#The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

[quo-usque-tandem]

Mother with Child, St. Luke’s Baptist Church, Moonshine Village by Keith Calhoun

#art #photography #Mother with Child St. Luke's Baptist Church Moonshine Village #Keith Calhoun #The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

[garadinervi]

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Untitled, (watercolor and graphite on paper), 1980 [Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York, NY. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. © Fundación Gego, Caracas]

#art #drawing #geometry #pattern #structure #gego #gertrud goldschmidt #fundación gego #solomon r. guggenheim museum #solomon r. guggenheim foundation #the museum of fine arts houston #1980s

[lionofchaeronea]

The Bonaventure Pine, Paul Signac, 1893

#art #art history #Paul Signac #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #Neo-Impressionism #Pointillism #France #French art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Museum of Fine Arts Houston #MFA Houston

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century AD).

Stone Paste, Painted in Black Under Turquoise Glaze,

7,9 x 18, 7 cm,

Image Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

#art #history #design #style #archeology #iran #fish #turquoise #bowl #artifacts #archeologie #glaze #kashan #13th century #14th century #museum of fine arts #houston #circle

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalSkunkDay here’s a trio of 1930s tempera paintings from Museum of Fine arts Houston by the San Ildefonso Pueblo’s Martinez family:

1. Popovi Da (Tony Martinez) (1921–71) Untitled (Skunks and Squirrels Under Sky Crescent) 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on wove paper 9 5/16 × 11 1/16 in.

2. Popovi Da (Tony Martinez) Skunk, Ducks, Rooster 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on paper board 9 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.

3. Julian Martinez (1885–1943) Untitled (Skunks and Chickens) 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on paper board 10 × 11 1/16 in.

#animals in art #native american art #indigenous art #Museum of Fine Arts Houston #painting #works on paper #20th century art #1930s #National Skunk Day #skunk #animal holiday

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

GEE’S BEND QUILTS

Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In 2002, folk art collector, historian, and curator William Arnett organized an exhibition entitled "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," which debuted at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and later travelled to a dozen other locations across the country, including our own Milwaukee Art Museum (September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004). This exhibition brought fame to the quilts, and Arnett's foundation Souls Grown Deep Foundation continues to collect and organize exhibitions for Gee’s Bend Quilts.

The images shown here are from Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, with essays by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Paul Arnett, and Jane Livingston, an introduction by Alvia Wardlaw, and a foreword by Peter Marzio. The book was published in 2002 by Tinwood Books, Atlanta, and published in conjunction with the 2002 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It includes 350 color illustrations and 30 black-and-white illustrations. The dust jacket notes observe:

The women of Gee’s Bend - a small, remote, black community in Alabama - have created hundreds of quilt masterpieces dating from the early twentieth century to the present. . . . [The] quilts carry forward an old and proud tradition of textiles made for home and family. They represent only a part of the rich body of African American quilts. But they are in a league by themselves. Few other places can boast the extent of Gee’s Bends’s artistic achievement, the result of geographical isolation and an unusual degree of cultural continuity. In few places elsewhere have works been found by three and sometimes four generations of women of the same family, or works that bear witness to visual conversations among community quilting groups and lineages.

Our copy is a gift from our friend and benefactor Suzy Ettinger.

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#Decorative Sunday #Black History Month #decorative plates #decorative arts #quilts #Gee's Bend #quilts of Gee's Bend #Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts #Museum of Fine Arts in Houston #William Arnett #John Beardsley #Paul Arnett #Jane Livingston #Alvia Wardlaw #Peter Marzio #Tinwood Books #Suzy Ettinger #Black artists #Black women artists

[archiveofaffinities]

Isamu Noguchi, Cullen Sculpture Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas ,1984-1986

#Isamu Noguchi #Cullen Sculpture Garden #Museum of Fine Arts #Houston #Texas #landscape #black and white #sculpture #plaza #public space

[mvckcvm]

“what is coming is better than what is gone”

#houston #queer #black gay #gay #musician #lgbt #museum of fine arts houston #dinner #date #me

[clairity-org]

Elsa Gramcko, Oráculo, Oracle, 1964, Gears and industrial materials on wood, 3/4/23 #mfah #artmuseum by Sharon Mollerus

#artmuseum #Oracle #Texas #Gears and industrial materials on wood #Elsa Gramcko #1964 #Oráculo #MFA #The Museum of Fine Arts #mfah #Houston #TX #flickr

[olmo-gallery]

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) - The Nativity (1665-1670). Oil on obsidian. Dimensions: Overall: 15 × 13 7/16 × 1 1/4 in. (38.1 × 34.1 cm) Frame (outer): 20 1/8 x 18 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (51.1 x 47.3 x 6.7 cm). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Texas, USA

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, one of the greatest 17th-century Spanish painters, executed The Nativity on obsidian, a lustrous volcanic black glass.

Scholarship suggests that the obsidian was originally created by an Aztec craftsman for use as a "smoking mirror," a ceremonial tool for spiritual communication and divination. Murillo used the Pre-Columbian object as a painting surface, cleverly taking advantage of the vertical inclusions in the glass to suggest heavenly rays shining down on the Holy Family.

#bartolome esteban murillo #murillo #museum of fine arts #museum of fine arts houston

[myguiltyotpleasures]

#1ilyadele #houston #museum of fine arts #art #places to go

[quo-usque-tandem]

Jean Cocteau by Amedeo Modigliani

#art #painting #portraiture #Jean Cocteau #Amedeo Modigliani #The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

[garadinervi]

[Maker unidentified], Patchwork Bojagi (Wrapping Cloth), (silk and cloth), 20th century [The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston]

#art #design #textile #embroidery #geometry #pattern #the museum of fine arts houston #no date

[lionofchaeronea]

Scouts Climbing a Mountain, Frederic Remington, 1889

#art #art history #Frederic Remington #genre painting #cavalry #American West #Old West #Wild West #American art #Western art #19th century art #oil on canvas #Museum of Fine Arts Houston #MFA Houston

[karmaalwayswins]

Houston, Texas January 13-16, 2023

1. Houston Salsa Congress 2023.

2. “Philip Guston: Now” exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

3. “Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power” exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

4. The Menil Collection.

5. Kiss from Arroz at Nobie’s. 

6. Ricky Campanelli and the HSD Orchestra perform at Houston Salsa Congress 2023. 

Photo Credit: karmaalwayswins

#houston salsa congress #museum of fine arts houston #philip guston #gordon parks #stokely carmichael #menil collection #nobie's #ricky campanelli #salsa congress #salsa dancing #houston #texas #not sure how to tag my own posts at this point

[arthistoryanimalia]

More fabulous owl art for #Superb_Owl Sunday: another example of those owl supernatural decapitators!

Pair of Ornaments Depicting a Decapitator Owl Deity Moche, Peru, 100–800 CE, gold. #1: 3 7/8 in. diameter (9.8 cm) #2: 3 13/16 in. diameter (9.7 cm) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

#owl #owls #bird #birds #birds in art #Moche #Peruvian art #South American Art #Indigenous art #gold #metalwork #ornaments #owl supernatural decapitator #ancient art #Museum of Fine Arts Houston #Superb Owl Sunday #animals in art