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KY -- Louisville -- Speed Art Museum (except paintings):

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1. SPEEDM_081007_014.JPG: Hattie Bishop Speed 1858 - 1942 builder, benefactor, founder of this museum as a memorial to her husband James Breckinridge Speed "The world is nobler that she passed this way." Inscribed in the year 1950 by the Board of Governors
2. SPEEDM_081007_310.JPG: Note the steam coming out of his ear. The artist is known for sculptures that change. The guide mentioned he had had a show there and the figure would whisper sweet come ons like "Come here. I really like you. Let me talk to you." and then when you'd actually get near it, the figure would start yelling at you.
3. SPEEDM_081007_357.JPG: I've seen this sculpture in at least three art museums. Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii Randolph Rogers Rogers's Nydia was the single most popular full-length American sculpture of the nineteenth century. The heroine of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's epic 1834 novel, "The Last Days of Pompeii," Nydia is a blind slave girl in Pompeii, who falls in love with the noble-born Glaucus, although he loves the beautiful Ione. When Vesuvius erupts, Nydia went blind, is able to "hear" her way to the docks, and valiantly leads the couple through the darkness to safety on a boat in the harbor. Rogers captures the terror of the moment in her anguished expression and forward rush, as well as in her gown, whipped by volcanic winds. The next morning, Nydia, realizing the hopelessness of her love for Glaucus, throws herself overboard into the sea. Victorian viewers appreciated Rogers's depiction of Nydia's sentimental story of bravery and sacrifice, as well as the virtuosity of the sculpture's deeply carved and undercut surfaces.
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Wikipedia Description: Speed Art Museum
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The Speed Art Museum, colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest and largest museum of art in Kentucky. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus.

The museum, built in Neo-Classical style, houses over 12,000 pieces of art in its permanent collection. It contains ancient, classical, and modern art from around the world.

The museum opened its doors in 1927 and was named after James Breckenridge Speed, whose wife Hattie Speed set up the endowment that funded the museum. She specified that the museum must never charge admission. There were over 200,000 visitors in its first two weeks of operation. In 1997, the museum underwent a $12 million renovation and expansion.

Admission is still free, although a $4 donation is recommended. The museum receives around 180,000 visitors per year.
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2008 photos: Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina. Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater. Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year. Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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