Coastal Scenes, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine

An unusually early Nor'easter was threatening our itinerary, already devastating the mid-Atlantic coast, and we decided to out-run it to our next major goal, Acadia National Park. The sea was already kicking up a bit, and we stopped several times, September 25th, to watch.

John Smith, of Pocahontas fame

Biggest of the Isles of Shoals

The architecture along the coast is varied but beautiful and something
we have always loved

Follower of Turner

Kicking up

Coastal defenses

Alas, not a grand hotel...Portsmouth Naval Prison

Welcome to New Hampshire

Near Casco Bay

More old fortifications

Artsy view of lighthouse and off-shore neighbor

What was a U-boat doing here, two weeks before VE Day, and how
could it have hit something as small as a sub-chaser?

Us, there, then

Not from Pier One

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 3

Concluding our visit to the wonderful BMFA...

Now into the realm of fine furniture...an incredible Chippendale-
style desk, by George Bright, Boston, late 1700s

Writing table, incredible marquetry

Another

Copley, Samuel Adams, 1772

Copley, Hancock, 1765

Thomas Sully, The Passage of the Delaware, 1819

"The Cult of Washington" and particularly Gilbert Stuart's defining
1796 portrait

Benjamin West, The Hope Family of Sydenham, Kent, 1802

Frank Lloyd Wright chair...not from the "Please be seated"
collection

Glackens, Italo-American Celebration, Washington Square, 1912;
Columbus Day, no doubt; Glackens was Albert Barnes' close personal
bud and purchasing agent

Childe Hassam, At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight), 1885

Among a hall or two hung like this

John Singer Sargent, An Artist in His Studio, 1905 

Obligatory Tiffany dragonfly lamp

Among many gorgeous rooms...this featuring Le Domino Rose, by
John Humphreys Johnston, 1895

Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882; note
refence to Las Meninas...

The central painting is Sargent's Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller, 1921

Sargent, Henry Lee Higginson, 1903; major Boston benefactor,
to this museum, also founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Salon...what the museum would have looked like in the 1800s

Monumental Table Lamp, Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 
mid-1800s

A. Ellis, Mr. Tiffen of East Kingston, New Hampshire, c. 1820

Unknown, or "artist once known" as the MFA puts it...View of the Iron
Works, Canton, Massachusetts, mid-19th

William Matthew Prior, Three Sisters of the Copeland Family, 1854

Winthrop Chandler, The Reverend Ebeneezer Devotion, 1770

Artist once known, Portrait of Abigail Rose, North Branford, Connecticut,
at the Age of Fourteen, 1786

Another incredible American room

And tons of wonderful OBF, which we love, and which, Vicki predicts,
will become valuable again in a few years, when it is rare

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2

Continuing our visit to the Museum of Fine Arts...

Gerrit von Honthorst, Triumph of the Winter Queen, 1636

Turner, Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, 1805; landscape Turner

Moralist Turner, Slave Ship (Slaver Throwing Overboard the Dead
and Dying), 1840, exhibited in conjunction with the first World Anti-
Slavery Convention, London

Manet's unfinished Execution of Emperor Maximilian, 1867

Courbet, The Quarry, 1856 (himself the hunter)

Delacroix, Lamentation, 1848

Monet, Grainstack, 1891

Monet, Morning on the Seine, near Giverny, 1896

Monet, The Manneporte (Etretat), 1883

Monet, La Japonnais, 1876 (his wife Camille)

OK, it was a whole Monet room...Poplars at Giverny, 1887

Rouen Cathedral, #1,537

Renoir, Grand Canal, 1881

14th century German aquamanile; gotta' get us a aquamanile!

Memling, Christ Blessing, 1481

Duccio, Crucifixion, early 14th; impressive!

Cranach, Lamentation, 1538

Manet, Music Lesson, 1879; saw a version of this at the Orsay a year
or so ago

Caillebotte, Les Dahlias, 1893

Van Gogh's Postman (Joseph Roulin); there were six or eight versions,
don't know how many are in the US...one in Philadelphia

Madame Roulin

Van Gogh, Ravine, 1889

Van Gogh, Houses at Auvers, 1890

Sam Maloof, Settee, 1975

Part of the museum's "Please be seated" campaign, which commissions
artists to design furniture that will become part of the permanent 
collection; I am complying

Pix by Vicki

Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778