June 2018 – Sherry Felix

Cloisters Doors

2018-06-282018-06-28Sherry Felix12 Comments

The Met Cloisters is at the northern end of Manhattan in Fort Tryon Park at 99 Margaret Corbin Drive and is run by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

When I was an Urban Park Ranger many years ago I reenacted Maggie Corbin’s story in the revolutionary war. Read the story on Wikipedia.

For Norm’s Thursday Doors

French oak door, late 15th Century, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Cloisters 6/21/2018 — Closters 6/21/2018

Magnoloia grandiflora

2018-06-272018-06-27Sherry Felix12 Comments

Magnolia grandiflora, Met 6/23/2018 — Magnolia grandiflora, Met NYC 6/23/2018

Heavenly Bodies in 3 Colors

2018-06-262018-08-31Sherry Felix13 Comments

Heavenly Bodies is a fun exhibit at the Met and Cloisters in NYC loosely based on Falini’s satirical commentary on the Catholic Church in his 1972 film, Roma. The costumes are excellent and so are the settings. I spent time removing the crowds and processing the photos.

Black

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/12/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/12/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/23/2018

Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

White

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/12/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/23/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Color

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/12/2018

Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/12/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/23/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/12/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Cloisters 6/21/2018

Heavenly Bodies, Met 6/23/2018

Patchin Place Doors

2018-06-072018-09-06Sherry Felix30 Comments

I had a request from a fellow blogger to show the home of E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). The charming alley he lived in is called Patchin Place next to Jefferson Market Library.

The property that became Patchin Place and Milligan Place was once part of a farm belonging to Sir Peter Warren. In 1799 it was sold to Samuel Milligan, who later conveyed it to his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin. The buildings that now occupy the site were put up in 1848-1852 as boarding houses for Basque waiters and other workers at the nearby Brevoort House hotel on 5th Avenue.

A story: The then modernist writer Djuna Barnes (1982-1982) moved into a room-and-a-half apartment at 5 Patchin Place in 1941. She became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window “Are you still alive, Djuna?”.