Frist Art Museum, Nashville

We were in Nashville, TN, recently for a few days and someone suggested we visit the Frist Art Museum https://fristartmuseum.org/ so we did. Luckily for us we were there at the time the museum was running three exhibits:

1) SOUTHERN/MODERN

2) MONUMENTS & MYTHS The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French

3) CARVING A NEW TRADITION THE ART OF LATOYA M. HOBBS

There were amazing pieces of art that we enjoyed seeing and learning about the artists and their creations. Latoya Hobbs is an incredible artist and her carvings and prints depicted scenes from daily lives of African American families. Perhaps my favorite two paintings were “Nigro Baptism” by John Kelly Fitzpatrick, and “The Lightning That Struck Rufo Barcliff” by Carroll Colar.

The sculpture exhibit featuring some of the works of Daniel Chester French had some very interesting pieces of which my favorite was the model he made for the seated Abraham Lincoln statue which now sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. There were several other pieces by French and by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at display.

If you plan on visiting Nashville, checkout the museum website for current exhibits and make plans to visit.

PS. The featured painting on the blog page is titled “Mending Nets” by Claude Howell.