We went to see a very special showing of ” Monet’s Water Lilies an Artists Obsession” at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The show featured nine of the 250 paintings devoted to the water lily theme inspired by Monet’s Japanese style garden located in Giverny, Paris. With those examples you could see Monet’s experimentation with color, […]
Smith College Museum of Art
The Museum at Smith College began collecting works in 1879 with a focus on American and European art. Acquiring works of quality, while recognizing the instructional value of preparatory studies and unfinished works. The Museum assembled important works of the nineteenth century, including works by Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and others. In the […]
Hill-Stead Museum
What makes this museum unique and special is that it is a home. A place that Theodate (the Pope family’s daughter) designed and loved. While the collection of art and artifacts was largely collected by her father Alfred. Some of the paintings were moved in (1950’s) many of them have recently been moved back to […]
Savannah, GA – here we are
Spending these 2 weeks in Savannah, GA – home of the Telfair Museums as well as a dozen historical homes of late colonial civil war period — it is also home to SCAD – Savannah College of Art and Design. More coming in individual site entries all tagged Savannah-ga A few additional places we found […]
