Mary, Mary, Contrary?: April 2016

Jim wanted to go see the Art Gallery today, I've gone with several visitors before, but he hasn't been there since 2007 when we came here with the kids on a vacation. We spent the rainy morning running errands for groceries, pharmacy, farmers market etc. After lunch at home we headed out on the metro.

We found a guided tour that started at 2:30 touring the American Arts. It was 2:00, so we quickly toured the other side of the rotunda...before we started the tour.

This is Venetion, 1477-1510, The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Giorgione.

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene, by Pietro Perugino(1482/1485)

Saint Cecilia and an Angel

Two Women at a Window by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

The Dancing Couple by Jan Steene (Dutch)

I thought this one was joyful! Now we need to go get ready for our 2:30 tour. Our docent started us off with some British Art before we switched to American...to see the similarities and differences.

Lady Elizabeth Delme and her Children, 1777-1779,by Sir Joshua Reynolds

This was one that caught my eye as I walked by...The House of Representatives by Samue Finley Breese Morse.

And here is my buddy George, The Washington Family by Edward Savage

I liked this one, Lake Lucerne by Albert Bierstadt.

The docent shared this one with us, American artists sharing America with the rest of the world. It was stunning! Autumn-On the Hudson River by Jasper Francis Cropsey(1860).

This is an up close view of the above painting for all of us who enjoy sheep!

Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment acclaimed to be the greatest American sculpture of the nineteenth century. The 54th Volunteer Infantry was raised shortly after Lincoln issued the EmancipationProclamation on January 1, 1863. Recruits came fro many states, encouraged by African American leaders including the great orator Frederick Douglass, whose own sons joined the 54th. Shaw in front of the the charge in South Carolina was one of the first to die. Nearly half of the 600 were captured, declared missing, or died from wounds they received that day.

Here is the docent sharing "Niagara" by Fredeick Edwin Church, 1857.

Autumn, by Winslow Homer, 1877

The Dinner Horn, by Winslow Homer, 1870. Reminded me of never wanting to be late to supper.

Mrs. Adrian Iselin, 1888, by John Singer Sargent.

The White Girl(Symphony in White, No. 1) 1862, James McNeill Whistler. The wolf rug freaks you out a bit, but the texture used on dress and curtains...kind of cool!