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A visit to the new surreal fantastical Dali Museum in St.
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On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, I took advantage of the
opportunity to visit the new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
I had previously
had the opportunity to visit the Morse collection of Dali’s work in its former
location in February 2009 - http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/03/tentacle-spellbound-by-salvador-dali-by.html
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I wrote about that visit in The Tentacle: Spellbound by
Salvador Dali by Kevin
E. Dayhoff on March 25, 2009
I have also written about my February 20, 2013 visit. That
article is scheduled to be published on Wednesday, February 27, 2013… Find it
here: http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
Some excerpts of that column may be found below, along a
number of photographs…
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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The new Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida
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Kevin E. Dayhoff
The new Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has now been
open for over two-years. The much-anticipated fantastical $36 million, 66,450 square foot museum doubled the
capacity of the previous 1982 building that I had the opportunity to visit in
February 2009.
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The original museum had opened in a renovated marine
warehouse March 7, 1982. According to a number of media accounts, the new
museum – which is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96
oil paintings and eight huge master works - opened on the auspicious date of
January 11, 2011 (1/11/11) at 11:11 a.m.
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The museum in downtown St. Petersburg houses one of the most
extensive collections of the art of Salvador Dali in the world. It began in
Cleveland, OH, in 1942 where collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of
industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.
Alas, sadly my winter schedules in the last number of years
have not included a visit to the Dali Museum, Tampa, and St. Petersburg or the
opportunity to seeing the local sights such as the Sunshine
Skyway – completed in 1987, it spans the mouth of Tampa Bay and is the
world's longest cable-stayed concrete bridge.
This year I was able to juggle my schedule to see what the
buzz is all about at what many are calling one of the world’s top-ten art
destinations.
As you approach the
HOK-designed museum, you are immediately impressed with the enormity of
what appears at first glance to be a huge introverted enigmatic cubist-snail on
steroids. The internationally recognized architect Yann Weymouth led the design
team.
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The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff
The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009
Last month I enjoyed a bit of respite from Maryland’s winter by visiting Florida. Finding myself within reasonable driving distance of St. Petersburg, I jumped at the chance to visit the Salvador Dali Museum.
Located on the waterfront in Barboro Harbor, it is the “largest collection of Dali’s work outside of Spain,” according to Peggy McKendry, the assistant to the director of the museum.
The museum, which opened in a renovated marine warehouse March 7, 1982, is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96 oil paintings and eight huge master works.
This collection began in Cleveland, OH, in 1942. Collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.
[…]
In recent years, I have visited art museums – from San Diego, Salt Lake City, Anchorage, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore – and I found the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg to be one of the friendliest exhibitions I have ever seen.
Everyone from Ms. McKendry, to the extremely knowledgeable docents, and even the museum guards went out of their way to make sure you knew that the museum was there to serve, entertain, and educate.
Such accessibility is critical if you are to have a meaningful experience exploring 20th century contemporary art – especially the work of Salvador Dali.
[…]
While I was doing some additional research on Dali, after I visited the museum, I had the great fortune to talk with Dan Twyman, the senior art consultant for the “Salvador Dali Society,” in Redondo Beach, CA, the owner of the website, www.salvadordaliexperts.com and a volunteer expert for the website http://www.allexperts.com/ in the fine art category.
[…]
Read the entire column here: Spellbound by Salvador Dali
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
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Photo credit: 1965 Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane
Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14985
By Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Kevin Dayhoff Art: www.kevindayhoff.com (http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/)
The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009Last month I enjoyed a bit of respite from Maryland’s winter by visiting Florida. Finding myself within reasonable driving distance of St. Petersburg, I jumped at the chance to visit the Salvador Dali Museum.
Located on the waterfront in Barboro Harbor, it is the “largest collection of Dali’s work outside of Spain,” according to Peggy McKendry, the assistant to the director of the museum.
The museum, which opened in a renovated marine warehouse March 7, 1982, is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96 oil paintings and eight huge master works.
This collection began in Cleveland, OH, in 1942. Collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.
[…]
In recent years, I have visited art museums – from San Diego, Salt Lake City, Anchorage, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore – and I found the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg to be one of the friendliest exhibitions I have ever seen.
Everyone from Ms. McKendry, to the extremely knowledgeable docents, and even the museum guards went out of their way to make sure you knew that the museum was there to serve, entertain, and educate.
Such accessibility is critical if you are to have a meaningful experience exploring 20th century contemporary art – especially the work of Salvador Dali.
[…]
While I was doing some additional research on Dali, after I visited the museum, I had the great fortune to talk with Dan Twyman, the senior art consultant for the “Salvador Dali Society,” in Redondo Beach, CA, the owner of the website, www.salvadordaliexperts.com and a volunteer expert for the website http://www.allexperts.com/ in the fine art category.
[…]
Read the entire column here: Spellbound by Salvador Dali
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
20090325 TT Spellbound by Salvador Dali ttked
Photo credit: 1965 Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane
Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14985
By Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
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