Kansas City, MO
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| Morning coffee on the roof |
Enjoying the rooftop patio
This morning we made our coffee and then headed up to the roof of our Airbnb. It's only 6 stories but we still got some good views. We picked a cloudy cool morning so it was very nice. There isn't much shade up there so I doubt we will be using it a lot but it was nice to check out.
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| No dogs allowed on the fake grass |
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| Seating under a canopy that doesn't' really offer any shade |
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| Looking off towards The Missouri River and The Kansas City Downtown Airport |
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| Looking towards the center of the city |
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| You take the elevator to 5 and then the steps the rest of the way |
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
After loading up on coffee we got the car out of the parking garage and headed to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This museum is free to all with a reservation. Parking is $12 but we found street parking nearby for free and we were able to walk through the part that the museum is in and see the public art and watch people playing mini-golf on the museum grounds.
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| We saw another Roxy Paine at The Modern in Fort Worth TX |
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| Robert Morris' Glass Labyrinth looked cool |
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| You could play mini golf there. It was pricy but the museum was free |
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| Auguste Rodin's The Thinker |
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| Shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg, in the distance, are the museums "logo". There are four of them and they are placed on either side of the museum as if the museum was a net. |
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| We are getting lucky with Art Deco. It seems we are seeing it everywhere on our trip. |
The museum has been updated so you go into the newer entrance and that building is connected to the original building. The place is HUGE and there is no way we can see it all in one day so we started in the modern section which is our favorite style of art.
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| Another Art Deco Selfie |
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| Grace Hartigan's Broadway Restaurant |
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| Jackson Pollock's No. 6 1952 This is one of his paintings that isn't totally abstract. You can see figures in it that represent a She-Wolf in the upper left and a female form in the upper right as well as others. |
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| Mark Rothko's Untitled No. 11 1963 This painting is a lot smaller than most of his pieces that I have seen |
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| Vanessa German's Glory |
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| Jeff Sonhouse's Return to Sender |
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| The afros are made of burnt match sticks. |
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| Andy Warhol's Baseball |
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| Roy Lichtenstein's Still Life with Brushes, Shell and Starfish |
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| Andy Warhol's Little Campbells Soup Can (Consumme) |
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| Sylvia Pilmack Mangold's Ruler Reflection |
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| Detail photo of Idelle Weber's Heineken showing "Hot Stuffed Clams" |
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| Another 3D Roy Lichtenstein (we saw one in LA) called Brushstroke Chair and Ottoman |
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| I loved this one. It features Public Transit and Reflections Richard Estes' Bus Window |
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| John Chamberlain's Huzzy. When I saw this I made the connection to this piece we saw in Dallas and later to this piece we saw in LA. It's really fun seeing a bunch of art and building a style database in your mind. |
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| Andy Warhol's Portrait of Marion Bloch. This piece was a commissioned Portrait much like the commissioned portrait we saw at The Belleview Art Museum before I was blogging every day. |
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| Duane Hanson's Museum Guard |
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| The detail is amazing |
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| Kenneth Noland's Everglade |
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| Donald Judd's Large Stack. We made another connection to this Donald Judd in Fort Worth |
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| Charles Hinman's No. 3392 Acrylic/Shaped Canvas |
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| Ivan Navarro's Untitled. It represents the combined floor plans of the museum |
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| Maya Lin's Silver Missouri. It represents the entirety of the Missouri River. 1 ft = 75 miles. It was big! |
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| Andy Goldsworthy's Walking Wall. We were lucky enough to see quite a few Goldsworthy installments in San Francisco and The Presidio |
The museum had an Art Deco exhibit going on but it was an extra fee so we decided not to go but I did get some sneak peaks in the exit and there was an open door. I assume they did this on purpose.
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| That guy's $12 just got him a closer view of the paintings |
After sneaking peaks at The Art Deco exhibit we moved on to the photography exhibit. The featured Photographer was Jim Dow and his Signs. He drove across the US using lesser highways and byways and photographed signs from 1967 to 1977.
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| They also featured a few Daguerreotypes on display too. This one is from 1852. |
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| Here is the travel map that Jim's wife helped with. |
We like to break up our museum visits because after an hour or so we just get overwhelmed and start taking the art for granted and get into the NEXT mode where we don't really look at the art. We had gotten there by this point but there was one piece we came to see and hadn't seen yet. We decided to go see it and then promise we would come back. We needed to go to the 1500s European Art area. The walk through the museum was impressive and I am glad we are going back next week.
This was the piece we came to see and the piece we have been looking forward to seeing for about a year now.
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| Hieronymus Bosch's The Temptation of St. Anthony |
There are very few authenticated Bosch paintings in the world (about 25 and 5 are in the US). Bosch had a workshop of painters he worked with and many of his works were done by this group of artists. There were also many painters imitating his work. The piece above was thought to be one of those until an armature art historian alerted the Bosch Research and Conservation Project about his thoughts on the painting being authentic. This started a six-year $3.3m study that resulted in the painting being authenticated as Bosch. Donna and I watched a documentary about the whole thing and then when they said it was in Kansas City we got excited to see it. You can read all about it here.
2 More Counties and an IKEA in Kansas
After the museum our plan was to go to IKEA to pick up some rug padding to help Francis navigate the hardwood floors here. We didn't know that the trip would take us through 2 new counties. We also didn't know until that moment that we would be eating Swedish Meatballs in an IKEA in Kansas.
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| A Kansas IKEA looks a lot like any other IKEA |
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| Hey kids, want to play in the Spider Pit? |
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| We ate meatballs! |
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| It's almost pop art |
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| We saw a non original Van Gogh at IKEA |
So now we are up to 5 counties in Kansas. We will be exploring Kansas a bit more later on this trip including a capital trip.
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