Friday, February 14, 2025

Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art (2/14/2025)

Friday, February 14, 2025 (continued)
Part of the Museum of Arts & Sciences/MOAS, but in a separate building is the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art, dedicated to Florida art.
Evening on the Oklawaha (c 1880,
by Milton H Lowell)
Gaunt Tamarac (Homeless) (1935, by Eugene Francis Savage)
references the Seminole indigenous people and their struggles
Dance of the Whooping Cranes (1940,
by Newell Connors (N C) Wyeth) was
chosen to illustrate an edition of The
Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Special Exhibition: Audubon's Birds of Florida:
Portrait of John James Audubon
(c 1875, by N B Wilcox)
Aphelocoma coerulescens/Florida Scrub-jays.
the only native species in the state
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos/American
White Pelican (1831)
Calidris alba/Sanderlings; this print shows how
Audubon drew all the birds close to life-size
Phoenicopterus ruber/American Flamingo
Original copperplate for Brown Creeper
and California Nuthatch
(c 1838)
Brown Creeper and California Nuthatch, is
printed in reverse and hand-colored by Audubon
Close-up of Brown Creeper
and California Nuthatch
Interior of the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art
(2012, by RLF Architects)