Portland Art Museum Exhibits

On the fourth Friday of every month the Portland Art Museum has a free admission night. A few months ago I happened to be in town, and decided to go to further indulge my new found interest in art.

While not a world class art museum like some, by my un-expert opinion, some of the pieces are quite nice. At least I believe so.

Among these are a nice statue of the Hindu god Ganesha.

And a very nice version of Shiva.

Yes this is Buddha, but the Hindu version.

In the Greek Section is this sculpture, the “Funnery Portrait: Pazal, son of Zabda, son of Zbda Pazal.” Apparently the deceased is on the left, his wife was on the right.

This is a portion of a painting titled “Mt. Hood” by Albert Bierstadt. While this is the East side of Mt. Hood, he added a lot of fanciful features. Extra glaciers, an extra mountain, waterfalls where none exist. None the less it’s still a gorgeous painting and recognizable as Mt. Hood.

Among some of the French painting in the gallery is one titled “A Shipwreck” by artist Charles Francois Lacroix de Marseille

His paintings are huge in size, getting the full picture in frame is nearly impossible to do. So instead I got a couple of closeups to show the detail of this awesome painting.

This is an extremely small portion of the museum, and one could easily spend a full day looking around.