by Meryl Ann | Jun 25, 2022 | Anna Hyatt Huntington, Sculpture/3D/Installation Art
I enjoyed a quick visit today to one of my favorite statues, Sybil Ludington, in Carmel, NY alongside Lake Gleneida. The creatrix, Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), was among the foremost women sculptors in the United States to have undertaken significant,...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 24, 2022 | Healing Arts & Etc, Uncategorized
Some days there is so much magic that it requires two blog posts! Yesterday, after my museum visit I got to meet my friend Lisa at her fabulous dance studio – she and I met online when we attended Americans for the Arts Action Fund Executive Director, Nina...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 24, 2022 | Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
I visited the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art today (Hartford, CT; founded 1842) — it has a great collection of paintings from the Hudson River School which I will share in upcoming posts. It also has a lovely painting by Mary Cassatt which I have been...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 23, 2022 | American Impressionists, Women Artists
Here’s a stunning double portrait which I viewed at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT, today. “Immigrant from Checo Slovacia” [sic], ca. 1921-22, is by American Impressionist, Martha Walter (1875-1976), (Oil on board.) Martha is known for...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 22, 2022 | Healing Arts & Etc
It is the longest day and shortest night of the year, the Summer Solstice, a perfect day to honor the ancestors with a huge box of flowers for the graves! But when I got there, I realized I had forgotten to bring a hammer…something that is good to use with a chopstick...
