Museum Hopper

i have been sort of waiting to visit the seattle art museum until some of the new exhibits opened.  it seemed fitting to do it my last weekend in seattle, which coincidentally ended up being a mildly rainy sunday!  perfect activity. i was very excited to see the beauty and the bount y after walking by the publicity signage every day.  it was pretty magnificent.  the best part though, which was key, was that the exhibit was not crowded.  each painting had plenty of space around it.  this was so important for setting the mood of the entire exhibit.  they grouped the paintings (from what i could tell) by geography and sort of ending with the westward expansion.  landscape paintings are always so peaceful.  even the scenes with huge storms blowing through seem to have some tranquility to them.  this exhibit was no exception.  it reminded me a lot of j.m.w. turner's work that i saw at the metropolitan museum of art and the tate brit...

on this trip, i decided to take in the seattle art museum with my boyfriend, jason.  i was a little hesitant after our vancouver art gallery trip to take him to another art museum.  i even offered for him to view the museum of flight on his own and then meet up with him later!  (post coming later on the museum of flight, so he obviously did not take me up on my offer.   i thought this museum was very well laid out.  it was a few main floors and very easy to flow through each exhibit.  it is structured as you would expect, european art, african art, modern, etc.   i really wanted to go to this museum to see the three paintings they have on my 1001 paintings list!  i was able to quickly identify the museum area to target and was able to easily check the three paintings off the list!  jason also really liked the cars exploding in the lobby .  we were also quite impressed with the large collections of african and first na...