At the Farnsworth Museum with Phil.

A Louise Nevelson exhibit from the Farnsworth holdings - it has the second-largest collection of Nevelson's work in the world, exceeded only by the Whitney Museum in New York. Her early work was in oil paintings, which have features that prefigure her later sculptures. At a certain point she beeame a sculptor and never looked back.

This was a new experience of an art museum for me. I was in a wheelchair, and my friend, Phil McKean, was pushing me. We went through several galleries together and it was really quite different from doing it on my own. It was slower and we both felt we really experienced the art in a new way. Who knew? There were two special showings: the one of Louise Nevelson, and the other was Andrew Wyeth, titled "Wyeth...Every leaf and twig," (a quotation from Henry David Thoreau, whom Wyeth admired). The latter focused on Wyeth's botanical paintings and drawings and included many works never before seen in public.

Here is a wide range of Nevelson's unique sculptures:

And here is a sample of Wyeth's botanical watercolors, created in the early 1950's: