I did some food shopping yesterday in Cartersville GA and happened to drive by the Booth Western Art Museum. It looked impressive, somewhat reminiscent, in location (a small town) and architecture, of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA. But also reminiscent, in terms of the subject matter, of the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City. I had some refrigerated items from my shopping trip but figured I wouldn’t be longer than an hour. And it was a cool day. So I went. $11 senior ticket.
This is a very impressive museum. It has more paintings and sculpture, I think, than the Cowboy Museum. Fewer western and native American artifacts. And almost no pop culture stuff. So a serious museum.
I am not a judge of the value of art. I do know that this museum had fewer Remington pieces than the Cowboy Museum – just one, actually – but I know what I like and I liked what I saw here. There were many very detailed paintings. Very lifelike. I have included a few here.
Some nice sculpture too, both inside the building and out.
All in all, a very nice museum. I spent more than an hour inside. But the milk seems to be ok.
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