A number of museums up the hill from downtown Springfield Springfield, MA The Springfield Museums, located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is comprised of five world-class museums; the Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts., the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Springfield Science Museum, the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum and […]
The Jewish Museum of New York City
This is another small museum only in the perspective of being on the NYC Museum Mile by Central Park. The current exhibit (Jan 2010) is of Man Ray, best known as a photographer, is a key member of the Dada and Modernist Movements. Why the exhibit is here was a surprise to us, it turns […]
American Folk Art Museum
American folk art may be remarkable for the cultural clues it holds, but these often become elusive when the artworks are removed from the context of their creation. For the better part of the twentieth century, however, this is exactly how folk art has been perceived, following a museum model that was established early in […]
Cornish Colony Museum
Current Exhibit: *Illustrating the Imagination: Celebrating Children’s Illustrators From the Cornish Colony and Today* (through March 28th The Cornish Colony was a community of artists and creative individuals founded in 1885 by a lawyer from New York named Charles Cotesworth Beaman. He soon convinced his friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the premier sculptors of the […]
Hill-Stead Museum
Hill-Stead Museum/ Hill-Stead is the family estate of the Pope family. in Farmington, Connecticut. Designed by Theodate Pope, a student of Occupied 1901 to 1946, by her parents and then with her career-diplomat husband John Wallace Riddle, it has a small and stunning collectionof of French Impressionist paintings and sculpture, prints, ceramics, textiles and furnishings. […]
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain Museum of American Art/ Founded in 1903, the Museum is the first museum dedicated totally American Art. New Britain Museum of American Art 56 Lexington Street New Britain, CT 06052 p: 860.229.0257 f: 860.229.3445 e: nbmaa@nbmaa.org
Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity
New Britain Museum of American Art. has a great exhibit showing the wide variety of Shaker innovation. Exhibit Review Made even more interesting for us because the exhibit arranger is a friend of our from the world of Shaker Studies – Steven Miller. More coming when we go to the exhibit in March !! Clocks […]
Welcome to all my Collections
I love stuff � ok, not any stuff but good stuff. This blog will be about my collections and experiences in collecting. Look at “About”:/about to see more about what collections
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