August 30, 2013
The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska was a gift from Sarah Joslyn in memory of her husband in 1931. A large Art Deco building, it was constructed of Georgia pink Marble.
It was 100 degrees out so had to pass quickly by the outside sculpture garden recently opened in 2009.
Come with clean offering
Into the temple of beauty
She will not neglect
Even the lesser things
She will fulfill gladness
She will assuage sorrow
Illumine with grace
Console with understanding
Inscribed on the exterior wall are these words by Hartley Alexander, American philosopher, 1873-1939.
Admission is free to all in 2013 including the special exhibits!
The impressive inner courtyard took me right to Seville or perhaps Granada.
There is lots of space in this roomy, impressive building.
These are the paintings I loved most:
Open Range, 1942, by Maynard Dixon, American
1875-1946
Oil on Canvaas.
Dixon captured a special essence of the Old West in these two paintings.
The Pony Boy (Blackfeet Indians, Montana) 1920, by Maynard Dixon
Oil on canvas.
The Hailstorm, 1940, by Thomas Hart Benton
American, 1889-1975
Oil and egg tempera on canvas mounted on panel.
Can you believe the shapes? He reminds me of Grant Wood, only with altered shapes.
Russian Beauty with Cat, 1865, by Konstantinos Makovsky
Russian, 1839-1915
Oil on canvas.
This one is for Ashley and Minky.
The Grasshopper and the Ant, 1875, by Jean George's Vibert
French, 1840-1902
Oil on canvas.
Vibert was one of France's most acclaimed Academic genre painters, renowned for his irony and wit, specializing in satiric pictures of the Catholic liturgy, which were highly popular. here he has recast the familiar fable: a lone minstrel accosts a group of monks, only one of whom stops to hear his pleas.
Vibert has carefully contrasted the two men's appearances to illustrate the material discrepancy between them. The minstrel is scrawny and hunch-backed, shivering in his threadbare tights; the monk is well-fed and jolly, his rucksack overstocked with food and game.
It made me laugh out loud.
Saint Catherine, one of the most popular Roman martyrs in the Renaissance refused to renounce Christ and marry a pagan and was therefore killed.
She is simply beautiful. This could have been painted yesterday.
Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Agnes, 1520s
Workshop of Jan Gossart, called Mabuse. Flemish, 1478-1532
Young Girls at the Piano, 1889, by Pierre Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
Oil on canvas
Hmmm, maybe change the color of those dresses?
This canvas is one of several depictions of young women at the piano, a motif so meaningful to Renoir that he chose it for a government commission in 1892.
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