A Wet Night, Columbus Circle, William A. Fraser, 1897-98
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For #InternationalCatDay 😻:
(and #TwoForTuesday + #TextileTuesday)
Cat Shoes
China, 20th c.
Crepe, 4 3/4 in. (12.065 cm)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 42-33/2 A,B
“These children’s shoes are adorable, but they also carry a secret message to a married couple. In Chinese, the phrase for children’s shoes sounds like the word harmony, which extend to a four-word phrase, tong xie dao lao 同偕到老, which means, May you grow old together in harmony.”
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The Bathers (1928)
John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) American 🎨
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Deco Doings - September, 2022
Deco Doings – September, 2022
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Museum Guard by Thomas Hawk
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Monet and His Modern Legacy—Special Exhibition at the Nelson Atkins Museum
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Kiki Smith: ‘Constellation’ at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (1996)
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some favorites from this trip to the Nelson-Atkins.
Mt. Katahdin—November Afternoon by Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943). Oil on Masonite, 1942.
Tree by Arthur Garfield Dove (American, 1880 - 1946). Oil on canvas, 1934.
Tschaikovsky's Sixth by Ross Eugene Braught (American, 1898 - 1983). Oil on canvas, 1935.
Pueblo Tesuque, No. 2 by George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925). Oil on canvas, 1917.
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Paul Klee, The Virtue Wagon, (oil transfer drawing and watercolor on prepared ground on paper), 1922 [The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern]
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The green domino, 1913, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - by Albert Bloch (1882 - 1961), American
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Oil Painting, ca. 1790, French.
By Rose Adélaïde Ducreux.
Portraying Marie Thérèse Diane Andrault in a white dress.
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
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François Féral Benga | ph. Carl Van Vechten
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
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Deco Doings - January, 2023
Deco Doings – January, 2023
Winter by William Welsh, 1931. Image from Pinterest.
Happy New Year from Driving For Deco
Let’s take a look at some events to start your year in the deco way!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939 (In Person Event)
Saturday, July 9, 2022 – Sunday, January 8, 2023 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri.
Art Deco…
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