#vmfa

[paulrosenstein]

947

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday: love these #ArtDeco serpent-shaped andirons! 🐍 🐍

Edgar Brandt (French, 1880-1960) Pair of Andirons, 1926 wrought iron Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

[corvidacryptida]

Obligatory VMFA photo dump

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

German Expressionist Art, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, January 1987.

[galleryofart]

Tennis at Newport

Artist: George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)

Date: 1919

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, United States

In the summer of 1919, George Bellows attended an invitational tennis tournament at Rhode Island’s prestigious Newport Lawn Tennis Club. Evidently captivated by its luxurious setting and finely attired people, he produced four large paintings of the subject over the course of the next year. This version is the most complete and captivating of the series. Exquisitely composed, it reveals the artist’s concern with light as a means of directing the viewer’s gaze. Light radiates not from the interior background of the image, as in his other paintings of Newport, but rather from outside the canvas. Casting shadows away from the viewer, the technique effectively highlights the focus of his image, the elegantly dressed spectators in the foreground.

[freesidexjunkie]

is he....you know....a little tea pot?

[usafphantom2]

F-4J-153891-VF31 by Michel Klaveren

[spiralgeek]

The Wounded Poacher, William Merritt Chase.

1878

[bmalsuj]

The artist made a cool painting that I really like a lot.

The Curator put it in a PERFECT place.

[kristenraebowden]

Took a fun jaunt to the @vmfamuseum to see the #storiedstrings guitar exhibit with @joelawlor1 and @johngarlandjr 🎸 Followed by spicy #indianfood 🌞 What an enjoyable day 🌶️ ~ #vmfa #rva #guitarhistory #museumday (at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5saZTOvhu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paulrosenstein]

897

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Woodensday + #DragonflyWeek:

Émile Gallé (French, 1846-1904) Dragonfly Table (Guéridon Libellules) model designed 1897, table created c. 1898-1902 Mahogany, rosewood, fruitwood, mother-of-pearl Virginia Museum of Fine Arts display

“Here, 3 massive dragonflies, a favorite motif of Art Nouveau artists, serve as supports for the table. The tabletop features a lake scene, with a dragonfly perched on a plant in the foreground.”

additional photo of tabletop via VMFA

[tharlklraht]

[nocternalrandomness]

USMC F-4N from VMFA-531 "Grey Ghosts" at MCAS El Toro, California - Oct 11 1978

[gold-medal-ribbon]

Thinking about him (the carved marble polar bear at the art museum)

[sleepnoises]

so sorry to get into pottery discourse with you and not speaking to your general thesis: i have seen pots by maria martinez in museums coast to coast and i think her craftspersonship (+ that of her husband, her collaborator) is widely appreciated by the forces of the artistic establishment. due to it fucks like hell and is the best to ever do it

saw a pic of a maria martinez vase on the dash and had to physically hold myself back from reblogging it to tell everyone abt her burnishing technique