PITTSFIELD

 We traded in the loaner and Elizabeth got her car back after three weeks.  Before Pittsfield's Haddad Subaru she had been to Carbone where she bought the car, and to Goldstein, and no one could find the electrical breaks an fix it.  Haddad just earned themselves a new customer.

Afterwards, of course, we needed a good breakfast at the Misty Diner.  I ate polka fries which was crispy fries topped with sauerkraut and small bits of kielbasa and some melted cheese.  It was great.

CLARK MUSEUM

After getting the repaired car and having breakfast in Pittsfield, we went to the Clark to see the new exhibit.

Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway

Here is a video presentation of his art, his technique and his personal history.  It is long, but very well done.

https://youtu.be/Hqewm3httHc

I took the photos posted below.  

Both  Elizabeth and I were very pleased and impressed with the entire exhibit.  We delighted in the intensity of the colors and the rural scenes of Norway where huge mountains back up intense foilage.  The people he painted were not always impressive, but all the rest was.  We will definitely visit again before it is over.

I was especially interested in his woodcut prints because he embellished  them afterwards with oil paints to make them more to his liking.

This was the first time he exhibited in the US and it was really grand that the Clark picked up this exhibit.  It also impresses us that the Clark never seems to add on those extra charges for the special exhibits.  We are members, so it is always free for us.

I get tired easily so a couple hours is always enough, but we did stretch it into seeing another special exhibit of whimsical metal work.  Also, we visited some of the old favorites, the Winslow Homer, the four Italians in the painting called "Musical Group" some Innes, especially the boy fishing with a cow.

Then we tired out and met some friends at a great Indian restaurant called Spice Root.  I had lamb korma and it was just wonderful.

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Here I put myself in a painting.  The walls were done in a way that allowed it.

This was a sketch.  

Outside the Clark were new fountain decorations.  Great to have fish there.

This was a separate exhibit.  Really amusing.

Many of the others also opened like this rhino, for drinks or a unusual desk.