PoeTSBURH, Part Duh!

To view the travelogue about our first trip to Pittsburgh
in July 2015, click HERE.

Scroll below to learn about our return trip in September!
In July 2015, we traveled to Pittsburgh to meet with curators at the Andy Warhol Museum to plan a joint exhibit, SOUP TWO NUTS, to be shown at the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard) in October.  This exhibit will focus on Andy Warhol's fascination with Dickinson, America's greatest poet.

Over Labor Day Weekend, we returned to Pittsburgh, this time for a VIP tour of the Carnegie Museum of Art's exhibit of etchings and paintings by Edward Hopper, another artist who was intrigued and inspired by Dickinson.
Below left & right:  Press coverage of our return visit.  Click the images to enlarge.
Below: We stayed at the Hyatt Place on the North Shore.
Below:  The view from our room.

Hopper at the Carnegie
After a healthy breakfast of a coconut mocha latte and a chocolate chip coconut macaroon (above left) at the Bagel Factory across the street from the museum, we reported to the Carnegie Museum of Art for our VIP tour of the Hopper Exhibit.
Our tour guide dressed -- very appropriately -- as "Art Cat" (left), the museum's mascot.

Our first stop at the museum was "Gallery One" (right) at the top of the steps for the "CMOA Collects Edward Hopper," an exhibit of all 17 works by Hopper in the museum’s collection:  "Never before exhibited together, the works in CMOA Collects Edward Hopper reveal the development of an iconic American master, and shed light on the influences that produced his instantly recognizable style."
Below left:  An X-radiograph exam revealed that this painting of a sail boat was over a previously painted canvass. Some art historians think that the figure revealed underneath was an early self-portrait by Hopper; others insist that the figure a likeness by Hopper of America's greatest poet, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

Below middle:  Various etchings by Edward Hopper.  Most scholars and art historians believe that the figure of a man in the etching in the lower left corner is Emmett Lee Dickinson.

Below right:  "Cape Cod Afternoon" by Edward Hopper.  The house in the right in the painted was frequented by Dickinson on his trips to the Cape.
Click the images below to enlarge.

HOPPER & DICKINSON


Edward Hopper (at the left in a self-portrait), attended the Emmett lee Dickinson School for Boys in Upper Nyack, New York.  He painted a likeness of the school in a painting that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.  Often referred to as "View from Williamsburg Bridge" (at on the right), Hopper paid homage to his school by including its likeness in the painting.  Look closely in the shadow at the top of the red brick building on the right.
Many of Hopper's paintings include tributes to Dickinson.  In Nighthawks (below on the left), the lone man at the counter on the left is Emmett Lee Dickinson.  In Chop Suey (below on the right), the woman seated in the center of the painting is Dickinson's daughter, Qwerty Jean Dickinson.

RIBS & MORE RIBS!

Following our tour of the Hopper exhibit and the CMoA, we ventured on over to the Natural History Museum for a look at the various dinosaurs, and all we could think about was the Rib Fest to come later in the night at Heinz Field.  Dippy and all her friends coulda used a lot of BBQ sauce, but to be honest -- they weren't very meaty.
After our time in the museums, we enjoyed lunch at Roland's in Pittsburgh's Strip district.  Later in the evening we strolled from our hotel to Heinz Stadium for the Rib Fest.  It was a tough decision, but we landed on Bad Wolf BBQ from Kansas City -- and the ribs were out of this world!  ; )

FIFTEEN MINUTES OF WARHOL



Before we left Pittsburgh the next day, we met with top executives at the Andy Warhol Museum to finalize plans for our jointly sponsored exhibit, "Soup Two Nuts," an in-depth look at Andy Warhol's fascination with Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed at her request).

Pictured at the right (from left to right): Top executives from the Andy Warhol Museum:   Idonia Noggs, Global Senior Analytics Consultant for Innovation and Integrated Millennial Market Strategies; Patsy Tatersale, Chief Managing Specialist for Multi-Platform Distribution Insights and Strategic Communications; and Summer Hussey, Principal Associate Coordinator for Experiential and Interactive Acquisitions.

To view the Warhol/Dickinson exhibit, click HERE.