Educational Trips
Bus trip to the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
| We've grown accustomed to effortlessly sitting back and leaving the driving to expert Sundance Stage Lines, Inc., this time to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On the way, vistas of wild mustard brought out our instinct to follow the Impressionists plein air style. |
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John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark" is one of over 70 American paintings showing scenes of drama, humor, natural grandeur and sometimes lessons we should have learned from history. |
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The directional sign for the Renoir exhibit depicts Gabrielle, his household helper, who also served as model for many of his paintings. Roseann Haslett, one of our tour participants, is beside her.
Whether or not one prefers his early or late style, he was unmistakenly master of the paint brush in bringing out pearly skin tones and dazzling whites reminiscent of Velasquez.
And it's a fast paint brush he wielded in the 2- and 3-minute film footage we watched of him painting with hands unbelievably deformed by rheumatoid arthritis. |
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| Phyllis Hensberger and Ruth Hohberg enjoying a break during the museum tour. |
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| No lines for the exhibits, Yi Kearns, who assembles the newsletter for those without computer access, Margaret North, who is a co-chair for our scholarship program and Si Osgrove who will handle our publicity, look forward to seeing the displays. |
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| Pat Schmidt, Valerie Raymond, Eleanor Myrus and Pat Monteath share a happy moment: happiness and good will pervaded us and all the museum goers we saw. |
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| Every time we visit LACMA, it has expanded. Now, it is a 7-building complex on 20 acres. This view shows the western part, with the Ahmanson on the right, a Rodin torso looking to the back of Rodin's Balzac, whose front looks at a cluster of street lights decoratively arranged and beyond that, the old May Co., now designated LACMA-West. |
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Previous Trips:
| Bus Art Tour: Pasadena:
Bungalows and Mansions: Our November 2008 art educational trip was to Pasadena.
Bungalow Heaven's version of Craftsman bungalows. Bob Kneisel guided us on an interior tour of his home. Bob was instrumental in getting Landmark status for the area of 800 bungalows dating from 1890 to the 1930s placed on the National Register of Historic Places. His reason for doing this was outrage that a developer could demolish a Craftsman bungalow to put up a tacky apartment building. Our hearts warm to a group that could change zoning and work towards keeping their heritage. See more at bungalowheaven.org. |
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Jackie Steinmann and Cyndi Ponath
pause at the Norton Simon Garden Café
on the Pasadena bus tour
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The Norton Simon is always heaven and on this visit had the added "A Lady Writing", on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
Links:
http://www.bungalowheaven.org
http://nortonsimon.org
http://pasadenahistory.org |
