Saturday, October 14, 2006
Stanford Art Museum
I've been adventuring around Palo Alto a bit lately and came across the Stanford Art School/Museum. It's pretty cool, having just visited the art museums in Paris and Italy... I can honestly say that Stanford has done pretty well for a U.S. based institution, they even had egyptian stuff and a mummy!
I really enjoyed the architecture of the school and the art gardens surrounding the museum. Students whizzing to and from class, many of them setting up canvases to do practice sketches or paintings of the bronze sculptures outside.
entrance to the Stanford Art Museum
outside - murals with a frieze and pediment on the left
more murals
palm tree outside of the museum
This is a crazy black squirrel I found in a bush just outside the museum... I didn't realize that squirrels could be black like this so I had to take a picture. You will also notice the blurring and refracting going on with my wide angle lense. The camera I am using here is the Canon PowerShot SD600 Digital Elph with a clip on wide angle lense from Digital Concepts that I got off Amazon.
inside the Stanford Art Museum, Greek pottery, the yellow room
wooden horse sculpture...
Hoover Tower - Herbert Hoover attended Stanford and built this tower (which is now sort of a library). It's got a great view... but I'm not sure how earthquake resistant it is? You may notice the squirrel on the grass just in front of the tower... There are lots of squirrels at Stanford, just like there are lots of raccoons at the University of Colorado.
posted by Court @ 3:47 PM
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