Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts
October 3, 2024
Our recent trip to Massachusetts included a day in Boston, and we spent the afternoon at the Museum of Fine Arts. Neither of us had been there in many years.
The museum is showcasing art by surrealist painter Salvador Dali, alongside works by older artists who influenced him. The exhibition, Dalí: Disruption and Devotion, runs through December 1, 2024. It is arranged chronologically and contains good biographical material. Many of the paintings and sketches were on loan from the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Meredith was bemused by the Evangelical Council painting done in 1960, commemorating the Vatican Council. Three large figures representing the Trinity dominate the top of that canvas, the installation of Pope John XXIII is pictured in the middle, just above the artist’s wife depicted as an angel, and the painter at his easel can be found in the lower left corner.
After seeing Dali, we headed to the European section. We lingered in the Monet room.
The MFA has 35 Monet paintings, one of the largest collections of his work outside France.
We then strolled through a couple dozen galleries in the European and American sections with a brief shortcut through some ancient sculpture rooms.
We ate a delicious lunch at the museum restaurant, sharing the courtyard with a giant Chihuly glass sculpture known as the Green Icicle Tower.