Category: States

Longwood Center for the Visual Arts

Farmville VA

This gallery has an interesting concept. It is explained below. I do not show that aspect here, but only a few of the pieces.

St. Louis World’s Fair Commemorative Axe, 1904
Emulation: Fishing for Oysters at Cancale, John Singer Sargent, 2000
King’s Market, Eldridge Bagley, 2004
Christmas Journey, Eldridge Bagley, 2015
Kaki with Pearls, Greta Matson, 1951
Untitled (Main Street Station, Richmond), William S. Amlong, 1980
Zodiac Figures, Yuan Dynasty, ca. 1300
Friday Nite Fish Fry, Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick, 1979
Untitled (two schoolboys in a snowball fight), John George Brown, 1869
Tile, Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912
Euclidian Wall, James Miller, 1976-1977

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Richmond VA

This museum is a really good museum. Lots of work from the greats. Here are just a few highlights.

Triple Elvis, Andy Warhol
Engraving of Russian Empress Catherine the Great
Photographs of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
Imperial Tsarevich Easter Egg, 1912
Young Girls Looking at an Album, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1892
Field of Poppies, Giverny, Claude Monet, 1885
Daisies, Arles, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888
Still Life with Bowl, Paul Gauguin, 1891-1893
Jester on Horseback, Pablo Picasso, 1905
Interior (The Closed Window), Henri Matisse, 1918-1919
Pigeon on a Perch, Pablo Picasso, 1960
Paris Street Scene, Richard Estes, 1972
Burger Chef Interior, Ralph Goings, 1972
Idyll of Virginia Mountains, George H. Ben Johnson, 1945

Air & Space Museum

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, Chantilly VA

Different views of the shuttle Discovery.
Astronaut suit
Mercury Capsule
Apollo capsule with landing floats.
Apollo quarantine vehicle.
Various satellites…
Vanguard I Satellite.
Satellite assortment.
The Enola Gay B29 Superfortress Bomber, the first plane to drop an atomic bomb in war. It dropped “Little Boy” over Hiroshima Japan.
Air France Concorde SST plane.
Boeing 707
SR-171 Blackbird, the fastest plane in history.
World War I German plane.
World War I US plane.
F4U Corsair World War II fighter plane.
Boeing 307 Stratoliner “Clipper Flying Cloud”
F/A-18C Hornet
Sikorsky JRS-1
A-6E Intruder
MiG 21
F-14D(R) Tomcat

San Xavier del Bac Mission

Tucson AZ

Mission San Javier del Bac was built under the direction of the Franciscans 1783-1797. The front facade is unbalanced. The left side does not match the right side.
The interior is colorful and really gaudy.
Painting depicting Pentecost.
Painting depicting the Last Supper.
Gaudy ornate.
Looking up to the rotunda.
Not sure what this represents.
Antique Psalter.