Just one more stop before heading home. After seeing
Niki de Saint Phalle's
Tarot Garden, last summer, I decided to see some more so routed my trip through
San Diego. Niki moved there, for health reasons, in 1994 until she passed away in 2002. She left behind some of the only work she did in the United States.
There are a few sculptures around the city that were unavailable due to construction at the
Mingei Museum. And her last masterwork:
Queen Califia’s Magical Circle, in Escondido, was clearly out of my range. But I got around and saw some stuff.
Since I was limited to public transportation, it became a challenge to see how much I could in less than one day.
I began at the train station, the
Santa Fe Depot, which opened on March 8, 1915, to accommodate visitors to the Panama-California Exposition.
I began by heading north to
Balboa Park, the site of the 1915 exposition, where many of the remaining buildings are now homes to a host of museums and institutions, and a fun place to visit. Among them, is the
San Diego Museum of Art.
The museum's permanent collection included quite a few women artists:
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| Portrait of a Lady by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, c 1899 |
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| Cordelia Crying Out for Help by Angelica Kauffmann, c1882-83 |
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| Four Spaces with a Broken Cross by Sophie Henriette Taeuber-Arp, 1932 |
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| Still-life with Porcelain Dog by Gabriele Münter, 1911 |
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| Young Girl in front of a Window by Suzanne Valadon, 1930 |
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| Wooden Doll by Gabriele Münter, 1909 |
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| Barn with Snow by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1934 |
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| Composition by Irene Rice Pereira, c 1965 |
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| Artichokes by Alice Ellen Kauber, c 1933 |
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| Echo Startled by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, c1937 |
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| Rookwood Vase (with floral design) by Katherine Van Horne (Duell), c1907-12. |
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| Simone in a Blue Bonnet (No. 1) by Mary Cassatt, c 1903 |
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| Untitled by Janet Sobel, c1946-48 |
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| Portrait of Mildred Myers Oldden by Alice Neel, ca 1937 |
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| The Young Mother by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, c 1918-20 |
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| Portrait of Mrs. William Crane by Sarah Miriam Peale, c 1840 |
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| Night Presence II by Louise Nevelson, 1976 |
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| Figure for Landscape by Barbara Hepworth, 1960 |
CLICK HERE to see the men. There are some good ones.
In addition, they were having the
Abstract Revolution, highlighting the work of
Lee Krasner,
Elaine de Kooning,
Helen Frankenthaler, and
Deborah Remington as well as the work of contemporary artist
Mary Heilmann. Photos were not permitted.
Then it was up to
UCSD in
La Jolla:
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| Sun God by Niki de Saint Phalle, 1983 |
Out to
Liberty Station:
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| Nikigator by Niki de Saint Phalle, 2001 |
And back to the
Convention Center.
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| Serpent Tree by Niki de Saint Phalle |
There was also a
Jaume Plensa, downtown.
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| Pacific Soul by Jaume Plensa, 2017 |
With so few buses, I actually walked back to the airport. Plenty tired for my flight home.
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