Baltimore Art Museum

Cone Collection sits in quiet for now away from the crowds of blockbuster hub-bub. What a joy to have it to one's self.

Matisse and Bellows at the Met

These shows are no photo shows.

Matisse is very good. The galleries a bit dowdy and dark for Matisse. His lesson beside the Picasso B/W show is the play beside his B/W drawings and color paintings, then combining them. I really like the Verve drawings.

Wallace Stevens through Keats says, "Death is the mother of beauty." I see the B/W as sparking the color up, different artists react differently to this phenomena.

Bellows comes out of Henri and Manet. He died young and would have changed the face of American Art I believe. My friend Paul Georges owes a lot to him.

The only picture I have is this as it is like a Homer where the theory of ocean painting is taken apart and delivered raw.

The portraits are great also.

Sorry you have to go see for yourself.

Barnes Foundation Museum Matisse

I went to the Barnes in 1972 with a group of artist friends arriving from a bar in NYC at 7:00 in the morning. We were told that we needed a reservation-- then they let us all in. Today one still needs a reservation, I told the receptionist this story and he felt for me and saw me let in again.

Well, this is amazing here and some of the best paintings we have in America.

Many largely unknown.

This great painting pales in the face of the Collection-- my feeling just today--

These landscapes are wonderful.

But this is amazing, this little drawing.

For this great Mural which is under represented by this little jpeg filched from the website.

The Barnes needs to decide whether they really care about education or just protecting their funds from rights.

If I could have taken photos I'd show how Barnes really loved art and was an artist in his own right in the juxtapositions he made with these rugs and European sculpture.

An artist Jean Hugo I dont know of, I thought it a strange Corot.

See the fore ground relates to Matisse through Corot.