In the Bay

 

Just a quiet morning.

A Small Outdoor Art Show

 The biggest outdoor art shows around here don't begin until January.  But, there was a nice, small show in Cambier Park on Saturday.

I enjoyed seeing Glory again.  She has always painted waves nicely.  Now she is branching out a bit.

Because it was a small show, people seemed to take the time to talk with the artists.

Guild Hall

 I attended an opening at Naples Art for an exhibition of works from Guild Hall, a Long Island museum. Because it was crowded, I decided to include people in the galleries in the photos.

In this last image, the man is studying the label for Childe Hassam's  Little Old Cottage, Egypt Lane, East Hampton, 1917.  In his later years Hassam lived on Egypt Lane, perhaps in this cottage.  In 1931 Hassam presided over the opening of a gallery at Guild Hall honoring Thomas Moran.

I was talking with an artist friend, who told me that this gorgeous blue wall color is called Yves Klein Blue.  When this woman walked past in a blue top, I asked her to stand in the picture. Thank you!

Chuck Close has often returned to the same photographs to paint over and over again with different techniques. One photo of contemporary music composer Phillip Glass was included in Close's black and white series in 1969, redone with water colors in 1977, redone with stamp pad and fingerprints in 1978, and, finally, the 1982 version (on the right), rendered in gray handmade paper.

Veterans Day

 

Thank you for your service.

Collier County Library

 

And fountain.

Naples Zoo

 Some new buildings.

Kizzie Hall

Kizzie Hall is the stage for the main productions at Sugden Theater.

A main reason for the recently completed $22 million renovation of Sugden Theater was to add balcony seating to Kizzie Hall.  That added 110 seats in the balcony, leading to a total of 452 seats.

 The lead donors are a generous philanthropic couple who have funded many Naples arts projects.  At the Sugden they decided not to put their own names on it.  Kizzie is one of their dogs.