Finally Some Time to Document Our Trip to Massachusetts

This Summer Louise and I went to Massachusetts with her cousin Chuck and his wife Virginia.  Our First stop was the Normal Rockwell Museum.  Here is Louise in front of a classic Rockwell.

 

It was really interesting the museum has many many of Rockwell's actual painting but not the copy rights.  Those originally went to the magazine that published the paintings.  Those copyrights have probably shifted around many times.  

After the Rockwell Museum, which is in Western Massachusetts we drove back to the coast.  We stayed North of Boston in a small town on cape Ann.   We drove and rode the train into Boston a couple of times.  Here is a statue of Colonel William Prescott hero of the Battle of Bunker hill.  He's pretty dashing, what with rakish hat, the long coat and saber.

We had a day were Louise and I walked around Boston see to our favorites things.  Lucky we found some new one.  Here are some buildings on MIT campus.  We turned a corner and there they were.  Not planned at all.

 Here is a planned stop.  This is the MIT chapel.  It has a Harry Bertoia Sculpture inside.   The building is surround by water, it sort of seems to float on a pool of water.  The sculpture inside is made up of several vertical rods with randomly similar size metal rectangles fussed to the rods. 

 After the MIT chapel, the Jackson Pollack at the Boston Museum of Fine Art.  There were two different ones.   This is a long splatter panel, "Number 10".

 The museum had many Buddhas.  They were displayed in a very authentic way.  Not inside a stupa but in a room that looks like the inside of a stupa.   Lot of wood and very dark.   Also very difficult to photograph.  This is the best I could get.  It is a very nice one.

All in all is was a great trip.