Maryhill Museum

Mom and Dad stayed here for a few days on their way down to Arizona and during their stay we went to see the new wing at the Maryhill museum. All of us have been to the museum before, but the exhibits change and the grounds are beautiful.

Looking west from the observation deck, the Maryhill Vineyards are visible.

The sky remains hazy from the wildfires burning around the state.

We enjoy looking at the sculptures located around the grounds. The artist for Diana's Stag is Joseph Warren from Portland, Oregon. He assembled the stag using tools and gears found at an abandoned mine.

I could not find information about this statue, but it reminded me of Sasquatch.

Dixie Jewett from Dayton, Oregon created Merriweather. She spent 14 years as an Alaska bush pilot and knows horses well. She now works with a variety of scrap metal items to produce larger-than-life horses. Each horse takes several months to complete. Susan noticed that the horse even has eye lashes.

Andre Dignimont was one of the designers asked to work for the Theatre de la Mode in 1945. He was most involved with the French literary circle of the period. Maryhill has a display replicating the Palais Royal and clothes of the period.

At the time of the French Revolution and the First Empire, stylish women went to the Palais to purchase elegant new fashions, which they paraded around the garden while exchanging the latest political news and gossip.

We wanted to see what we would look like in some of the designs.

The museum has an extensive display of Native American goods. This Parade Bag from the 1940's is constructed of glass beads, buckskin and cotton cloth. Plateau peoples refer to large, showy, beaded bags as "parade bags" because their handles loop over the front horn of a woman's saddle when she rides a decorated horse in a parade or other public event.

Wedding veils of this type are unique to the Middle Columbia River region. Young women wore them after coming of age. They are most commonly associated with betrothals and wedding ceremonies.

After enjoying the museum we drove to Bingen so Mom and Dad could taste the pizza at Solstice, which they enjoyed very much!