WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS:
TWO CULTURAL TREASURES
 FIRST CLASS BUS TOUR to the
STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE
and
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Links: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Insttute | Williams College Museum of Art
Helen Day Art Center’s fall tour journeys to Williamstown, MA, gateway to the Berkshires and proud home to two major museums/research facilities known world-wide to lovers of the visual arts.
 The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s extraordinary collection of European and American art includes exceptional examples of painting, sculpture, master prints, drawings, silver, porcelain, and early photographs, showcased in a beautiful neoclassical white marble building surrounded by rolling hills and open meadows. In addition, on view is a stunning special exhibition, “Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly.” The exhibit brings together forty paintings by leading American artists working around 1900, who were masters of virtuosic brushwork. In this style of painting, artists obscured their brush strokes -- touch and surface were nearly as important as the subject being painted.
"Paint should not be applied thick”, Whistler said, “it should be like breath on the surface of a pane of glass.”
The Clark’s newly opened Stone Hill Center, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Tadao Ando, houses intimately scaled galleries currently highlighted by the inaugural exhibition of masterpieces by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.
Known as one of the finest college art museums in the country, the Williams College Museum of Art is distinguished architecturally by the neoclassical rotunda of the original 1846 structure, as well as the internationally renowned architect Charles Moore’s dramatic three-story entrance atrium of the new addition.
 The museum houses a collection of 11,000 works that span the history of art and is the temporary home to one of Williams’ greatest treasures, a collection of documents relating to the founding of the United States of America. Included are the Declaration of Independence, the British Reply to the Declaration, the Articles of the Confederation and Perpetual Union, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers. Presenting the Founding Documents as “manifestos” of a new type of government, the collection will be shown within “American Dreams,” a presentation of work by John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Edward Hopper, Benjamin West and Grant Wood.
Please join us for our day tour that includes: a guided highlights tour of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a catered box lunch by the Clark’s Museum Café, a guided highlights tour of the Williams College Museum of Art, transportation, homemade continental breakfast, and hors d’oeuvres and beverages.
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TICKETS
$125 members -- $135 non-members
checks payable to HDAC
Deadline: October 8, 2008
call (802)253-8358 to sign-up
Accepting credit cards, checks, or Paypal
Helen Day Art Center & T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center act only as agents with respect to travel services and assume no responsibility or liabilty for personal injury, loss or damage to passengers or personal property.
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