Sister Wendy's American Collection
Sister Wendy Beckett, a cloistered nun and Oxford-educated art scholar, takes an art appreciation tour across America, visiting six major art museums in this 6-hours documentary series from PBS.
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- Ep 1
1.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
05-09-200160mMarvel at such masterpieces as Gauguin's Polynesian painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, the intricate Wedgwood inlays of an antique piano, and Paul Re...
- Ep 2
2.Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
05-09-200160mShare the museum's carefully selected art collection, including Cézanne's painting Man in a Blue Smock, the lacquered beauty of a Japanese wine flask, and Caravaggio's The Cardshar...
- Ep 3
3.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
12-09-200160mTour New York's legendary museum and its vast art collection, including Velázquez's stunning painting Juan de Pareja and a calligraphic page from the Koran. And join Sister Wendy t...
- Ep 4
4.Los Angeles County Museum of Art
12-09-200160mEnjoy the museum's wonderfully diverse works, including David Hockney's painting Mulholland Drive, a colorfully woven Chinese emperor's robe, and examples of pre-Columbian sculptur...
- Ep 5
5.The Art Institute of Chicago
19-09-200160mDiscover intriguing facts behind Grant Wood's classic painting American Gothic, the brilliance of a gold ceremonial knife from Peru's lost Chimu empire, and Marc Chagall's stained...
- Ep 6
6.The Cleveland Museum of Art
19-09-200160mExplore rare Asian art and Medieval European pieces, as well as Rodin's sculpture The Thinker, an elaborately detailed suit of armor, and Rousseau's richly fantastic painting The F...
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