Nevada Museum of Art

"REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY"

  I went to the Nevada Museum of Art and went up to Chester Arnold section which was on the third floor. It was my first time going to a museum and i expected very little like small art portraits, but I was wrong and came up to much more!  

All of Chester Arnold's work was very nice and big in size. I really enjoyed his work. Even though all the portraits were nice I had a hard time deciding which art piece to work on, since all of Chester's work is basically based on the environment. Then there was one that caught my eye. To me it seemed different and not really based on nature or like the environment. 

 It was "Reports To The Contrary". This one was amazing. It seemed like Autumn in New York Central Park. There was a lot of tall buildings surrounding the park, including the famous hotel "The Plaza" I think. It was a dark grayish cloudy windy day making it seem cold. The red-orange leaves of the trees in the park were all over the air making the trees bare naked without the leaves. Also the wind was so much that it took someones hat and papers making them fly in the mid air with the red-orange leaves. 

The painting was painted in 2008 and it was sold to Global Financial Services Giant Lehman Brothers for its corporate art collection. Not long after they declared bankruptcy and it was one of the largest bankruptcy filing in the U.S.A. -I got this info from the note of the painting.