Features From The Toledo Museum of Art #23

Features From My Visit to: The Toledo Museum of Art - #23

TMA (Toledo Museum of Art) is one of my favorite places in Toledo, Ohio.  I first visited this beautiful museum when I was in high school in Canada.  I grew up in the Windsor area and I was privileged to go to a high school with an advanced art program.  We actually visited the TMA twice throughout my high school career.  I had no idea when I was a teenager that I would actually marry an American and then settle in the Toledo area!  I now visit my favorite museum once a year.

I will be featuring a few pieces from the TMA each month.


“Young Lady with a Bird and a Dog”
(Oil on canvas)

John Singleton Copely (American 1738-1815)

My photo of this painting does not do the real colors justice - in reality the colors are deeper and more royal (not so orange tinged).
My favorite part of this painting is the dedication shown by the beautiful dog.

This masterpiece is best described by the write-up pasted from "The Toledo Museum of Art" website: 
"Painted as a showpiece to send to a London exhibition, this painting demonstrates John Singleton Copley’s special attention to the details of props and furnishings. His portraits often created an impression of high social position, incorporating elements traditionally included in portraits of British nobility, such as the column and draped curtain. Likewise, an oriental rug, a fashionable Chippendale chair, and an exotic pet like a parrot suggested a wealthy and cultured lifestyle."

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Other TMA Posts:
Church Stained Glass
"Hazy Day on the Marshes"
"A Dutch Road"
"Rainy Day, Boston"
Tiffany Chandelier
"The Open Air Breakfast"
"The Scottish Highlands"
"The Country Gallants"
"Morning Glory Chandelier"
"Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade30"
"Early Puritans of New England Going To Church"
"White Terrier"
"Winter Landscape With a Bird Trap"
"A Rainbow Like You"
"Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Canaan"
"Christ and the Centurion"
Mosaic with Imago
"Tiichum"
"Peasants Resting"
"The Glade"
"The Green Jardiniere"
"A Summer Landscape With Harvesters"

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Top 19 Posts From 2019

Top 19 Posts from 2019

This is my annual top blog post summary from the past year.  I started this blog 8 years ago and at the end of every year I reminisce about the previous year featuring my favorite moments.   Below you will find my digital review through the top 19 blog posts from godsgrowinggarden.com

Please click on each title below to view the entire post - ENJOY!

Dinner Rolls & Cinnamon Sticky Buns from One Dough RECIPE

Responding To An Apology

Backyard Groceries with RECIPES

Summer is Ice Cream Season - RECIPES

One Dozen Rose Features

Homemade PESTO from Home Grown BASIL

The Burden of Weakness

Fun Fridays #25 - Cross-country Skiing with a Great Pyrenees

photo by Angie Ouellette-Tower

Who Takes Care of the Caregiver? - Dealing with UNFAIRNESS

Orange Dark Chocolate Chip Cookie RECIPE

Worship Wednesdays - AIN'T NO GRAVE

Miniature Pumpkin Spice Cakes 

Birdseed Beggars from the Squirrel Clan

photo by Angie Ouellette-Tower

Psalm 119 - ALEPH & the Hebrew Alphabet

Features From the Toledo Museum of Art

Cheesy Spinach Phyllo Triangles

26 Sunflowers & Counting

Ice Storm Beauty

Beautiful Bittersweet & Thanksgiving Fun

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Features From The Toledo Museum of Art #22

Features From My Visit to: The Toledo Museum of Art - #22

TMA (Toledo Museum of Art) is one of my favorite places in Toledo, Ohio.  I first visited this beautiful museum when I was in high school in Canada.  I grew up in the Windsor area and I was privileged to go to a high school with an advanced art program.  We actually visited the TMA twice throughout my high school career.  I had no idea when I was a teenager that I would actually marry an American and then settle in the Toledo area!  I now visit my favorite museum once a year.

I will be featuring a few pieces from the TMA each month.


“A Summer Landscape With Harvesters”
(Oil on canvas)

By Joos de Momper the Younger (Flemish 1564-1635)
AND
By Jan Brueghel the Elder  (Flemish 1568-1625)

This is my third favorite painting at The Toledo Museum of Art (my first two favorite are the two van Gogh paintings).
I love this style painting because it tells of countless stories - almost like a children's picture book but this picture truly has 1,000 words.  I detailed two portions of this painting above.  The first picture above is the painting in it's entirety.  
The second photo above details the main road and the bottom right of the painting.  Look closely - there is a gentleman carrying jugs of refreshment/water to the field workers.  There is also another group of people taking a rest to gossip/chat - notice the basket full of fresh produce (cabbage and onions).
The third photo above is perhaps my favorite detail.  You will notice groups of people taking a break to eat their lunch - there is even a mother feeding her child.  There are birds eating the leftovers from the harvested field.  And the two dogs - one is playing with his boy owner and the other dog is barking at the oncoming wagon.
WHEAT - since this is a gardening blog, I wanted to comment on growing and harvesting wheat.  Here in Michigan, most wheat farmers grow "Winter Wheat" which is planted in October and harvested in the Summer.  It must have been the same in Belgium at that time because the title of this painting is about harvesting in summer.

This masterpiece is best described by the write-up pasted from "The Toledo Museum of Art" website: 
"In a glorious, earthy depiction of humanity and nature, peasants labor in the fields, relax with a picnic, and flirt in a vast, panoramic landscape of rolling fields that give way to a distant valley and ultimately the faraway sea. Possibly part of a series of paintings showing labors appropriate to the different months or seasons, A Summer Landscape with Harvesters is the largest and most spectacular of Joos de Momper’s many harvest scenes.

Based on a similar composition by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York), the painting is a collaboration between De Momper and Pieter Bruegel’s son, Jan Brueghel. De Momper, who was one of the most prominent Flemish landscape painters of the late 1500s and early 1600s, often worked with other painters who would add figures, animals, and birds to his landscapes. Jan Brueghel was a frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens and a successful artist in his own right."

ENJOY!

Other TMA Posts:
Church Stained Glass
"Hazy Day on the Marshes"
"A Dutch Road"
"Rainy Day, Boston"
Tiffany Chandelier
"The Open Air Breakfast"
"The Scottish Highlands"
"The Country Gallants"
"Morning Glory Chandelier"
"Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade30"
"Early Puritans of New England Going To Church"
"White Terrier"
"Winter Landscape With a Bird Trap"
"A Rainbow Like You"
"Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Canaan"
"Christ and the Centurion"
Mosaic with Imago
"Tiichum"
"Peasants Resting"
"The Glade"
"The Green Jardiniere"

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Features From The Toledo Museum of Art #21

Features From My Visit to: The Toledo Museum of Art - #21

TMA (Toledo Museum of Art) is one of my favorite places in Toledo, Ohio.  I first visited this beautiful museum when I was in high school in Canada.  I grew up in the Windsor area and I was privileged to go to a high school with an advanced art program.  We actually visited the TMA twice throughout my high school career.  I had no idea when I was a teenager that I would actually marry an American and then settle in the Toledo area!  I now visit my favorite museum once a year.

I will be featuring a few pieces from the TMA each month.


“The Green Jardiniere”
(Oil on canvas)

By Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French 1841-1919)

We continue focusing on my favorite style of Art: Impressionism.  This style of art began after the camera was invented and Impressionism captures split second, everyday life of normal people or simple everyday scenery.  If you were to quickly open and close your eyes - it's that fuzzy snapshot of that one second that is depicted in these masterpieces.

This masterpiece is best described by the write-up pasted from "The Toledo Museum of Art" website: 
"Like his landscape Road at Wargemont, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Green Jardinière features jewel-like tones and fluid brushwork. The young woman who sits opposite the large planter of the title, the strap of her dress provocatively slipping off her shoulder, is Aline Charigot (1859–1915). She was a seamstress who frequently modeled for Renoir. They began to live together in 1882, the same year Renoir painted this portrait, and eventually married in 1890. Renoir made another version of the painting, which differs in the size of the figure and the addition of a cat. 

Made around the time that Renoir had achieved enough success with his portraits to be free of earlier financial worries, it nonetheless contains an element of thriftiness: he recycled the canvas, painting this image over a still life by another, unknown, artist. "

ENJOY!

Other TMA Posts:
Church Stained Glass
"Hazy Day on the Marshes"
"A Dutch Road"
"Rainy Day, Boston"
Tiffany Chandelier
"The Open Air Breakfast"
"The Scottish Highlands"
"The Country Gallants"
"Morning Glory Chandelier"
"Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade30"
"Early Puritans of New England Going To Church"
"White Terrier"
"Winter Landscape With a Bird Trap"
"A Rainbow Like You"
"Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Canaan"
"Christ and the Centurion"
Mosaic with Imago
"Tiichum"
"Peasants Resting"
"The Glade"

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Features From The Toledo Museum of Art #20

Features From My Visit to: The Toledo Museum of Art - #20

TMA (Toledo Museum of Art) is one of my favorite places in Toledo, Ohio.  I first visited this beautiful museum when I was in high school in Canada.  I grew up in the Windsor area and I was privileged to go to a high school with an advanced art program.  We actually visited the TMA twice throughout my high school career.  I had no idea when I was a teenager that I would actually marry an American and then settle in the Toledo area!  I now visit my favorite museum once a year.

I will be featuring a few pieces from the TMA each month.


“The Glade”
(Oil on canvas)

By Paul Cezanne (French 1839-1906)

Today is the second time that I am featuring an Impressionist work of art, which happens to be my favorite style (Impressionism).  This style of art began after the camera was invented and Impressionism captures split second, everyday life of normal people or simple everyday scenery.  If you were to quickly open and close your eyes - it's that fuzzy snapshot of that one second that is depicted in these masterpieces.

Paul Cezanne inherited his father's estate in Aix-en-Provence (southern France) and this is what he said about the beautiful countryside in that area: "There are treasures to be taken away from this country, which has not yet found an interpreter worthy of the riches it offers."

Paul Cezanne spent two decades painting the country scenes of that area.

ENJOY!

Other TMA Posts:
Church Stained Glass
"Hazy Day on the Marshes"
"A Dutch Road"
"Rainy Day, Boston"
Tiffany Chandelier
"The Open Air Breakfast"
"The Scottish Highlands"
"The Country Gallants"
"Morning Glory Chandelier"
"Interior of Courtyard, Strandgade30"
"Early Puritans of New England Going To Church"
"White Terrier"
"Winter Landscape With a Bird Trap"
"A Rainbow Like You"
"Landscape with Christ and the Woman of Canaan"
"Christ and the Centurion"
Mosaic with Imago
"Tiichum"
"Peasants Resting"

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