Pictures-8, Dear Frankie, Sandsifter Five Retrospectives

Pictures

Time, Space and the Universal and Dear Frankie

I know that I'm supposed to have valid artistic reasons for my choices of images and quotations in Dear Frankie, and that Because they inspire me is hardly an adequate response. But nothing about Dear Frankie fits into existing slots and grooves and categories, and we have to take our inspirations where we find them and be grateful.

Rather than listing the Dear Frankie webpages I think I'm forced to proceed picture by picture, beginning with the Edward Atkinson Hornel and George Henry painting The Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe, The Glasgow Boys, and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

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E.A. Hornel and George Henry
Druids Bringing in the Mistletoe
1890, Oil on canvas 152.4 x 152.4 cm
Location: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

According to the BBC, as quoted by Wikipedia, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has knocked Edinburgh Castle off its comfortable perch as Scotland's most-visited tourist site.

Henry, By the Fire
George Henry (1858-1943)
Oil on canvas
Location: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Millais, Mariana,
John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
1851, Oil on Wood (Mahogany) 120.6 cm x 142.2 cm (47.5 in x 56.0 in)
Tate Gallery, UK, Collections

Nineteen Ten Remembered
Jean Paul Lemieux, signed and dated 1962
Oil on canvas 106.7 x 146 cm, 42 x 57-1/2 in
Painting reproduced Heffel Live Auction Catalogue #018

Introduction:— Dear Frankie
Lyonel Feininger, Vogelwolke (Bird cloud)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 71.1 cm (17-1/4 x 28 in)
Collection of Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass

Wikipedia lists Feininger's Bird Cloud as one of 100 Great Paintings, and the actual painting is on display along with many other Feininger works at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) January until May 8, 2012.

James Guthrie, Highland Funeral, 1882
Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930)
Oil on canvas 129.5 x 193 cms
Location: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Category Creep Part 1A
Gustave Doré, Landscape in Scotland, 1878
Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
Oil on canvas, H: 51 9/16 x W: 77 3/16 in. (131 x 196 cm)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Maryland

Dégas's Little Dancer, ca 1879-80
Edgar Dégas (1834-1917)
Bronze cast 1922 from mised-media sculpture H 41-1/4 in (104.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

J.D. Fergusson, The Pink Parasol, 1908
J.D. Fergusson (1874-1961)
Oil on canvas
Location: glasgowmmuseums.com

Benevolent Impersonation Part 1B
Sir James Guthrie, Hard At It
Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930)
Oil on canvas
Location: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Just Itself Part 1C
Sir James Guthrie, To Pastures New, 1882-3
Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930)
Oil on canvas 92 x 152.3 cm
Location: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collection

Lyonel Feininger, Edge of the World, Newspaper Readers, 1909
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)

Exhibition MMFA January -May 13, 2012

A New Life? Part 1D
Breugel, Childrens Games
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c 1563
Oil on panel 114 x 155 cm, 45 x 61 inches
Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Spring cleaning at the Redpath Museum
Redpath Museum, 859 Sherbrooke Street West
also What Building Stones Tell,
McGill's Redpath Museum Fossil Hunt

The Bookworm, Carl Spitzweg, 1850
Museum George Schaefer, Schweinfurt, Germany
Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 26.8 cm (19-1/2 x 10-1/2 in)

The Best Laid Schemes Part 1E
Millais, The Boyhood of Raleigh,
John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
1870, Oil on canvas, 59.7 cm x 49.5 cm (23.5 in x 19.5 in)
On display at the Tate Britain

When I was a child in my grandparents' little house in Lachine (see my webpage Judy Oliver Turner), it wasn't yet unfashionable to admire the Millais painting The Boyhood of Raleigh and obviously the finger is pointing toward colonies as yet uninvestigated for the benefit of the two enthralled boys. But sea stories, and adventure stories, and exploration stories were all part of my frame of reference in growing up, and my husband and I often discussed the Boys' Own Adventures or similar bound periodicals available on our grandparents' bookshelves.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island was assigned to me as English literature in Grade Five and I still remember hating the use of phonetics to render what words should sound like. (God forbid Dear Frankie ever being released in book form.)

My father at age 18 got onto a freighter and worked his way to Britain where he stayed a year, proving that he read those stories before me, and that exploration is not a one-way street.

And the photo from McGill's Redpath Museum is in honour of the Scots who came to Montreal as children barely older than Frankie Morrison and worked in the fur (!) trade, eventually earning enormous wealth which they used to create English schools and school commissions, universities, hospitals, librairies, museums, and anything else that was lacking in their adopted city.

We're advised to choose our parents wisely for the sake of our health, but no one ever told us about social relevance, and avoiding ancestors deplorably careless about what would become eventually politically incorrect.

The Favour Part 3A
James Paterson, The Glasgow Boys, Craigdarroch Looking Down Glencairn, 1891
James Paterson (1854-1932)
Oil on canvas 60.9 x 50.9 cm
Location: Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, Scotland, UK

The Old, Old Story Part 3B
Le petit liseur, (also known as Le jeune étudiant)
Ozias Leduc, 1894
Oil on canvas 36.9 x 46.9 cm Page 156 Plate #67
National Gallery of Canada