Dusty Us Diaries: museum

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Oklahoma City Museum of Art

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art was enjoyable but I think we prefer the Gilcrease and Philbrook Museums in Tulsa.

The special exhibit was the Dutch Italianates. Couldn't take any photos of those, however. Amazing to see but seemed like all the Dutch artists painted the same Italian scene or maybe all the Italian peasants, cows and countryside looked the same in the 1600s. For more info on the Dutch Italianates: http://www.okcmoa.com/dutchitalianates

Photography without flash was allowed in some galleries

Yep, this was a Talon fave!

I always enjoy portraits and the museum had a more extensive collection than I expected.

This is a portrait of Kitty Packe who married the Lord of the Manor of Great Glenn. I wish the photo did it justice. She is so pretty and the dress details so vivid. In person, the book in her lap looks three dimensional as if it is protruding out of the painting.

Here is a link to a better image of it on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7711591@N04/1470960643/

A couple of the Thomas Moran paintings

Don't have any info on this but isn't it..

Fabulously flamboyant!

This permanent memorial is a 55 ft tall Dale Chihuly Sculpture.

Very impressive...

For more info and a better view: http://www.okcmoa.com/thecollection/dalechihulyglass/kirkpatrickmemorialtower

The museum also had a Dale Chihuly glass exhibit that was quite amazing! The gallery was very dark and the sculptures so striking and colorful. It felt like we were walking through a beautiful alien sea.

Here is a link to some of the sculptures we saw: http://www.okcmoa.com/exhibitions/dalechihuly-theexhibition/chihulyglass

If you would like to learn more about Dale Chihuly, the artist has a great website: http://www.chihuly.com/
The home page flashes some of his sculptures. Check out the Violet Tumbleweeds.

Hope you enjoyed this overview of our excursion to the OKC Museum of Art.

Even though the museum itself lacks the charm of the Tulsa museums (difficult to compete with the Philbrook Mansion), it is definitely worth a visit.

Overall, it's a pleasant museum: easy to stroll through with nice spacious galleries.

Looking forward to seeing future exhibits there.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Woolaroc Museum

Here are a few of Talon's favorite exhibits at the museum:

Talon was fascinated by this powwow automaton. While it revolves, the tiny drummers chant and pound the communal drum. The tiny dancers proudly stomp and dance in all their regalia. The spectators spectate, of course, but they moved some too. Just like a real powwow--- Quite amazing!

Talon liked the Woolaroc plane suspended from the ceiling. It won a race in 1927 from Oakland to Honolulu taking just over 26 hours of flight time. Torrey, aren't you glad it doesn't take that long nowadays!