The Newark Museum recently renovated its second floor galleries that house the musuem’s collection of ;modern and contemporary art. Seeing America: 20th and 21st Century is the first exhibit in the reopened gallery.
Coyote Tales, No. 1, Cara Romero 
Man Unloading a Truck, James Carlin 
Art Metal Casters, George Tarr 
Side Show at Coney Island, Abraham Walkowitz 
Elevated Station, Bernard Gussow
Pine Barrons, Mathew Brandt 
Factories at Night, Joseph Stella 
From Brooklyn Heights, George Copeland
Beside the Sea with Bulkhead, Robert Motherwell 
Umtitled, Norman Lewis
off the leash 
I love Duane Hanson’s hyper-realistic Man on a Mower. It reminded me so much of the security guard piece I saw at the Butler Institute in Youngstown that I had to check to see if they were by the same person – they’re not, but the security guard was by Marc Sijan, who worked with Hanson, so the similarities make sense!
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Can’t think of a more fitting place to put the man on a mower than Youngstown.
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Jessica, do you have a photo of the one at the Butler Institute?
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It’s a security guard at Butler, and the photo is here: https://divertingjourneys.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/dsc00120.jpg
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Love it. Thanks. I’m amazed you made the connection.
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The man on a mower would fit in quite well where I grew up in NC as well. 🙂 Looks like the Newark Museum has a good modern collection. I’m envious that you have so many great museums to visit within close proximity.
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Such a great museum, haven’t been in so long but would love to see it now!
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They’ve made a lot of improvements lately. They just reopened the front entrance by the Ballantine House and they redesigned the second floor gallery that has the Seeing America exhibit.
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Sounds awesome, heading over to their website now!
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Ah, if Man on a Mower had a MAGA hat it could possibly be one of the best pieces of artwork ever!🤦♀️
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Nope. He trashed his MAGA hat because the crazy tariff war made it impossible for him to sell his crops.
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🤣🤦♀️😳
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Some collection.
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