Tampa Museum of Art

 The Tampa Museum of Art is in a riverfront park in downtown Tampa.  

It has a somewhat eclectic collection.  

An entry hall had big panels with colorful "X" patterns on each of four walls.  They are by an American artist, Vaughn Spann.  Frankly, I didn't understand a word of Spann's explanation.

The museum has several rooms with Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities.  This sculpture is from the first century A.D. and is thought to be based on an earlier work from the third century B.C.

A deceased Tampa photographer and collector, David Hall, has a room displaying 40 photographs from his collection.  This is a photograph Hall made.  The subjects are identical twins from the Midwest who lived in San Francisco.  Every day they dressed identically and went out to talk with passersby.

This superb 1948 image of Georgia O'Keefe is by Philippe Halsman, from a project for Life magazine.

This is a photograph of Nico, the lead singer of the Velvet Underground by the photographer Lisa Law.

Cuban artist Esterio Segura explains why he attached airplane wings to an old Chrysler better than I can.

A gallery showed walls of paintings by self-taught artist Purvis Young, who displayed them from the ground to the rooftops of abandoned storefronts in his impoverished Miami neighborhood. 

 

Doesn't the woman studying the Purvis Young works make you think of Waldo?