A Snowy Start and Some Art

Our time in Canada so far has been great we have an amazing amount of snow, rain and snow with rain! Before Christmas I enjoyed a trip to Seattle Art Museum whilst visiting friends in the USA. I enjoyed the variety of art there but especially a group of paintings called "Edward Hopper's Women". You can take a look at it from HERE. A lot of the pictures seemed to have been done while observing ladies in restaurants and I did wonder if nowadays he would have been considered a suspicious character, sitting and looking at ladies who were often sitting alone. I also enjoyed a gallery of Native and Meso-american art which included a lot of historical information.
We also went to the Olympic Sculpture Park. There were all sorts of amazing sculptures there. One was meant to be an eagle but we looked at it from all directions and none of us could see anything Eagle like about it , more sort of dinosaur! I liked a huge tree that was made from a silver type metal, at first we didn't even register that it was a sculpture!
I enjoyed a book from the library on the life and works of Emily Carr. I had kept hearing her name mentioned as one of the most famous British Columbian artists, but had no idea who she was. She did a lot of pictures of Totem Poles and painted in a variety of styles one of which looked a bit like Van Gogh.