Tuesday, October 2, 2018
We are retired, so we do not have to travel only on long weekends!
Drove down to Columbus, OH, ending up at the Columbus Museum of Art.
(We were in Columbus to see Roadside America attractions in
2015.)
 |
ART (2001, by Doris Schlayn) acts as a gateway
for the Columbus College of Art & Design,
which is adjacent to the Museum of Art |
 |
| Tamiko with the too realistic Back of Kelly (2005, by Evan Penny) (KSS) |
 |
| The Future is Ours (1935, by Walter Quirt) (KSS) |
 |
Isola di San Giacomo in Palude/Island of St James
in the Swamp (1996, by Dale Chihuly) (KSS) |
 |
| Still Life with Compote and Glass (1914-1915, by Pablo Picasso) (KSS) |
 |
| Tamiko with Spirit (1994, by Mel Chin) (KSS) |
 |
| Endeavor (1998-2003, by Lino Tagliapietra) |
 |
The entrance to the Wonder Room is artist
Jeila Gueramian's version of a blanket fort (2017) |
 |
| Columbus Museum of Art (1931, by Richards, McCarty and Bulford)
with Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped (1975, by Henry Moore) (KSS) |
The museum houses the world’s largest collections of works by Columbus born artists Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Elijah Pierce, and George Bellows.
After lunch in the Museum Schokko Café, we walked over to Topiary Park (1989-1992), in the Old Deaf School Park, where the scene depicted in Georges Seurat’s famous painting,
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), was created by James T Mason.
 |
| Bronze relief version of the Seurat painting (KSS) |
 |
| Topiary version of the Seurat painting |
 |
| A duck enjoys the ride in a topiary steamboat (KSS) |
Next we walked to the Thurber House, where writer and humorist, James Thurber, lived with his parents and two brothers. This was during the years he attended Ohio State University in 1913-1917.
 |
| Thurber House at 77 Jefferson Avenue |
 |
Concrete version of Thurber-drawn dog
digging in the garden (KSS) |
 |
| Another Thurber dog reading a book (KSS) |
 |
| Selfie with the reading dog (KSS) |
 |
Across the street from the Thurber House was
a statue (1988, by Jack Greaves) of a unicorn,
in reference to a Thurber short story titled
The Unicorn in the Garden (KSS) |
We had time to drive to the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.
 |
| A flower topiary of the state bird, the cardinal |
 |
The strange flower of the Euonymus americanus/
American Strawberry Bush (KSS) |
 |
| NavStar (1990-1991, by Stephen Canneto) |
 |
| Some of the 75 flamingo flower topiaries (KSS) |
 |
| Close-up of a flamingo (KSS) |
 |
Closer-up if a flamingo;
is that a pink lichen? |
 |
| Bridal Garden |
 |
Bluetail Chandelier (2003, by Dale Chihuly)
in the Palm Garden (KSS) |
 |
| Yellowtail Chandelier (2003, by Dale Chihuly) |
 |
| Bonsai |
 |
| Looking up through a glass window in a tunnel |
 |
Persian Temple (c 2004, by Dale Chihuly);
it is difficult to appreciate the glass in this display |
 |
| Aechmea 'Blue Tango' (KSS) |
 |
| Silver Cluster Cactus (KSS) |
There was a series of eight
Ikebana Plexi Drawings (1999, by Dale Chihuly). We had not seen any 2-dimensional works by Chihuly.
 |
| Ikebana Plexi #2 (KSS) |
 |
| Ikebana Plexi #8 (KSS) |
 |
| Chihuly glass seemed to be everywhere! |
 |
| Sunset Tower (2003, by Dale Chihuly) |
"The Conservatory was honored to be the second botanical garden in the world to host an exhibition by glass artist Dale Chihuly in 2003."
 |
Field (2018, by Theo Watson) where visitors interact with a 46’ long
ecosystem projected on the gallery walls, where grasses and flora grow
based on their bodies’ position and movement in the space |
Very cool!
We checked into a Hampton Inn & Suites and had dinner at a Rusty Bucket.
Next: Columbus OH II.
No comments:
Post a Comment