Art inSight Inc., Adventures in Art History

A beautiful thought:

We tend to think of travel as something that’s experienced most profoundly in the moment.
But this year, as our passports have gathered dust because of the pandemic, many of us have found ourselves escaping through the portal of memory to trips made in the Before Times.
In the same way that birthdays and graduations serve as temporal landmarks in our past, so, too, can travel experiences, the best of which are such radical departures from everyday life that they often endure in ways other memories don’t.

Jim Benning, Traveler and Writer, AAA Magazine, August 2020

Art inSight STUDY TOURS: Where We've Been

(A selection; complete list at bottom of page: 4-6 day US tours; 10-12 day European ones)

I am happy to share an itinerary for a destination that interests you

NB: I abandoned the clusters of souvenir pictures because they were unwieldy to post and expensive to maintain!

FALL 2023—November 6-15

Vienna: Old Masters to Modern

Great art museums, splendid architecture, and a powerful musical heritage:

Upper Belvedere Palace collections [300th]
Secession [125th]
MAK (Museum of Applied Art, international collection, especially rich in c. 1900 works)
Albertina (world's greatest museum of prints and drawings)
Burgtheater (fin-de-siècle opulence, Klimt et al)
Klosterneuberg Abbey (f. 1114)
Church of the Holy Trinity (1976, Brutalist design by Fritz Wotruba)
Kunsthistorisches Museum (world-famous collection of Old Masters)
Leopold Collection of Modern art (key collection of Secession-era painting and decorative arts)
Schönbrunn Palace
Hofburg
Votivkirche
Café Landtmann (150th]
Pasqualatihaus (Beethoven)
Mozarthaus
Andre Rieu concert

Josef Maria Olbrich, Secession Building (detail), 1902

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

New York State Capitol, a key monument of Beaux-Arts architecture
Hotel: Red Lion Inn (1773)

Chesterwood, 1897 summer estate and studio of the “Lincoln” sculptor, Daniel Chester French
The Mount, home of Edith Wharton
Norman Rockwell Museum & Studio, 1969

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 Studio & House (1930, 1941), dream house of abstract modernist couple

Bennington Art Museum, largest collection of work by Grandma Moses
Clark Art Institute, known worldwide for its 19^th-century art and exhibitions
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum

Albany: Iron Gate Café
Albany Institute of History and Art, America’s first art museum

Serendipitous additions:
High Lawns Farm
Sedgwick Pie in Stockbridge Cemetery

Great itinerary, excellent company, superb arangements, and lovely fall foliage

Tour review in pictures

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.

Whistler, Nocturne, 1880

Favorites from 8-11-2022 Fort Woth daytrip

GALVESTON, the Oleander City

June 24-27, 2021

with Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum

Austin to Galveston

San Felipe de Austin, the Austin Colony, and the Runaway Scrape
San Jacinto Battle Monument and Museum

Galveston

1900 Storm Film
Tall Ship Elissa, 1877
Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig and Museum
Bryan Museum: Art and artifacts surveying the vast history of the American West
Bishop’s Palace, 1892
Moody Mansion, 1895
The Strand and the new Juneteenth mural

Galveston to Austin

Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site

Karen LaMonte, Dress Impression with Wrinkled Cowl, 2007. (glass, life-size)

2019 FALL GETAWAY

Heartland Collections & America’s New Art Museum: Crystal Bridges

September 21-24, 2019

A four-day adventure in Oklahoma and Arkansas to explore major collections of American and European art:

Philbrook Museum
Art Deco Tulsa
Oklahoma City Memorial
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, including the Paul Mellon Collection
Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art: the Weitzenhoffer Collection
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Mildred Cooper Memorial Chapel
Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Tulsa
Gilcrease Museum

Lodge at Torrey Pines, recreation of key designs by Greene & Greene, Arts & Crafts architects in Pasadena

WINTER INTERLUDE: San Diego by the Sea
February 12-15, 2018

Afew days on the California coast for landmarks, historic architecture and art museums.

San Diego Museum of Art
Timken Museum of Art
Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture at UC-San Diego
Balboa Park and historic San Diego
Marston House, 1905 Arts & Crafts
Lodge at Torrey Pines, 2002 recreation of Arts & Crafts key works by Greene & Greene
Salk Institute, 1965 major work by Louis Kahn
"Uncle Vanya" at Old Globe Theatre

Art inSight Study Tour: Modern Art in Milan
April 3-14, 2018

Hotel Sina de la Ville, Via Hoepli, 6

Arrival at Malpensa Airport, transfer to the city via Leonardo’s Horse at San Siro
Welcome luncheon: Opera Restaurant; neighborhood stroll: Cathedral, Galleria

Excursion to Pavia: Certosa (monastery, f. 1396), and Visconti Castle

Excursion to Cremona: Baptistry and Cathedral; Violin Museum; lunch in town

Castello Sforzesco: Ducal fortress famous for art (Michelangelo’s last Pietà)
Museum of Science & Technology: Leonardo’s machines
Basilica of Sant’ Ambrogio (original basilica consecrated by Ambrose, 387)
Museo del Risorgimento: Artifacts telling the story of Italy’s unification
Pinacoteca di Brera: World-renowned picture gallery
San Maurizio Convent Church with Conservator Austin Nevin
Santa Maria delle Grazie: Last Supper with Conservator Austin Nevin
Cimitero Monumentale: Milan’s “Museum of Monuments” (with Sharon Hecker)
Museo Bagatti Valsecchi: Kaleidoscopic collection formed in the 19^th-century
La Scala: Tour world-famous opera house
Liberty neighborhood ((Art Nouveau, with Sharon) + Grandi’s Five Days
Poldi Pezzoli Museum: Rich collection formed in the 19^th century
Galleria d’Arte Moderna: Major 19^th-century collection (including Rosso with Sharon)
Ambrosiana: One of Italy’s great library/galleries; Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus
Galleria d’Italia: grand 19^th-century Italian art survey in three superb linked palazzo
Villa Necchi-Campiglio: Modern villa (1930s), tour with Andrea Alessandri
Prada Foundation: Rem Koolhaas-designed arts complex
Chiesa Rossa (1930): Site-specific last work of light artist Dan Flavin, 1966
Pirelli HangarBicocca: Anselm Kiefer installation, Seven Heavenly Palaces, 2004
Museo del Novecento [1900s]: 400+ collection of 20^th-century art

Farewell dinner in the Galleria: La Locanda del Gatto Rosso

LATE SUMMER 2016
FRIENDS OF THE NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM STUDY TOUR #12
(September 8-13, 2016)
"Northwest Passage: Portland, the Columbia,
and the Landscape of Lewis & Clark"
Portland

Ankeny Square, Skidmore Fountain (1888), Portlandia sculpture (1985)
Simon Benson House* (1900)
Portland Art Museum
International Rose Test Garden
Japanese Garden
Lan Su Chinese Garden
Pittock Mansion (1909)

Vancouver

Ft. Vancouver National Historic Site: George C. Marshall House (1886)
Clark County Historical Museum
Two Rivers Heritage Museum and Pendleton Woolen Mills Outlet

Astoria

Flavel House (1884)
Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater (1885)
Columbia River Maritime Museum
Astoria Column (1926)

Newberg

Hoover-Minthorn House (1881)

The Mighty Columbia

Panoramic drive along the Columbia: Vista House, Multnomah Falls, Horsetail Falls, historic Highway 30
Maryhill Museum
Columbia Gorge Hotel (1921, Simon Benson* now HHA): tour and a glass of wine
Timberline Lodge (1930s) dinner and tour with historian/author, Sarah Munro

Maryhill, above the Columbia

SCOTLAND: Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the Highland North
July 27 - August 9, 2016

Glasgow:

University's Hunterian Museum
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
Burrell Collection
Mackintosh's Art Lover's House
Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms
Excursion to Inveraray Castle on Loch Fyne; Kilchurn on Loch Awe; Mackintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh
Excursion to Ayrshire: Robert Burns' Birthplace in Alloway

Between Glasgow and Edinburgh:

Stirling Castle
Dunblane Cathedral and Cromlix Hotel
Hopetoun House

Edinburgh:

Holyroodhouse Palace
St Mary's Cathedral and Song School murals by Phoebe Traquair
Camera Obscura
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Scottish National Gallery
"Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh"
Edinburgh Castle: Dinner and Military Tattoo
Excursion about Sir Walter Scott: Drysburgh Abbey, Abbotsford,
Mellerstain House, Rosslyn Chapel
Excursion to St Andrews (lunch at Dunvegan Hotel) and Dunfermline
National Museum of Scotland: Lewis Chessmen, Art of the Celts, and 19th-century review

Phoebe Traquair, life-size figures in crewelwork

One-page Chronological Review

Paul Moore, Centennial Land Rush Monument (detail)

SUMMER 2016
Red River Getaway (June 30-July 3, 2016)

Oklahoma City Museum of Art:

"Matisse in His Time: Masterworks of Modernism from the Centre Pompidou, Paris"
OKC's immense Chihuly glass collection
Also:

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art's Weitzenhoffer Collection (Impressionism, OU campus)
Oklahoma State Capitol (1914) architecture and impressive art
Overholser Mansion ("Father of Oklahoma City")
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Historic downtown OKC and Pei-designed Crystal Bridge and Myriad Botanical Garden
Oklahoma Land Run Monument
"Dreamgirls" at Civic Center Music Hall
Historic Skirvin Hotel (1910, NTHP, HHA)

FALL 2015

JAPAN: History & Art Traditions in the Land of the Rising Sun
27 October - November 10, 2015

Major cultural monuments and the vestiges of landscape and commerce illuminating the Edo and Meiji periods, when Japanese art and culture made an exceptional impact on the West in the dynamic exchange called Japonisme. A day at Arita observed the *400th anniversary of the founding of the Imari porcelain studios.

Background reading:

Christopher Benfey, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan, 2003
Bruce Feiler, Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, 2004
Katherine Govier, The Printmaker's Daughter, 2010 [reconstructs life of Hokusai]
Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, 1894
Lafcadio Hearn, Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, 1904
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of His Writings on the Country and Its People, 2007
Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysthanème, 1887
Gabriel Weisberg, et al., The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art 1854-1918, 2011

SPRING 2015

BERLIN & BEYOND: Caspar David Friedrich and Modern German Art
May 24-June 3, 2015

An adventure starring the quietly remarkable Romantic landscape painter whose works were in demand in the courts of Europe, this tour will include several days in Berlin, throbbing with exciting new growth and momentum; Greifswald and Rügen, key geographies for Friedrich's landscape art; Dresden (where Friedrich maintained his mature-career studio and some of his most important works now reside), Potsdam (to explore Germany in the time of Frederick the Great and see another work by Karl Friedrich Schinkel Friedrich's friend and the major architect of the 1820s); and Hamburg, to see Friedrich's Wanderer above the Mists and the works of his important contemporaries.

Excellent background material from Neil MacGregor's 2014 series, based on his British Museum exhibition, "Germany: Memories of a Nation," inspired a detour on our drive to Hamburg to the lovely town of Güstrow to see its cathedral, home to the famous Hovering Angel by Expressionist sculptor, Ernst Barlach,a good friend of Käthe Kollwitz, whose likeness the Angel shares. Excellent guides throughout the tour were exceptionally helpful for the appreciation of German architecture in its periods of greatest distinction, and gave balance to the focus on the painting of Friedrich and the German Romantics.

It was a terrific trip!

APRIL 9-14, 2015
♦ Charleston: Lowcountry Charm in the South 
 Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum Study Tour #11

Historic City, Fort Sumter, the Citadel, Manigault House, Charleston Museum, Aiken-Rhett House, 
Drayton Hall, Middleton Place, Brookgreen Gardens; special visits: Andrew-Hazel-Coen House, 
Quenby House, Pompion Hill Chapel; Heyward-Washington House, 
Nathaniel Russell House with Historic Charleston Foundation curator, Brandy Culp; 
Candlelight Homes & Gardens Tour

A VERY SPECIAL TOUR! Thanks to all who participated.
Once again, Karen Bluethman/Heart of Texas Tours did a stellar job!

SUMMER STUDY TOUR: July 6-12, 2014
Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum Study Tour #10
"Falling Waters: Wright, Niagara, and American Art & Architecture"

PITTSBURGH
Excursion to Fallingwater (F. L. Wright, 1936)
Kentuck Knob (Wright, 1953)
Woodville Plantation (NSCDA) (Neville House, 1775)
Allegheny County Courthouse (H. H. Richardson, 1883)
Frick Building (Daniel Burnham, 1901)
Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Museum of Art
Frick Art & Historical Center: "Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist"

PITTSBURGH TO BUFFALO
Ambridge: Old Economy Village (Harmonist community, f. 1824)
The Butler Institute of American Art
Roycroft Inn, dinner at the birthplace of the American Arts & Crafts Movement

PITTSBURGH
Graycliff Estate (Wright, 1927) for Isabelle Martin, on a cliff 65 feet above Lake Erie
Fontana Boathouse (Wright, 1905, built 2010)
Darwin Martin House Complex (F. L. Wright, 1905) Insider Tour
Shea's Performing Arts Center (1926, Tiffany interior)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Delaware Park (F. L. Olmsted, c. 1875)
Guaranty Building (Louis Sullivan, 1898)
St Paul's Episcopal Church (Richard Upjohn, 1859)
Heath House (Wright, 1905)
Davidson House (F. L. Wright, 1908)
Niagara Falls: Maid of the Mist

HISTORIC HOTELS: William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh (1916) and Mansion on Delaware, Buffalo (1866)

Merlin's Cave and Tintagel Castle, legendary birthplace of King Arthur

"Glories of Britain: Cornwall" June 2014

London (Millennium Gloucester Hotel):

Tate Britain
Victoria & Albert
National Gallery

Oxford (Randolph Hotel):

Sulgrave Manor
Ashmolean Museum
Lady on a White Horse in Banbury

Cornwall (Royal Duchy Hotel, Falmouth):

Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum
St Michael’s Mount
Penzance (400th), Penlee House
St Ives: Tate-St Ives, CHurch of St Ia, Barbara Hepworth Museum & Garden, Leach Pottery
Land’s End
Falmouth Art Gallery and National Maritime Museum
Tintagel
Church of St Endellion
Port Isaac

Return to London:

Saltash: Royal Albert Bridge
Plymouth: Mayflower Steps Monument
Exeter Cathedral

Prague—Heart of the Slav Homeland (May 2013)

A week devoted to art and history with focus on the Belle Epoque and the Czech National revival: the Art Nouveau style of Alphonse Mucha and modern architecture, the sculpture of Bilek and Myselbek, the music of Smetana and Dvorak, and other expressions of the unique and ancient Slav consciousness

Vysehrad: Prague mythology, SS Peter and Paul Church, and Slavin (pantheon)
The Castle Complex: St Vitus Cathedral, Strahov Monastery, Lobkowicz Palace
Troja Palace: special exhibition of Czech sculpture c 1900
St Agnes of Bohemia: Gothic art in a Gothic convent-museum
Alphonse Mucha Museum
Jewish Quarter: Old Jewish Cemetery, Spanish Synagogue, Maisel Synagogue, and Pinkas Synagogue Holocaust memorial
Veletrzni Palace: National Collection of 19^th, 20^th, and contemporary art + exhibition of Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic
Excursion to Karlstein Castle + crystal shopping at the Rückl factory at Nizbor

70 pictures on Shutterfly

BALTIMORE & ANNAPOLIS: Art and History around the Chesapeake
A study tour devoted to historic architecture and great art museums plus the Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial
Friends of the Neill-Cochran House Museum Study Tour #5

April 14-19, 2009
5 nights Admiral Fell Inn (1770s, HHA) in the oldest waterfront community in Baltimore (1726)

Study Tour V: "Baltimore & Annapolis, Art & History around the Chesapeake" was a perfectly paced, comprehensive view of
       Maryland’s rich history, beautiful architecture, and lovely land- and seascapes:
Naval Academy and a bracing cruise around sunny Annapolis Harbor
Mount Clare, the NSCDA Georgian mansion atop Carroll Park, a reception with Maryland Dames
Furniture by Annapolis artisan John Shaw, including chairs in the Maryland Statehouse
The Maryland Historical Society: Francis Scott Key's draft of the national anthem; and silver by the great Samuel Kirk
Star Spangled Banner Flag House of Mary Pickersgill and a flag-raising over Fort McHenry
Baltimore Cathedral (Benjamin Latrobe, circa 1800) and the Kirkin' of the Tartans
Mount Vernon Place, including Baltimore’s two premiere art museums and the first monument to George Washington
Evergreen, the Gilded Age mansion complete with its own theatre
Westminster Burying Ground, Baltimore’s oldest, with a moment at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe in honor of his 200th birthday

Frank Lloyd Wright, Wisconsin Architect
"Wright in the Heartland: Historic Art & Architecture in Wisconsin"
October 5-8, 2007

19 central Texans enjoyed four days of Indian summer in Wisconsin, traveling through the landscape in which Frank Lloyd Wright grew up and to which he returned in 1911 after his early years in Chicago. We saw 10 Wright buildings: Johnson Wax, Wingspread (Johnson residence), Unitarian Meeting House, his first Usonian house (Jacobs residence), Gilmore House, Monona Terrace (convention center, built in 1995), and explored Spring Green: Taliesin, Hillside School, the Taliesin restaurant (now the visitors' center) and Unity Chapel near Wright's gravesite.
To appreciate the richness and variety of modern architecture, we toured the Wisconsin state capitol, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, St. Josaphat Basilica and the Quadracci Pavilion (Calatrava, 2002). Along the way, we saw a Louis Sullivan house (Bradley House) and a campus building by H. H. Richardson. Art and music completed the experience: the Chazen Museum at the U. of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and a concert featuring Joshua Bell. Karen Bluethman (Heart of Texas Tours) did a superlative job with arrangements, scheduling, and directing our attentive, congenial group.

Art inSight Study Tours Abroad
10 to 14 days, informal lectures and study materials;
focus on sites, collections, and special events

	2024 2024 2023 . . . . 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2017 2016 2015 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2007											"Flemish Masters: Art & Music in the FLemish Golden Age" (Bruges ++) "Constable & the English Countryside in Art & History" "Vienna, The Imperial City: Old Masters to Modern" . . . . Travel interrupted by COVID-19 . . . . "Once More to Japan" "Art, History, and Celtic Saints in Wales" "Best of Amsterdam" + Gauguin/Martinique @ Van Gogh Museum "Modern Art in Milan" (art and Italian identity, 1860-1930) "Victoria and Victorians" (London, Brighton, and Jane Austen 200) "Japan: Art, Life, History in the Edo and Meiji Eras" "Glories of Britain: Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the Highland North" "Japan: History & Art Traditions in the Land of the Rising Sun" "Friedrich, His Landscape, and Modern German Art" "Glories of Britain: Art, History, Landscape in Cornwall" "Prague: Art in the Heart of the Slav Homeland" "Catalunya: Art & Architecture at the Turn of the Century" "Paris: Impressionism & the Arts" (incl. Channel, Barbizon, Giverny) "Iberian Surprise: Art & History in Lisbon" "Glories of Britain, part III: Constable & English Landscape" (East Anglia) “Baroque to Secession: Vienna & the Arts”
	2006											“Dutch Golden Age: The Netherlands' Rembrandt Year”
	2005											“Venice, Queen of the Adriatic”
	2004											“The Best of Russia”
	2002											“Paris to Marseille, Art in the Heart of France” (two INTRAV study cruises)
	2002											"Art & Architecture in Madrid and the Heart of Spain"
	2001											"Berlin & Prague: History, Art & Architecture"
	2001											"Paris: City of the Impressionists"
	2000											"Flemish & Dutch Art: A Comprehensive Study Voyage" (Netherlands and Belgium, three INTRAV cruises)
	1999											“The Best of Italy” (Rome, Florence, Venice)
	1998											“Paris in the Second Empire: City of the Impressionists”
	1997											“Art at the Turn of the Century: Catalunya and Provence”
	1997											“The Glories of Britain, Part I: London & the Arts”
	1996											“Golden Age: The Arts in the North” (Denmark and The Netherlands)
	1996											“Mediterranean Masters: From the Ancients to the Moderns & Back” (CUNARD cruise: Spain, France, Italy)
	1996											“Vermeer and His Century” (Netherlands, Belgium)
	1995											“Masters of the Low Countries: Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondrian” (Netherlands, Belgium)
	1994											“Switzerland: History, Culture, Art”
	1994											“The Renaissance in Northern Italy: Venice and Milan”
	1993											“Art in the Heart of Italy: The Renaissance in Tuscany and Umbria”
	1990											“Masters of the Low Countries: Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondrian” (Netherlands, Belgium)
	1986											“Art and the English Landscape 1700-1850” (England, Wales)
	1985											“19th-Century French Painting: Heritage of Impressionism” (Ile-de-France, Normandy, Provence)

Art inSight Study Tours in the US
4 to 8 days, informal lectures and study materials;
focus on sites, collections and special events

2024 2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2019 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2016 2016 2015 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2011 2010 2010 2009 2009 2008 2008 2007 2007	"Seattle: Exploring the Emerald City, Queen of the Far Northwest" "Into the Woods: An Excursion into American Art & History" (Tulsa/Crystal Bridges) "History, Art and the Mystique of the Berkshires" "Galveston, the Oleander City" "Savannah: History & Architecture in Georgia’s Oldest City (1733)" "Heartland Collections: Oklahoma and Crystal Bridges" "North Carolina: Art & Historic Houses, Tidewater to the Blue Ridge" "Great Houses of the Hudson River" "Winter Interlude: San Diego by the Sea" "Kansas City: City of Fountains" (Benton and Pollock) "Granite & Green Mountains: Art & History Up East" "Southwest Interlude, Arizona: Visitonaries in the Desert" (FLW 150) "Portland, the Columbia, and the Landscape of Lewis & Clark" "Red River Getaway" Matisse in Oklahoma City "Charleston: Lowcountry Charm in the South" "Falling Waters: Art, Architecture, History" (Pittsburgh/Buffalo) "Bastille Day on Lake Michigan: Fashion & French Art" "Heartland Collections & America's Newest Museum" (Oklahoma museums and Crystal Bridges repeat) "Vincent in the Rockies" (Denver and Colorado Springs) "Newport: Gilded Age by the Narragansett Bay" "Heartland Collections & America's Newest Museum" (Tulsa, OK City, Crystal Bridges) "Boston: Art & History in the Cradle of Liberty" "Japan Comes to Jackson" ("Orient Expressed;" Natchez) "Spirit of California: Art & History in the Bay Area" "Hidden Treasures: Women & the Arts in Washington, D.C." "Baltimore & Annapolis: Art & History around the Chesapeake" "Art and Architecture in Chicago's Golden Age" (Munch @ AIC) "Modern Art & Architecture in the City of Angels" (LA +) "Great Houses of the Hudson River" (New York to Albany) "Wright in the Heartland: Historic Art & Architecture in Wisconsin" “Historic Homes & Gardens of Virginia: Jamestown 400 and American History”
2006	“Franklin and Philadelphia” (Citizen of Two Worlds and major museums and historic houses in and around Philadelphia)
2006	“Texas Museum Blitz” (ten art museums of Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston in three days)
2005	“Chicago: Art and the Artful House in a Great American City”
2005	“Arts in Atlanta” (Van Gogh to Mondrian Kröller-Müller collection at High Museum, other museums, historic Atlanta)
2003	“Celebrate America: Louisiana, the Purchase, the Bicentennial" (Jefferson's America, Napoleon's France, New Orleans)
2003	"Great American Museums: Dallas and Fort Worth" (Elderhostel course)
2000	"Historic Charleston: Art & Architecture"
1999	"Bastille Day 1999: Franco-Fête in New Orleans” (Degas in New Orleans and 3-Centuries observances)
1999	"Van Gogh & The Getty” (Van Gogh’s Van Goghs, new Getty Center, museums, gardens, houses)
1999	"Philadelphia: Art & Architecture in the Cradle of Liberty” (including Goya: Another Look and Maxfield Parrish)
1998	“Perspectives on the 1890s: Mary Cassatt & Her Times” (Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, art, architecture)
1998	"France & America Meet in Jackson: Bastille Day 1998” (Splendors of Versailles, historic architecture)
1998	"Art & Architecture in the Federal City” (special exhibitions, Washington museums and landmarks)
1997	"Austin to Boston: Art & History" (Early Picasso and 1890s)
1996	“Perspectives on the 1890s: Degas and His Times” (Chicago)
1996	“Cézanne and the Art of His Time” (Philadelphia)
1995	“Whistler and the French Avant-Garde” (Washington DC)
1995	“Gustave Caillebotte, Urban Impressionist: The Painter & His Contemporaries” (Chicago)
1995	“Late Monet & the Vieux Carré: Giverny Comes to the Crescent City” (New Orleans)
1994	“New York & the Arts: The Hudson River School”
1993 1992	“New York: Broadway & the Arts” (Stuart Davis exhibition) "New York & the Arts" (centennial Seurat exhibition)
1989	“Bastille Day's Bicentennial: Great French Art in America” (Philadelphia)
1988	“Degas and the Arts” (New York City)
1988	“The Art of Paul Gauguin” (Chicago)
1987	“Van Gogh at St.-Rémy & Auvers / Matisse in Nice” (New York City, Washington DC)
1986	"The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886” (San Francisco)
1984 1984	“The West Coast and the Arts” (Los Angeles and San Francisco) "A Day in the Country: Impressionism and Its Times" (Chicago)

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