Friday, April 5, 2024
Once again, heading to Buffalo, with a couple stops closer to home.
Woodmere Art Museum is located in the City of Philadelphia, and focuses on the art and artists of Philadelphia.
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| Daffodils in front of the Woodmere Art Museum sign |
We begin with Woodmere's Outdoor Wonder/WOW:
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| Bull (Negative) (date unknown, by Filippo Bermani) |
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Bull (Positive) (date unknown, by Filippo Bermani)
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| Untitled (2017, by Samuel Maltin) |
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| Spring &Triangle (2016, by Dina Wind) |
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| White Water (1978, by Robinson Fredenthal) |
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| Untitled (2002, by Steve Tobin) |
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| Disc (1990, by Paul Sisko) |
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La Cresta: A Land-Sculpting Installation
(2021-ongoing, by Syd Carpenter and Steve Donegan) (KSS) |
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La Cresta detail; the installation takes inspiration from the
horticultural practice of hügelkulture/the practice of creating
mounds of earth built over layers of decaying wood and
other organic materials, in which to grow plants |
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| Driftwood bench? (KSS) |
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| Teapot (1997, by Stephen Robin) |
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| Actually, just a half teapot |
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| S'Endormir/Go to Sleep (1982, by Walter Erlebacher) |
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| S'Elever/To Arise (1982, by Walter Erlebacher) |
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Free Interpretation of Plant Forms (1967, by
Harry Bertola, reinstalled here in 2016) was originally
installed at the Civic Center in West Philadelphia |
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| Sankofa Kore (2011, by Christopher Smith) |
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Expressionism in Bronze
(2008-2014, by Viorel Farcas) |
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More Expressionism in Bronze
(2008-2014, by Viorel Farcas) |
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| Woodmere Cats (1989, by Linda Brenner) |
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| A 19C cast iron Lion and a Woodmere Cat |
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| More Woodmere Cats |
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| Jewel #5 (1986, by Dina Wind) |
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Woodmere Art Museum is housed in a stone mansion (1860)
purchased by Charles Knox Smith in 1898 to showcase
his art collection for which he added exhibition spaces;
Smith opened the house to the public in 1910 |
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