Delaware Art Museum (7/6/2022)

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 (continued)

Tyler Arboretum membership reciprocity gained us free admittance to the Delaware Art Museum.

Galleries 1-3: Radical Beauty (British Pre-Raphaelites)

Water Willow (1871, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti);
Rossetti and six other British artists and writers
established the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
in 1848, seeking inspiration from the medieval
period before the time of Raphael and the High
Renaissance (preferred by the Royal Academy)

Vase (1900, by Charles Collis) that hints at
the organic patterning of Art Nouveau

Viking Ship (1883-1884, by Edward Burne-Jones) is displayed
next to Marigold wallpaper (1875, designed William Morris) 

Close-up of Cupid's Hunting Grounds (1880,
by Edward Burne-Jones) to show the three-
dimensional relief effect

Galleries 4-6: Picturing America (American Art through 1900)

George Washington (c 1825-1830, by
Rembrandt Peale, son of Charles Wilson
Peale who named his children after artists)

Morning on the River, Providence RI (c 1890-1891, by
Edward Mitchell Bannister); Bannister was selected for a
painting prize at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia,
which was nearly rescinded because the award committee
learned he was Black; however, fellow artists insisted he won

A bust of Lincoln (1884-1888, by
Augustus Saint-Gaudens) is made of
bronze on a marble base

In contrast, a bust of Frederick Douglass
 (1910, by Isaac Scott Hathaway) is
made of painted plaster

Gallery 7: Modern Metropolis:  John Sloan and the Eight

Cliff Dwellings, Pajarito (1922, by John Sloan)

Gallery 8: Illustration: America’s Imagination (Howard Pyle)

Illustration from The Medicine Ship (1915, by
N C Wyeth, who was mentored by Howard Pyle)

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1924,
by Frank Earle Schoonover, who was also
a student of Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute
of Art, Science, and Industry in Philadelphia)

The Hans Brinker illustration was used
as the cover and frontispiece for this book

Items from the studio of Howard Pyle, an
illustrator and author from Wilmington, DE

Howard Pyle's Studio Chair (c 1894)

Gallery 9: Stan Smokler: Steel in Flux

Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights
(2015, by Stan Smokler)

Gallery 17: American Art after 1960

Queen's Closet (1995, by Richard Cleaver)

Vote McGovern (1972, by Andy Warhol)

Galleries 15 & 16: Modern American Art

Jonquils I (1936, by Goergia O'Keeffe)

Elfreth's Alley (1948, by Edward Loper, Sr)

Edward Loper, Sr, who was Black, was well-represented by artworks in the Delaware Art Museum.

Tenant Farmer (1961, by Andrew Wyeth)

Second Floor Hallway:

Art Deco Elevator Door Panels (c 1931,
by Raymond M Hood) are from the
DuPont Company Building in Wilmington, DE

Galleries 13 & 14: American Illustration and Howard Pyle Murals

Howard Pyle Murals/The Genius of Literature (1903-1905)

Howard Pyle Murals/The Genius of Arts (1903-1905)

Chihuly Bridge:

Persian Window (1999-2000, 2004, by Dale Chihuly)

Persian Window detail

Galleries 11 & 12: e. jean lanyon: The Magic Language

Illustration for Maggie's Misadventure (2017, by e jean lanyon)

Next: Copeland Sculpture Garden.