The Phillips Collection: Selected Highlights from the Permanent Collection

From a visit with a friend from out of town today.  We spent out time touring works from the permanent collection.  Some old familiar paintings and some others that were new to me.

"Le Petit Bras de la Seine a Argenteuil," 1884

Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894)

"The Luncheon of the Boating Party," 1880-81

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841 - 1919)

"Bathers at Bellport," 1912

William Glackens, (1870 - 1938)

"Azopardo River," 1922-25

Rockwell Kent, (1882 - 1971)

Selected works from Jacob Lawrence's "Migration" series.

The first three works on display:
Panel no. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans

Panel no. 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north

Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop

Jacob Lawrence, (1917 - 2000)

"Wild Roses," 1943

Marsden Hartley, (1877 - 1943)

"Large Dark Red Leaves on White," 1925

Georgia O'Keeffe, (1887 - 1986)

"Mountain Lake--Autumn," 1910

Marsden Hartley, (1877 - 1943)

"The Road Menders," 1889

Vincent Van Gogh, (1853 - 1890) 

"Summer," circa 1898

John Henry Twachtman, (1853 - 1902)

"Prayer Mill," 2007

Stephen Dean, (1968 -       )

"Blue Still Life," 1931

John Graham, (1887 - 1961)