Monthly Archives: November 2018

Milwaukee Art Museum school tour

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The tour agenda planned for Nov. 11 will highlight paintings and sculptures covering nearly 700 years of Western art. With thousands of art objects to consider, I narrowed the focus to the list provided below. The idea is to feature on one or two works of art per century with the exception of the last two centuries. The tour is organized chronologically in reverse beginning with Wiley’s St. Dionysus, 2006 and concluding with Nardo di Cione’s Madonna and Child, 1350. Below is the planned list of art pieces for Sunday’s tour:  

Contemporary

Kehinde Wiley, St. Dionysus, 2006

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=17255

 Chuck Close, Nancy, 1968

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=1114 

Modern

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1958

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=2018

Anne Truitt, Summer Sentinel, 1963–72

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=2249

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

The Cock of the Liberation (Le Coq de la Liberation), 1944

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=7139

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)

Grey and Brown Leaves, 1929

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=11193

 

1800-1899

Thomas Moran (American, b. England, 1837–1926)

Three Mile Harbor, Long Island, 1889

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=31680

Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848–1884)

Le Père Jacques (The Wood Gatherer), 1881

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=21819

Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)

Hark! The Lark, 1882

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=19577

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (German, 1844–1894)

The People’s Bank Shortly Before the Crash, 1877

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=16919

 

1700-1799

Adriaen van der Werff (Dutch, 1659–1722)

Doubting Thomas (The Incredulity of St. Thomas), 1710

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=10243

Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666–1740)

The Meeting of Telemachus and Calypso, ca. 1700

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=13519

 

1600-1699

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609–1664)

Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark, ca. 1650

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=5020

Matthias Stom[er] (Dutch, ca. 1600–after 1652)

Christ Before the High Priest, ca. 1633

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=4902

 

1500-1599

Triptych with Josiah and the Book , ca. 1550

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=15359

Battista Dossi (Italian, ca. 1490–1548)

Noli Me Tangere, ca. 1520

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=3626

 

1400-1499

Francesco Botticini (Italian, 1446–1497)

Madonna Adoring the Child, ca. 1480

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=381

 

1300-1399

Nardo di Cione (Italian, ca. 1320–1365 or 1366)

Madonna and Child, ca. 1350

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=6953

Milwaukee Art Museum — self guided tour

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Contemporary

Chuck Close, Nancy, 1968

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=1114

 

Kehinde Wiley, St. Dionysus, 2006

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=17255

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Modern

IMG_1336

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1958

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=2018

 

IMG_1337

Anne Truitt, Summer Sentinel, 1963–72

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=2249

 

Marc Chagall, The Horseman, 1966

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=9801

 

IMG_1273

Pablo Picasso, The Cock of the Liberation (Le Coq de la Liberation), 1944

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=7139

 

IMG_1281

Georgia O’Keeffe, Grey and Brown Leaves, 1929

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=11193

 

Georgia O’Keeffe, Poppies, 1950

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=9281

 

Wassily Kandinsky, Fragment I for Composition VII (Center), 1913

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=14384

 

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, 1903

 

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1800-1899

Winslow Homer, Hark! The Lark, 1882

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=19577

 

Gaetano Trentanove, The Last of the Spartans, ca. 1892

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=18585

 

Thomas Cole, Storm in the Wilderness, 1826–28

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=17502

 

IMG_1293

George Vicat Cole, At Arundel, Sussex, 1887

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=14128

 

Christian Adolf Schreyer, The Wallachian Post-Carrier, before 1891

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=17551

 

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Le Père Jacques (The Wood Gatherer), 1881

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=21819

 

Christian Ludwig Bokelmann, The People’s Bank Shortly Before the Crash, 1877

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=16919

 

Thomas Moran, Three Mile Harbor, Long Island, 1889

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=31680

 

Henry Vianden, Landscape with Mountains and River, 1874/82

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=8090

 

Jozef Israels, Village Family at a Meal, 1874/82

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=1343

 

Auguste Rodin, The Kiss (Paolo and Francesca), 1886

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=8401

 

Wilhelm Ludwig Friedrich Riefstahl, Wedding Procession in Tyrol, 1866

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=8518

 

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Homer and His Guide (Homère et son guide), 1874

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=14910

 

Alexandre Cabanel, Saint Augustine in His Study, 1845

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=31521

 

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1700-1799

IMG_1047

Antonio Balestra, The Meeting of Telemachus and Calypso, ca. 1700

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=13519

Corrado Giaquinto, The Triumph of Galatea, ca. 1752

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=10024

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1600-1699

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark, ca. 1650

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=5020

 

Matthias Stom, Christ Before the High Priest, ca. 1633

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=4902

 

Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb, 1630/34

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=9041

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1500-1599

Triptych with Josiah and the Book of the Law, The Adoration of the Golden Calf and The Transfiguration of Christ, ca. 1550

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=15359

 

Battista Dossi, Noli Me Tangere, ca. 1520

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=3626

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1400-1499

Francesco Botticini, Madonna Adoring the Child, ca. 1480

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=381

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1300-1399

Nardo di Cione, Madonna and Child, ca. 1350

http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=6953

Strange Throwback Thursday

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Comic Stroll 2013

 

After nearly a six-year hiatus, I was excited to see a project that began with notes and sketches transform into a published comic strip. Even if it was a one-off. Even if I had to hand the responsibility of drawing each panel to someone else. It was done.

I had imagined that the creative non-fiction comic story I crafted would earn some interest. Maybe it would open a few doors to an audience. And allow me to write and illustrate. Even earn some money. Maybe I would quit my day job and provide for my household by doing something I loved. Telling stories. And drawing pictures.

That was five years ago.

A few weeks ago I found a box in the garage. It had several copies of a publication that printed my comic strip. I glanced over the pages and then placed them back into the box. I also found several books. Opened one book I remembered enjoying.

“What’s that?” asked one of the children.

“It’s a collection of comic strips.”

“Oh.”

I pulled a copy from the box and gave it to the child.

“There’s a story in there I wrote.” I said. “See if you can find it.”

The child took the copy of Comic Stroll and headed off to the couch in the living room.

I flipped through the pages of the book I had found. Read a few highlights.

Yeah, I resemble that, I thought to myself after reading a few lines at the end of the book. The author referenced a friend of his who gave up an art gig for a corporate job in order to provide for his family.

Yeah. I know what that is like.

How many comic pages might I have written and illustrated if I had. . . Well, what-ifs and might-have-beens are dangerous paths to pursue. What you did, great or small, is what matters.

Watching my progeny spend an afternoon reading comic strips I had a hand in creating was a pleasure.

NOTES:
Comic Stroll, a publication of the Southeast chapter of the National Cartoonist Society, featured a collection of previously unpublished comic strips. You can read the whole journey of what started in November 2005 as a couple drawings and became a creative non-fiction comic strip:
[1] Comics and Narrative Non-Fiction
[2] Comics and Narrative Non-Fiction Continued
[3] Narrative Non-Fiction Comics: part 3
[4] Narrative Non-Fiction Comics: part 4
[5] Narrative Non-Fiction Comics: part 5
[6] Narrative Non-Fiction Comics: UPDATE
[7] Narrative Non-Fiction Comics: UPDATE
[8] Strange Familiar Place comic series
[9] Strange Familiar Place returns
[10] The return of Strange Familiar Place to print