Category: Virginia

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

One night in Durango CO

We spent one night at Historic Strater Hotel in Durango, an historic mining town in southern Colorado.

The Historic Strater Hotel, built in 1887.
Lobby of the Strater.
Diamond Belle Saloon.
At the Diamond Belle Saloon, this guy played ragtime favorites all night. He was really good!
Main Avenue.
The Durango & Silverton Railroad takes passengers to Silverton on a three hour train ride along the scenic Animas River. We had planned to spend a day on this tour, but unfortunately had to cut it out to shorten the trip.
This is Chimney Rock, near Pagosa Springs CO, on the way to Durango from New Mexico.

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg VA

Visiting Blacksburg for a funeral, we had some extra time so we took a ride through the Virginia Tech campus.
Lane Stadium.
Statue of former football coach Frank Beamer.
April 16 Memorial.
32 Virginia Tech students and faculty members were murdered on campus on April 16, 2007. This memorial honors those who were killed.
Miller’s Cabin at Historic Springfield, built around 1850. Private residence not open for tours.
“The Merry Oak”. This tree was already present when the Preston family built Smithfield Plantation in 1774. It is probably more than 500 years old.
The Smithfield Plantation house was built 1772-1773 for Colonel William Preston, and was the home of three governors of Virginia, James Patton Preston, John Floyd Jr. and John Buchanan Ford.
Blacksmith shop.
Slave cabin, circa 1820.
Cross section of the trunk of a walnut tree that was planted here in 1852. The rings track to the history of Virginia Tech.