Laid Table

Over the weekend we visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. We had not been in at least 20 years, and I was very pleased they still had the wonderfull gallery of Haitian art. I love the bright, vivid colors and interesting scenes of those paintings. New to us was this piece, "Laid Table (Still Life with Metal Pitcher), 2007" by Beth Lipman. The description reads: Blown, sculpted, lamp-worked, kiln-cast, and kiln-formed glass on wood table.

The way it's lighted is spectacular and impossible not to photograph.

Also in Milwaukee we discovered the Grohmann Museum, which is attached to the Milwaukee School of Engineering. They have a large collection of paintings and sculptures with the theme "work." Many of them were done by German and Dutch artists of the 18th and 19th centuries. I really like that style.