The Met: American Wing

We did the Met's American Wing over the course of several days...it's a bit spread out, and, as one might expect, it is quite large. Many rooms of OBF (old brown furniture), some as nice as our Statton bedroom suite (can be yours, $4k OBO), but much else too, some historic. As usual, we were drawn mostly to the paintings.

Beautiful Tiffany windows here and there (some already
posted)

"Period" rooms all over the wing, but this Frank Lloyd Wright great
room was the prize catch

The great whatever outside the American wing

Blown and molded glass on one of the terraces

Whistler, Portrait of Theodore Duret

St. Gaudens, Bob Louie (Stevenson; very distant relative on Vicki's
side...)

John Singer Sargent, The Wyndham Sisters, 1899 (three-fer)

Sargent, Lady with the Rose, 1882

Francis William Edmonds, Taking the Census, 1854

Francis William Edmonds, The New Bonnet, 1858

Enoch Wood Perry, The True American, 1874 (a study in the willful

ignorance of the Reconstruction era; it said)

Unknown, Moving Day (in Little Old New York), 1827; from the Colonial
period through the 19th century, leases expired on May 1st, a day of
bedlam as entire households and businesses moved....

Frederick Edwin Church, The Parthenon, 1871

Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851; muy famoso

Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859

Albert Bierstadt, The Matterhorn

Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863

John Trumbull, Alexander Hamilton, 1792

Gilbert Stewart, George Washington, mid-1790s

Samuel F. B. Morse (yes, that Morse), Portrait of Susan
Walker Morse (his daughter), 1837

Only in America

Miniaturist's kit

OBF

More OBF

Easy Chair, Caleb Gardiner, upholsterer, Rhode Island,
late 18th

High Chest, enameled, Boston, mid-18th

More period rooms

More OBF