Arrived in RI and the first order of business was to meet at Mary Jane's and Barney's for a pizza dinner and a chance to meet Katrina's parents, Terry and Marianne.
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| Sunset seen in Tiverton, RI |
Thursday, August 24, 2017
After a lunch at Caserta's of WimpySkippies, I went to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum of Art.
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| Untitled (2012, by Paul Cowan) that has a fishing lure |
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| Big Baby Accretion with Navajo Striations (2016, by Nikolai and Simon Haas),a vessel imitating the natural layering process |
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| St Jerome Beside a Pollard Willow (1648, by Rembrandt van Rijn), an etching |
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| Yvette Guilbert Taking a Curtain Call (1894, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) |
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| Desk (1915-1916) and window (1904) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Etruscan gold jewelry (7-3C BCE) with part of the center pin seen behind a magnifying glass |
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| Pendleton House (1926 rendition of the 1799 Georgian house of Charles Pendelton), built as a wing to the museum to display the Pendleton Collection of decorative arts |
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| Ceiling lamp of the glass collection? |
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| Blue and white ceramics: Chinese plate (c. 1810), Dutch plaque (c. 1700), and Chinese tea caddy (early 19C), but there are no longer small blue and white ceramics for sale in the gift shop! |
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| Mosaic tiles in the Freshman Housing Quad |
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| Tile art in the entrance to South Hall |
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| Mosaic wall in the entrance to Homer Hall, which leads to the Met Courtyard |
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| Most of the flowers came from Mary Jane's gardens |
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| Most of those who worked on arranging flowers: Elyse, Alysha, Ilija, Mary Jane, Katrina, Maureen, and Tamiko (photo by Keith, who also helped!) |
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