The Seattle Traveler

The Seattle Art Museum recently unveiled some of Edward Hopper’s best known paintings in the exhibit, Edward Hopper’s Women, a collection of images of 1920’s women in New York.  The evocative images are set in New York City, showing the emerging women in routine, every day moments of life.
Hopper was an American realist painter, known best for his oil paintings.  His works consistent primarily of urban and rural scenes that depicted his personal vision of modern life.
This exhibit features Chop Suey, painted in 1929 and one of the early Hopper paintings of modern urban life, along with several etchings. …read more

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Some of my favorite artists are hanging around the Seattle Art Museum right now – Monet, Manet, Degas, and Cézanne (image at right:  Still Life With Statuette), among others.  These are just a few of the artists you’ll see in the special exhibit Inspiring Impressionism:  The Impressionists and the Art of the Past.
This exhibit features around 100 pieces, including paintings and works on paper, and is an exploration of the relationship of the earlier European art movements and the Impressionists.  While impressionism may seem rather old hat these days, at the time of its evolution it was seen as …read more

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Viewing the Seattle Art Museums’s Roman Art from the Louvre exhibit is the closest you’re going to get to some of this collection of extraordinary art short of paying a visit to the Louvre in Paris.
The exhibition features approximately 180 pieces of ancient art, selected from one of the richest collections in the world, spanning 300 years of Roman history.  You’ll see see artifacts from the day to day life of leaders and commoners of ancient Rome depicted through sculptures, paintings, bronzes, silver, jewelry and glass.  The common becomes beautiful in these works of art. 
This section of the Louvre …read more

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