Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Palmer Museum of Art (3/19/2025)

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 (continued)
Still on the way to Buffalo, another stop at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State in State College, PA.
The new Palmer Museum of Art (est 1972, 2024, by Allied
Works with landscape design by Reed Hildebrand)
Entry Gallery: Roots and Renewal:
Mother and Son (1799, by John Brewster, Jr)
Lullaby (1945, by Robert Gwathmey)
Grand Staircase:
Lupine Blue Persian Wall (2023,
by Dale Chihuly)
Modern: Beyond Abstraction:
Untitled (1970, by Louise Nevelson)
Self-Portrait (1985, by Keith Haring)
Paper: The Global Majority:
Kansas Samurai (2004, by Roger Shimomura)
European: Devotion and Defiance:
The Siege of Bethulia (c 1530, by Hans Schäufelein) is an
amazingly detailed four-panel woodcut print telling
the story of Judith and Holofernes whom she beheaded
The Act of Judith (1979-1980, by Jerome Witkin)
Special Exhibition: The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art (2nd floor):
Iris Vase with Metal Stand (c 1910, by
Legras & Cie, France)
Armchair (c 1925, by Pierre Chareau)
Contemporary: Breaking Boundaries:
Kingfisher and Iris (1840s, by Ando Hiroshige)
One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding
Dr J Silver Series)
(1985, by Jeff Koons)
Holy Cup Tree (2016, by Arnold Zimmerman)
Harlem Rose (2005-2006, by Willie Cole)
is made with shoes
Arts of Africa:
House of the King Headdress (19C,
by the Kuba people of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Teaching Gallery: Profiles of Vulnerability and Protection:
Profile Landscape 438.074 (1977, by Linda Stein)
is painted on a map
Possessions 932, from Displacement from
Home
(2018, by Linda Stein)
Glass: Material Metamorphosis:
Cocoe (2010, by Davide Salvadore)
that did not look like glass!
Orange and Green Bowl from Exotic Bird Series
(c 1990, by Toots Zynsky who studied with Dale Chihuly
and went on to develop her signature glass thread vessels)
Ceramics: Tradition and Innovation:
Bowl (date unknown, by Inoue Manji)
American 20th Century: Modern Medley:
Lake George (1924, by Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mountains in Stone, Dogtown (1931,
by Marsden Hartley)
American 20th Century: People and Places:
Shallow Creek (1938-1939,
by Thomas Hart Benton)
Peacocks Fighting (1934, by
Anna Hyatt Huntington)
American 20th Century: Urban Visions:
The Staten Island Trolley (c 1907, by Guy Pène du Bois)
Sculpture: 
Forest (c 2012, by Barbara Diduk)
American 19th Century: Whose Pennsylvania?:
Mrs Clement B Newbold (Mary Scott)
(1894-1895, by Mary Cassatt)
The Artist's Last Birthday (1865, by Rubens Peale)
American 19th Century: The Spread of Impressionism:
Harney Desert Landscape, Oregon (1904,
by Childe Hassam)
The Wisteria Vine (1919, by William Glackens)
American 19th Century: Home and Abroad:
Displayed as in early art galleries
Boy Holding Logs (1873,
by Winslow Homer)
Hot Springs at Yellowstone (1889, by Grafton Tyler Brown)
The Greek Girl (1851, by William Morris Hunt)
Special Exhibition: The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art (1st floor):
Nénuphars Side Chair and Writing Table with Cartonnier
(both c 1900, by Louis Majorelle)
Morning Glory Vase (c 1900-1904, by
Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé)
Necklace (c 1909, artist unknown)
Paris Métro Entourage (unroofed enclosure) Panel
(designed 1900 by Hector Guimard)
Nénuphars Cabinet de Travail (1902,
by Louis Majorelle)
Gooseneck Sprinkler (c 1898-1899,
by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company)
Outdoor Sculpture Path:
Adventurer (1977, by Seymour Lipton)
Explorer (1963-1964, by Seymour Lipton)