#mfahouston — Public Fediverse posts

Can one work of art be in multiple museums? Yes.

The 1919 woodcut print (below), generically titled Children Standing Around Christmas Tree, is in the collections of both the Victoria and Albert and Museum of Fine Art Houston.

Fourteen-year-old Steffi Krauss carved this image in wood, then inked and printed it on paper to make prints of about 40×30 centimeters (about 16×12 inches).

Steffi was a student of Franz Cizek's in 1914, at a time when children's art education was being transformed at the Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule, or School of Arts & Crafts.

The print depicts children by a candle-lit Christmas tree. Below it is a crèche with Mary's and Joseph's garments adorned by crucifixes. One child holds one of two harlequin dolls.

The print combines multiple seasonal ideas, including the celebration of light in winter, Christianity, childhood joy and wonder, and—perhaps—symbols of mockery or doubt.

#art #design #print #woodcut #Christmas #VictoriaAndAlbert #MFAHouston #religion

Another window from the Kinder building #mfahouston with a lovely sculpture in front of it. #Fensterfreitag

Looking down inside the Kinder Building, #mfahouston
#Fensterfreitag

I want to draw this chair. Hoffmann, Sitzmaschine, 1905 #mfahouston

Andrea Branzi, Prototype for Tree 5, anodized aluminum and wood, 2008-2010
#mfahouston

2022 show that I wish I had seen! And now I want to find the book at a library. #lighting #mfahouston
https://www.lumens.com/the-edit/the-ledger/electrifying-design-a-century-of-lighting/

And a very nice small Lempicka, at St. Moritz, of her lover Ira Perrot. #artdeco #painting #mfahouston

ARCHIPENKO! #mfahouston

George Barbier, 1912, Journal des Dames et des Modes
Hirsch Library, #mfahouston #fashion #artnouveau

Wall lights early 1930s. #mfahouston

This silver 1940s Puiforcat goblet is especially nice when reflecting other objects.
#mfahouston #metalwork
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/71509/goblet?ctx=340edc26df3ccecf8389576b28d0dbe6551c8ec8&idx=0

Going to see Kehinde Wiley show today at #mfahouston #KehindeWiley https://houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-mfah/

I announced earlier today that I took the day off from work and my wife and I made pretty good use of it. We had a pretty big day.

We went out to lunch.
Put gas in the car.
Took the trash to the curb annnd the recycling.
Returned a couple of Amazon items.

Plussss
*duhn duhn duhn duhnnnnn*
We went to the #MFAHouston!
Yes!
I saw this and it brought back memories. It’s a painting by Ernie Barnes called the “The Sugar Shack” and I just love it!

#BlackFriday
#BlackMastodon