18 October 2024
Art

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

You may have noticed we’ve been to many art museums during our travels. I was ready to skip the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, but Doug thought we should go, so we did. It was a small museum but had a nice collection. I was pleasantly surprised by the porcelain and glass collections.

The museum’s founding goes back to 1911, growing to a collection of nearly 6,000 objects today. It has a particular focus in American Art of the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum has a sculpture garden on three acres, as well, but just as soon as we ventured outside it started to rain, and that was the end of that.

The cover photo is a Junket Dish, circa 1765-1770. It’s used to serve pudding, naturally.

Probably my favorite painting in the museum, Gloucester Harbor, Childe Hassam, 1895.
Favrile Vase, Tiffany Studios, 1910-1915.
Compote or Tazza, Tiffany Studios, circa 1920.
Vase, Victor Durand, Jr., 1924-1931.
After our visit to the John F. Peto Studio Museum, this Still Life with Universal Gazetteer by William Michael Harnett (1878) practically jumps off the wall.
One of Doug’s favorites in the museum, Composition with Three Figures, Abraham Rattner, 1952.
Northern Point, Andrew Wyeth, 1950. (Read about our visit to the Wyeth family studios.)
Mrs. Louis E. Raphael (Henriette Goldschmidt), John Singer Sargent, circa 1906.
Some detail on Mrs. Louis E. Raphael (Henriette Goldschmidt.
Saturday Morning, John Kelly Fitzpatrick, 1935.
New York Office, Edward Hopper, 1962. Doug liked this one, but I thought it was just too bleak. (We visited Hopper’s childhood home in 2023.)

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