Take Time For Art
If you have company coming or are just looking for something
different to do with your day, we’d like to recommend a trip to Seattle to see
some art . We spent the afternoon there and had a marvelous time. Thursday’s and Fridays, SAM (Seattle Art Museum) is open until 9pm. We went in the late
afternoon and stayed until 7. We missed all the traffic and only had a few other
people in any given gallery at any given time. It was quite lovely.
The trip was the day of big paintings for us. We spent the
afternoon going to the Winston Wachter Gallery www.winstonwachter.com in Seattle to see encaustic portraits by Tony Scherman. He has
painted portraits that range in size from 28” x 24” to 84” x 96”, with prices
that reach $60,000. There are fewer than twenty pieces of art on view in the whole gallery, including the sculpture. It’s worth checking them out, just to see a different kind of gallery, one that has a mission statement and an approach that wouldn't work for us.
Then we moved on to SAM to see the European Masters exhibit,
there through May 19th. That exhibit also had a fair share of rather
large paintings. If you add to that the new exhibit “From Abstract Expression to
Colored Plates” and “Together Again: Nuxalk Faces of the Sky” the Northwest
Coast art exhibit which has a few big pieces, we saw some rather large pieces of art. It was day well spent; we recommend it highly.
Take a day and treat yourself. Visit these or other galleries you
really like.
different to do with your day, we’d like to recommend a trip to Seattle to see
some art . We spent the afternoon there and had a marvelous time. Thursday’s and Fridays, SAM (Seattle Art Museum) is open until 9pm. We went in the late
afternoon and stayed until 7. We missed all the traffic and only had a few other
people in any given gallery at any given time. It was quite lovely.
The trip was the day of big paintings for us. We spent the
afternoon going to the Winston Wachter Gallery www.winstonwachter.com in Seattle to see encaustic portraits by Tony Scherman. He has
painted portraits that range in size from 28” x 24” to 84” x 96”, with prices
that reach $60,000. There are fewer than twenty pieces of art on view in the whole gallery, including the sculpture. It’s worth checking them out, just to see a different kind of gallery, one that has a mission statement and an approach that wouldn't work for us.
Then we moved on to SAM to see the European Masters exhibit,
there through May 19th. That exhibit also had a fair share of rather
large paintings. If you add to that the new exhibit “From Abstract Expression to
Colored Plates” and “Together Again: Nuxalk Faces of the Sky” the Northwest
Coast art exhibit which has a few big pieces, we saw some rather large pieces of art. It was day well spent; we recommend it highly.
Take a day and treat yourself. Visit these or other galleries you
really like.
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