Anyone who knows me also knows that no trip to Wilmington is complete without a stop at one of the finest regional Museums in the United States. The Delaware Art Museum may not huge, but it's grand in its own ways. Recently, the galleries on the ground floor have been reinstalled and revamped. Works from their areas of strength in their collection continue to be featured: The Pre-Raphaelites, American Illustration, and the artist John Sloan, along with others from American 19th and 20th century artists and a growing visionary collection of contemporary art.
We will begin our visit with Galleries 1, 2, & 3: Radical Beauty (British Pre-Raphaelites)
GALLERY ONE
"The Waterfall," 1853
John Everett Millais (1829 -1896)
"The Towers of Fribourg, Switzerland," 1856
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
detail: I thought the buildings looked like they have faces.
"Crooksbury," 1884
William Henry Millais (1828 - 1899)
"Academic Study of a Seated Male Nude," 1868
William Wise (1847 - 1889)
GALLERY TWO
"Botticelli's Studio: The First Visit of Simonetta Presented by Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici," 1922
Eleanor Fotescue Brickdale (1872 - 1945)
"The Octopus (Death of a Mermaid)," 1929
Ernestine Evans Mills (1871 - 1959)
"Pendant: The Song," circa 1904
Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852 - 1936)
"Romeo and Juliet," 1869 - 1870
Ford Madox Brown (1821 - 1893)
GALLERY THREE
"Parlor Cabinet," circa 1871
Bruce Talbert (1838 - 1881)
Detail: Love the inlay work
"The Green Butterfly," circa 1879 - 1881
Albert Joseph Moore (1841 - 1893)
The presentation ends with an explanation as to how the Delaware Art Museum first became a foremost collector of Pre-Raphaelite works of art.
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