STUDY TOURS PAGE: Abroad — Around the U.S. — Around Central Texas
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DAYTRIPS AROUND TEXAS
To great museums and special exhibitions within reach of Austin
Chartered coach, all admissions, lunch, snacks, readings; group sizes limited
Express your interest via email: barbara@artwisetx.com
September 2023: Mid-Century Modern Painting & Sculpture (Fort Worth)
January 2024: Old Masters in Houston
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NEW YEAR DAYTRIP: HOUSTON, "Old Masters to Modern"
January 18, 2024
Include art history in your New Year plans!
Depart central Austin by chartered coach, snack and discussion en route
• Rienzi: House and collections tour
• Lunch on your own at Café Menil
• MFA Houston: “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: The Armand Hammer Collection”
• Free time on the MFA campus: Law Building, Kinder Building, Cullen Sculpture Garden
Return to Austin, snack and discussion en route
All details appear in flyer at right.
Let Barbara Newey know right away if you want to participate! Get on the list, then make payment.
barbara@artwisetx.com
Group size limited to 30
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TOURS AROUND THE U. S.
Long weekends in spring and fall, with focus on major art collections and historic architecture
Group arrangements include historic hotels and special receptions
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Berkshires tour flyer + registration form | NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM STUDY TOUR #18
October 18 - 22, 2023
History, Art and the Mystique of the Berkshires
Five days in "America's Highlands" exploring village life, museum houses of great American figures and art institutions famed in our cultural history
Approximate itinerary:
Wednesday, October 18: Travel and intro (dinner included)
Flights to Albany
Tour New York State Capitol, a key monument of Beaux-Arts architecture
Transfer to Stockbridge
Hotel check-in: historic Red Lion Inn (1773) 4 nights, breakfast daily
Welcome dinner in our hotel
Thursday, October 19: Stockbridge (breakfast and lunch included)
Chesterwood, 1897 summer estate and studio of the “Lincoln” sculptor, Daniel Chester French; NTHP property
The Mount, home of Edith Wharton
Norman Rockwell Museum & Studio, 1969, world’s largest collection of Rockwell’s original art
Friday, October 20: Lenox and Pittsfield (breakfast and lunch included)
Arrowhead, home to Herman Melville during his most productive years (1850-63)
Hancock Shaker Village, a commune organized in the 1790s, active until 1960
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio (1941 and 1930), dream house of an artistic couple, abstract modernists
Saturday, October 21: North Adams and Williamstown (breakfast and lunch included
Clark Art Institute, known worldwide for its 19th-century art and exhibitions
MASS MoCA, one of the US’s largest centers of contemporary art
Williams College Museum of Art (time permitting)
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum
Sunday, October 22: Finale and Travel (brunch included)
To Albany: Farewell brunch at Iron Gate Café
Albany Institute of History and Art, America’s first art museum private tour, farewell lunch
Transfer to Albany for homeward flights
Tour will include 4 nights hotel (single supplement additional), porterage,
breakfast daily, welcome dinner, two lunches, farewell brunch; all admissions,
gratuities, ground transportation, and travel insurance; commentary throughout
by art historians Rowena Dasch, NCHM ED, and Karen Pope, Board Chair
Airfare extra; flights will be designated, tour will begin in Albany airport
• All participants must be members of the NCHM at the $150 level.
• Group size limited to 20; contact Barbara Newey for details, deadlines
TOUR ARRANGEMENTS:
Barbara Newey, Art Wise TX | barbara@artwisetx.com | 512-701-0441
August 1: all spots filled
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STUDY TOURS ABROAD
Destinations chosen for significant art historical interest, particularly including special exhibitions and concentrations of material from the "modern" period--eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: museum collections, historic houses and other sites
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FALL 2023
Vienna: Old Masters to Modern
November 6-15, 2023
Great art museums, splendid architecture, and a powerful musical heritage:
- Upper Belvedere Palace collections
- Museum of the City of Vienna
- Secession
- MAK (Museum of Applied Art)
- Albertina (world's greatest museum of prints and drawings)
- Burgtheater (fin-de-siècle opulence, Klimt et al)
- Klosterneuberg Abbey (f. 1114)
- Kirche am Steinhof (c. 1900, Secession tour-de-force of architecture, mosaic, glass, sculpture)
- Church of the Holy Trinity (1976, Brutalist design by Fritz Wotruba)
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (world-famous collection of Old Masters)
- Leopold Collection of Modern art
- Free time for choices e.g., Vienna Choir Boys, Spanish Riding School (Lipizzaner Stallions)
Group size limited to 16
Background reading recommendation: Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
DETAILS in 1-page FLYER at left, plus registration form
Registration deadline: August 15, final payments due September 30, 2023
All spots filled with short waiting list
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| Josef Maria Olbrich, Secession Building (detail), 1902 |
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Vienna flyer + registration form |
Outline: Bruges 2024, waiting for exact dates | Flemish Masters: Medieval Art and Music, Bruges and Beyond
August 2024
Highlights:
• Pageant of the Golden Tree, 2-day commemoration of marriage of Charles the Bold and
Margaret of York, 1468 (occurs once every 5 years)
• Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, masterwork of Flemish painting, just restored
Several days in Bruges--museums, pageant, performances--and a day each in
• Ghent
• Antwerp
• Brussels
Tour co-director Sara Schneider, creator of KMFA 89.5's "Early Music Now," will share her connections and expertise throughout the tour.
Tour designed for 15 travelers
Feel free to express your interest via email at any time!
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Constable and the English Landscape
April 22 - May 3, 2024 [irst step: hotels reserved √]
A few days (3 nights) in London to see Constable's key paintings, then excursions around East Anglia, with Cambridge as home base (6 nights, 7th night at Heathrow before return travel), to explore cathedrals, country houses, related historic sites and the uniquely intact locales of John Constable's "Constable Country," experiencing the motifs of England's first great painter in his native countryside by standing on the spots from which he painted his beloved riverine landscape.
Feel free to express your interest via email.
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