Still on our way to RI, taking the long way. A stop at the Springfield [MA] Museums, specifically the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts to see the American artists in honor of America 250.
Another Tyler Arboretum reciprocal museum.
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| The entrance to the complex of five Springfield Museums |
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| D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts (1933, by Tilton and Githens in Art Deco style) |
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| Rubberland (2020, by Donna Castellanos using recycled bicycle parts) |
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| Unidentified bronze lunch bag on a bench |
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| Promenade on the Beach (1880, by Winslow Homer) |
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| Well, you never know what passes for art... |
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| Black and White Extraction, Love American Style (2011, by Lisa Hoke) |
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| Black and White Extraction, Love American Style detail showing recycled paper, ads, matchbooks and matches, slide frames. and cardboard packaging |
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| Cave (1969, by Helen Frankenthaler) |
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| Uzbek Blue VII (2012, by Steven Naifeh) |
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| Stone Reflections (2021, by Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling) |
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| Goats Fighting (c 1905, by Anna Hyatt Huntington) |
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| Mural (1947, by Sante Graziani who won a competition to paint the mural in situ), plus Dining Room Suite with Table, Chairs, Settees, and Sideboard (c 1929, designed by Eugene Schoen) |
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| Western Sea (1932, by Lyonel Feininger) |
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| New Mexican Landscape (1930, by Georgia O'Keeffe) is the Springfield Museums Treasure of the Month |
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| Chesterfield Gorge (Summer) (2025, by David Gloman) |
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| Peek into the Deco Room |
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| Portrait of Nymphas Martston (c 1770, by John Singleton Copley); while the artist was a Loyalist and returned to England in 1774, the subject was a judge and delegate to ratify the US Constitution |
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| Chippendale Settee (c 1770, maker unknown) belonged to Nymphas Marston |
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| Longcase Clock (1765, by Thomas Brett) belonged to Nymphas Marston |
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| Philip Nicklin (c 1795, by Gilbert Stuart) |
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| Blake Court |
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| Lucy H Mills Ball and Reverend Dyer Ball, MD (1838, by Erastus Salisbury Field) were painted as the couple were about to embark on as missionaries to China |
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| View of Niagara Falls in Moonlight (1872, by Herman Herzog) |
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| The Hetch Hetchy Valley, California (c 1870s, by Albert Bierstadt), which unfortunately no longer exists except under a reservoir when the river was dammed in 1923 |
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| The Historical Monument of the American Republic (1867-1888, by Erastus Salisbury Field) |
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| The Historical Monument of the American Republic detail of a fantastical painting that It visually chronicles over 250 years of American history, from Jamestown and Plymouth up to the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the 1876 Centennial |
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