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| ARLINGTON ART MUSEUM Arlington Art Museum |
This past week, The Travelling Toe and Dear Friend visited the Arlington Art Museum to view their current exhibit.
The items on display are from the Guild Hall Collection, which is located on the Eastern End of Long Island. The area has had a long history of attracting artists, writers, musicians, actors and other artistic types. Guild Hall is an art gallery and theater and became the culture center of East Hampton. It was established in 1931.
The description on the Arlington Art Museum's web site details the exhibit as follows:
MODERN MASTERS
FROM THE GUILD HALL COLLECTION
November 21, 2015 – February 21, 2016
This exhibition features work by over 60 artists including:
- Andy Warhol
- Jackson Pollock
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Robert Motherwell
- Willem de Kooning
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Jasper Johns
- Max Ernst
- Jimmy Ernst
- and includes 72 paintings, prints, photographs, illustrations, mixed media, and sculptural pieces.
Modern art brought a fresh, unconventional approach to the creative community, expressing the loves, hates, ideals, beliefs, interests, passions, strengths, and weaknesses of a generation emerging in the mid-Twentieth Century. This exhibit explores traditional mediums of art, outside the box, and how the art world embraced the work representing a movement that changed the face of fine art in America, and the way the world viewed American art.
Dear Friend and The Travelling Toe are not pop or modern art aficionados, but we did find many of these works of art very interesting and fascinating, One favorite was a mixed-media portrait titled "Phil/Manipulated" by Chuck Close, which was completed in 1982 It is on thick hand made paper with a grey background and then individual squares are painted to make the portrait come alive.
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| Chuck Close artist 1940 - |
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| Phil/Manipulated |
Childe Hassam had several paintings in the exhibit but one favorite was "Little Old Cottage, Egypt Lane, East Hampton. It was just lovely.
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| Childe Hassam artist 1859-1935 |
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| Little Old Cottage, Egypt Lane East Hampton |
This was an interesting and fun exhibit. We spent time in front of each piece of art discussing it and learning more about them The permanent collection of Guild Hall is available for viewing on the Hall's website.
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| Guild Hall East Hampton NY |
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