Travis Simpkins

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Worcester Art Museum: Ancient Greek Colossal Female Head, 510-480 BC. by Travis Simpkins

Colossal Female Head, 510-480 B.C. Worcester Art Museum. by Travis Simpkins

Sketch of an

Ancient Greek

Colossal Female Head

510 - 480 B.C.

Cyprus

Collection of the
Worcester Art Museum

by Travis Simpkins

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Maenad, 100 AD. by Travis Simpkins

A Maenad, 100 AD. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. by Travis Simpkins

Sketch of an Ancient Roman

"Maenad"

100 A.D.

Collection of the

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

by Travis Simpkins

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Sketches by Travis Simpkins

The Maltese Falcon (1941): Humphrey Bogart, Film Noir and Knights Templar Treasure

Directed by John Huston in his debut, based on the book by Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1941) is often cited as the first major Film Noir and routinely places near the top of the list of the greatest films of all time. The story concerns a private investigator who gets tied up in murder and deception centered around a valuable and highly desirable statue of a falcon, a 400-year-old jeweled artifact created by the Knights Templar in tribute to King Charles after the Order was granted residence on the Island of Malta. It is a treasure for which people are willing to kill in order to possess it. Greed and passion blend with art and treasure in a complex mixture centered around the obsessed collecting of illicit loot. One classic scene runs after another… a true masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is excellent as Sam Spade. Mary Astor is sleek as the Femme Fatale. Sydney Greenstreet is grandiose in his debut, and Peter Lorre is great as well. Gladys George and Elisha Cook, Jr. co-star.