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| STUDY TOUR ABROAD: 2012
Explore the riches of art and architecture in a major EU Cultural Capital, enhanced by
excursions to special destinations in the region
♦ Barcelona at the Turn of the Century (May 28 - June 9, 2012):
Picasso, Gaudi and their Contemporaries, with excursions to Montserrat, Girona, Figueres, and two days in Mallorca
Barcelona:
Great works by Gaudi--Palau Guell, Parc Guell, Casa Vicens, Sagrada Familia, La Pedrera
Picasso's Barri Gotic and cabaret, Els Quatre Gats
Art museums: National Museum of Catalan Romanesque Art, Monasterio Petralbes, Thyssen Bornemisza,
Frederick Mares, Picasso, Miro, Tapies, Contemporary
Landmarks: Santa Maria del Mar, Palau de la Musica Catalan, Poble Espanyol
Girona: Cathedral, Treasury, and famous manuscript called The Beatus Apocalypse
Figueres: Dali museum in his hometown
Montserrat:
Mountain monastery, Black Madonna and boys choir in the cathedral
Museum of Catalan art, grottoes and scenery
Mallorca: Modernismo architecture and special events featuring steel sculpture of LA artist friend, Betty Gold
SEE 1-page FLYER + REGISTRATION FORM at left
Beyond 2012:
♦ Cornwall--walking, scenery, small art museums
♦ Japan (Fall 2014)--focus on Japan of the great art traditions and the Tokaido Road / before 2016 (Imari's final year)
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Catalunya: 1-page flyer + registration form |
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TOURS AROUND THE U.S. 2012
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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| Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849 (William Cullen Bryant and Thomas Cole in the Hudson River Valley) |
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♦ Tulsa and Crystal Bridges: Museums Beyond the Red River (April 19-22, 2012)
(Fly to Tulsa; historic hotel in Tulsa; one day to OK City and Norman for OK City Museum and Weitzenhoffer Collection;
one day to Crystal Bridges; 2 major Tulsa museums--Philbrook and Gilcrease; fly home)
♦ Newport: Gilded Age by the Narragansett Bay (June 25-30, 2012)
for Friends of Neill-Cochran House Museum
(if you aren't already a member, you become one when you register for the tour)
Additional destinations in the works:
♦ Vincent in the Rockies: Denver/Colorado Springs (tentative date: first weekend in December)
Denver Art Museum: Becoming Van Gogh (70 paintings and drawings, Denver only)
Clyfford Still Museum (opened Nov 2011)
Anschutz Western Collection (opens March 2012)
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (Santos, pueblo ceramics, Goodacre, Jimenez)
McAllister House (1874, NSCDA; full of Belter furniture!)
Colorado College I.D.E.A. Space and Shove Chapel (Norman Romanesque Revival, 1935)
Possibilities: Will Rogers Shrine, Air Force Academy Chapel
Brown Palace Hotel, Garden of the Gods Club luncheon, dinner at the Broadmoor
♦ Buffalo, Niagara, and the Erie Canal--Artists Going West in the 1820s
♦ Tulsa and Crystal Bridges [repeat--dates TBA]
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Newport flyer + registration form |
April 2012 Tulsa/Crystal Bridges flyer |
DAYTRIPS AROUND TEXAS for special exhibitions in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio . . .
$100 per person (includes round-trip chartered
coach transportation, museum admissions, readings, lunch, snacks)
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| Pierre Bonnard, Woman with a Dog, 1891 |
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| MARCH 31—FORT WORTH, "Impressionists in Town"
Highlight:
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark, 73 paintings from the renowned collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will include 22 Renoirs and 6 Monets, along with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Bonnard.
MAY 12—FORT WORTH, "Impressionists in Town"
A second date for the Kimbell's popular exhibition; essentially the same arrangements as March 31.
Details in flier at left apply.
THIS TOUR FILLED IN A FEW DAYS, THANKS TO ROBUST EMAIL RESPONSE.
Send email to join short wait list.
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March 31st Fort Worth daytrip flyer |
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