Florence Griswold Museum Mission Statement

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

The Lauren Rogers Museum is located in Laurel, Mississippi and was built in 1923. One unique characteristic about this museum is that has the Georgian Revival Style, which means if you were to cut the museum down the middle in equal halves each side would be identical. While touring the Lauren Rodgers Museum there were two separate collections that caught my eye. These collections consisted of the American and European collection. The American collection focuses primarily on portraiture. In the American Collection I chose a painting by Jean MacLane called The Chintz Chair. MacLane was born on September 14, 1878 and died on January 23, 1964 in New Canaan, Connecticut. One of MacLane’s first studies was at an Art Institute in Chicago with John Vanderpoel. “ MacLane and her husband, artist John C. Johansen (1876-1964) help found the National Foundation of Portrait Painters in 1912” (Jean 2015). The year of 1912 was considered to be MacLane’s biggest year because she was recognized for many different awards. MacLane depicted the Allied Leaders from W.W.I., provided the only female subject, Queen Elisabeth of Belgian, and also became an associate member of the National Academy of Design. The main items that MacLane incorporates into her portraits are women and their children. “In 1931, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letter” (Jean 2015). The picture that I chose from the American Collection by Jean McLane demonstrates a mother sitting in a chair

There are some misconceptions about the house’s address. After her death in 1927, The New York Evening Journal published a photo of 220 West 135 labeled as Florence Mills house. Accroding to nsps.gov, the actual house is located at 220 West 133rd street. The 135st house was designated a Historic landmark in 1976. However in 2009 it was removed from the national historic register book because of erroneous address. Similarly, the actual house of Mills lost its history due to conversion into a senior citizen home. Even the house that was wrongly marked as her house experienced alteration made by the owner. The house was combined with the adjacent row house to make single housing units, thus destroying the historical

The Haggin Museum is a very well organized place, as they place each artwork in rooms and galleries by the time period they were painted in. The main rooms I visited were the Haggin and McKee room, since both rooms had artworks painted

Since the Museum's opening in 1931, the collection has grown to more than 12,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs, representing nearly 2,000 individual artists and providing the most complete overview of twentieth-century American art of any museum in the

While in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, I traveled through the different galleries

My trip to Philadelphia Museum of Art was really knowledgeable, joyful and informative. This Museum of Art is the largest museum in the United States. When I arrived at the front of the museum I was surprised and amazed how beautiful was the front entrance. The unique design and the gigantic pillared building attracted me. The entrance had a huge statue of a lady with a bow and arrow in her hand at the top of the Museum’s Great Stair Hall known as Diana (1892 – 1893) by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. Diana is made up with copper sheets with the height of 14 feet 6 inches. I was fascinated with many of the exhibits they had set up. There were rooms with different groups of art according to their type, year and location they were made. All of the art in the art museum were interesting to look at and interpret.

Daniel and Rochelle Kendall were standing on the charming rustic front porch of Gertrude Brown’s country clapboard house. Gertrude Brown was a widow whose estate lay adjacent to the Fullerton property, also riverfront acreage, and sizeable acreage, at that. Greg Hamilton, one of the three young high school men helping out on the project, accompanied the archeologists, and was already somewhat acquainted with Gertrude Brown. Mrs. Brown was the first neighboring homeowner their group would speak with this day.

Situated on the second floor of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in the Paula and Leonard Granoff Gallery sits a desk—but no ordinary desk. This desk is the Lady’s Writing Table and Chair designed by William Christman Codman in 1903 as part of the Gorham manufacturing company. The table and chair are elevated on a white platform and located in front of a stained glass window which radiates a diffused light upon the surface of the set. Furthermore, it is placed underneath a grand oil painting of a woman in a dress gazing downwards—as if longing to own it. Even without the surroundings, which clearly promotes the piece’s importance, the Lady’s Writing Table and Chair in itself is able to emulate an enormous amount of grandeur due to the

The exterior of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is drastically more modest than the interior. In the same fashion as the traditional palazzos of the Renaissance, the masonry is smooth and understated. The flat roof resembles that of the Palazzo

The National Women’s History Museum does a fantastic job of getting reliable information out about women related topics. The suffrage movement is one of those topics that I will be using. I site I am using has multiple tabs on it which lead to information more specific to certain topics. For example, these tabs take you through specific issue, times, and organizations during women’s suffrage. This site has been copyrighted under the National Women’s History since 2007.

I had a few pieces that I really liked. One of my favorite pieces was the globe chandelier in the library. The detail that was put into the chandelier with the ships sailing on the water was gorgeous. My favorite landscape picture was painted by Thomas Moran, it is called “The Dismal Swamp” and was painted in 1861. The first thing you see in the picture is of a family of runaway slaves trying to escape through a swamp. The perspective in the picture shifts as your attention is drawn to the dogs chasing the family, and then to the white men with their guns. The paintings were done with oil on canvas. Another one of my favorite paintings was “John the Baptist in the Wilderness” by Tanzio da Varallo. The chiaroscuro in the background really enhanced the picture. I liked all of the artwork in the building, there were no pieces of artwork that I disliked. Outside on a bench underneath the tempietto, was a quote that said “Learn something new everyday, that is what life is about.” By Thomas Manhart. I think this quote reflects well on the Philbrook Museum. You learn many new things and become more cultured and

I have never been into a museum before but for the first time in United States I visited a museum named Fairfield museum and history center along with my friends which is at 370 beach road, Fairfield, Connecticut. At the Fairfield museum we observe exhibition galleries, research libraries, education center and a theatre with a seating of 80 members.

Question 2: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) promotes evidence-based evaluation. For a type of library of your choice discuss the use of outcomes and impact measures to develop sound evaluation practices. Use IMLS and association tools to craft your answer.

I recently visited the Menil Collection, this is a very small humble museum. The Menil Collection is a museum that holds multiple artworks. The museum is located in a neighborhood next to a little area where people can go out and picnic and hang out with the their families for a while. I fact about the Menil Collection that surprised me was how they consider their grass art. My sister and I accidently stepped on the grass not knowing it was art and when we were handed a booklet describing a couple of their art pieces the grass was on their! The museum also has a couple of sculptures and landmarks located right outside the building. Before stepping in into the museum I observed that it was very small, and I thought there was not going to be any interesting art pieces since it was so small. The outside of the building was very simple, it was a white small building with large windows, nothing that really caught my attention. Once we were greeted by the employee we collected a couple of brochures for the background information of the artworks and we headed in. The first room of the museum really did not have any interesting art pieces, they were basic squares and circles with primary colors. I really enjoyed how the art pieces were separated depending on their movement, such as surrealism,abstract,and sculptures. There were many special exhibitions, the one that stood out the most to me was “ Hurting the word Radio”. This art piece was created by Edward Ruscha using oil on