We started off looking at a show of work by Raymond Saunders, who grew up in Pittsburgh and was inspired to be an artist by his high school teachers and also by taking the Saturday morning art classes at the Carnegie, that Andy Warhol also attended. It was called the Tam O’Shanter classes when I was a kid. Amy Lucas from my second grade class went, but I didn’t think I was good enough.
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- I think this one, with clips of Warhol, is the one about Saunders’ Carnegie Museum art class teacher
After looking at the Saunders show, we just wandered though the museum, and I kept getting attracted to things that were there when I was a kid. Like the murals on the grand staircase, and the John Kane paintings and those Impressionists the Carnegie has. And Monet water lilies. Beginning in 1896, the Carnegie hosted the Carnegie International, an every-four-years art exhibition. There were always purchase prizes so a lot of art was acquired by the Museum from the exhibition. The next one will be in 2026.
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- I was fascinated by these murals – they’re in the Garnd Staircase between the art museum and the natural history museum
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- They looked so familiar but too light colored
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- Turns out they’ve been there since 1908, but were cleaned in 1995
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- John Kane, looking at Oakland from across the Mon
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- The Swimmers
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- Monet water lillies
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- Renoir
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- Anschutz
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- I don’t remember what this is but I liked it
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- My parents liked Cynthia Cooley and we have some of her prints in our house that moved here with mom
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- Empty gallery of plaster casts where art students used to go copy stuff + modern interloper
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- crocheted coral reef
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- crocheted coral ree