The Fascinating Life and Times of Me: Day Tripping: Crocker Art Museum

Monday, October 31, 2005

Day Tripping: Crocker Art Museum

The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento has many things going for it. According to their website,

The Crocker’s permanent collection includes more than 14,000 works of art, boasting one of the state’s premier collections of California art, a world-renowned collection of Old Master Drawings, and rapidly growing Asian art and International Ceramics collections.

For you sciency-types who probably think that creepy Bodyworks stuff is interesting, there is also an exhibition called Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum. This "thought provoking and viscerally powerful" exhibit is made up of pictures from Philadelphia's Mütter Museum, which (as if you already didn't know) is one of the last museums of 19th-century medical history. I don't know about you guys, but I am psyched to look at creepy old photography of parts of dead people.

Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Prosthetic Leg in Hallway, 2000.
Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Artist.

As if this wasn't enough, there is also another exhibit called Skeletons in the Crocker's Closet. This gem offers five centuries of paintings, drawings, prints, and ceramics depicting skulls, skeletons, and other images of the post-mortem human body. This isn't as creepy as the 19th century photographs and I look forward to checking it out.

Susie Ketchum, Day of the Dead Plate, 2003.
Ceramic, 24 in. (diameter). Crocker Art Museum Purchase.

Lastly, there is an exhibition called Marsden Hartley: American Modern. (Check out my own modern (postmodern?) masterpiece here.) This guy was supposedly a leading artist from the American Modernism period, hailed by TIME magazine critic Robert Hughes as "the most brilliantly gifted of the early generation of American modernists." This is what I will be looking at while you guys look at the creepy old photographs.

Marsden Hartley, Adelard the Drowned, Master of the “Phantom”,
about 1938-39. Oil on academy board. Bequest of Hudson D. Walker
from the Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection, Weisman Art Museum,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Perhaps the best thing that Crocker has going for it is that it is FREE on Sundays from 10AM to 1PM. So keep your Sundays free 'cause we're gonna get us some culture!

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