Just a short subway trip away from Brooklyn...
...at the International Center of Photography we were invited behind the desk to watch Obama's speech...and to celebrate...No photos allowed in the museum...however I did some research at home on Edward Steichen...a photographer of fashion and the famous..This photo of Gloria Swanson was one of many on exhibit...
"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen
..then on to the Metropolitan Museum ..where we could have spent a week wandering...absorbing Renaissance art and Calder jewelry...
Fra Filippo Lippi (b. Florence, ca. 1406–d. Spoleto, 1469)
Portrait of a Woman and a Man at a Casement, ca. 1440–44
Tempera on panel; 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm)
Inscribed on edge of woman's cuff: LEALT[À]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (89.15.19)
The next day we went to the American Folk Art Museum - again no photos allowed inside..I enjoyed the juxtaposition of Mark Rothko paintings with primitive portraitist Ammi Phillips' portraits...Reds!
Untitled
Mark Rothko (1903 - 1970)
New York
1970
Acrylic on canvas
60 1/4 x 57 1/8 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.173
(c) 1998 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel/Artists Rights Society, New York
Photo courtesy the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Harriet Campbell
Ammi Phillips (1788 - 1865)
Greenwich, Washington County, New York
c. 1815
Oil on canvas
48 1/2 x 25 in.Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, gift of Oliver Eldridge in memory of Sarah Fairchild Anderson, teacher of art, North Adams Public Schools, daughter of Harriet Campbell
Photo courtesy Imaging Department (c) President and Fellows of Harvard College
...and finished up at the Whitney Museum viewing a very wonderful Alexander Calder exhibit...
and a huge exhibit of Eggleston photos...Alexander Calder, 'The Hostess', 1928. Steel wire, 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 11 7/8 in. (29.2 x 11.5 x 30.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of Edward M.M. Warburg. © 2008 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
William Eggleston, "Karco", c. 1983-86, from "The Democratic Forest", 1989. Exhibition print, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm). Cheim & Read, New York © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read Gallery.“I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around: that nothing was more important or less important.” Every detail, no matter how insignificant, takes on meaning."
...inspiration...
