Donatello

Jeffrey and Nicole also had a really lovely time in Venice. The Venice Biennale was on view. There was also a lot of churches worth visiting. Nicole Page-Smith managed to catch up with the St. John the Baptist by Donatello for the first time. Despite the commercialization, if you know what you are looking for, Venice has an array of great restaurants and several of these divan offerings unto God were attended by the Harris Smith Art team.

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Verdi

Our trips to Munich are always an incredible experience. The last time Jeffrey Harris and Nicole Page-Smith travelled there, their life was met with the music star Jonas Kaufmann. The opera performance of Il Trovatore was a melodrama from somewhere else. All the operas, the Harris Smith Art duo have been to at this venue they have enjoyed. Munich is one of their favorite places to view art, also. The Alte Pinakothek is one of their most famous places to visit for painting.

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Pathway

The Harris Smith encounter with Frankfurt was fruitful. Both Jeffrey Harris and Nicole Page-Smith enjoyed the Philip Guston exhibition. This was an artist both exhibited alongside in early Melbourne dealer representation. The exhibition in Frankfurt was a great joy. Several large canvases were on display both from New York and private ownership. Although most US citizens would probably disagree, the Guston subject matter does seem more in line with early Modernism and what would have been exhibited during his lifetime. The pathway to his exhibition has been a really full journey for the Harris Smith team and placement with Philip Guston has made Jeffrey and Nicole feel really honored.

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Philosophy

Thank the dear Lord that the Harris Smith team were blessed with going on our last overseas trip. This was due to the success of the co-director Jeffrey Harris having a really beautiful last commercial exhibition here in Dunedin. And thank-you kindly to the current public program for celebrating their return to native soil with the reintroduction of an early masterpiece of Jeffrey Harris. This is nicely placed with the philosophy of some Renaissance paintings of the mother and child image from early distribution of the Royal ascension to public museums. This early ascension may have come from the Royal Trust as they seem to be the main holders of Renaissance images. There is however, also a magic ascension of Raphael drawings in the museum archive library at Oxford University. This would also be owned by the crown. Something like crown land. Most London house museums are also on crown land but through observation, the only places other than Oxford who house Renaissance artworks are the National Gallery and Royal Collection. I am not sure how museums were placed in the early part of the 1900's however, I am imagining most of the Tate team who premise may have set these big museums up would be Oxford University educated.

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The studio II

by Nicole Page-Smith

The studio

by Nicole Page-Smith

London

It was nice to walk through the autumn leaves to the Tate Britain. Past the palace gates and past all those strange royal watchers. I quite like the new directors rehang and the inclusion of her scholarly interests. I always wondered why the Tate Britain did not house a broad ascension of the well known British sculptors. This was followed by a visit to the Queens Gallery which despite all the bad taste royal watchers souvenirs, also has some incredible exhibitions of the Queen's royal collection. On view was a really lovely exhibition of the lost genius, Castiglione. Other days were taken up by a trip to the other side of the Thames for a tete a tete or a view of the equally as interesting Klee exhibition. His delicate watercolors were well worth the view. I also like the general collection or the rooms surrounding Rothko's room. Another exhibition on view was the Daumier exhibition at the Royal Academy. It is always nice to walk around London through all there beautiful parks and gardens. The National Gallery has a very precious Renaissance ascension so it was lovely to view some of the paintings I have written about during the year. God blessing.

by Nicole Page-Smith