nor'east to the southwest

Friday, January 16, 2009

Rest in Peace Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth passed away today, he was a favorite artist of ours. We just saw many of his paintings in Pennsylvania at the brandywine museum. He was a great inspiration. Rest in Peace. Lindsey

Thursday, January 15, 2009

so we aren't in "the van" but we are in a van, Logan's green chevy astro, with minnie ofcourse, headed to arizona from california. its about a 8hr drive . first we will be going to the maynard dixon show at http://www.tucsonmuseumofart.org/ then to logan's gallery johnbstrong.com then going to the arts district at night for a art walk, it we be fun logan has been here many times but i never have, thanks to our friend rose we are getting a sweet discount at the Marriott right in Scottsdale!ill put pics up later! xo lindsey

Friday, November 7, 2008

my best friend Glenna continues to fight cancer, but her condition is weakening. It is an unbearable time and i will be going back home to her. thank you for going on this journey with us and all of your advice.please pray for her . -lindsey

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Capitol City

It finally stopped raining and we headed into Washington DC. A little bit of backtracking but we felt weird not visiting DC. We spent a while walking around the National Mall.

A huge petition for Obama

Lindsey with her vintage polaroid camera

Lindsey took a bunch of really cool black and white polaroids today. We will have to post some on the blog later on when we can scan them.

Honest Abe

MLK Jr.

A nice walkway with fall leaves

Lindsey looking pretty

Our best shot of the White House as we drove by with people honking at us to drive faster

After the National Mall, we headed over to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. We smuggled Minnie in with us. She is hidden under Lindsey's sweatshirt, she only let out one growl the whole time, otherwise she was very calm.

We saw some really neat photos, Lindsey had a ball. There was a show of Ansel Adams and Georgia O'keefe which was fun to see. I saw a small O'Keefe painting that I liked a lot of a New Mexican church, couldn't have been bigger than 8"x10". Lindsey saw a lot of photos by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Lee Freelander and more that she loved.

While Lindsey was looking at photos, I ran over to the "Western Art" section to see what they had and I had no idea what I would stumble upon. Above is a painting by Maynard Dixon titled "Shapes of Fear". Sorry about the bad lighting, it was kind of dim in this gallery.

W. Herbert Dunton

E. I. Couse, a really big one by Couse, I don't think I have seen a painting this large by him, the figure was life size or larger.

E. Martin Hennings

Ernest Blumenschein

I was so surprised to see these really great western paintings here in DC. I thought they would have some boring generic western art, but it turned out that they had some of the really important Western Artists.

Here is Lindsey in front of the Museum, which by the way is FREE to visit. All of the Smithsonian Museums are. We definitely want to come back another time for 5 or 6 days so we can see more of the city, too much to see in a day or two. -Logan

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

in other news....

Oh yeah, and this happened too. -Logan

berlin,maryland

we spent time in berlin,maryland today ,it POURED all day today and yesterday!!!!
but, it was a nice old fashion small town. we went into "town center antiques" i took a ton of photogs but my cannon doesn't upload on this comp:( there were a lot of funny knick knacks in there,hats, Humel's etc. and a coffee shop right in the middle of it. a couple movies were filmed here, when you walk in the antique store they had all the newspaper clippings of julia roberts and richard gere on set. the man that ran the store was real nice he has lived there all his life in between traveling around,and owns a gallery a couple stores down, i gave him our blog.