The Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola was born in Pittsburgh in 1928, and stayed here through his college years at Carnegie Mellon University. Shortly after graduating, he relocated to New York City, where he became a …
Category: Art
The Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History
The Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History date back to 1895, when steel magnate Andrew Carnegie made them a gift to the city of Pittsburgh, Penn. He liked to seem charitable while being absolutely …
Architecture / Art / Books / Museums
Clayton and the Frick Art Museum
I love interesting historic homes, so of course we stopped to tour Clayton while in Pittsburgh. Clayton was the Victorian home of coke- (relating to coal, not drugs) and steel-magnate Henry Clay Frick and his …
Demuth Museum
While in Lancaster we popped into the Demuth Museum; we had read it was small and quick, and that’s an understatement. The museum is housed in where American Modernist Artist Charles Demuth spent most of …
Lancaster Central Market & the Newspaper Reader
We overnighted in Lancaster at Meduseld Meadery (poor Doug!); in the morning we walked into Lancaster proper to visit the Lancaster Central Market and have breakfast. The LCM is the oldest continuously operating farmers market …
New Britain Museum of American Art
Founded in 1903, the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT, was the first museum in the world dedicated solely to collecting American art. The museum today contains more than 8,400 items, …
“Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders!” Exhibit
We went to the New Britain Museum of American Art to see the Ansel Adams and Shaker exhibits, but instead were blown away by the wonderful “Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders!” exhibit, which is running March …
Columcille Megalith Park
While on a trip to the Isle of Iona in Scotland, William H. Cohea, Jr. was inspired to create what would eventually become Columcille Megalith Park in Bangor, PA. This small park has 90 megaliths …
Architecture / Art / History / Museums
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
We made a visit to the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, PA, on a chilly April morning. The Tile Works are a cast-in-place (crazy!) concrete structure built by Henry Chapman Mercer in 1911-1912; …