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
These trips often fill by word of mouth; express your interest via email to get on the list: barbara@artwisetx.com
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SPRING DAYTRIP: HOUSTON
CONFIRMED DATE: Friday, May 23, 2025 . . . . flyer >
Highlights:
"The Stuart Collection: Triumph of the Landscape"
A special exhibition of 60 works in varied media that chart the rise of native landscape art,
especially in England, where artists "discovered" the beauties of Britain while they were constrained from traveling on the continent during the Napoleonic Wars.
"Tamara de Lempicka"
A special exhibition--the first US retrospective exhibition for this artist--featuring more than 90 works of art, traversing Lempicka’s career from her beginnings in Paris to the decade she spent in New York and Los Angeles in the 1940s. Classic portraits, sensual figure studies, and melancholic still lifes trace the influences she absorbed from Cubist aesthetics, fashion and design, and her deep appreciation for art of the Renaissance and the paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The display is augmented by exceptional examples from the MFAH’s Art Deco collection of costumes and design.
Art inSight explored the work of Lempicka in the "Great Women Artists" series in 2022.
This day will include lunch on your own at the historic Cleburne Cafeteria and
time on the MFA campus to explore the new Kinder Building and the expanding
Cullen Sculpture Garden
Express your interest via email to Barbara Newey, barbara@artwisetx.com
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Houston May daytrip flyer |
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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| NCHM Annual Study Tour No. 21
DETROIT: An Art Deco City in the Times of Henry Ford
September 24-28, 2025 (Wednesday-Sunday)
see outline at left (.pdf) -- Registration now open!
Express your interest with an email to: barbara@artwisetx.com
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Detroit tour flyer and registration form |
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 pertinent sites
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UMLAUF in ITALY
April 19-28, 2026
A small-group study tour focusing on Florence and points west, designed to explore the art and architecture of the masters who inspired Charles Umlauf and visit the sites important to his production, including the famed Carrara quarries and foundries where his bronze sculptures were cast
RESCHEDULED from 2025 -- will match the 2025 itinerary at right
Express your interest via email: karen_pope@mac.com
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3page itinerary and registration form |
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SEPTEMBER 2026
GLORIES OF BRITAIN IX: England's Lake District, Landscapes and Their Poets
Explore England’s most famous landscapes and the poets and painters they inspired
Preliminary outline at right
Please express your interest:
karen_pope@mac.com to receive updates when dates and costs are determined
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Lake District Tour Outline |
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