#Columbus Museum of Art

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Morning Sun, Edward Hopper, 1952

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James Ensor - The Assassination (1890)

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Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American 1890-1973), California Landscape, 1919. Oil on canvas, 30 x 22 1/4 in. (Source: CMA Columbus Museum Of Art, Ohio)

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Edward Hopper’s oil painting Morning Sun, 1952, is part of Columbus Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The model for the painting was his wife, Jo.

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Tidal Pool, California, 1961 (silver print) by Brett Weston (1961)

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Glass of Beer and Playing Cards (1913) by Juan Gris. Columbus Museum of Art.

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Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 – 1917)

Spirit of Autumn, c.1875. Columbus Museum of Art

oil on panel

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The only photos I have left of literally the coolest thing I’ve ever seen!

I happened upon this when I visited my local art museum with friends. They have a wonder room in the center for creativity which is a rotating gallery inside the museum. All of this is handmade by the artists selected to install the exhibit. I truly did not want to leave and since it was such a surprise, I felt like they put it there just for me.

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June 11, 2023

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Columbus Museum of Art | Dec, 2022

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Sometimes I think I'm funny.

[lionofchaeronea]

Winter, Midnight, Childe Hassam, 1894

[sacredwhores]

Paul Cadmus - Le Ruban Dénoué: Hommage à Reynaldo Hahn (1963)

Venezuelan-born composer Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), achieved fame in Europe as a composer of elegant love songs. Hahn met the novelist Marcel Proust in 1894, sparking a passionate - albeit closeted - romance that generated a flurry of love letters between the two men. In Cadmus's painting, Hahn is visited by the Greek god Pan, who reclines upon a flight of stairs. A nude sprite surprises Hahn with a kiss, unfurling a lengthy ribbon, which trails away into the moonlit sky.

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more of Columbus Mundane Beauty

I love Columbus

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There’s an unsettling tension in the room that houses Mel Chin’s installation Spirit (1994), at the Columbus Museum of Art. Is the rope strong enough to support the barrel? What will be its breaking point?

Some details from the museum about the work-

The rope that seems to carry the weight of Spirit’s enormous cask is made from tallgrass. This native plant was once central to a vast prairie ecosystem spanning over 170 million acres of North America. By 1930, most all of this was decimated as a result of agricultural and industrial settlement, and what remains is protected habitat (Chin received special permission to harvest a portion for this sculpture).

Wooden barrels are traditionally used to measure and transport dry goods like grain, beans, as well as beer, oil and wine, and were central to the process of European settlement and trade in North America. Here, the image of this rope bearing such a massive weight suggests the precarious status of nature in a world of outsized human development. Even the gallery walls, which curve inwards on all sides, seem to respond to the strain.

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I saw this lovely quilt at the Columbus Museum of Art a while back, but I can’t remember the artist and I can’t find other pictures online. If anybody knows, I’ll edit this post to say.