Cummer Museum
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens was started by Ninah M.H. Cummer in 1959. With more than 4,000 objects in its permanent collection it is the largest fine arts museum in northeast Florida. Its artifacts cover tapestries, porcelain, painting and sculpture from the Middle Ages all the way through to the 20TH century. Since it covers so much time with its collection, the museum covers many diverse styles of art including Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Impressionism art. These special styles are viewed through about nine or ten different galleries depending on when you go and which exhibits are showing. The Museum is located on the banks of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville. Closest to the banks are two large gardens covering about two and a half acres. In the middle of the property is a gigantic oak tree called the Cummer Oak. The gardens are intertwined with many statues and monuments, some dating back to last century. The gardens are influenced by two different tastes, Italian and English. All of the flowers are beautiful because of their bright colors and maybe the perfect lawn covering between the garden and their small ponds. The gardens “hardscape”, or what Ninah and her husband Arthur called brick pathways and fo
As I walked into the Eunice Pitt Odom Semmes and George Wingfield Semmes Gallery a special painting immediately drew the attention of my companion and me. It was very large, actually bigger than life-size, and it was on a wall all to its self. It drew my special attention because the fact that it was huge and the scene depicted on it interested me. In the Huntsman with his Dogs and Game, a man is seen with his hunting rifle after freshly shooting some winged game. Along with him are his dogs. Pieter Thije and Pieter Boel painted the Huntsman with his Dogs and Game. This was the first time I have ever saw a collaborative effort on a painting. It was finished in 1650 and during this time it was not odd that two people worked on the same piece, especially considering the size of it. Boel was reportedly very good at painting animals so he painted the dogs and birds, while Thije painted the unknown man and his surroundings. The painting has a very high verisimilitude because the dogs are perfectly done and they add the perfect touch so that the man’s eyes seem to follow their viewer around as he looks at him. This gave me an eerie feeling because he is holding a rifle. Nonetheless, the scene of this portrait was my favorite of any piece at the Cummer. The Hour of Parting is one of Dodge’s early works and from my standpoint you could really tell that this was one of his first pieces. The picture has a low verisimilitude and it consists of a man sitting down in what looks like a cave. The man sitting down is wearing a cone shaped hat that has a white ring on the bottom, a white ball on top, and white polka dots all over it. There is another figure to the right of the sitting man. I cannot distinguish what he is doing. Hour of Parting was painted in 1942 and the influence of Picasso must have been very high on Dodge. The palette is of very warm colors that do not make a great contrast anywhere except the hat on the sitting fellow. There are not many distinct lines made from the mixed media of the oil paint, pastels, and ink indicating more of an influence from Picasso. This is just one of the many styles Dodge used. Visiting the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens gave me a he
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