Everson Museum of Art (7/20/2022)

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

On our way to Buffalo, we stopped at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY. Another Tyler Arboretum reciprocal admission museum.

Everson Museum of Art is significant for being the first
museum to hire I M Pei to design its building (1968)

Tree of 40 Fruit (2016, by Sam Van Aken);
one of eight trees created by grafting 40
different types of stone fruit trees (KSS)

Some of the stone fruit trees are native and antique,
and not commercially available

The proliferation of fruit is remarkable

Two-piece Reclining Figure No 8 (1961, by Henry Moore)

Strand (1972, by Ron Gorchov) (KSS)

Everson Museum of Art is also the first museum to create a permanent collection of ceramics.

Paul Phillips & Sharon Sullivan Ceramics Center: Curious Vessels: The Rosenfield Collection (only the name of the artist was posted):

Face Tray by Andy Nasisse (KSS)

Reverse side of Nasisse work (KSS)

Service Ware by Michael Simon (not the chef!)

Hot Plate by Neil Forrest (KSS)

Plate by Irma Starr

Louise, the "coming soon" farm-and-kiln-to-table café in
the museum, will feature handmade cups and mugs (KSS)

Vase by Neil Patterson and Pitcher by Sam Chung

Galleries A & B: Sharif Bey: Facets (exploring the heritage of Africa and Oceania in ceramics and glass):

Guardian Series: Serpent Charmer (2022) (KSS)

Yawn Series: 1, 2 and 3 (2022) (KSS)

The spiral staircase in the museum atrium

Kent with Raptor Return (2022)

Raptor Return detail

Photo of artist Sharif Bey (KSS)

Another view of the atrium

Galleries C & D: Forever is Composed of Nows ("snapshots" of the present moment across different time periods, from the Everson permanent collection):

The Peaceable Kingdom (c 1840-1844, by Edward Hicks)

Pennsylvania Dutch & Adidas (1975-80, by Elliot Erwitt)

Prosperity V (2007, by Caroline Cheng) (KSS)

Prosperity V detail (KSS)

Miniature Golf Course (1970, by David Furman)

Little Falls (1940, by Beatrice Wose-Smith) (KSS)

Members' Coucil Gallery: Achala Wali: Surface Densities (the natural world through the physical act of drawing):

Archaea by Achala Wali

Sculpture Plaza

Shawanaga (1968, by Robert Murray) (KSS)