Dallas Day 3

Hi,

Today - the last day of the Dallas trip is devoted to going to the Dallas Museum of Art and seeing the former Asenbaum collection which Deedie bought for the museum. She told the story of how this happened when she went to the gallery owned by Asenbaum family for some other reason entirely and happened to ask about a couple of pieces of jewelry that were out. And the rest is history. Anyway the collection includes about 700 pieces of jewelry dating from somewhere in the 1960s through the 1980s.

First we got checked in by security....

Then Deedie arrived and with Sarah Schleuning, the Dallas Museum of Art Decorative Arts curator talked about the collection as we all had a close look at the 60 or so pieces that were out around a big table.

Hermann Junger

Anton Cepka

Giampaolo Babetto

David Watkins

Francesco Pavan

Vratislav Novák

Otto Kunzli

Daniel Kruger- early themes with materials he is still using

The group

And now for the grand finale.... a Christian Dior exhibition with Sarah the curator guiding us through. What a treat! The show gives the history of the Dior House by separating out each of the creative directors by date and showing a sampling of their work. There are real changes that take place.