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#CrockerArtMuseum Made of Bullets
Disturbing. Beautiful. Heartbreaking.
Amazing mind who thought to do that. Incredible patience and attention to detail to bring it from thought to manifestation.
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A bold illustrative painting of a woman in a straw hat. Looking out of a window above the figure’s shadow on a deep goldenrod wall is a grey cat.
#Caturday Detail from a painting by Natalie Wadlington #CrockerArtMuseum
In this close, frontal self-portrait, a light-brown skinned Frida Kahlo faces us directly, shoulders squared and expression steady. Her thick dark brows join above deep brown eyes, and fine facial hair softens her upper lip and jaw. Long black hair spills loose over her right shoulder, dense and almost blue-black against the warm yellow and burnt-orange huipil-style blouse she wears. Behind her, a wall of mottled gray volcanic stone presses close, punctuated on the left by a dangling cluster of pale green succulent plants. At the bottom edge, a curled parchment scroll spans the width of the painting, bearing a handwritten Spanish inscription in dark brown ink. The text on the picture reads: “Here I painted myself, Frida Kahlo, with my reflection in the mirror. I am 37 years old and this is July, 1947. In Coyoacán, Mexico, the place where I was born.” In reality, Kahlo was 40 years old at the time. Painted after painful spinal surgery, this work shows Kahlo claiming her image and story at midlife. The inscription that she painted herself from the mirror in Coyoacán in July 1947, yet quietly misstates her age, might hint at how time, memory, and self-invention blur in her practice. The loose, flowing hair that fills the picture contrasts with her earlier cropped-hair self-portraits to likely signal desire, creative energy, and a refusal to conform to respectable femininity. Her embroidered huipil-inspired blouse and the lava-stone wall root her body in Mexico’s Indigenous and volcanic landscape, while the hanging succulent suggests survival in harsh terrain. Owned today by a private collector and exhibited in feminist contexts like the current "Making Moves" exhibition at the Crocker Museum, the painting has become a touchstone for readings of Kahlo as a physically-challenged, politically-engaged Mexican woman who insisted on being the author of her own image.
Autorretrato con el cabello suelto (Self-Portrait with Loose Hair) by Frida Kahlo (Mexican) - Oil on Masonite / 1947 - Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California) #WomenInArt #artText #FridaKahlo #Kahlo #CrockerArtMuseum #MexicanArtist #MexicanArt #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
Me in beige tunic shirt standing in front of a replica of a penned unicorn tapestry holding a paper shield decorated with a dog and squirrel themed coat of arms (paws?)
On Thursday, the #CrockerArtMuseum held a “Renaissance Faire” evening (though attire of the attendees spanned many eras). One of the activities was decorating a paper shield. Here’s mine.
Artist Robert Brady on stage. Behind him is a slide featuring a gallerist’s homemade stamp of Brady’s name on the sole of a shoe once used to make hand- er — foot-stamped promotional flyers.
An artist talk at the #CrockerArtMuseum this afternoon. Sculptor Robert Brady.
A man in a blue on white floral print shirt stands facing a massive elaborately carved wooden mantle in an art museum. The mirror above the no longer functional fireplace reflects a similarly opulent masterpiece of the wood carver’s art behind us which houses its own mirror. The two mirrors reflect each other into infinity.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulent Mike ( @tructus.bsky.social ) in what I always refer to as the “Robber Baron Room” at the #CrockerArtMuseum
Pencil sketch of clothed male model
Pencil sketch of clothed male model seated
Pencil sketch of clothed male model
Pencil sketch of clothed male model standing
Last night’s Art Mix at the #CrockerArtMuseum included life drawing — short poses. #art #sketch #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #malemodel #malefigure
My Trunk Show at the Crocker Art Museum @crockerart is THIS weekend from 11am-3pm at 216 O St, Sacramento, CA
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My Trunk Show at the Crocker Art Museum @crockerart.bsky.social is this weekend - come by & say hi!
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Raised in Potter Valley near Ukiah, California, Grace Carpenter Hudson was an acclaimed American painter of Native American subjects, especially the Pomo people of coastal and inland Northern California. After attending public schools in Ukiah and San Francisco, she enrolled in San Francisco’s California School of Design as a teenager, studying there for five terms with Virgil Williams, Raymond Yelland, and others. In 1890, the artist married John Hudson, a physician for the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company, who quit practicing medicine in order to research the Pomo culture and follow his interests in archeology and ethnography. With her husband, she returned to Ukiah and became known to locals as the “Painter Lady.” Hudson achieved a national reputation during her lifetime. She produced her first important work, "National Thorn,” which depicted a sleeping Pomo baby in a cradle basket, in 1891. Two years later, she painted a crying Pomo infant, a work she called "Little Mendocino.” The popularity of the second painting in particular, which was exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and at the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, confirmed her reputation. “Kai-Dai” is a bit unusual for Hudson in that it depicts a young Pomo woman, rather than a child. The title of the painting is derived from the name of a game Pomo women played with gambling staves (wood planks), which this beautiful young woman holds in her hands. Her expression is intriguing, with her gaze directed slightly away from us. Her dark hair is long and straight, falling past her shoulders. Her skin tone is warm, with subtle shading that gives a sense of depth and form. She wears a loose-fitting tunic with wide off-white and pink vertical stripes. By the time of Hudson’s death in 1937, she had completed over 684 numbered oil paintings, most depicting the Pomo people.
“Kai-Dai” by Grace Carpenter Hudson (American) - Oil on canvas / 1913 - Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, California) #WomenInArt #art #WomensArt #WomanArtist #GraceCarpenterHudson #CrockerArtMuseum #FemaleArtist #WomenArtists #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist #portrait #CaliforniaArt #Pomo #NativeAmerican
Looking for a cool place to visit? One of my favorite places is The Crocker Art Museum. #CrockerArtMuseum #Sacramento #Art #Museums #SupportTheArts #COOLPLACES #ArtMuseums #ArtMatters #CaliforniaArtists
SO MUCH ART so much fun! At the Crocker Art Museum’s Art Auction Preview Party last night - saw a bunch of friends and their art and had a great time. The online auction is open until June 7th so go bid now!
#artparty #supportyourlocalartist #crockerartmuseum #sacramentoart
#CrockerArtMuseum to 9pm #Poetry night, for #PoetryMonth , #Sacramento / #Art www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
Oil on Canvas, John T Krempel. #sacramento #vergecenterforthearts #crockerartmuseum #pbskvie #sacartist #artoftheday #SanFrancisco #ExploreMidtown
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Oil on Canvas, John T Krempel. #sacramento #vergecenterforthearts #crockerartmuseum #pbskvie #sacartist #artoftheday #SanFrancisco #ExploreMidtown
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Oil on Canvas, John T Krempel. #sacramento #vergecenterforthearts #crockerartmuseum #pbskvie #sacartist #artoftheday #SanFrancisco #ExploreMidtown
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Oil on Canvas, John T Krempel. #sacramento #vergecenterforthearts #crockerartmuseum #pbskvie #sacartist #artoftheday #SanFrancisco #ExploreMidtown
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Oil on Canvas, John T Krempel. #sacramento #vergecenterforthearts #crockerartmuseum #pbskvie #sacartist #artoftheday #SanFrancisco #ExploreMidtown
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