Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Clark Part II (8/29/2024)

Thursday, August 29, 2024
We visited The Clark on 9/23/2023, and returned today to walk the grounds and see new exhibits.
Katana (2000-2001, by William Crovello)
Teaching a Cow How to Draw (2020, by Analia Saban)
is also the south fence of the pasture
Pasture Trail climbs a large hill
Looking back downhill at The Clark campus
Crystal (2015, by Thomas Schütte)
View from inside Crystal
Kent checks out the mystery installation;
it is a device to electrify the fence
for a protected section of meadow
One of several gates around the pasture;
this one is on Stone Bench Trail
Piney woodland
Stone Bench Trail led us here
Lunder Center at Stone Hill is yet another gallery at The Clark
Exhibit: Kathia St Hilaire: Invisible Empires:
To Be Titled (2022, by Kathia St Hilaire, Haitian)
combines printmaking, painting, collage, and weaving
To Be Titled detail with weaving
La Sirene (2020, by Kathia St Hilaire)
Our Only Guide to Justice (2021) is in a shape inspired by the
Haitian Vodou symbol veve/the fighting spirit of Ogun
Exhibit: I Am a Part of Art by Community Access to the Arts:
Untitled (2024, by Michael Augustine)
House Reflecting on Pond (2024,
by Corinne Myers)
Howard Path has stairs
Howard Path crosses a stream
Manton Research Center Exhibit: Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism:
Two Dancers Resting (c 1879, in pastel)
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan
Gallery
(1879-1880, a softground etching)
Michael Conforti Pavilion Exhibit: Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass:
Deep flaring bowl on wooden stand (19C, China)
Pair of pitchers (1883-1900) are probably Bohemian,
possibly German
Gourd-shaped vase (1888, by
Fridolin Kretschman/Bohemian
and Jules Barbe/French)
Favrile vase with leaves (1914-1915,
by Louis Comfort Tiffany)
Clark Center Galleries Exhibit: Guillaume Lethière (1760-1832):
Guillaume Lethière was born in Guadalope as the son of a white plantation owner and an enslaved woman of mixed race. He moved to France with his father at age fourteen and would soon thereafter begin studying drawing and painting. He became a formidable history painter and was a favorite of Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother Lucien Bonaparte.
Benjamin Franklin (1795, stipple engraving)
Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens (1814)
Homer Singing His Iliad at the Gates of Athens detail

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