October 2024 in-gallery public tour
Here are resources for he October in-gallery public tour!
October 3 to 31 , Thursdays through Sundays, 1-3 pm; Thursday evenings, 6-8 pm
Theme: Gather around works of art to look, listen, and tell your own stories.
No tour October 11: Yom Kippur holiday
Galleries: G255, G275, G302, G322
G255 resources
For information on the Tibetan Buddhist shrine, and other things in the supporting gallery, see the Tibetan Shrine resource page on our guide website.
Note that there may be curiosity about the sand mandala process. We have the videos still linked on the Mia website, so you could show some examples of the nuns doing the sand mandala, at this link.
Here is a link to the object file for the Yamantaka Mandala.
Here is a link to the object file for the sculpture of Green Tara.
G275 resources
Here is a link to the recording of the training with Valeria Piccoli, 9.26.24
Here is a recording of Valeria’s previous training on Gallery 255 (which included some of the same artworks).
From the Indigo Arts Gallery, a bio and more information on vodou flags: Myrlande Constant artist
Elsa Gramcko: Hyperallergic review of an exhibition, The Gap Between Things and Their Names
ELSA GRAMCKO: THE INVISIBLE PLOT OF THINGS (in this article, check out the photo of Gramcko with her painting, No. 6!)
More information on No. 6, by Gramcko
Information from Rose Stanley Gilbert on Gramcko: Elsa Gramcko and oil pump– Prop and Elsa Gramcko – No. 6, 1957
G302 resources
From the Art Institute of Chicago a short video: Archibald John Motley Jr.’s Nightlife | Art Institute Essentials Tour
From the National Endowment of the Humanities: Block Party: Archibald Motley painted African Americans having a good time.
From the Nasher, some great info within an exhibition page for Motley’s first exhibition: Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Artist bio on Wikipedia: Archibald Motley
Biography of Victor Gatto
Khan Academy/Smart History (about a similar subject): Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians
Romare Bearden The Art Story (extensive biography)
Romare Bearden 3 musicians PDF (with our painting)
Elmer Bischoff: Biography
From the Marin Museum, a virtual tour of Elmer Bischoff exhibition
From the Pacific Sun: Bischoff retrospective goes on display
And an article from 1988 on Victor Joseph Gatto, from your colleague Susan Arndt (scroll to page 56 for the article): The Clarion Spring 1988
Then we have a whole treasure of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings in the gallery!
From the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: About Georgia O’Keeffe
G322 resources
Labels and panels for new artworks within this gallery
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A defining thread connecting the works is the influence of Classical art, so you can trace how that appears in decorative objects, paintings, and sculptures within the gallery.
Wedgwood’s Anti-Slavery Medallion: Josiah Wedgwood’s Medallion
Voltaire, Rousseau and Franklin were often pictured together as important philosophers of the 18th century
Here is a link to the object file for the Portrait of George Washington. Note that this is also a work in the Art Adventure set, American Stories, so you can look at the entry there.
The portrait of Countess Bucquoi is in the Art Adventure set, Dressed for the Occasion, so check out the entry for more info on the artist and the sitter.
Information on Juliette Recamier from the Library of Congress and Wikipedia.
From SmartHistory: The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction