It's fun to find signs of Spring on January 9th. Yellow Daffodils, Roses and Daisies with purple Iris greeted me today. In the Gallery I was drawn to paintings that amused...from the tired and grouchy looking old man to the young boys smoking under the pier. All this and a brief nap on "Bob's Bench" made for a perfect respite.
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| Benjamin West, 1738-1820, painted "Meeting of Lear and Cordelia" from Shakespeare's play "King Lear" in 1784. |
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| William Bradford, 1823-1892 "Near Midnight, Labrador" 1880 in the cold, clear Arctic light. |
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| William Hahn 1829-1887, "Vallejo Street Wharf" San Francisco with two street urchins lighting cigarettes behind a fence next to a busy wharf. Note the clipper ship, horse-drawn streetcar, and handbills for the Central Pacific Railroad. Hahn was from Germany but settled eventually in San Francisco. |
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| Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975, "The Yankee Driver" 1929. The painting is of Billy Benson from Martha's Vineyard who did odd jobs. "For Benton, Island old-timers stood for traditional values and the American past." Despite his worn clothes, he looks ahead with great dignity. Benton painted the life, stories and people he knew. |
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