5th Museum Visit

This week I returned to the Toledo Muesum of Art. While I have seen many of these pieces before, I was able to spend more time giving the adoration deserved to pieces I had previously just glanced at.

Following are a few of the many pieces I saw during my time at the museum. 

 

“Head of Charlie Parker” 

Julie MacDonald

1955

Pasadena Sandstone

Realism 

 

“The Artist’s Daughter” 

Frank Von Stuck about 

1910 

Oil on Wood Panel 

Symbolism

“Self Portrait” 

Giorgio de Chirico

1922

Oil on Canvas

Metaphysical art

“Nancy and the Rubber Plant” 

Alice Neel

1975

Oil on Canvas

Portraiture

“Head of a Young Woman” 

Elizabeth Catlett

1947

Fired Clay

Modernism

“Iago’s Mirror” 

Fred Wilson

2009

Black Plate Glass

Rococo

“Scorpion” 

William Baziotes

1952

Oil on Canvas

Abstract Expressionist

“Vase” 

Mieke Groot

1997

Glass, blown, with enamel

Contemporary Glass Art

“Pill Spill” 

Beverly Fishman

2011

Hand blown glass

Contemporary Art

“Laughing Vase” 

Robert Arneson

1974

Glazed earthenware

Funk Art

 

“Stew” 

Clarence Holbrook Carter

1939

Oil on canvas

Surrealism

“Jerry” 

Paul Cadmus

1931

Oil on canvas

Social Realism

“Dancer Resting” 

Moses Soyer

1939

Oil on canvas

Social Realism

“Hanging Clothes” 

John Koch

1950

Oil on canvas

Realism

“The Blue Necklace” 

Eugene Edward Speicher

1937

Oil on canvas

Realism

“The Adoration of the Child” 

Piero di Cosimo

About 1495-1500

Oil on wood panel

Renaissance