John Marin's Frame of Mind

John Marin's Frame of Mind

Inevitably,
the A.I.C. blog
discusses a technical detail
of presentation
rather than the art works themselves.


But what interested me
was some mis-information I got
about the museum's collection.

A friend from the club
went to the curator's lecture
and misunderstood her to say that
the museum owned 1/3 of Marin's oeuvre.

So I asked about that
and was quickly (and thankfully)
corrected.

But I still wish that a few of them
would always be on display
somewhere in the museum,
even if they have to be changed
every few months.

My response to the show
is posted here

Staff Picks - Tommy R.

Staff Picks : Tommy R.

Tommy R. is a fine fellow
who loves the great outdoors,
understands that romantic notions of wildnerness
motivated the establishment
of our national parks,
and connects them to the above painting
thanks to the label posted beside it.

And so he begins his discussion with:

"I chose this painting
because if you read the text beside it...."

But what about the painting, itself, Tommy ?

How do you feel as you look at it?

How does it compare with the other 19th C.
American landscapes in that gallery?

Or with the neo-romantics like Thomas Kinkade ?

It's not one of the conceptual pieces in the Modern Wing
that have no value at all
without their explanatory text.

(I write some more about it here )