petticoat power

https://www.flickr.com/photos/156147874@N07/48648563632/

Let me ....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/183092731@N03/49081109328/

Snow White

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blackietv/49101160121/

Nouveau Review

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joberry/49087146762/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

I don’t celebrate the Holidays but I spent Xmas day with my friend and her family as I have done for the last 20 years. I had a delightful afternoon; my friend really lays out a feast of food and I baked a new recipe for the event, a milk and honey cake, as well as my cinnamon almond sugar cookies. If I do say so myself, the former was delicious and my cookies are always on standing order, I never visit without bringing a batch. She lives at the Jersey shore so I had to make one of the few automobile trips I make every year. I put about 600 miles on my car annually which should tell you how often I go driving. I don’t like driving and I look forward to the self-driving car. Teleportation would be better but I think that’s probably still a ways down the road. The weather cooperated, no snow or rain, traffic was light and I managed to stay awake for the whole trip. For the most part.

Early in the week I went back to the Met to see The Renaissance of Etching. This is a link to the website with an overview and another link to all the objects in the exhibit.  https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/renaissance-of-etching

Here are two reviews of the exhibit with images. One of the etchings in the first one is listed as St. George and the Drago by Titian. Actually, it’s Saint Theodore and the Dragon and is only attributed to Titian. Still it’s a splendid image.

The Renaissance of Etching – At the Met
https://splashmags.com/index.php/2019/10/23/the-renaissance-of-etching-at-the-met/#gsc.tab=0

The Renaissance of Etching: a decisive moment in the history of art

This review is from the Financial Times which is behind a paywall. I originally included the URL here but when I clicked on it in preview I saw it was blocked. To read the article just Google the headline above and you should be able to access it from the Google search page.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Rabbit Hunt – Wonderful landscape by the master of the Bruegel clan. His paintings and drawings are very rare.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/366870

Albrecht Dürer – Landscape with a Cannon – Durer is arguably the most famous name in the exhibit and there were a number of his etchings. I thought this was very good as it is so filled with images, the cannon, the dignitaries, the houses in the village and the mountains in the far background.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360204

Hans Burgkmair the Younger - Four Augsburg Nobles in Full Armor, from Augsburg Book of Peerage (Das Augsburger Geschlechterbuch) – I like this for the hand tinting of the four images after the etching was created.
https://tinyurl.com/tgpjlgo

Lucas van Leyden - The Beggars (Eulenspiegel) – The descriptive information on at the Met exposes this as a lie. They are not a family of indigent circumstances but 16th Century traveling con artists who go from town to town where they borrow children to assume their guise of beggars and collect alms.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/364654

Albrecht Altdorfer - The Small Spruce – Another hand tinted etching. The color really adds to the ambience of this view of the town from the forest.
https://tinyurl.com/uec99vd

Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) – Resurrection – I really like the technique used by these two artists to achieve the burst of light as the Resurrection takes place.
https://tinyurl.com/ujco8qv

Battista Franco – Resurrection
https://tinyurl.com/ukl9l5c

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder - Landscape with Ruins with the Burning of the City of Troy – If you look carefully you can see the Trojan horse on the bridge to the left which identifies this as Troy
https://tinyurl.com/wsp5p4v

Frans Floris - Victory Surrounded by Prisoners and Trophies – A two fisted Victory. As with most victories, a rather heavy toll in the currency of human lives.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/348385

Sebastiano de' Valentinis – Prometheus – I’ll close with this sanguinary image of poor Prometheus who stole fire from Zeus to give to mortals and was sentenced to be chained to a rock for eternity while an eagle ate his liver which grew back daily only to be eaten again. The original Groundhog Day. This really captures his agony and his precarious position on the two rocks he is standing on.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361876

In other art news.

I’ve wanted to visit the Asian wing of the Brooklyn Museum for a number of years, but it was closed for extensive renovations. It has finally re-opened and the Times writes about it in today’s newspaper. I’ll wait until the end of January before I go as they will then have a famous Jacques-Louis David painting on display. Below are links to the Times and the museum’s website that discuss both.

5,000 Years of Asian Art in 1 Single, Thrilling Conversation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-arts-of-asia.html

Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/david_wiley

I took my friend’s granddaughter to the Met last week which was a treat for both of us. She specifically wanted to visit the current exhibit at the Costume Institute which was our first stop. Fashion doesn’t especially interest me, but I was pleased to accompany her as we wandered through the galleries and I was grateful that they weren’t crowded as they are rather small. Below is a current article on the exhibit as well as an interview with Sandy Schrier, whose donated collection is being shown, that appeared before it opened.

In Praise of One Woman’s Love Affair With Fashion
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/arts/design/sandy-schreier-met-museum-review.html

The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Comes From One Little-Known Woman
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/fashion/costume-institute-exhibition-couture.html

And now for the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Veronika

https://www.flickr.com/photos/156448220@N03/48972203326/

ImageWorks pre 2006

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucyhamilton/5249714306/

20180525_184853

https://www.flickr.com/photos/slavejane/43976699764/

A festive look

https://www.flickr.com/photos/25488909@N03/23301754583/

sissy timmy goes out to play

https://www.flickr.com/photos/13842191@N02/48931855717/

Silken service

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicasatin79/49127020102/

Dommy Dearest

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gentv2000/49097879288/

336.04

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10474062@N07/1008109545/

bee1546

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bee-ceedee/48725271021/

Sunlight

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61636721@N06/48910814461/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

The weather the last few days has been mild albeit rainy. Monday was a really nasty day but I managed to take my morning walk without getting rained on so I gambled I could go into the City without getting soaked. I did but aside from buying coffee it wasn’t a success. There’s not a lot going on in the art world currently and the few exhibits running that I would consider visiting don’t have hours on Monday which is my preferred day for going into the City. So I decided today would be a good time to visit MOMA. I got there around 10:45AM, entered, let them inspect my bag, walked through the enormous lobby and exited at the other end. It was very crowded and I just did not want to fight with the crowds. I thought a Monday morning, right before New Year’s on a nasty day would be a really good time for a visit, especially as there are no blockbuster special exhibits on display. I was wrong and I’m not sure if I will ever try again. I would have enjoyed seeing the two Hopper’s again that they have on display but I was also disappointed when I checked the website to see that even with the promise of bringing items out of storage not seen in a while they did not include the other Hopper paintings or drawings in their collection. Later on I saw on a blog that at least one of the two will be traveling soon to another museum for a special exhibit. I was home before Noon. The next day, in a major coincidence, I had an email from a friend who experienced the exact same thing, at almost the exact same time and she also said she didn’t think she’d be going back. I’m just glad that it’s not the Met or another museum which I frequent. I go to MOMA so seldom that I don’t think it will be an undue burden to give it up.

I had a more successful trip another day and visited the Newark Museum to see, Beyond Zen: Japanese Buddhism Revealed. I usually don’t go to two exhibits in a week but this one is closing soon, and my window of opportunity was narrowing. As I mentioned, Monday’s are my preferred day for visiting the City but the Newark Museum is one of the venues that don’t have hours on Mondays. This is a link to the museum website with an overview and a three-picture slideshow. There are no other images on the website, so I’ll copy what I can find on the web and also use pictures that I took inside the museum. https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/beyond-zen-2019

Below are two reviews of the show with images. The first has what I thought were the most entertaining images in the exhibit, four pictures on a long scroll depicting the horrors of a Buddhist hell.  Here’s one of them as an example. Pretty bloodthirsty these Monks, eh? The third review has many images as well.

https://tinyurl.com/s3zplg7

Into the Bowels of Buddhist Hell

https://tinyurl.com/swrcya8

Newark Museum exhibit showcases Zen artwork dating back hundreds of years – In this article there’s a one minute video that scans the gallery.

https://tinyurl.com/s32jaow

A Hidden Trove of Japanese Buddhist Art Revealed in New Jersey

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/newark-museum/

I got a kick out of this Mother Goose and Grimm cartoon. Appears to be homage to The Great Wave by Hiroshige, the last artist I link to below.

https://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2019/MGG-2019-12-19.gif

Let’s start with a big hanging moon.

Nehan zu (The Death of the Historical Buddha) (1713) Hanabusa Itchō.

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/mfa-boston-exhibits-conservation-of-rare-18th-century-buddhist-scroll-painting

Sixteen Rakan (Sanskrit: Arhat), Disciples of the Historical Buddha - Edo Period - Hanging scroll

https://www.newarkmuseumart.org/sites/default/files/BZ-Web-1.jpg

Chigo Daishi (Kuka, 774-835) as a Youth, ca. 1930s; Showa era (1926-89) – Hanging scroll – Once on the site you can X out the enlargement and go back to the text for more information.

http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Kobo_Daishi#/media/File:Chigo.jpg

These next two are pictures I took on my camera and will appear below. Hopefully.

Prince Shotoku as a Youth - Edo Period - Hanging scroll

Mandala of the Five Secrets - Edo Period - Hanging scroll

After the exhibit I wandered through the other galleries and here are a few of the things from the permanent collection I like. First, of course, their Hopper.

Edward Hopper - The Sheridan Theatre

https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/edward-hopper/sheridan-theatre.jpg!Large.jpg
 
Charles Sheeler – Shaker Detail – Much like Andrew Wyeth’s work except it’s more photorealistic.
https://tinyurl.com/ubdz725

Kitao Masayoshi - Sparrow Hawk (Yôkin) and Camellia, reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/233473

Hiroshige – Red-Crowned Cranes – I’ll end with one of his Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Again, once on the site you can X out of the enlargement and return to the text for more information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-crowned_crane#/media/File:100_views_edo_102.jpg

In other art news.

Below are a couple of interesting articles. The first is about copyrights, the lengths of which have been changed over the years, mostly driven by Walt Disney’s up to now successful attempts to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. The law was finally changed and last year works from 1923 entered the public domain. Mickey Mouse will now be public domain in 2024 unless Disney manages another end around. The article mentions, and illustrates, a number of paintings that fall into the new category, a Hopper and an O’Keeffe to name two. There is also a link to 1923, a monthly zine which highlights items that became available during the year. There are links to 9 issues from last year which you can view as PDFs.

The second article is about another deranged or disgruntled individual who damaged a Picasso painting.

The final article is about a painting by Mary Cassatt, owned by Degas until his death, which his executors thought he had painted.

Long Hidden From the Public Eye, These Artistic Treasures From 1924 Are Now Entering the Public Domain

Works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Lyonel Feininger, and other US artists are now free to be reproduced.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/1924-public-domain-day-2020-1744266

The London Man Who Allegedly Attacked a $26 Million Picasso at Tate Modern Says He Will Fight the Charge
The state of the painting is currently unknown.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/picasso-attack-tate-1744161

Mistaken identity

Mary Cassatt’s ‘Girl Arranging Her Hair’ was thought to have been painted by Degas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/entertainment/mary-cassatt-girl-arranging-her-hair/

And now the first Flickrs of 2020.

Andy G.

39488902042_a2d168c0b5_o

https://www.flickr.com/photos/143416638@N05/43259073475/

Trick " em , turn him

https://www.flickr.com/photos/152257565@N08/49168137238/

Pink Curtsey

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126578290@N07/49182271877/

I need this dress or I'll never get my housework done.....giggle, blush xx

https://www.flickr.com/photos/182983234@N08/49172070883/

1

https://www.flickr.com/photos/183734140@N04/49167415523/

Page one of the article about me

https://www.flickr.com/photos/184977464@N08/49159398551/

Pic by x wife

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141082126@N02/49179770177/

Schoolgirl

https://www.flickr.com/photos/womanwithdick/49189314271/

October 550R

https://www.flickr.com/photos/12464542@N05/49181956873/

IMG_20191006_105238395~2

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137731770@N08/48855174638/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It’s 65 degrees here in Northern New Jersey while the weatherman told me this morning it was 30 degrees below zero in Michigan. Unusual weather to say the least.

I visited the Met to see the last of the treasures Mrs. Wrightsman gave the museum. The exhibit was in the drawing gallery and also in the gallery with the Venetian painters I wrote about previously. Lots of lovely things and I’ll copy some below. This is a link to the Museum website with a link for all the images. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/drawings-and-prints-november-wrightsman-legacy

Anthony van Dyck - Queen Henrietta Maria – Another star acquisition to add to all the other old masters she gave them. It’s a beauty that would be the highlight of a smaller collection, I’m sure most museums envy her largesse to the Met.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438112

Jean Etienne Liotard - Woman in Turkish Dress, Seated on a Sofa – The first of two paintings by an artist I greatly admire. One of the best exhibits I’ve seen was his show at the Frick of pastel portraits of Empress Maria Theresa and her children, one of whom was Marie Antoinette. These pastel portraits are what his reputation is based on.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438120

Jean Etienne Liotard - Portrait of a Man – This one is red chalk.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338430

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Julie Le Brun Looking in a Mirror – Another great exhibit was the Met’s comprehensive review of Le Brun’s oeuvre. This portrait of her daughter was on display for the exhibit, on loan from Mrs. Wrightsman.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438132

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Marie Antoinette in a Park – Le Brun was a court painter and painted Marie numerous times.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/824771

Jean Etienne Liotard - Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria – This is Marie as a child from the Frick exhibit I reference above. I never miss an opportunity to include this as it’s one of my favorite images. Every inch the Queen even as a child.
https://tinyurl.com/v8e9qzc

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine) – The Met was fortunate indeed to receive four of Ingres’ drawing portraits. I picked this one at random as all of them are fine. It’s a lovely portrait of three girls in adolescence from a family he was friends with.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/334710

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard - Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet) – This is an artist I was totally unfamiliar with. She was an 18th Century French miniaturist and portrait painter. This is a link to her page on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde_Labille-Guiard I was especially taken by the way she painted the woman’s hair and earring. She looks very natural and at ease in her pose.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/383862

Jean Alaux - Léon Pallière (1787–1820) in His Room at the Villa Medici, Rome - Another new artist for me. Wikipedia tells me he was a French history painter of the 19th Century and friends with Ingres. There are many things I like about this painting, the desk with his books and the paintings on the walls. The very high ceiling of the room. The landscape through the window. I don’t know if you can see them but there are metal disks running down his pants leg. And his pose with the guitar and the look on his face. This painting captivated me.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438545

Jean François de Troy - The Garter – Also new to me. Wikipedia tells me de Troy was an 18th Century French Rococo easel and fresco painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer. One of France's leading history painters in his time, he was equally successful with his decorative paintings, genre scenes and portraits. He was the inventor of the tableaux de modes ('paintings of fashions'), which attempted to provide a spirited portrayal of contemporary fashions, pastimes and manners. This and the next painting are pendants and examples of tableaux de modes style. I love the way she is blocking him in his hot pursuit while also showing him a little leg indicating she’s not that kind of woman but certainly open to a little fun.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438126

Jean François de Troy - The Declaration of Love – In this painting the woman may look a little less arduous than her suitor but the dog is certainly ready for action.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438127

John Frederick Lewis - Iskander Bey and his Servant – And someone else new to me. Lewis was a 19th Century English Orientalist painter. As the website says, a steely eyed boy with his Nubian servant, preparing to draw his sword. A real child of privilege.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/824772

David Roberts - The Temple at Dendur, Nubia – I’ll close with this watercolor, an item that was not a gift from Mrs. Wrightsman but in the show nevertheless along with a few others. Roberts was a 19th Century Scottish Orientalist painter. The website says this painting may have influenced the preservation of the Temple in the 1960’s when the site was flooded by the Aswan Dam. It was dismantled and presented to the Met where it’s on display to this day.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/382200

In other art news.

I thought this cartoon was relevant and amusing.

Bogart Creek
https://pics.me.me/bogart-creek-1-11-m-nq-v-a-1-%E4%B8%89v-tnden-63893601.png

Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public – This is a remarkable source for great art, really valuable for research and just amusement and pleasure.
https://tinyurl.com/sboe9ea

And now for the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Had to
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52912530@N04/49205151932/

F153
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pettidoll63/49189742797/

P1018665red
https://www.flickr.com/photos/163453754@N04/46793229511/

feeling so pretty in pink 1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jerlee42/49211001012/

So in love with my new skirt.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/144172117@N05/49186407308/

MMM loves nothing more than dancing the night away in 'Multiple Shades of GREY' taffeta lol xxx
https://www.flickr.com/photos/missmichaelamarbella/49183468327/

Real ladies hair do and female hormones.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/182983234@N08/49192530406/

Pretty in pink!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/61493657@N05/8635500351/

Varsity Ready!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/185313345@N04/49216906317/

dressed as a little girl for a day out shopping

https://www.flickr.com/photos/134925861@N04/49256715963/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

Our unusual weather continued this week, Sunday’s high was 69 degrees, then it was in the 40’s and 50’s until Friday when it was bitterly cold and windy. And today we’re scheduled for some snow which hopefully will become rain as the day progresses. Mother Nature is certainly having fun these days.

I went back to the Met to see Aesthetic Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore. This exhibit displays 50 of the 88 objects the Wigmore’s have promised the Met. The paintings are for the most part of the Hudson River school and many have never been seen in public.  I’ll copy images below. This is a link to a Met press release announcing the gift. https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2019/aesthetic-splendor

Luckily, the Met is on the East side so my walk up wasn’t affected by the massive water main break on Broadway and Columbus that happened that day. It started around 5:00/530AM so when I saw it on the news at just before 7AM the water was still flowing and in sections it was hip deep which I guess would be completely different if it was my hips and say, a Kyrie Irving. Still, even my hips would indicate a pretty big puddle. What a mess, the subways will definitely be screwed up for a while.

The New York Times, in the Real Estate section, did a series titled, An Honor Roll of New York City Apartment Buildings. One of the buildings was the Dakota, the residence of the Wigmore’s. The link goes to the Times website with a slideshow showing the Wigmore’s apartment in the first six slides. The American wing is a good place for this exhibit as there are many period rooms on display showing how the wealthy lived in the late 19th Century. Viewing the slides is like walking through the period rooms. In the slide showing their living room you can see paintings on the walls that are now on display in the Met.  I wouldn’t mind having a living room like this.

https://tinyurl.com/upmf5nu

Charles Harold Davis - Giverny, Harvest Moon – Not an artist I’m familiar with but I had to lead off with him as I’ve said so many times, I’m a sucker for a big moon in paintings.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828575

Sanford Robinson Gifford - An Indian Summer Day On Claverack Creek – One of Gifford’s numerous, beautiful woodland scenes.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828558

Walter Launt Palmer - The Student – This is a watercolor by another artist I’m not familiar with. You can see the Japanese influence which the card on the wall explains he would have acquired from the French Impressionists. This would be a lovely painting to wake up to every day.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828566

Albert Bierstadt - In the Foot Hills of the Rockies – This and the next image are small paintings by Bierstadt unlike his wall size paintings in the permanent collection. 
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828563

Albert Bierstadt - Owen’s Valley, California
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828564

William Trost Richards - Rushes, Easton’s Pond, Newport, Rhode Island – Richards is a favorite of my brother and I really like his work as well. This is a watercolor and I got to see an exhibit of 30 of his watercolors from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum last year.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828567

Arthur Wesley Dow – Ipswich Marsh – This didn’t come up on the Met website so I had to search for it and I’m not thrilled with this image. In the museum the painting had a very Monet like quality to it and I don’t think this really shows that. It’s darker and harsher than the original.
https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/frame-preview/27162394.jpg?sku=Unframed&thumb=0&huge=1

Alfred Thompson Bricher - Low Tide, Hetherington Cove, Grand Manan – Bricher is someone whose paintings often turn up at the auctions and they’re always beautiful landscapes like this one. The details are marvelous, the pebbles on the shore, the tiny boats in the distance, the horizon line separating the sky from the sea.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828557

William Stanley Haseltine - Rocks at Nahant – Vivid rendering of the waves splashing the shore.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828560

George Inness - Tarpon Springs, Florida, the Artist’s Home (George Inness’s Home, Tarpon Springs, Florida; or Tarpon Springs, Florida) – This was his home before he settled in Montclair, New Jersey where he spent the last nine years of his life. The Montclair museum has a large collection of his paintings and I’ve been to several exhibits of his there.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/828565

Now, it’s time for the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Titillating Tipple
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessica-jane/49247005066/

The legendary Randy Taylor in glorious 60s color
https://www.flickr.com/photos/trannilicious2011/28901526616/

Room mom helps tiddy up sissy boy Taylor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152257565@N08/49202336626/

the sunshine in my
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52912530@N04/48822167243/

Sissymaid April in chains
https://www.flickr.com/photos/125054001@N04/49131048862/

Feeling Girlie all in Pink
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145132025@N07/49239548167/

GOOD MORNING !
https://www.flickr.com/photos/160858910@N02/49394499636/

Gemma Jessica, a mature crossdresser turns into an amazing bride
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184134854@N08/49250126213/

19 0731
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mariaclare/49112990462/

Susan in white
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152512835@N05/49294827136/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It’s a raw, nasty morning; cold and breezy with a deluge of rain in the forecast. Normally, having missed the rain on my morning walk, I wouldn’t be terribly preoccupied by the forecast but I’m taking a friend out to Queens and I don’t look forward to the walk from the train to the museum. It’s pretty much the only time we’ll be exposed to the elements so I’m hoping we’re lucky and hit a dry spell.

I had a 12PM doctor’s appointment on 86th Street and Fifth Avenue so I stopped by the Met beforehand for the second rotation of the current Japanese exhibit, Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination. Usually the rotation dates are announced on the website but there was no notice and it was only by chance that my brother visited and saw that some of the objects had changed. The biggest change was in the woodblock prints where all of them are by Hiroshige.  There are 13 prints on display including all 8 from the Eight Views of Ō-mi. I’m guessing it’s been quite a while since all 8 of them were on display. I queried the Met about future rotations and I received an email from them saying that two more rotations were planned but dates have not been determined. I wrote back asking if they would post the information to the website once it’s available and I hope they agree otherwise I’ll have to make a note on the calendar to query them again in a few months. I’ll link to all the Hiroshige prints below.

The Gion Shrine in Snow
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56889

Kiyomizu
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55277

Kyoto, Sanjo Ohashi
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36976

Night Rain at Karasaki, from the series Eight Views of Ō-mi
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36531

Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49927

Sunset at Seta
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49930

Clearing Weather at Awazu
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49933

Fishing Boats Sailing Back to Yabase
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49932

Vesper Bells at Mii Temple
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49931

Evening Rain at Karasaki Pine Tree
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49926

Returning Geese at Katata
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49929

Evening Snow at Mt. Hira
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/49928

Kyoto
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37249

I love these prints, he really was a wonderful artist, great technique and colors and a vivid imagination.

In other art news, I think I posted an article recently on a Hopper exhibition overseas and here’s another one showing some of the items in the show, one of which, Gas Station, I’ve written about a number of times. I will reiterate that it’s one of my favorites.  It’s an exhibition I’d love to see as there are paintings from private collections which I’ve never come across at any of the Hopper exhibits I’ve attended.

How Did Edward Hopper Manage to Turn a Plain Country Road Into a Psychologically Charged Drama? A New Exhibition Decodes His Tricks
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/edward-hopper-beyeler-rockefeller-1748067

And now it’s time for the Flickrs.

Andy G.

Prom Dress 4

https://www.flickr.com/photos/183447195@N08/49400938228/

Jeremy's going fem.. And starting to love it

https://www.flickr.com/photos/152257565@N08/49409065832/

Colourful girl

https://www.flickr.com/photos/185390320@N02/49244054377/

sissy in polkadot dress

https://www.flickr.com/photos/152694274@N06/47701403112/

e68bdd93f82cd93eb0cdfa04cb6bba70--saloon-girls-t-girls

https://www.flickr.com/photos/185709983@N06/49122526242/

F163

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pettidoll63/49295008716/

sissy party dress time

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22704178@N07/49193277941/

Candy 2019

https://www.flickr.com/photos/101366775@N04/49193005701/

And pink gets me high as a kite

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36751344@N02/42858330411/

Sissy Sue

https://www.flickr.com/photos/181760871@N03/48511101812/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

I visited the Galerie St. Etienne this week. It’s a home for German Expressionism, an early 20th Century Genre that emphasizes the artist’s feelings rather than reproducing reality. Much of it can be ugly or disturbing but for the most part the images below don’t fall into those two categories aside from Egon Schiele who had a very distinctive style and didn’t aim for pretty. Certainly, his Autumn Sun is fairly grotesque and rather looks a little like the Joker. This is the same art the Neue Galerie is noted for and there’s a relationship between the two, a number of paintings in the exhibit are from the Neue, several of which I’ve linked to below.

Below are two links to the website, the first is an essay on the exhibit while the second is a link to all the objects displayed. Below that are images I liked.

The Expressionist Legacy
https://gseart.com/current-exhibitions-essay

All the objects in the exhibit
https://gseart.com/digital-catalogue

Gustav Klimt - Baby (Cradle) – This is from the National Gallery and for me is clearly the nicest thing in the show. Wonderful colors which almost overwhelm the tiny infant propped at the top.
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/1

Gustav Klimt - Woman with Fur Collar – The woman’s head seems to be floating in the black and brown background. 
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/13

Gustav Klimt - Island in the Attersee – Beautifully serene seascape, the sun-drenched water seems almost Impressionistic although if you click on the link it explains that wasn’t what Klimt was aiming at.
https://www.gustav-klimt.com/Island-in-the-Attersee.jsp

Max Beckman – Portrait of Irma Simon – Very stark, simple portrait of a lady, my apologies to Henry James.
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/2

Lovis Corinth - Self-Portrait – This is a crayon drawing and as with other similar drawings I was struck by how a few smudges and lines can create a visage.
https://assets.gseart.com/pictures/7rmv5b6g/web_347_x_431.jpg

Richard Gerstl – Grinzing – Colorful landscape by a very unhappy artist, Gerstl was an unsuccessful artist who had no friends in the artistic community and upon being discovered to be having an affair with Arnold Schoenberg’s wife committed suicide at the age of 25.
https://gseart.com/current-exhibitions/8

Richard Gerstl - Self-Portrait - I had seen this before at the Neue and like the Lorinth drawing above, I was taken by the face made up of little smudges of paint. This is from the Neue collection.
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/10

Paula Modersohn-Becker - Girl in Green Hat in Profile – I’ve seen her paintings at the Neue and found them interesting. The girl in this picture looks to be wearing a mask and I wonder if there’s a story behind the model. Becker can be thought provoking, she painted a self-portrait of herself pregnant when she wasn’t. You can read a long article about her and that painting at the first link
https://tinyurl.com/rs4cv8w
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/25

Paula Modersohn-Becker - Nursing Mother in Front of Birch Forest .
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/27

Egon Schiele - Portrait of Dr. Erwin von Graff – This is from the Neue Galerie. The skeletal torso is classic Schiele.
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/32

Egon Schiele - Self-Portrait, Bust
https://www.gseart.com/current-exhibitions/40

Egon Schiele - Autumn Sun I – Even his landscapes are tortured. You can read about the connection between paintings like this and the human figures in his other paintings at the link.
http://www.egon-schiele.com/autumn-sun.jsp

In other art news, this article shows how favorably the world currently sees us.

Angry Slovenian Villagers Set Fire to a Creepy Wooden Statue of Donald Trump. (The Artist Insists It’s Really a ‘Statue of Liberty’)
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/donald-trump-sculpture-slovenia-arson-1750023

This is a short video on three colorful paintings by Paul Signac and Camille Pissarro that will be up for auction in London in their Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art Evening Sale.

The Rediscovery of Gaston Lévy’s Collection
https://www.sothebys.com/en/videos/the-rediscovery-of-gaston-levys-collection

This is a one-minute video that recreates iconic Hopper images in real life settings. Very well done. The first link is to Wenders’ website which has a link to the German site where the exhibition is taking place while the second link is the actual video.

TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER. A 3D film installation by Wim Wenders at Fondation Beyeler
https://tinyurl.com/tq4m2l6

https://youtu.be/wxRT_eXGYvg

Here are two articles from Christie’s, the first on artist’s takes on train travel and the second a wonderful essay on an overseas exhibition of the Dutch artist, Pieter de Hooch. Both are well-illustrated.

Full steam ahead — how artists embraced the age of the train
https://www.christies.com/features/Steam-trains-in-art-10279-1.aspx?sc_lang=en#FID-10279

Where might Vermeer have gone had he never seen the art of Pieter de Hooch?
https://tinyurl.com/ue7qg2f

Let’s see what’s doing at the Flickrs now.

Andy G.

IMG_0413a++m
https://www.flickr.com/photos/133564312@N02/49253373617/

garden glam
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gillianisok/49267863588/

2D6_19682a
https://www.flickr.com/photos/janetsexy77/49293040362/

CROSSDRESSER SISSY
https://www.flickr.com/photos/crossdresser_tranny/49207369527/

Prissy Swishy Sissy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/163372946@N03/49185838183/

HOME FROM WORK
https://www.flickr.com/photos/160858910@N02/49456491151/

DSC04224
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186029871@N03/49229097286/

Jan 2020
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143085282@N06/49319350773/

48671684286_4418bffb41_o
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184583402@N04/49237551158/

2020-01-01_12-10-03
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499@N02/49309709952/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I recently visited Sotheby’s for their Old Masters auction preview. Lots of beautiful paintings by some big names and people I like. I’ll link to some below.
Here are links for the results to the three auctions.

Master Paintings & Sculpture Day Sale

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-sculpture-day-sale

Master Paintings Evening Sale

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale

Old Master Drawings

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/old-master-drawings

This is a link to an article discussing the results.

Led by a Resplendent Tiepolo Altarpiece, Sotheby’s Old Masters Sales in New York Raked in More Than $76 Million

https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-old-masters-auctions-new-york-2020-1766238

JAN LIEVENS | WOMAN EMBRACED BY A MAN, MODELLED BY THE YOUNG REMBRANDT – This is the painting about which I sent an article around a few weeks ago. It argued that Lievens may have been a greater painter than Rembrandt. It’s a magnificent painting, one of three big ticket items with estimates in the multi-millions, along with the first Rubens and Tiepolo paintings below. Not mega-millions but still big money. I’m glad I got to see it. I also see it has disappeared from the site but you can see it at this link.
https://www.lot-art.com/auction-lots/JAN-LIEVENS-WOMAN-EMBRACED-BY-A-MAN-MODELLED-BY-THE-YOUNG-REMBRANDT/35-jan_lieven-29.1.20-sotheby

SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS | THE VIRGIN AND CHRIST CHILD, WITH SAINTS ELIZABETH AND JOHN THE BAPTIST – It sold at $7M, right in the middle of the pre-sale estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/sir-peter-paul-rubens-the-virgin-and-christ-child

SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS | THE LAST SUPPER, EN GRISAILLE – The look on Judas’ face is priceless. Clearly the last supper was giving him indigestion.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/sir-peter-paul-rubens-the-last-supper-en-grisaille?locale=en

GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO | MADONNA OF THE ROSARY WITH ANGELS – As the article above states, this sold for well above the unpublished high estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/giovanni-battista-tiepolo-madonna-of-the-rosary

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. | PORTRAIT OF PHILIP DEHANY WITH HIS WIFE MARGARET AND THEIR DAUGHTER MARY, FULL LENGTH, IN AN INTERIOR – I’m always surprised his paintings don’t go for bigger prices, this has a range below a million dollars and sold just above the low estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/thomas-gainsborough-r-a-portrait-of-philip-dehany
 
JEAN-ÉTIENNE LIOTARD | PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS OWEN, THREE-QUARTER-LENGTH, IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VAN DYCK COSTUME – There were two Liotard’s at the Met which I highlighted when I wrote about the exhibition of Mrs. Wrightsman’s donations and here’s another fine portrait although it’s not an overly flattering portrayal. The finger pointing is something I’ve seen in other of his paintings. I wonder if Mrs. W would have bid on this; in any event it didn’t sell.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/jean-etienne-liotard-portrait-of-francis-owen

JAN VAN DER HEYDEN | A PALATIAL GARDEN WITH FIGURES EMERGING FROM A PALACE, THE ROOF OF THE HUIS TEN BOSCH VISIBLE IN THE DISTANCE – Another wonderful artist, I like the composition of this painting with the structures in the center and to the right, below the cloud swept sky, with the people engaged in different activities while two dogs play and another races along. Other people liked it as well, it went above the high estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/jan-van-der-heyden-a-palatial-garden-with-figures

GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO | VENICE, A VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL LOOKING EAST WITH SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE – This is from the Met. It’s being auctioned with the proceeds to be used for future acquisitions which is the only reason museums are allowed to sell parts of their collection. Big scandals have arisen when other museums let paintings go because they needed the cash. The Met has many Canaletto’s, including what Mrs. W recently donated so I guess they felt they could let this one go. They must be happy, it went above the high estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/giovanni-antonio-canal-called-canaletto-venice-a

FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES | HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR VIEWING ITALY FROM THE ALPS FOR THE FIRST TIME – I thought this painting looked different from all the other Goya’s I’ve seen and the lot notes on the website explain that this is his earliest known painting, an oil sketch for a larger painting. In his later years he wasn’t known to paint historical scenes. I think he may have been inspired by Tiepolo’s allegorical paintings. Someone really coveted this work, it sold for more than double the high estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/francisco-jose-de-goya-y-lucientes-hannibal-the

GIOVANNI GRUBACS | DECORATED BARGES AND FIREWORKS BY THE PUNTA DELLA DOGANA IN VENICE – An artist I’ve never encountered before, he was a 19th Century painter of Venetian scenes, scrupulous in their detail and clearly influenced by Canaletto and Guardi. This painting grabbed my attention with its glorious full moon and the colorful and chaotic scene depicting the fireworks.  Apparently others felt the same, it sold for 50% over the high estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-sculpture-day-sale/giovanni-grubacs-decorated-barges-and-fireworks-by
 
FRANCESCO ZANIN | VENICE, VIEW OF THE PALAZZO DUCALE; VENICE, VIEW OF THE SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN MARCO – Another 19th Century artist I’m unfamiliar with but similar to Grubacs in style and influences. Also over the high estimate.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-evening-sale/francesco-zanin-venice-view-of-the-palazzo-ducale

It was a great preview, I could have included a number of other works which you can see at the links to the full auction.

And now let’s visit the Flickrs.

Andy G.

CIMG5192

https://www.flickr.com/photos/48779471@N04/6266236219/

20151031_223015

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sallyjj/22518129430/

K7SP8871

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tossy_cd/46892859275/

mike and jon halloween

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpmyers/49476199006/

**Cigarette Girl

https://www.flickr.com/photos/meagancrickett/7539669846/

I wish you all the happiest of holiday seasons and the healthiest of New Years

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91796351@N04/49278504496/

sissy lottie

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissy_lottie/40085744692/

20180525_184853

https://www.flickr.com/photos/slavejane/43976699764/

Sissy Pet

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissypet12/49351684912/

Practicing my curtesy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/134925861@N04/49371505011/

[andyg0404]

Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

It’s a bright sunny day today but as a friend of  mine would say, it’s chilly willy. 16 degrees on  my thermometer this morning and it feels every degree of it. But no snow or rain so I will refrain from complaining.

I visited the Questroyal Fine Art Gallery a few weeks ago. Questroyal is a great gallery for American art concentrating on the Hudson River painters. I expect to go back in March for what looks to be a large exhibit concentrating on several artists I enjoy.  It’s on the third floor of an apartment building and it must be around a ten-room apartment, each room filled with art as well as the halls. I’ll link below to some of the things I saw today.

I’ll start with a few artists I haven’t come across previously.

Fishing at Moonlight - Mauritz Frederik Hendrik de Haas – He was a 19th Century Dutch American marine painter. Being a sucker for a full moon this leaped off the wall at me. It tells a story with no words, a boat on a turbulent ocean, under a large black cloud heading for shore guided by the lighthouse and the moon. Wonderful colors.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/fishing-at-moonlight/

New York City View in Winter - Paul Cornoyer – He was a 19th -20th Century Impressionist painter.  I love scenes of Old New York. This one of a pre-motor vehicle City when there were far more brownstones than skyscrapers.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/new-york-city-view-in-winter/

The Glass Ball Vane - Eric Sloane – He was a prolific, over 15,000 works, 20th Century landscape painter, illustrator, and author. I really like this simple depiction of a house steeple set against a cloudy sky.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/the-glass-ball-vane/

Cherokee Roses in an Opalescent Vase - Martin Johnson Heade – Heade is someone I’ve seen many times at the auctions. Wonderful landscapes, seascapes and still lifes. Beautiful image of white roses.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/cherokee-roses-in-an-opalescent-vase/

Reclining Figure in a Mountain Landscape - Thomas Cole – The father figure of the Hudson river painters; the Met had a brilliant large exhibition in 2018. I hope to one day visit his ancestral home in Catskill, New York someday. I had planned a trip but somehow got the dates of the exhibit wrong and missed it. It’s only open part of the year.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/reclining-figure-in-a-mountain-landscape/

Niagara Falls - Albert Bierstadt – Another favorite, I’ve seen many exhibits and lots of his art at the auctions. Even in a small painting you can see the grandeur of the Falls.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/niagara-falls/

Sunset - Ralph Albert Blakelock – He was a sad case; a failure at business, he had to sell his paintings well below their value so as to feed his family. When he offered a painting to a collector and the collector balked, he withdrew it. Then he and his wife argued over his not making the sale as they needed the money, so he went back and sold it for even less. It affected his mind; he tore up the money and went into a lifelong depression. A sad ending for a man who created so much beauty.
 
https://www.questroyalfineart.com/sunset-3/

October on the Bronx, A Study from Nature - Sanford Robinson Gifford - Another favorite, I wrote about one of his paintings that the Wigmores donated to the Met.

https://www.questroyalfineart.com/october-on-the-bronx-a-study-from-nature/

At the Library, Winter - Guy Wiggins – He painted many scenes of New York, particularly on snowy days. I enjoyed this old view of Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street as I’ve been there so many times.

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/guy-wiggins-1883-1962-at-the-library-5477529-details.aspx

Flat to Let - by Henry Martin Gasser – I’ll close with these two paintings by Gasser; someone I discovered at Questroyal. He was a native of Newark and lived there his whole life painting scenes of urban life. I’m not sure why but he painted the same scene twice using different titles. I like the second image better since the colors are so much more vivid. He painted his pedestrian leaning into the wind a few times as well.
https://www.questroyalfineart.com/flat-to-let/

Harrison House - Henry Martin Gasser
https://www.questroyalfineart.com/harrison-house/

And now let’s go to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

325
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindazoe/49147710703/

ultimate sissy perm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/95872430@N00/9558918340/

IMG-20190820-WA0311
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186294815@N06/49352093173/

lost in the woods
https://www.flickr.com/photos/142012757@N07/49344213098/

1995 Billy Boy Transformed pics
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152257565@N08/49321615868/

PinkTed 005
https://www.flickr.com/photos/167459094@N07/49369409831/

Baubles, Buttons & Boots
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessica-jane/49268535722/

2019-04-10-02-56-12-963
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156950022@N04/40612269493/

Feminine Identities/Asher
https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurencephilomene/8399475680/

Saturday Sissy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/conniegirl/12542405855/

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Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.

This week I went to the Met Breuer for their current exhibit, From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Gift. If I wasn’t a member and had paid admission I would have been very disappointed. As it was I was just disappointed. If they had posted objects on the website I wouldn’t have bothered. A very undistinguished collection, mostly drawings which is fine but the bulk were contemporary and what was older wasn’t anything special. All in one room on the Fifth floor. Third and Fourth were closed for the Gerhard Richter installation. Second had new acquisitions, also all contemporary and definitely not to my taste. Very few people in attendance.  A lost morning.

Much more enjoyable was an earlier visit to the City where I saw an exhibition of contemporary art at the Cavalier Gallery on 57th Street. As I’ve said before, and as expressed above, I am not a fan of most contemporary art but I felt this exhibit was very worthwhile. It was a really bitter cold day, my eyes were tearing as I walked up to the Gallery. I’ve been to Cavalier a number of times, they display American art, both traditional and contemporary and I generally enjoy what I see. This exhibit was devoted entirely to current works of David Peikon, all of them were from 2018 or 2019.  He’s 61 years old and took up professional painting when he was 38, walking away from a corporate position in sales. Prior to this visit I was unfamiliar with him. He’s a fascinating guy who is also renowned as a portrait painter. In 2014 he injured his right shoulder and subsequently changed his orientation and started painting with his left hand. All of the paintings in the show are from 2018 or 2019 so you can see how successful he was in making the switch. The cards on the wall next to the paintings were filled with information about him, his influences and his thoughts on each work. He mentioned Monet, Sargent, Hopper and Wyeth in particular, as well the American landscape painters. From the samples I’ve copied below you’ll see examples of all of them.

This is a link to all the objects in the exhibit.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/

Koi and Water Lilies – These first two show his Impressionistic point of view, akin to Monet.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7950

Iris and Water Lentils
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7945

Lilies for John Singer Sargent
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7932

Empire – He shares with Hopper his sense of isolation; these paintings are unpeopled and there is a voyeuristic element in the darkened windows.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7935

Someone to Watch over Me – Adding a touch of modernity, as well as paranoia, with the security camera he has attached to the lamppost in front of this old brownstone.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7954

Zach’s Sunset – These two clearly spring from the Hudson River painters.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7959
 
Evening on the Marsh
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7924

Barnyard Sunrise – And finally his Wyeth style paintings, more for the subjects than the brushstrokes. Wyeth has a much more muted palette.
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7928

Sunrise After the Storm
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7927

On Miles River Road
https://www.cavaliergalleries.com/exhibition/176/exhibition_works/7926

In other art news.

Believe it or not, this is not a photograph. It’s from the Louis Meisel Gallery, which represents photorealist artists. This is one of the most realistic paintings I’ve seen. I wonder where the giveaways are.

Bertrand Meniel – Lucky Dragon
http://www.meiselgallery.com/lkmg/imagesEXHIBIT/Meniel_Lucky-Dragon.jpg

Now off to the Flickrs.

Andy G.

#230: 2019-08-21 pic-16
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99244229@N04/49399061421/

February 2018 - Ball Verqueer
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cilii/26489224618/

Time to dance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachel_valentine/49367951493/

Susan i white dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152512835@N05/46511506581/

this dress has a built in frilly slip my first.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143983237@N05/49006829602/

Mandii_2019_07
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9346466@N06/46298069104/

Eeeeek!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyplaything/48851875012/

Ready for my wedding proposal
https://www.flickr.com/photos/158086344@N08/49222987142/

Butterfly
https://www.flickr.com/photos/52912530@N04/49282772972/

Wedding Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/briannebeth/7416732010/