Last month, we honored moms (and moms-to-be) with a photo post. It only seems fair to do the same for dear old dad on this Father’s Day weekend. Several of us have dads who are loyal followers of the DMA Educator Blog–they’ve even been known to comment on our posts a time or two. To my dad, I say thanks for teaching me everything I know. Except about art…you didn’t teach me anything there, but thanks for tolerating all of those Museum visits in Paris last summer.
To celebrate all dads, here are images of fathers both good and bad (I’m looking at you, Ugolino) from the DMA collection. Happy Father’s Day!
Nicolas Mignard, The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus and Remus to His Wife, 1654, Dallas Museum of Art, 1970.25
Standing male ancestor figure (ekpu), Oron peoples, Nigeria, late 19th century, Dallas Museum of Art, The Gustave and Franyo Schindler Collection of African Sculpture, gift of the McDermott Foundation in honor of Eugene McDermott, 1974.SC.31
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Children, 1860, cast c. 1871, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, Mrs. John B. O'Hara Fund, 1981.42.FA
Eccentric flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers, Maya culture, c. AD 600-900, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Mrs. Alex Spence, 1983.45.McD
Rembrandt Peale, George Washington, c. 1850, Dallas Museum of Art, The Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Collection, gift of the Hoblitzelle Foundation, 1987.41
Jean Antoine Theodore Giroust, Oedipus at Colonus, 1788, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, Mrs. John B. O'Hara Fund, 1992.22.FA
John Singleton Copley, Woodbury Langdon, 1767, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., 1996.70.1.McD
Shiva Nataraja, India, 11th century, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. Eugene McDermott, the Hamon Charitable Foundation, and an anonymous donor in honor of David T. Owsley, with additional funding from The Cecil and Ida Green Foundation and the Cecil and Ida Green Acquisition Fund, 2000.377
