STUDY TOURS PAGE: Abroad — Around the U.S. — Around Central Texas
Traveling again!
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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
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FALL DAYTRIP: Houston & the Art of the Figure
Thursday, 17 November 2022
Highlights, MFA Houston:
• Cullen Sculpture Garden: Sculpture 101 and Thoughts about the Figure as a Subject
• "Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure"
• "Philip Guston Now"
See exhibition details, more about the day's theme, schedule and registration information (Flyer at right)
NEW YEAR'S DAYTRIP: Fort Worth Special Exhibitions
Friday, 6 January 2023
Highlights:
• National Cowgirl Hall of Fame
• "Murillo: From Heaven to Earth" @ Kimbell Art Museum
• "Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne Windfohr Marion" @ MAMFW"
See exhibition details, more about the day's theme, schedule and registration information (Flyer at right)
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New Year Daytrip Fort Worth 2023 |
DAYTRIP TO FORT WORTH: Celebrating American Art
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Our wonderful day included:
a special tour of "Slay" at the Kimbell Art Museum, exploring two masterworks:
• Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1612 (Capodimonte Museum, Naples)
• Kehinde Wiley, Judith, 2012 (North Carolina Museum of Art)
Highlight: a magnificent large exhibition (140 works of painting, printmaking, mosaic, and glass) at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art --
"Sargent, Whistler, and Murano Glass”
and time for a a little wandering before . . .
a visit to one of Fay Jones' distinctive chapels, Fort Worth's Marty Leonard Chapel
30 participants enjoyed chartered coach transportation, admissions, lunch, snacks, etc., discussion en route and excellent docents in both exhibitions
Open the pdf for a review of our day in pictures.
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Favorites from 8-11-2022 Fort Woth daytrip |
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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SPRING 2023 -- Vienna: Old Masters to Modernity
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 14
Background reading recommendation: Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
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| Josef Maria Olbrich, Secession Building (detail), 1902 |
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Vienna 2022 description + registration form |
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| Statue of Jan van Eyck, Bruges |
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Flemish Masters: Medieval Art and Music, Bruges and Beyond
(designed to include Bruges' historic Pageant of the Golden Tree)
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, The Haywain, 1821 |
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2023 -- Constable and the English Landscape
New dates to be determined; probably latter part of September
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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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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HERE IT IS! February 28 - March 5, 2023
NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM STUDY TOUR #18
"Santa Barbara to Monterey: California History beside the Sea"
The Neill-Cochran House Museum annual study tours have explored historic house museums for 17 years running. The 2023 tour is designed to take 20 travelers to California for 6 days (including travel) to explore the beauties of early missions and mission-inspired architecture, the great Hearst Castle, and the beauties of Carmel-by-the-Sea, ending with Monterey’s redeveloped Cannery Row. Lovely accommodations and chartered transportation throughout, with leisure time here and there for wine-tasting, shopping, and relishing California’s rich flora. Tour will include the classic scenic coastal drives and special private events in Carmel.
All tour arrangements are being made for the NCHM by Art Wise TX:
Barbara Newey, barbara@artwisetx.com, 512-701-0441
Accommodations available for single or double occupancy.
Flyer, registration form, deadlines, all details in the .pdf >
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California 2023 Flyer + Reg. Form |
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| Fort Concho, a post of the famed Buffalo Soldiers |
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History, Landscape and Sculpture across the Texas Plains
Inspired by the NCHM Book Club selection, Sarah Bird's Daughter of the Daughter of a Queen, and taking advantage of the predictability of travel closer to home, this exploration of history and art in the geographic heart of Texas will visit famed sites we've all intended to visit.
Approximate itinerary:
DAY 1 — Fly into Amarillo
• Amarillo Art Museum
• Cadillac Ranch, Stanley Marsh's notorious desert sculpture
• Dinner
• Hotel (1 night) Courtyard Amarillo Downtown in historic Fisk Building (1927)
Day 2 — Canyon and Lubbok
• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum: Frank Reaugh, Painter of the Longhorns
• Palo Duro Canyon
• Lunch in Lubbock
• Buddy Holly Museum
Hotel check-in: Big Spring (5 nights) historic Settles Hotel
Day 3 — San Angelo
• Fort Concho, 1860s Army post, National Historic Landmark
• Concho Avenue historic buildings
• San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
• Tule Princess Steamboat, the last operational, full-size walking beam side-wheel paddle steamboat
DAY 4 — Abilene
• Grace Museum
• Ballinger for Pompeo Coppini's Charles H. Noyes sculpture (story told by Stephen Harrigan in Remember Ben Clayton)
DAY 5 — Midland
• Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
• Museum of the Southwest
• George W. Bush Childhood Home, 1939
Day 6 — Odessa and TRAVEL
• Ellen Noël Art Museum and sculpture garden
GROUP SIZE: 20 Members of NCHM (membership can be attained with registration)
TOUR COST: will include hotel (sharing double; single additional), breakfast daily, ground transportation, all admissions, gratuities, several meals, commentary throughout by art historian Rowena Dasch, Executive Director of the NCHM
Airfare additional (designated flights for departures from multiple cities, if desired
TOUR ARRANGEMENTS:
Barbara Newey, Art Wise TX | barbara@artwisetx.com | 512-701-0441
EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST via EMAIL to Barbara
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