Woodmere Art Museum (4/5/2024)

Friday, April 5, 2024 (continued)

Now to enter the Woodmere Art Museum, using Tyler Arboretum membership reciprocity.

Exhibit: Drawn From Earth: Figurative Sculpture and Works on Paper by William Daley:

Adam and Eve (1962)

Preliminary drawing for Vascular Professor (1964)

Teacher IV (1996) is part of a
series of self portraits

Exhibit: Just In: Recent Acquisitions (since 2019):

As Time Unfolds Like Music (2013, by Anne Canfield)

Untitled (c 1930, by Nicola d'Ascenzo); the stained glass
window was located above the doors of the Horn & Hardart
automated restaurant at 16th and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia

Swan Ring (c 1994-1995, by Ed Bing Lee),
a macramé ring created by knotting

Urn (date unknown, by Vaughn Stubbs)

Spiral stairway to the gallery balcony

View from the gallery balcony

Exhibit: Henry Bermudez in Philadelphia:

Mythological Creature (2022) has lots of pink glitter

Visitor VIII (2011) is one of many works that reference the
Duchess of Urbino as painted by Piero della Francesca

Visitor VIII detail of paper cut-outs

Spiral (2010)

Spiral detail

Black Sunflowers (2023); originally from Venezuela,
Henry Bermudez was a political refugee who has made
Philadelphia his home; he is inspired by art he has
seen in the city, such as Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh

Tattooed Nature (2013-2021) used Kelicia Pitts as the model
(she was also the model for the Sankofa Kore sculpture)

Painted tattoos and cut-out flowers

Zero Tolerance (2018); since becoming an
American citizen, Bermudez feels obligated
to speak out on political matters, such as
the Trump administration's policy of
zero tolerance that he considered inhumane,
and here prevents the American
flag from unfurling freely

Exhibit: A New House for Violet Oakley's House of Wisdom:

Youth and the Arts (1910-1911) from the mural series,
The Building of the House of Wisdom, which was
commissioned by banker Charlton Yarnell for his
residence at 17th and Locust Streets in Philadelphia

Man and Science (1910-1911) plus two pendentives
and three octoganal panels from the ceiling

Exhibit: Layer Up! - Prints Link Philadelphia (featuring printmaking by students):

Nature Prints (by a student of Esperanza
Academy Charter School)

Mixed media sculpture (by a student of
Abington Senior High School)

Block stamp prints (by a student of
Ellwood Elementary School)

Collaged trace monoprints (by a student of
Abington Friends School)

Founder's Gallery:

Founder's Gallery

The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney
(1806, by Benjamin West)

Mrs Tench Francis, Jr (née Anne Willing)
(1798, by Charles Willson Peale)

Magargee Paper on the Wissahickon
(1858, by William Winner)

Next: Morris Arboretum.