Chaletmomma

Hi friends I love sharing my visits to The Metropolitan Museum of Art I was there recently to view Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibit with my sister and a dear friend. Here are few captures from the day. (Sleeping Beauties closes 9.2.24)

Some gowns are displayed laying down because of their fragility.

“Museum: a building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.”

— The Free Dictionary

After Sleeping Beauties we made our way to see some modern art. I love this Jasper Johns work.

Matisse, Pansies 1903

Vuillard, Garden at Vaucresson 1920

van Gogh, Women Picking Olives 1889

I often grab this image - where the buildings intersect and the Petrie Court. We were on our way to the Balcony Bar for a bit of libation.

Eugene Delacroix, Crouching Tiger 1839

Incense Burner 1512

Next the American Wing - Thomas Cole and others from the Hudson River School then we popped up to the Roof - the views are spectacular.

Homer, Noreaster 1895

A few more images on our way out - another of the Petrie Court, the Ceiling and the amazing column in the Greek Gallery.

Here we are overlooking the Great Hall… and this is what I brought home from the visit a postcard of Washington Crossing the Delaware.

If you’re within a few hours of New York City plan a visit and make sure The Met is at the top of your list. It’s not as scary driving in Manhattan as you’d think and there’s a parking garage at the museum - park and walk in through the basement level - easy peasy. Til next time friends be well.

Additional Museum Visits:

I was lucky enough to take a quick trip to Doylestown, PA last month with my sister to meet up with our cousins at The Tile Works of Bucks County or what we used to think of as The Moravian Tile & Pottery Works.

Interestingly enough… look at the tile that is by the entrance. It is the same design my husband and I received as a wedding present in 1998.

Here’s a brief history: Between 1911 and 1912, Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) built the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works to “master the potter’s art and establish pottery under personal control.”

The success of the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works rested on Mercer's pure genius. With a small capital investment, relatively inexpensive operating costs, and an ability to produce a range of wares that made the best use of biotechnology, the pottery produced unique tiles that were praised by critics and sought after by architects. The honest, hand-made quality of his work fully expressed the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, elevating Mercer to one of the movement’s most important proponents. His tiles were emblematic of the survival, or rebirth, of the handcraft tradition. By the turn of the century, he was recognized as a premiere maker of “artistic” tiles. For the next thirty years, his work was sought out by leading architects and tastemakers to decorate public and private buildings all across the country. Mercer’s pioneering influence was far-reaching and still affects many tilemakers today. [The Tile Works website]

The Tiles are so intricately designed.