Friday, February 23, 2024

Lancaster, PA (2/23/2024)

Friday, February 23, 2024
Last stop on this particular trip for Tyler Arboretum membership reciprocal museums in Lancaster, PA.
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen (est 1944
in response to Eleanor Roosevelt's
recommendation to find ways to transfer
wartime skills to peacetime work
68" cherry bench using pitchforks
Polymer clay eggs
Modular origami cupcakes
100% wool knitted hats, gloves, and scarves
Fraktur calligraphy
Ukelele
Fabric and marbled paper covered box
Cattle Drive (by Bruce Garrabrandt, who has a large
collection of pun-ny drawings with many published in books
Bead design necklace
Lancaster Museum of Art (est 1965) moved
into the Grubb Mansion (1845-1846) in 1979
Visions from the World of Ron Ettelman:
The Lesson (2015) has collage additions to
an old photo, and uses piano keys in the frame
It's Time to Wake Up (2020 collage)
Tracking the Orb at Twin Peaks (2014) uses piano parts
Catalytic Conversion of St Sebastian (2010);
there are cocktail toothpicks piercing
the branches, plus piano and auto parts
Rising Artist Spotlight: Aubrey Maurer and Callie Morton:
Elkhorn (2022, by Aubrey Maurer)
At Ease (2022, by Callie Morton)
Self Portrait (2018, by Thomas Murphy Tymon);
the artist  graduated from Rhode Island School of Design,
but returned to his hometown of Lancaster and
had his first art exhibit at the Demuth Museum;
the Rising Artist Spotlight Gallery is dedicated to him
John Wise Monument on the art museum
grounds honors the pioneer aeronaut who
made 462 hot air balloon ascensions from
1835-1879; however, his last trip ended up
in Lake Michigan where he lies today
Demuth Tobacco Shop (1770) was open in February on
select dates, since the Demuth Museum itself has
been enclosed for installation of reinterpreted galleries
This is the oldest tobacco shop in the country,
founded by Christopher Demuth, and
has its original woodwork and cabinetry
The great great grandson of the founder
was Charles Demuth, a painter of watercolors
and developer of the Precisionist style; this
work is Buildings, Abstraction, Lancaster (1931)
Charles Demuth lived his final years in the building next to the tobacco shop, which is the Demuth Museum.
Pipes, pipe tobacco, and cigarettes
More cabinets and shelving
Display of small pipes with cases
Lancaster County Courthouse (1852-1855, by
Samuel Sloane, with additions in 1896-1898 and 1926-1927)
Conjuring Giants Mural (2020, by Ada Serrano)
Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1874,
by Lewis Haldy in Gothic Revival style)
Statue (2022, by Chad Fisher) of Henry Norwood
"Barney" Ewell, who grew up in Lancaster and began
running to strengthen his left leg that was effected by polio;
at Pennsylvania State University he became the "fastest
man in the world" by breaking the record for the 50-yard
dash at 5 seconds; Olympic dreams were cancelled in
1940 and 1944, yet Barney qualified for the 1948
Olympics - winning silver in the 100 m and
200 m dashes, and gold in the 4x100 m relay
Silent Symphony (2015, by Lyman Whitaker)
with spinning "whirligigs"