The colorful sculpture Toyosaurus created by pop artist Renee Dupree caught our attention.
Located at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Toyosaurus Sculpture at Children’s Hospital
Tag: art
Garage Door Decor
Mural in Lawrenceville by Monstermarblez AKA Chad Parker known for his glass marble creations.
Here’s one article about his artwork and another about his niche of making glass marbles
I was the passenger in my friend’s car. As she popped into the post office, this monster caught my eye
What Laura Saw on her Lunch Break
And texted to me. A Google image search told us the name of the sculpture and artist. Jerzy Kedziora
More on other sculptures by Kedziora in the Park click to see Girl With Yo-Yo and The Rower
Here’s an article Gravity Defying Sculptures Totally Transform Schiller Park Click to see more sculptures
Six years ago I posted a photograph of one of his works at the Columbus library Duo with Chair suspended from the ceiling
Note: Just added this little poem shared by Judy Kindergarten teacher extraordinaire.
There was a boy,
A tiny mite,
Who tried to fly
A mighty kite
But then at last
It came to pass
Both boy and kite flew out of sight!
One of my favorite kindergarten poems❤️ Judy
I read it every year to my kindergarten class. Then each child had to predict what happened to the boy and /or draw a picture or how do you think his mother felt when she saw him?
One of the best pictures was Superman saved him!!! We read it every March! We painted kites and made pattern kite tails. Oh how I miss those days!! Judy S
At the Museum 2
I let Michael set the pace. Two grandsons at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History in a week’s time.
Server Identifies the Take Out Order with a Doodle
My friend Jen was taking a bbq chicken sandwich home to her husband.
When she opened the bag, she saw the drawing our server Jo had drawn.
Jen said I could “blog it!”
I ordered the street corn for the first time.
Fire Side Public House in East Liberty
Artist’s Retrospective Show
Saturday evening Steve and I drove to the Lawrenceville neighborhood to see a wonderful art show: Millie Tersak A Retrospective at The Port on Butler Street.
Here is a photo of the artist Millie Tersak, who recently celebrated her 90th birthday. She’s standing in front of her painting Milly on a Chilly Easter Sunday. There were more than a hundred artworks in her show.
The show was curated by Mark Panza.
“Walking to the Sky” a 7 ton Sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky
“’Walking to the Sky’ is a portrait of all of humanity rising upwards from the earth to the heavens above — striving into the future with strength and determination.” Says the CMU (a’64) alumnus and artist. I drive by the Carnegie Mellon campus and think about trying to find a place to park to photograph this public art from a closer angle.
I posted a guest blog by Shuey of this sculpture in 2017 and another post from Berlin in 2018 Borofsky’s work Molecule Man
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Keiko Fukazawa Exhibit at Society for Contemporary Craft
Keiko Fukazawa is a Ceramicist. My friend and neighbor Gail S. and I went to see her exhibit on Thursday. .
Keiko Fukazawa Retrospective:The Space in Between now at the Society for Contemporary Craft until May 16. Admission is free.
For those of you not in Pittsburgh, I asked if photography was allowed and was told, Yes.
(TRUTH), (POWER) (GUN), 2022
Round Corner Hotel in Lawrenceville
An interesting building built during the Civil War (1862) – you don’t see many round corner buildings in brick.
Local artist William Pfahl painted this interesting building in 2017 as one of his cityscapes. A link to an article about Bill’s paintings. Bill is a fellow retired city art teacher. And link 2011 blog post about him painting the Sixteenth Street Bridge.
ROUND CORNER HOTEL – LAWRENCEVILLE.30x48in. Oil. 2017. SOLD.
The Round Corner Hotel building is the home of Esquina Cantina -Mexican Restaurant
Interested in building radial brick work ? A video with instruction
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One more vintage postcard
My father would send these fun postcards to us. This one is postmarked March 1994.
Four years ago I posted some of these mischievous cat postcards. You can click link to see the other four. The artist was Eugen Hartung from Switzerland
While looking for a book in the shelf, I found one more.
The artist signed his initials in the corner in a heart which I never noticed before but I read that on Mousebreath
The Hartung postcards were first published in Switzerland by Max Kunzli of Zurich and then(from the 1940’s onwards) by the Alfred Mainzer Company of Long Island New York. Each card is signed with the artist’s monogram, a little heart in the lower right corner. (Because of cropping, sometimes the heart gets chopped off.)
One of the cards from the old post
