Neue Galerie The Neue Galerie is a small gallery, which along NYC’s museum mile is still pretty impressive. In addition to the collections of Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky. The most amazing part of the collection is one of the most recognizable of Klimt’s works, ‘Adele Bloch-Bauer 1’ – recently returned from the Bloch-Baue […]
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 […]
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection/ The Frick can only be called a small museum in contrast with the NY Met that is across the street by a few blocks. On NY’s Museum Mile, the Frick is a classic example of what a moderately wealthy collector could do at the turn of the 1900’s. Also they are responsible […]
The Hyde Collection
A great small museum – in Hyde Park, NY The Museum offers a world class collection of objects that span the history of western art from the fourth century BC through the twentieth century. The Museum’s founders, Louis and Charlotte Hyde, acquired the majority of objects during a fifty-year period of avid and highly […]
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
Museum reviews coming soon
We are in process of moving our existing museum reviews here and the much larger lists of museums we’ve visited here from the-collector
