Jax Stumpes: 2023 Road Trip: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (5/21/2023)

Sunday, May 21, 2023

2023 Road Trip: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (5/21/2023)

Sunday, May 21, 2023 (continued)

From Carson City, we went to Reno, NV.

Reno Arch (1926) was originally installed over
Virginia Street at Commercial Row, to promote the 1927
Nevada Transcontinental Highways Exposition, commemorating
the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways
(a Roadside America attraction)

When the exposition closed, the city kept the arch, but had a contest to suggest a slogan. The winner was "The Biggest Little City in the World." In 1963, the arch was replaced, and the original ended up in storage. In 1994 a movie company restored the arch for the film Cobb (about baseball player Ty Cobb).

The arch was placed on Lake Street in 1995.

Nevada Museum of Art (founded 1931, building 2003,
by Will Bruder who was inspired by the geological
formations of the Black Rock Desert)

Nevada Museum of Art (KSS)

Kent & Tamiko with another Deborah Butterfield creation

Untitled (2002, by Deborah Butterfield)

Someday When We're Dreaming
(2022, by Rachel Hayes) in the Grand Hall

We started on the fourth floor, with a view of the
mountains to the west from the Stacie Mathewson Sky Plaza

Double Chalice: Joined and Separated
(1996, by Kendall Buster)

Double Chalice: Joined and Separated:
another view (KSS)

The Art of Ben Aleck (Paiute Tribe):

Kwe'naa'a/Eagle (c 2010) (KSS)

Great Basin Tribes (2019) with figures representing:
the Numu/Northern Paiute, Nuwe/Western Shoshone,
Wa She Shu/Washoe, and Nuwu/Southern Paiute

Red Shirt (1972) depicts the Oglala Sioux
Joseph Red Shirt (KSS)

Ellsworth Kelly: Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation:

Blue Curves; Red Curves: Yellow Curves (2013) by the artist
who was part of the 603rd Engineers Camouflage Battalion
(aka Ghost Army) during World War II

Ghost Army: The Combat Con Artists of World War II:

Replica of a dummy headquarters
during Operation Viersen in 1945

The Ghost Army was a carefully selected group of artists, engineers, professional soldiers, and draftees, who played an important part in the Allied victory of World War II. With only .50 caliber machine guns for self-defense, they created deceptions to mislead the German armies.

Reproduction example of an inflatable
Stinson L-5 Sentinel reconnaissance airplane

Reproduction example of an inflatable
Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 'Priest' Tank;
more than 150 inflatables could be used for a deception,
so lightweight materials for transport were preferred

Reproduction example of an inflatable
US artillery gun, which when used with recorded
sound would fool the enemy into firing back

Trier, Germany, May 1945 (1945, by John Jarvie,
a member of the Ghost Army)

Not Me, Please (1947, by Hal Laynor,
a member of the Ghost Army, who studied
under Pablo Picasso) depicting the
terror of being caught in the barrage

Adaline Kent: The Click of Authenticity:

Untitled (Fabric Design) (c 1945) was produced by
Dorothy Liebes, textile designer and weaver

Phoenix (c 1927), a poured concrete relief

Sugar Bowl [Ski Resort] (1945) is tempura on incised Hydrocal
(a plaster with a small amount of Portland cement)

Writ (1947) may represent the artist's feeling of
spirituality when in the mountains

Moon Dial (1953) is made with magnesite
that could be carved or added to

Voyage (1958)

Lighthouse for Birds (1956) in two pieces

Finder (1953)

Minutes of the Last Meeting (c 1947) is wallpaper reproduction

We had lunch at Von Bismarck and
Kent had a glass of BraufactuM Progusta

We shared Spätzle and Holsteinschnitzel

Von Bismarck is built in a former transmission garage (1955)

Now we were off to see my sister, Kathy, her daughter/my niece Leah, Leah's husband Rusty, and their daughter/my grandniece Winnie.

Who knew what sage flower buds looked like!

One of the pair of chickens: Dolly?

Delosperma 'Fire Spinner'/Ice Plant

After dinner at The Brewer's Cabinet, we walked down to the Truckee River at Wingfield Park.

The kayak whitewater slalom gates are out of whack,
partly due to high water levels

Snowmelt has increased the volume of water in the
Truckee River, which is surging over its lower banks

In the background are Kathy, Rusty, Leah, and Winnie,
while Tamiko points to a high water mark of 1997 (KSS)

A log is stuck on rocks in the rushing river

Tamiko, Winnie, Leah (KWT)

Portal of Evolution (2009, by Brian Tedrick)
was created for Burning Man Project; the
butterfly spins around and there are steps and
grab bars to climb to sit in the crow's next

The Mod at Riverwalk (1965, as a weekly hotel,
renovated 2019) has kept the hotel signage

Kent, Tamiko, Rusty, Kathy, Leah
Winnie (LMW)

Kent, Tamiko, Rusty holding Winnie, Kathy, Leah (LMW)

Lake Mansion (1877, by John S Sturgeon in Italianate style)
was moved twice, ending up on Court Street at
S Arlington Avenue; it was for a time the home of
Myron Lake, considered the founder of Reno since it
was his toll bridge across the Truckee River that led to
the settlement first named "Lake's Crossing"

Gibbons-McCarran House (1913, by Frederic J DeLongchamps
in Colonial Revival style) was purchased by Patrick McCarran,
a lawyer and US Senator from Nevada 1933-1954