Art Museum Excursion

Since we're downtown most weeks for church now, I bought a membership to the art museum and we've actually managed to get there quite a few times. This morning before church we went on the Portland Art Museum's interactive kid's website and found some great games that are based on some pieces in the Portland Art Museum collection. We made a list of a seven pieces that came up in the online activities and were going to try to find them. I naturally left the list at home, but we remembered that the first pieces on the list were two 19th century American portraits done in contrasting styles so we thought we'd just look for them and the statue of Grant out front and take a quick look at the featured exhibit of works by Klaus Moje. His fused glass pieces were incredibly beautiful and I'm delighted we got to see them. It would have been well worth the trip just to see his stuff. Plus, I splurged and bought a book of 500 glass art pieces that we've been oohing and aahing over.

 

Despite searching and searching for the two portraits we set out to see and the statue of Grant, we never found them. You'd think they'd have the portraits in the room of early American portraits, eh? Well, they probably do, in the Portland, Maine art museum, which sponsored the website we went to this morning. What is it they say about the best laid plans?