Museums to Visit

A list of museums I have not yet visited but intend to:

Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland (Waterhouse) 

Tate Britain, London (Waterhouse)

National Portrait Gallery, London

Mauritshuis, The Hague

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Historical Information Center for Thermopylae, Thermopylae

Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence (David)

National Etruscan Museum, Rome

The National Museum of Rome (Museo Nazionale Romano) is comprised of multiple buildings throughout Rome:

• Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (The Discus Thrower, Boxer at Rest)
• Palazzo Altemps
• Crypta Balbi
• Baths of Diocletian

Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome

Vatican Museum, The Vatican

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Frick Museum, New York

Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Alma-Tadema)

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Cairo

Museums and galleries I want to visit again, typically because there is so much to see that it cannot all be viewed on one visit:

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (Alma-Tadema, Waterhouse)

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol (Alma-Tadema)

Also look at those smaller museums that hold particular artists and works that I am interested in seeing. See pages on Vermeer, Canaletto, Leonardo, Bouguereau and Waterhouse.

Maritime Art

My interest in history and sailing combine in an interest in maritime art. I'm looking to acquire a powerful piece and am still looking.

For a more vigorous image I'm looking at scenes from Trafalgar by Auguste Ballin (1842-1909) whose prints are available from Art Marine UK, and Maritime Prints.

Trafalgar - 1:00pm (Victory firing into Buccaneer)

Some newer marine artists are Steven Dews, John Christian, R.G. Grimson and Geoff Hunt.

H.M.S. Pandora Gives Chase - Steven Dews

First Shots - John Christian

Stop and Search 1770 - R.G. Grimson

RMS Surprise off Calcutta - Geoff Hunt

Nelson's Day, Battle of Trafalgar - Randall Wilson

Art Galleries

I've been to a number of art galleries but there are still many I'd like to visit.

In Europe, I have visited the Louvre, in Paris, the Pardo, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid,  the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the Delphi Archaeological Museum in Delphi, the National Gallery in London, the National Gallery in Dublin, the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Capitoline Museums and the Borghese Gallery in Rome and the Manchester Art Gallery. I saw a special exhibition of the works of Canaletto at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

In North America, I have visited the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Gallery in Washington.

Galleries that I have not yet visited but want to see are, in Europe, the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, plus the many galleries in Rome, Venice and Milan.

In North America, I want to visit the Frick Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Dali Museum in St.Petersburg Florida. 

Louvre, Paris

Art Posters

So many talented illustrators created some of the greatest travel and advertising poster of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Some have become iconic and are instantly recognizable, many in the Art Deco period.

Others: Busch binoculars, Saint. Ives, Orient Express - Stewart, Orient Express 1888, Glacier Express, Colwyn Bay, Lake Garda, Normandie, Santorini.

Sources for high quality reproductions are Pictorem and AllPosters.

Waterhouse Exhibition

In 2009-10 the Musée de Beaux Arts in Montreal held a special exhibition of the works of John William Waterhouse entitled John William Waterhouse: Le jardin des sortilèges (Garden of Enchantment). This was a world-wide travelling exhibition, but Montreal was the only venue in North America and had over 90,000 visitors.

Paintings displayed:
The Lady of Shalott, 1888-93
The Lady of Shalott, 1894
The Favourites of Emperor Honorius
Saint Eulalia
After the Dance
Dolce far Niente
Sick Child Brought into the Temple of Aesculapius
Cleopatra
Miranda
Consulting the Oracle
The Magic Circle
I am Half Sick of Shadows said the Lady of Shalott
Circe offering the Cup to Ulysses
The Siren
A Mermaid
Ulysses and the Sirens
Circe Invidiosa
Circe
The Love Philtre
In the Peristyle
Hylas amd the Nymphs
A Naiad
Psyche and the Golden Box
Mariamne Leaving the Judgement

I remember distinctly Cleopatra, which was captivating, the longing expressed in Miranda, the wistfulness of Dolce far Niente, and the melancholy of Saint Eulalia. I studied The Favourites of Emperor Honorius, which was my favourite, for about half an hour (at least) finding more and more interesting elements in the composition.

Dolce far Niente