Author Archives: Rachel Gordon

Tea – Mary Cassatt

One of the gifts that artists give us (especially those who were painting in the time before cameras or cell phones!) is an idea of what life was like in different times. We can see what people wore, what they did, what their homes looked like. The Impressionist artists even painted outside instead of in a studio so they could really show what people were doing. Mary Cassatt was an artist who was especially interested in painting women and children. […]

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Color Field – Barnett Newman

There are painters that decided that the most interesting part of a painting was the color – so they decided to make big areas of their paintings all one color. They were called Color Field painters. Sometimes they used different shades of the same color and sometimes they used a few different colors and sometimes it was just one color. Barnett Newman was one of those Color Field artists. Most of his paintings are all one color with a few […]

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Happy Birthday Number Four!

Yay – we’re four years old! Well, the website is and I’ve been putting up coloring pages almost every Thursday (except for major holidays) every week. Thanks for following our adventures! Did you know that cupcakes really used to be baked in cups!? Click on the image below, or click here, to open the coloring page, then download, print, and start coloring!

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Target with four Sophie faces

It looks like Sadie is recognizing Sophie’s beautiful smile in this art! The original piece, called Target with Four Faces by Jasper Johns is a mix of sculpture and painting and collage and more! The faces are plaster, the frame and the boxes the faces are in is wood, and the target is painted on top of a collage of newspapers…and the paint is a mix of paint and beeswax. So interesting! Click on the image below, or click here, to open […]

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Banana Split!

We’ve been doing a lot of exploring of the museum – and it’s time for a snack! Did you know that almost all of the bananas that we eat are clones of each other?! There are over 1,000 different kinds of bananas, but only a few that taste good enough to eat – even covered with ice cream, sauce, and whipped cream! I’m glad Sophie and Sadie are such good friends they can share so nicely! Click on the image […]

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Story quilt

Sophie and Sadie are looking at a story quilt that is a bit like Faith Ringgold’s story quilt (and book) called Tar Beach. Faith Ringgold is an artist who paints pictures onto the fabric – and sometimes she also writes the story on the quilt to make sure everyone understands what she wants to say! What do you think this quilt is trying to say? Quilts have a long history of telling stories. Sometimes the story is in the pattern that the fabric […]

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Museum – Tiffany Stained Glass Window

Artists connected to an art movement called Art Nouveau believed that even things that we use every day like windows and lamps and houses should be beautiful works of art. Louis Comfort Tiffany (his father owned the famous jewelry store) was famous for using pieces of different colored glass all glued together to make windows and lamps look like paintings. He used glass that was colored so you couldn’t see through it but the sun light (or the light bulb) […]

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Collage – Matisse, Icarus, and Sadie

People have been making collages for hundreds of years – but it was artists including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso that brought it to modern art. A famous collage by Matisse is called Icarus, who in Greek Mythology was the one who wanted to fly. I want to to – and I think Sadie does also! How about you? The word collage comes from the French word for glue. You don’t have to actually use glue to make a collage […]

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Sculpture – prehistoric Lowenmensch

The oldest sculpture that has been found looks like a lion’s head on a person’s body. For some reason, Sophie and Sadie think that is pretty funny. It was found in Germany where they call it Lowenmensch – which basically means lion human and is 40,000 years old! It was carved out of the tusk of a woolly mammoth. I don’t know about you, but I think it was smart of the museum to put it in a glass cabinet! […]

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Sculpture – post-minimalism cacti

Sadie’s found a bunch of little Sadies! If you think that’s a little bit funny, then you’ll understand the difference between minimalism and post-minimalism. Very basic shapes using basic materials (minimalism) done in a way that is a little bit funny.  And sometimes making a lot of them – sometimes identical and sometimes not quite. In this case, there are 19 cacti, but none of them is exactly the same. It’s similar to the piece Repetition 19 by the artist […]

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