The Full Nelson

 Kansas City, MO

Lunch at the Rozzelle Court Restaurant at The Nelson-Atkins Museum

The Nelson Part 2

Today we returned to the Nelson- Atkins Museum for some unfinished business or at least unseen, by us, art.  We came here last week and there was too much to see for one day so we vowed to return.  We started in the Rozzelle Court Restaurant  for a nice lunch.  We had to do something with the $12 we were saving on parking by parking across the street from the museum rather than in their parking garage.  

Lunch was really nice.  The restaurant was nice but not as cool as Café Sebastienne at The Kemper.  Our museum reservation was at noon and we went straight to the cafe.  We decided to eat first because it wasn't crowded but the crowds followed us and by the time we were done there was a pretty good lunch line waiting.  After eating we walked up some carpeted stairs which felt like stairs we shouldn't be on but at the top was the upper level where Roman Pottery was on temporary display.  This isn't normally my jam but they had a lot of great info on what the art represented and how the pottery was used.  This, for me, took it from just painted pots to painted pots that meant something to people a long time ago and made it more interesting for me.

You are never too old to stop learning

I took note of a few shapes from this chart and applied them to the vases I saw.

A probable Pelike for decanting wine

They showed you what some of the figures represented

And then showed you the vase with those figures

Him, "Come to me!" Her, "Why?"

I found a Gorgon

After seeing the vases we wandered the museum to see the art we hadn't seen on our last visit and also saw the Bosch again.  It's a great museum and the fact that it is free is even better.

She was playing The Circle Game long before the rest of us.

Martin Johnson Heade's Sunset on the Rocks

A bookcase designed by Gustav Herter

I really liked this self portrait by George Caleb Bingham

I guess video game Women's Armor is accurate based on this statue.

Childe Hassam's The Sonata

Childe Hassam's Marlborough Street, Boston

A chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Albert Bloch, Die drei Pierrots No. 2

John Singer Sargent's Francisco Bernareggi

John Frederick Pedo's Books on a Table

A detailed shot of a Tiffany Lamp

Thomas Hart Benton's Hollywood

Thomas Hart Benton's Crapshooters

Thomas Hart Benton's Study for Persephone

Thomas Hart Benton's Persephone

Another chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Leonard Pryor's North End

George Copeland Ault's January Full Moon

Peter Hurd's Jose Hererra

There are cool things to take pictures of at every turn

After exploring the American Art we made our way downstairs to see some of their European Collection.

Get off me!

Claude Monet's View of Argenteuil - Snow

An amazingly giant piece, Claude Monet's Water Lilies

Vincent van Gogh's Olive Trees

Paul Cezanne's Man with a Pipe

Vincent van Gogh's Study of a Peasants Head

Joan Miro's Women at Sunrise

Pablo Picasso's Bust of a Faun

Marcel Duchamp's Marcel Duchamp Cast Alive.  He was an artist and a chess master.

Lyonel Feininger's Gaberndorf II

Joseph Alber's Homage to the Square: Red Brass

Piet Mondrian's Summer Mill with Streaked Sky

Raoul Dufy's Deauville Racetrack

Susan Valadon's Untitled (Still Life)

Emile Bernard's The Artist's Grandmother.  He was kicked out of art school for using strong black outlines before Paul Gauguin made it cool.

Louis Valtat's Wheat Field with Poppies

Paul Gauguin's Faaturuma

A Paul Hanker Mailbox

Henri Matisse's Reclining Dancer

Dame Laura Knight's Dressing Room No. 1

Edgar Degas' Rehearsal of the Ballet 

The European Art was great. I saw some heavy hitters and learned about some artists I hadn't heard of.  Next we moved on to what we call The Stolen Art.  I guess it is impossible to have good records of where ancient art comes from but I am sure it all started with the art being stolen during a war or a tomb raid.

I'm a Potter!

The roasting of St. Lawrence.  The original BBQ.

Not sure if Mom or Madonna

My face when I get to a brewery and there are children there

This probably more closely shows what Jesus on the cross looked like.

Restrooms are That-a-way

J. K. Rowling's Lord Voldemort

Time for a swinging wake

After the museum visit the art wasn't over for us.  For the chumps that paid $12 for parking it was a walk to the parking garage.  For us, who paid $0 for parking, it was a walk through the sculpture garden to our car.

Andy Goldsworthy's wall started inside and then continued outside

The mini golf hole designed after the Museum building and Shuttlecocks.  One was missing.

Ursula von Rydingsvard's Three Bowls.  We saw other work by her at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

That's it for today.  Check back tomorrow, we are going to the Missouri County Fair!  If you didn't see yesterday's adventure you can live it here.