The first thing you think of as walking through the Tretyakov is “wow a collection of world art”, oh wait we are in Moscow and this is all Russian art. The reason for the double take is that the original collection of 2000 works created by Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov in 1892 has an amazing span. The […]
Frelinghuysen/morris
http://www.frelinghuysen.org/ Rich’s Personal Reflection: We drove into a hidden gate on a late rainy afternoon. There was a guard with a golf cart waiting to take us down a long driveway buried deep into the woods, where we went into a gallery space with large painting and watched a short introduction to the couple and […]
Bennington Museum
The Bennington Museum is a small museum and a perfect detour if you are visiting this area. The highlight for me was the Grandma Moses collection. Seeing the video of an interview with her, learning she started her painting career in her seventies and that she had created over 1500 works of art! Seeing the […]