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Belle da Costa Greene at The Morgan

March 4, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

This essay, offered as a blog post for my friends and regular readers, is written as my own tribute to Belle da Costa Greene and, as such, to the Morgan Library and Museum. Such a tribute is highly appropriate at this time in New York, as we are moving into the closing months of one …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, History, Knowledge Services, Personal History Tagged With: Greene (Belle da Costa), Inglés (Jorge), knowledge management, Knowledge Services, Librarianship, Library and Information Science, McKim Mead & White (architects), Mead, Morgan (J.P.), Morgan (Jack), Morgan Library and Museum, Opera (NYC-1912), Schneider (Otto), Spanish Forger, Voelkle (William M.), Wieck (Roger S.)

Two Surprises at the Kröller-Müller Museum

November 19, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

The Kröller-Müller Museum, which Andrew and I visited last spring, is a lovely and relatively short drive from Amsterdam. As we see it, an excursion to the Kröller-Müller has to be one of the most rewarding experiences of any European visit. Recognized as having the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world (the largest being—not …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amsterdam, De Hoge Veluwe Park, Kröller-Müller Museum, starry-night paintings, Van Gogh (Vincent)

Elephants Galore

September 28, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Until October 20th, we New Yorkers can see a spectacular art installation here in the city. It’s called “The Great Elephant Migration,” and the project features 100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants crafted over the last five years by the Coexistence Collective, a team of 200 Indigenous artisans from Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in South India. I gather from …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, Journal Tagged With: Artnet, Cascone (Sarah), Coexistencee Collective, Elephant Family USA, Elephants, Gansevoort Place (New York City), Meatpacking District (New York), Nigiri Biosphere Reserve, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, The Great Elephant Migration

Carroll Beckwith’s Portrait of William Walton

July 31, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

On occasion in these posts, I have had the pleasure of sharing thoughts and comments about a favorite work of art. Such is the case here, as described in the opening pages of the document referred to here. Written for a private organization in New York, the purpose here was to provide historical and background …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Personal History Tagged With: Adler (Kathleen), Barrie & Son (Publishers), Bastidas (Hugo), Beaux (Cecilia), Beckwith (Bertha), Beckwith (James Carroll), Carolus-Duran (Auguste), Cassatt (Mary), Cuadrado (Celestina), Farago (Jason), Flexner (James Thomas), Langtry (Lillie), Sargent (John Singer), Walton (William), Weber (Bruce), Weinberg (H. Barbara), Wilde (Oscar), Wilson (Richard Guy), World's Columbian Exposition (1893)

Vienna: Collected Posts

April 16, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

For some blog posts in Sharing Guy’s Journey—when several have been written over a period of time about a particular subject—it is best to have them compiled into a list, which I’ll try to do with groups of posts in the future. “Search the website” is a useful too, but it searches by word, and …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Vienna (various posts)

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  • January 20, 2025: Honoring Dr. King January 20, 2025
  • A Remarkable Opera Experience December 10, 2024
  • Two Surprises at the Kröller-Müller Museum November 19, 2024
  • Elephants Galore September 28, 2024
  • Guy’s Elephants August 12, 2024
  • Carroll Beckwith’s Portrait of William Walton July 31, 2024
  • Digital Postcard: Memorial Day Greetings from Germany May 27, 2024
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