My sister and I took the KIDS here on our museum day. As we walked in, my nephew looked at the reception desk and travelled his head around the lounge and asked "what is this place?"
"It's an art gallery." I answered.
"This is boring." He quipped. I told him that he didn't have a choice. All I was thinking was good thing this was free admission!
Boy, was he wrong! My little cutie pie motioned to his little cousin to look at all the cool bronze sculptures. What little boy could not get excited over "Cowboys and Indians"? We told them that sculptures usually tell a story. They had fun making up all sorts of hilarious ones! My nieces loved the depth of pastel portraits by Harley Brown. Even my sister, the artist, was in awe.
The little boys are just learning their color wheel. The game was to look at a painting and call out what colors they see. It teaches kinesthetic boys how to look at things visually. They were surprised at how many different color a white cloud in a painting has! I could not forget to mention the gun collection. They both pressed their noses on the glass case (sorry about that) while each one picked their favorite.
Expect to be amazed with such intricacy of Hopi Kachina sculptures by Cecil Calnimptewa's. Oil paintings by reknowned Tucson artist, Howard Terpning, come alive with such vivid colors and light. I could go on and on...
"This is cool", my little nephew said at the end of our visit. Even a 5 year old can appreciate great works of Southwestern art!