The first trip, to the Frye museum, is final! We're leaving early this Thursday, September 20, and coming home Friday night, September 21 (just an overnight trip). This will unfortunately necessitate getting up quite early, and having done my packing this afternoon and Wednesday.
Here's the map of places we're hoping to visit: We haven't booked a hotel yet, but on the map are bookstores, restaurants, the Frye Museum of course, the Space Needle, and other sites nearby.
Ties That Bind: American Artists in Europe
This is the exhibit we're going to see at the Frye Museum. Not to be confused with the Seattle Art Museum (which I did) the Frye Museum was established in by Charles and Emma Frye, who were also the owners of a successful meat packing plant. They began collecting artwork in around 1893, and lent their first painting to an art museum in Alaska in 1909. They displayed their collection privately at their home for many years before their collection was gifted to the state in 1952. The Frye museum opened on February 8th on 1952.
This particular exhibit has artwork by Mary Cassatt, William Metcalf, Childe Hassam, and other artists who worked with and painted in the style of French Impressionism. Metcalf, Hassam and artist John Twachtman created a similar style, California Impressionism, which is Toften brighter an more vibrant than French Impressionsm (California poppies instead of water lillies).
A California Impressionism exhibit is open at the Arthur Ross Gallery until October 28th, and the University of New Hampshire's Museum of Art from January 26-March 28th.
Here's the map of places we're hoping to visit: We haven't booked a hotel yet, but on the map are bookstores, restaurants, the Frye Museum of course, the Space Needle, and other sites nearby.
Ties That Bind: American Artists in Europe
This is the exhibit we're going to see at the Frye Museum. Not to be confused with the Seattle Art Museum (which I did) the Frye Museum was established in by Charles and Emma Frye, who were also the owners of a successful meat packing plant. They began collecting artwork in around 1893, and lent their first painting to an art museum in Alaska in 1909. They displayed their collection privately at their home for many years before their collection was gifted to the state in 1952. The Frye museum opened on February 8th on 1952.
This particular exhibit has artwork by Mary Cassatt, William Metcalf, Childe Hassam, and other artists who worked with and painted in the style of French Impressionism. Metcalf, Hassam and artist John Twachtman created a similar style, California Impressionism, which is Toften brighter an more vibrant than French Impressionsm (California poppies instead of water lillies).
A California Impressionism exhibit is open at the Arthur Ross Gallery until October 28th, and the University of New Hampshire's Museum of Art from January 26-March 28th.
