At the Clark Institute
photos on this page by Mark J. Fisher
August 24, 2003
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zooming in on the image above. . .
the painting (left) close-up
and the face of the statue
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there were three, I think, Portraits by Toulouse Lautrec
here's one . . . her name was . . .
The Turner exhibit was very Turner;
they would not allow us to photograph the exhibit
I upload here selected images of Turner's late seascapes which I found on the internet and were part of the Clark show.
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The whole exhibit centered around Turner's 1840 masterpiece, "Rocket and Blue Lights" which was newly restored. This image was the brilliant fulcrum to all the other paintings. The image I have reprinted here below is from the Tate's archives, and is before the restoration.
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Sunrise with Sea Monsters circa 1845
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(left) closeup of brush strokes
& sea monster's face
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I will continue to upload images of the paintings which were included in the late seascapes of Turner exhibit . . . Let's move on to MASS MOCA . . .
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M-C at Mass MOCA
photos by Mark Fisher
and occasionally fiddled with by M-C
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Mass MOCA (left) and the photographer
mark j. fisher (below) in our hotel room
actually it's another hotel room from another trip to New York City after 9/11 in 2001 but I include it here because . . .
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