Houston Art History, Naples and the Amalfi Coast
Scenes I Saw On My Autumn Vacation
I’ve been traveling for a couple of weeks and haven’t written anything. I’ll hope to get back to my writing desk soon – as soon as jetlag allows, that is. But for now, just a few notes and photos relating to Earlier Houston Art and the sights I’ve recently seen.
In 1910, Emma Richardson Cherry (1859-1954) made a painting and pleasure tour of Italy, starting in the South and working her way up the Italian boot all the way to Venice. Working mostly in watercolor, she painted some of what she saw – including Capri, and Naples overlooking its Bay. Pictured here are the scenes she painted – and the ones I saw!
Gene Charlton (1909-1979) spent his last 20 years in Italy, painting in Rome in the winter and conducting the Positano Art Workshop in the summer – not a bad life, as they say! (Even though not in Houston.)
Mildred Wood Dixon Sherwood (1914-2018) made a visit to Europe one summer in the 1950s, stopping, and painting, in Positano as she toured.
Finally – and this has nothing to do with Houston Art History – is it any wonder that American novelist, essayist and provocateur, Gore Vidal (1925-2012), chose to live for much of his life in a villa overlooking the sea, a few hundred harrowing curves along the breathtaking road from Amalfi, not far from Naples and Positano? What a view!
I think you sh start to paint.
This is fabulous!!