Asheville Art Museum (11/18/2021)

Thursday, November 18, 2021 (continued)

After lunch we headed back to the Asheville Art Museum, taking advantage of our Tyler Arboretum membership for free admission.

Reflections on Unity (2019, by
Henry Richardson)

Thomas Wolfe Memorial Angel (1983, by
Dan Millspaugh) is a copy of the grave
marker angel carved by Thomas Wolfe's
father and referenced in the novel,
Look Homeward, Angel

Apparently the novel by Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, is autobiographical, although the name of the town in the book was Altamont. At the time, the book was banned in Asheville because many people felt it portrayed Asheville and its people negatively.

Pin River: French Broad River (2007, by Maya Lin)

Pin River: French Broad River detail

Even the elevator had art: Elevation (2019,
by Melissa Terrezza Pace)

Feeding the Family (1990, by Barry Gurley Huffman
at a time she was frustrated by a call from family
asking when she would be home to make dinner)

Black Panther (1988, by Howard Finster)

Lazy-J Chair (c 1941-1945, by Mary "Molly"
Gregory at Black Mountain College)

Japanese Magnolias (1945, by Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald, wife of F Scott Fitzgerald)

Untitled S.372 (c 1954, by Ruth Asawa
at Black Mountain College)

Untitled S-372 detail

Lovett (2009, by Peter Alexander) and
Filtration, Cerise (1977, by Julian Stanczak)

No Food on the Table (1992, by Joe Minter)

How Plants Travel (1989, by Michael Sherrill
from Providence RI)

How Plants Travel detail

Dawn (2011, by Rick Beck)

The illusion was that there is
no glass in the opening

The Ice Sculpture (2020, by Margaret Curtis)

Marilyn (2014, by Roger Shimomura)

Kyoto Homage series tea set (1980, 1991, by Dorothy Hafner)

Untitled photograph from Time of Change series
(1961, by Bruce Davidson) shows the founding
Freedom Riders at a lunch counter, including a
young John Lewis with his heaad down

The 16th Street Baptist Church (1964, by Mack Stanley) depicts
the event of the bombing of the church in Birmingham, AL

Which bud vase would you choose? One the L
(c 1925, from Fulper Pottery Co, NJ) or one on the R
(c 1910, By Louis Comfort Tiffany)?

Cameo pottery: Square Dancers Teapot (1953,
by Walter B Stephen at Nonconnah Pottery)

Spiral (2015, by George Peterson) is made
from recycled skateboards

Wing 1 (1992, by Kenneth Snelson)

Asheville Urban Trail II (11/18/2021)

Thursday, November 18, 2021 (continued)

Urban Trail Station #15: Marketplace: a
basket of apples on wagon wheels (by
Julia Burr) marks the time when produce
markets and livery stables lined the street

A Philips 76 gas station is now a Mellow Mushroom pizza place

Urban Trail Station #16: Legacy of Design:
somehow the "unbridled imagination" of a boy
on stilts "captures the spirit" of architect
Richard  Sharp Smith, who designed many homes
in Asheville, including some in Biltmore Village

Center for Craft's Liminal (2019, by Ian Henderson
and Shae Bishop) a 3-D mosaic

Former Masonic Temple (1913-1915, by Richard Sharp Smith)

Urban Trail Station #17: Woodfin House: a ceramic replica
of Woodfin House (1840) that once stood across the street,
including during the life of Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)

Urban Trail Station #18: Wolfe's Neighborhood: a spot to view the neighborhood
of author and Asheville native son Thomas Wolfe in the bronze rendering
(designed by Tucker Cooke) and also the neighborhood of today, all while standing...

...in the Thomas Wolfe-sized footprints

Urban Trail Station #21: On the Move: an
art-in-motion wheel with Art Deco stampings
honors the evolution of transportation in
Asheville; however, spinning the wheel did
not produce any sounds as had been promised

Urban Trail Station #20: Curtain Calls: abstract
metal sculptures (by Stan Blackstone) mark
the history of the Asheville Community Theatre

Thomas Wolfe Memorial includes his mother's boardinghouse
(1883, in Victorian Queen Anne style) that she purchased
in 1906 and was memorialized in Wolfe's novel,
Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

Urban Trail Station #19: Dixieland: bronze dancing shoes
(by Dan Millspaugh and Angel Cloer) mark the
entrance to the boardinghouse of Thomas Wolfe's
mother, named Old Kentucky Home, but called
Dixieland in his novel, Look Homeward, Angel

Original brick sidewalk outside the boardinghouse

First Baptist Church (1925-1927, by Douglas Ellington,
based on the cathedral and dome of Santa Maria del Fiore/
Duomo in Florence, Italy, but with Art Deco details)

Base of a monument for the North Carolina
 60th Regiment and Battle of Chickamauga
was removed in 2020

Western North Carolina/WNC Veterans
 Memorial Seated Woman with Letter
(2009, by Jodi Hollnagel-Jubran)

WNC Veterans Memorial

Buncombe County Courthouse (1924-1928,
by Frank Milburn in Neoclassical Revival style)

Urban Trail Station #25: Ellington's Dream: granite etching
of the original plan of Douglas Ellington to have two
Art Deco government buildings side-by-side; however,
county officials opted for another architect for the courthouse

City Building (1927, by Douglas Ellington in Art Deco style)

Pack's Tavern (1907,1912 buildings) with a
vintage 1932 Model A Ford Truck (KSS)

Urban Trail Station #22: Civic Pride: a
replica of the bronze bell that once rang from
from the Asheville City Building (seen on R)

Jackson Building (1924-1925, by
Ronald Greene in Neo-Gothic style)

Urban Trail Stations #23, #24 and #26 were not marked correctly on the map.

Urban Trail Station #27: Monument Corner:
bronze carving tools represent the tombstone
shop of Thomas Wolfe's father, which was
located where Jackson Building now stands

Urban Trail Station #28: Brick Artisan:
the cornucopias at the side entrance of the former 
City Market (1925-1926, by Ronald Greene)
are attributed to an African-American
brick mason, James Vester Miller

Urban Trail Station #29: "The Block": a bronze relief
(by Winston Wingo) depicting the heart of the
African-American community in Asheville

Young Men's Institute/YMI (1892-1893, by Richard Sharp Smith
in English Tudor Cottage style) was partially funded by
George Vanderbilt after African-American leaders approached
him about the racial discrimination in Asheville and the need of
a place for the Black workers who helped build Biltmore Estate

Mount Zion Baptist Church (1919, by
James Vester Miller in late Victorian Gothic style)

Urban Trail Station #30: Hotel District: a bronze eagle
(by Dan Millspaugh) represents the Eagle Hotel, the first
of several hotels built on Buncombe Turnpike in the 1800s

Coffee Bus/Double D's Coffee and Desserts (c 2009)

Lunch was at Wicked Weed Brewpub (est 2012, building 1920s)

Henry VIII said, “Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.”

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