Golden Oldies

When I have nothing to write about, I fall back on showing you old photos; this time of some of the flower arrangements I did, admittedly many years (and over twenty pounds) ago. The top one was at  the North Carolina Museum of Art. Yours truly, beside a tropical arrangement with tropical food offerings. I have a hard time believing that was over 25 years ago. Check out those lace stockings!

This was for a safari themed party at the Capital City Club, for the Greensboro Convention and Visitor's Bureau. I used a wooden crate, painted it black, added the animals and made "bars" of black ribbon. Animal print overlays, mosses and tropical flowers completed the look. This was one of several large stations, all having similar arrangements.

This one was for a fall/harvest themed event at the Art Museum. I used my large copper milk can to hold the flowers and vegetables and a large basket holding an assemblage of vegetables and fruit. The arrangement was over five feet tall and it sat on a four foot tall pedestal. It made quite a show for people walking down the stairs to the lower level of the museum.

Another event at the museum; this one in the spring and I hope it evokes visions of what our world could look like come April and May. I painted four large, wooden wine boxes, in pastel colors and stacked them atop each other at odd angles, leaving open corners into which I placed small pots of spring flowers and put a large arrangement in the top box. Small terra cotta pots were tucked into the open corners at the base. This was one of my favorite "concoctions" over the 28 years I've been doing flowers. I still have those wine boxes and use them for storage.

Norman Rockwell

The North Carolina Museum of Art has a Norman Rockwell exhibit (until 1-31-11) and if you haven't seen it, I recommend you go. I have a magazine of Rockwell art which was published in the late 70's, and I've shown some of these before, and if you search for 'Norman Rockwell' on my blog, you'll find 10 links.   Here are three more examples...

"Norman Rockwell encompassed youth and age, innocence and wisdom, within the horizons of his art. His place was secure in his time: While values hold, he will belong to the future."

"For the most part, Rockwell left battlefield and bombs to other artists; his war was the war at home, and his most eloquent wartime covers are the ones with 'homecoming' as their these. For this serene evocation of the joys of small-town summer his model was a sailor in training at Williams College. The house in the background is [in Arlington, VA]. The shoes are Rockwell's, and the dog is his son Tommy's.

Touring Our Art Museum

My favorite things at the new art museum building are the water lilies! They never disappoint, like the restaurant does - not because the food is bad - it isn't - but because it is very hard to get reservations!

My blog friend Ginnie, and her friend Mara came to Raleigh on Thursday so we could tour the museum and have lunch. There were no reservations available (and a 90 minute wait, with no guarantees) so we toured, and left the museum grounds to eat at Brio - always a good choice.

A decorative arts cabinet of some sort. The paintings on the cabinet doors and drawers are exquisite. Unfortunately, there was a tour group in that area, and I didn't get to see what it was for or who painted it. Maybe next time.

Click to enlarge (I hope).

These are in the Judaica galleries. I don't know what they were used for either, but they are beautiful!

This is Psyche; Cupid will have to wait for the next tour.










Here, blogger has gone nuts and will not let me move this photo, so I have no idea how close the copy will be to the photo. It is a spice holder (the info follows) and the filagree detail is gorgeous.


















The shadow on the wall here is almost more interesting than the hanging silver object (and I don't know what it is used for (also from the Judaica Galleries.)
























Info on this one below. Can anyone tell me why this classifies as art?


























This is Ginnie (who blogs at Goldendaze) behind the Rhyton
(see below).

I love this angel, but didn't get any info on her.

Hope you enjoyed this tour. There is yet another set of photos waiting to be uploaded.