The Color Black Is All I'll See Till You Come Back
February 5, 2026
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
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Diwali Celebration at Worcester Art Museum
November 2, 2025
Worcester, MA
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The Color Black Is All I'll See Till You Come Back
February 5, 2026
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
#photography
#abstract
#shadows
#worcesterartmuseum
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We Might As Well Be Each Other
June 8, 2025
Worcester, MA
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The Color Black Is All I'll See Till You Come Back
February 5, 2026
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
#photography
#abstract
#shadows
#worcesterartmuseum
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I’m a frequent visitor to the #WorcesterArtMuseum, classical concerts at #MechanicsHall, and plays/musicals at the #HanoverTheatre. Tons of children’s/family places & activities. Beautiful examples of Victorian homes. Home to the #WooSox (Triple-A affiliate of Bos Red Sox). Approx 45” from Boston.
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This likeness is one of six portraits Salem merchant Timothy Orne ordered from Boston painter Joseph Badger in 1756 and 1757 to display the prosperity of his household. Orne’s wealth came from a fleet of more than fifty vessels trading fish, grain, molasses, rum, textiles … and at times enslaved people …through the Atlantic world as the same maritime system that nourished his fortune also trafficked in human bondage. The portrait thus records not only young Rebecca’s refinement but the hidden labor of African and Indigenous people whose dispossession and forced work underwrote Salem’s elegance. A ghostly-pale girl stands before a warm, neutral background with her dark hair drawn back and her gaze steady and self-possessed. She wears a rose-colored silk dress with pale blue-gray ruffles that frame her neck and sleeves while the sheen of the fabric is painted in thin, careful layers. In her right hand clings a soft gray pet squirrel, probably an elite colonial child’s companion, signaling gentility and leisure. Her body is turned slightly to the our left, so that the oval of her face becomes the focus. Nothing around her tells of labor or landscape; this is a portrait of status, youth, and belonging in mid-18th-century New England. As an adult, Rebecca married Salem captain and merchant Joseph Cabot in 1768, keeping her within the same shipping-and-slavery-entangled network her father built. Charlestown-born, Badger was originally a house-painter and largely self-taught. He had, by the 1750s, become one of Boston’s “go-to” portraitists for merchants who could not yet command the wildly popular John Singleton Copley. Badger’s methodical underpainting, gray preparatory tones, and frontal poses suited clients who wanted restraint, good taste, and recognizable likenesses. In giving Rebecca a fashionable squirrel, he joined a small colonial trend using an animal to signal both affection and control over nature.
“Portrait of Rebecca Orne” by Joseph Badger (American) – Oil on canvas / 1757 – Worcester Art Museum (Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #ColonialArt #AmericanArt #18thCenturyArt #WorcesterArtMuseum #Portraiture #NewEnglandHistory #ArtHistory #BlueskyArt #GirlsInArt #AmericanArtist
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An ancient, giant smiling head of Aphrodite with a crown depicting worshippers. The statue is bare limestone but had been painted in ancient times.
A plaque describing the giant head of Aphrodite. "This monumental head belonged to an over-life-size statue of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. It was created on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where the Greeks believed Aphrodite was born. While the statue's exact function is unknown, the colossal scale suggests that it stood in a sanctuary..."
The giant, smiling head of Aphrodite once welcomed visitors on the island of her birth. Although now bare limestone, it had been painted in ancient times.🏺
#Aphrodite #archaeology #AncientGreece #Cyprus #statue #WorcesterArtMuseum
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“From the Vault: Collecting #Tapestries at the #WorcesterArtMuseum” is “monumental in scale, immensely detailed & very labor-intensive objects” writes Beth Neville, reviewing the show that ends July 27, in our July/Aug 2025 issue: artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/imme... #art #newenglandart #worcester
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Yes, I have it here in hard copy. Such a beautiful read, if I may say so myself. bit.ly/TheArtofBelo... #newrelease #firstnovel #immigrationtoday #recovery #Russia #Uzbekistan #WorcesterArtMuseum #modernart #artcurator #beautifulbook
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A free sample of my debut novel, The Art of Belonging Nowhere, is available for your reading pleasure. Dedicated to my friends. #displacement #immigrantstory #recovery #Uzbekistan #Russia #Worcester #WorcesterArtMuseum #ICEcustody bit.ly/TheArtofBelo...
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Today at the Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, Massachusetts
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Time and place, our March 27 email blast! features Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of Shin Hanga at #WorcesterArtMuseum; Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England at #YaleArtGallery & Contemporary #UkrainianFolkArt: Matrix of Resilience at the #BrattleboroMAC: conta.cc/3DJijXj
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Thanks to Nancy Kathryn Burns, Stephen DiRado, Ron Rosenstock & Brittany Severance for today’s talk on “The #Worcester #Photography Salon, A Conversation Spanning Five Decades of Community” at the #WorcesterArtMuseum. There are plenty more stories behind the stories behind the stories to be told!
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In 1917, American artist Frank Weston Benson spent his vacation at the Bar-B-C Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was a guest of the Hemenway family (also from Massachusetts), and so was a young woman named Natalie Thayer. In his portrait Natalie, the artist captures the young American woman outdoors standing in a light breeze against a light blue sky. She is dressed in simple and practical clothes, like for riding a horse, one of her favorite activities. Natalie sports a floppy brown hat with green ribbon, a beige skirt or pants, thick brown leather belt, and a white blouse with a red scarf tied over it blowing in the wind. She looks off into the distance with an air of determination giving her athleticism and confident bearing the embodiment of an independent "New Woman." Benson dedicated the painting to Mary Polly Hemenway, Natalie's friend and later sister-in-law when Natalie married Lieutenant Lawrence Hemenway on December 12, 1917 in Boston. She passed away in April 1975 and is interred at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Natalie (Thayer) by Frank Weston Benson (American) - Oil on canvas / 1917 - Worcester Art Museum (Massachusetts) #womeninart #portrait #art #oilpaiting #portraitofawoman #fineart #AmericanArt #artwork #WorcesterArtMuseum #womensart #AmericanArtist #FrankWestonBenson #independentwoman #WAM #bskyart
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A safe sliver of snow in the small permanent shadow of a generous tree.
#blueskyartshow
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#treescape
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“Three Bathers on a Beach in Florida.” John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925). Watercolor, 1917. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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El Canto by Elizabeth Catlett
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Lovely afternoon at @WorcesterArt for their annual Hanukkah celebration. Beautiful performance by the Shir Joy Chorus of Massachusetts. Stunning vocals and room acoustics. #WorcesterArtMuseum
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