Thursday, October 27, 2022 (continued)
Another Tyler Arboretum membership reciprocity opportunity, the
Greenville Museum of Art. Although admission is always free, we were allowed to see the special exhibit without paying.
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| Greenville Museum of Art |
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Red and Purple Quantum Object
(2022, by Robert Coon) |
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Dragon detail: Salvaged scrap metal
sculptures by Jonathan Bowling |
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| Stag detail (KSS) |
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| Donkey? (KSS) |
Special Exhibit: Scott Avett: After the Fact:Scott Avett, known as a member of the band The Avett Brothers, is also an artist working in painting and printmaking. He earned a BFA in studio art from East Carolina University (here in Greenville, NC).
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| Boys Sunbathing (2021) |
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| Wheel of Boy (2022) |
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| The Creek (2020) |
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| Motherhood (2012) and Fatherhood (2013) |
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| Color Wheel in Black (2014) |
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| Crazy Eyes (undated) |
The Greenville Museum of Art displays its permanent collection in the Flanagan House (c 1934, by Thomas Herman in Colonial Revival style). |
Chinese-inspired Bean Pot, Orangeware Vase, and
Chicken Salt & Pepper Shakers by Jugtown Pottery
(est 1917, located in Seagrove, NC) |
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| Letter From Overseas (1943, by Thomas Hart Benton) |
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Under the Southern Blue Sky (2020,
byRichard Wilson) |
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| Children's Room |
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| Flanagan House foyer |
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Untitled (Four Faces) (c 1940, by
Minnie Evans, descended from enslaved
people, who really began drawing at age 42) |
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Untitled Standing Figures (undated, by
Annie Hooper, who began to make art as a
healing process in the mid-1900s) |
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| Sentinel (1997, by Jennie Bireline) |
One room in the Flanagan House was dedicated to Sarah Blakeslee and Francis Speight:
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| Fort Macon Inlet (1947, by Sarah Blakeslee) |
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| Winter Scene (1941, by Francis Speight) |
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Roadside America Attraction: Shopping Center Pirate
at Pirates Pointe, which is near East Carolina University,
whose mascot is the pirate |
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Roadside America Attraction: Cemetery in a Mall Parking Lot,
where the Evans family burial ground is at the Greenville Mall
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Kudos to North Carolina for masses of wildflowers
along the interstate highways |
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Roadside America Attraction: Kenly 95
Truck Stop Lighthouse, a "symbol of
hospitality" like the Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse is a symbol of North Carolina |
The Kenly Lighthouse does resemble the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
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| We were to look for a truck inside the truck stop... |
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| Well... there were several trucks, including this 18-wheeler |
Next: Hilton Head Island.
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