We met Erich for lunch at a Diners, Drive-ins & Dives location of Boulevard Diner in Dundalk, MD
Afterwards we headed to Dover, DE.
The main exhibition was Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, New York). No photos were allowed.
Biggs Museum of American Art with an outdoor-indoor sculpture, Aloft (2015, by Erica Loustau) inspired by flocks of Agelaius phoeniceus/Red-winged Blackbirds |
A closeup shows the wing markings |
The flock spirals through the window into the museum |
The Children's Abstract Art Exhibition was inspired by the Guild Hall exhibition |
The Children's Abstract Art Exhibition whiteboard proclaimed a different subtitle: Horror Vacui - an art term meaning "fear of empty spaces" |
Dreams (2022, by Rome Kpakima, age 16) |
Value Shell Composition (2021) one of the student works from the 2020-2021 Adopt-An Art-Work Program |
Value Shell Composition closeup |
American Rococo Gallery (c 1750s-1785): Dressing table (1755-1780, from the Delaware Valley) |
Silver Study Center: Sugar bowl (by Thomas McConnell) |
Federal Gallery (c 1785-1815): Armchair ( 1800-1815, Philadelphia) |
Folk Art Gallery (c 1790-1900): Sand art (1884, by Andrew Clemens of McGregor, Iowa); Clemens was self-taught and hearing-impaired |
Folk Art Gallery: Tea table (1865-1900, by "Big Tom" Burton, and African-American from Cedar Neck, DE) |
American Empire Gallery (c 1810-1835): Staircase (1850s in Philadelphia) was the first "fire-proof" cast-iron stair in DE |
Hudson River School Gallery (c 1835-1860): Niagara Falls (c 1869, by Albert Bierstadt) |
Zebruh (2022, by Alim Smith, an Afro-surrealist) |
Hey Lady, Do You Know Where A Church Is? (2022, by Carol Vieira, fabric artist) |
Porcupine Zip Tie (2022, by Theda Sandiford) |
Porcupine Zip Tie detail |
Reparations: What Happens to a Dream Deferred (2022, by James Terrell) |
Gallery of American History & Genre Scenes (c 1840-1890): The Elder's Daughter (copy of 1886 original by John Rogers) |
American Gilded Age (1860-1900): Upholstered armchair (c 1880, by Allen Brothers, Philadelphia) after the "Morris chair" (an early reclining chair), of the British Arts & Crafts Movement |
American Impressionism (c 1880-1910): Haystacks (c 1881, by William Merritt Chase, painted en plein-aire) |
Legislative Hall, home of the Delaware General Assembly, is the state capitol (1931-1933, by E William Martin and Norman M Isham in Colonial Revival style, wings added in 1965-1970) |
Old State House (1787-1791 as the Kent County Court House) |
Old Kent County Court House (1874-1875) |
The Old State House and Old County Court House are situated on Dover Green that was laid out in 1717 according to plans by William Penn) |
Parke-Ridgely House (1728) where Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott was given refuge in 1841 when she was scheduled to give a lecture but instead a conservative mob made it too dangerous |
Other events on the Dover Green include the trail of Samuel Burris, a free Black man who was arrested in 1847 for assisting a woman to escape slavery. He was forced to await trial for 14 months in the Dover jail, and was found guilty and sentenced to be sold into slavery. Abolitionists in the north sent a man to pose as a buyer and purchase Burris at the auction block, and then set him free.
In 1920, Delaware had the opportunity to be the 36th and final state needed to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. Women and citizens gathered in the Green, where those in favor of the vote carried yellow roses, and those against had red roses. After a fierce debate in the Old State House, the Delaware legislators declined to vote, which meant Tennessee made the final ratifying vote.
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