Sunday, August 27, 2017

Summer Vacation Redux #6: Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, part 6 of 9

Lunch done and I'm off to tour the 18th - 20th century European galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.  These are called the Bloch Galleries as their recent renovation benefitted from the same benefactors who underwrote the construction of the modern addition to the Museum in 2003.  Galleries full of lots of familiar artists and lovely works.  I share 14 with you here--something for everyone I hope.


"Sleeping Bacchus" circa 1795, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (French) 1767 - 1824

It's always a joy to discover a new artist I've never heard of before.  Don't let the name fool you, HE was also born on the same day in January that I was--another sweet discovery.  And upon further research, I realized that I must have seen his name before as he created some very iconic works of art, but just didn't remember...


"Christ on the Sea of Galilee" circa 1841, Eugene Delecroix (French) 1798 - 1863


"The Eruption of Vesuvius" 1825, Sebastian Pether (English) 1790 - 1844


"Portrait of the Sculptor Paul Lemoyne" circa 1812, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French) 1786 - 1867

And I thought at first glance he looked like Lord Byron.


"The Illness of Pierrot" circa 1859, Thomas Couture (French) 1815 - 1879


"White Lilacs in a Crystal Vase" 1882, Edouard Manet (French) 1832 - 1883


"The Garden of Les Mathurins at Pontoise" 1876, Camille Pissarro (French) 1830 - 1903

The museum is home to several amazing works by Pissarro.  Look closely at this one and then look at the detail next.  See if you see was I saw.


In this detail you can see this garden had a glass orb, and the woman's reflection is captured by the artist in it.  Amazing, eh?


"Landscape, Île-de-France" 1876, Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin (French) 1841 - 1927


"Restaurant Rispal at Asnieres" 1887, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch) 1853 - 1890

Part of a van Gogh retrospective that I once saw at the National Gallery of Art here in DC, it was like coming upon an old friend.  Once you've committed a van Gogh to your heart, it resides there forever.


"The Willow Tree" 1889, Paul Gauguin (French) 1848 - 1903

Not a huge fan of Gauguin, but I do prefer his Brittany paintings over the Tahitian ones.


"Summer Mill with Shrouded Sky" 1905-1907, Piet Mondrian (Dutch) 1872 - 1944

What a rare find, a Mondrian painting from before he became the king of the abstract black and white grid with sparse primary colored squares.  His 1995 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in DC was mind blowing for me.  If you ever get the chance to see his work presented in its scope showing his evolution as an artist--do it!

 "Guitar Player" 1928, André Derain (French) 1880 - 1954



"Still Life with Oleander and Fruit" 1911, Albert André (French) 1869 - 1954


"The Little Tragedy" 1933, André Masson (French) 1896 - 1987

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