A gallery visit

 

On Saturday, we braved some heavy rain to drive about 1.5 hours south to tiny Reading, Vermont, to visit the Hall Art Foundation's exhibit of smaller Andy Warhol pieces.  Through the rain, it was difficult to see any foliage, but when things let up a bit, I was able to take a photo of part of the sculpture walk area.  Maybe next time we go, it will be dry enough to enjoy!

The gallery consists of two renovated lovely old farm houses, one of them stone, across the road from each other, and two barns.  The massive walls in the barn we visited (featuring Sherry Rothenberg) were perfect for larger paintings.  We saw quite a few of Warhol's smaller works, including the famous Campbell's Soup painting which was quite interesting.

We also stopped to look at part of a 39 minute video of Warhol eating a hamburger meal from Burger King.  He looked a little uncomfortable as if he'd never eaten a fast food lunch before.  He had a big ketchup bottle rather than little packets so it was all staged.  How many bags of food did he use to make that film?

Speaking of lunch, the restaurants were packed with leaf peepers from all over, including Vermont but mostly elsewhere.  The parking lot at our favorite Harpoon Brewery was impossible so we drove into Windsor to try their diner.  Good food, but rude service - an embarrassing visitors' introduction to our sweet little state.  A sharp contrast to lunch at the Hardwick diner which we visited last week.

Today I hope to put the final border on the Rows Parade quilt.  It's now queen sized!  If it's sunny out, I'll try to do a little yard clean up before going to quilt guild tonight.  My bags are packed for that, including a round robin bag - yet another UFO but always fun to work on.