Newport Art Museum
Newport Art
If you follow this blog, by now you have noticed that normally every Thursday my friends and I go out any about on some kind of an adventure! Well by the title of this post we went to the Newport Art Museum and let me be the first to tell you, I had an amazing time! The art was amazing some new and some old but the building, OH the building was wonderful. I think what I loved the most about this museum was that fact of the matter was that it was showing artist from the area. I felt so honored to be in that house and seeing all those paintings.
"Home for the Museum since 1916, the Griswold House is a National Historic
Landmark and an Official Project of Save America’s Treasures. Designed
in 1862 by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt, it was completed in 1864
for John N.A. Griswold, a China Trade merchant and financier. Griswold
House was Hunt’s first major commission in Newport and is the premier
example of American Stick Style architecture. Hunt went on to design
many of the grand cottages of Newport’s Gilded Age, including The
Breakers, Marble House, and Ochre Court. .."
after spending the day in the museum I found myself enchanted with one painting and now before I go on about this painting I must say at first I could tell if I liked it or hated it. But as a I kept going back to it and for more paintings by the same artist, I found myself loving the art work. Howard Gardiner Cushing (1869-1906) is the painters name, an artist from Boston but had a studio in Newport, RI. His family was a major player in the China Trade market and his painting had very strong Asian influence in his paintings. And after hours of looking and looking I didn't find a lot of information on Mr. Cushing, tho I did finally this short and brief bio.
"Cushing studied at Harvard University and later in Paris as a pupil
of Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He
exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1892 and 1896.
Examples of his work are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Newport Art Museum,
Newport, RI (of which he was a founding member)..."
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| Ethel Cushing, H.G. Cushing's wife. |
How I wish I took photos of the other painting he had done of Ethel, I can not find them anywhere online. Which just means that I MUST go back and see them again! A friend of mine has also spoken to me about going to some other museums in New England that shows some of his other works.
Road trip!
Purgatory Chasm
Newport, Rhode Island
Now let me explain that there are TWO purgatory chasms in Southern New New England and I had only recently found out about this one located in Newport.
"According to
legend, Hobomoko (the Native American devil) carried a woman to
Purgatory Chasm after she had murdered a "white man". When the woman
began to fight, Hobomoko hit her head against a boulder and attacked her
with a tomahawk. The bowl-like depressions show where her head hit the
boulder, the ax-marks where the tomahawk struck, and the footprints in
the vein of stone where he carried his victim's body to the edge of the
fissure. .."
Well the first bit of the interview is about the story and than it goes into more topics. I think it was pretty cool little story. When we we standing there near the chasm I felt a bit strange.
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| Its along way down |
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| Climbing trees all summer long!! |
Right so in other news no I haven't been working on any costumes... but I still seem to be adding costumes to the list! hah I have someone in mind that is going to take some really good quality photos on my costumes for me! Super excited about that!
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| baby quilt I've been working Had all the fabric layin' about and did want to spend any $$ |
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| Old singer machine and my NEW SERGER!! |
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| My aunt is getting married and here is the cake lay out! |
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