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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Upper East Side. The Frick Collection contains masterpieces of NEW YORK, NEW YORK Western painting, sculpture, and decorative arts displayed in a serene and intimate setting. We have reserved time to view the New York Public Library, Bryant Park and special exhibition Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting, the New-York Historical Society which features some of Renoir’s most ambitious works.

Our day begins at the New York Public Library, a national historic Lunch will be on your own. Choose from the array of delectable landmark. The library’s renowned collection includes the Guten- area eateries. The Tenement Museum is not Handicap acces- berg Bible, priceless medieval manuscripts, baseball cards, sible. comic books and more. A docent-led tour will also point out the building’s magnificent architectural features. $100; $90 Members, includes transportation, admission, tours and gratuities Bryant Park, just behind the library, is an oasis in mid-town and BUS TIMES: 7:30 am Depart East Hartford, 8:00 am Depart West a favorite gathering spot for New Yorkers. Known for hosting Hartford, 4:30 p.m. Depart New York New York Fashion Week events, it has been beautifully restored by Lynden Miller. Enjoy lunch at the Bryant Park Grill or choose from other area eateries.

The New-York Historical Society is New York’s oldest museum. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 After a $65 million, 3-year renovation, the luminous façade is RHODE ISLAND just one of the building’s vast treasures. Preview your visit on Rough Point, Newport, Blithewold and Bristol their website, www.nyhistory.org.

Rhode Island is known for its Newport mansions, and we will We finish the day with a viewing ofNew York Story, displayed on be visiting one of its most famous. Upon arrival, we will trans- a 73-foot screen and a docent-led tour of the American History fer to the distinctive black and red Newport Trolley, which will Gallery. Visit the gallery’s cafe for afternoon tea or a light snack. take us down Bellevue Avenue to Rough Point, the magnificent

$100; $90 Members, includes transportation, admission, tours oceanfront mansion of Doris Duke, heiress, philanthropist and and gratuities art collector. A docent-led tour of Duke’s mansion will feature French furniture, European art, Chinese porcelain and Turkish BUS TIMES: 6:30 am Depart East Hartford, 7:00 am Depart West carpets. In addition, there will be time to view the extensive Hartford, 4:30 p.m. Depart New York City gardens and grounds designed by the foremost American land- scape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012 Following the tour we will return by trolley to our bus and drive to NEW YORK, NEW YORK Bristol, a charming village on Narragansett Bay for lunch on your Tenement Museum and The Frick Collection own. We will provide a list of dining suggestions. Our afternoon visit is to Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, one of The Tenement Museum is located in New York’s lower east side Yankee Magazine’s 2010 Best Public Gardens in New England. on Orchard Street, in the heart of the garment district. Built in The English style mansion is a 45-room manor house with origi- 1863, this tenement house was the first American home for nal antiques and artwork, and chronicles the Van Wickle family thousands of working class immigrants who landed in New over a span of 80 years. One of the finest garden estates in New York. Explore the former apartments of immigrant workers on a England, there are 33 acres of lawn, diverse gardens, specimen guided tour, which recreate daily living conditions and highlight trees and historic stone structures. the struggles faced to balance work, family and religion; issues that are still relevant today. $102; $92 Members, includes transportation, admission, tours and gratuities We will then venture uptown to the luxurious Upper East Side to BUS TIMES: 7:15 am Depart West Hartford, 7:45 am Depart East view The Frick Collection. As you enter Henry Clay Frick Mansion Hartford, 4:30 p.m. Depart Bristol, RI you will witness the striking dichotomy between the Lower and SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012 IMPORTANT INFORMATION LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT Trade Secrets COST: Fine Art & Flowers, the museum’s annual spring fundraising The price for each tour covers transportation, gratuities, event, will take us to the Litchfield Hills for a grand garden tour. admission fees, refreshments (where indicated), print- Now in its 12th year, Trade Secrets is the Northeast’s most talked ing, and mailing expenses. about annual garden event and benefits Women’s Support Ser- vices, a domestic abuse intervention program. RESERVATIONS: All reservations must be made by mail and will be filled We will cruise the bucolic countryside in a luxury coach while on a first-come, first-served basis. Please complete and stopping at four celebrity gardens. At one of the stops, re- return the reservation form, with a separate check and a nowned interior designer Bunny Williams will open her garden self-addressed, stamped envelope for each tour request- just as her heirloom apple trees are blossoming. Cameras and ed. Reservation confirmation will be mailed when each note taking are encouraged. Café Louise will provide a “brown tour has a minimum of 30 participants. Your check will bag lunch” and lavender lemonade. An event not to be missed, not be deposited until that time. it is the ultimate “garden lover’s” delight. Bring sunscreen and your garden hats! For privacy purposes the addresses of the gardens WAITING LIST: are not published. If your chosen tour is full, you will be notified that you are

$105; $95 Members, includes transportation, admission, tours on a waiting list. Your check(s) will be held until the tour and gratuities date and then either deposited or destroyed, according BUS TIMES: 9:00 am Depart East Hartford, 9:30 am Depart West to your status. Hartford, 4:30 p.m. Depart Litchfield CANCELLATIONS: You may cancel reservations up to twenty-one (21) days THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012 prior to the tour date. Please understand that refunds NEW YORK, NEW YORK cannot be made after that date. Tours receiving too few reservations may be cancelled by the Women’s Commit- Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New American tee. Wing & The Cloisters LIABILITY: The new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art It is understood that participation in a tour releases the (MET) features twenty-six newly renovated and expanded gal- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Women’s leries, showcasing one of the finest and most comprehensive Committee from any responsibility whatsoever for injury collections of American Art in the world. Through paintings, or death, or loss or damage of personal property sus- sculpture and decorative arts, experience the history of Ameri- tained in connection with a tour. can art from the 18th to early 20th century. See works by Ameri- can masters such as Winslow Homer, Gilbert Stuart, Frederic BUS DEPARTURE SCHEDULES: Edwin Church, and John Singer Sargent. All departure times are exact and noted in the tour de- Lunch will be on your own at one of the MET’s fine restaurants. scriptions. West Hartford buses leave from the Univer- In the afternoon we will head uptown and step back in time while sity of Connecticut, West Hartford campus parking lot we visit the Cloisters, a branch of the MET that exhibits art and at Asylum Avenue and Trout Brook Drive. East Hartford architecture of Medieval Europe from the 12th - 15th century. buses leave from the Plaza Hotel, 100 East River Drive. Built in the 1930’s, the building and its gardens are located in Fort Tyron Park and are a treasure in themselves. QUESTIONS? For further information, please contact Sue Blair at (860) Robin Jaffee Frank, the museum’s new Chief Curator and Krieble 645-1555, [email protected]; Judy Gunning at (860) Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, will accompany the 521-6661, [email protected]; Sarah Ferri, group. Communications Assistant at (860) 838-4081

$95; $85 members (Includes transportation, admission and gra- tuities) Due to traffic and unforeseeable events, the arrival time back to your departure point may be unpredictable. BUS TIMES: 7:30 am Depart East Hartford, 8:00 am Depart West Please plan accordingly. Hartford, 4:30 p.m. Depart New York City WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART 600 MAIN STREET HARTFORD, CT 06103

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$585.00 for single occupancy single for $585.00

$400.00 per person in triple occupancy occupancy triple in person per $400.00

$455.00 per person in double occupancy double in person per $455.00

All taxes and gratuities, including the driver the including gratuities, and taxes All •

Baggage and handling and Baggage •

Dinner vouchers at Longwood Gardens Longwood at vouchers Dinner •

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Admission and docent tours at Brandywine Museum, Longwood Gardens, Chanticleer Gardens and Win and Gardens Chanticleer Gardens, Longwood Museum, Brandywine at tours docent and Admission • -

2 breakfasts 2 •

Sit-down dinner Sit-down •

Two nights accommodations, Brandywine River Hotel River Brandywine accommodations, nights Two •

Round trip transportation trip Round •

The trip includes: trip The

Gardens, Chanticleer Gardens and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. & Garden Museum, Winterthur and Gardens Chanticleer Gardens,

will include visits to the Brandywine River Museum to view the Andrew Wyeth Gallery, as well as Longwood Longwood as well as Gallery, Wyeth Andrew the view to Museum River Brandywine the to visits include will

July 22, 2012, we are happy to announce an overnight trip to the Brandywine Valley in Pennsylvania. The tour tour The Pennsylvania. in Valley Brandywine the to trip overnight an announce to happy are we 2012, 22, July

Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond Looking Wyeth: Andrew exhibition, upcoming museum’s the with conjunction In , on view March 24 – – 24 March view on ,

Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania Valley, Brandywine JUNE 8-10, 2012 8-10, JUNE REGISTRATION FORM

______NAME MUSEUM MEMBER ID

______NAME MUSEUM MEMBER ID

______STREET/ADDRESS- STREET, CITY, STATE ZIP

______TELEPHONE (DAY) TELEPHONE (EVENING) TELEPHONE (CELL)

______BUS LOCATION: ____EAST HARTFORD ____WEST HARTFORD EMAIL ADDRESS

THIS INFORMATION WILL NOT BE SHARED WITH ANYONE

Indicate the tour(s) for which you are enclosing a reservation. Please send a separate check for each tour and identify the tour on each check’s memo line. A separate check and self-adressed stamped envelope is required for each reservation.

MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art MAIL TO: Sue Blair, 119 Tonica Spring Trail Manchester, CT 06040

______April 19, New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society RSVP by March 22

______May 8, Tenement Museum, The Frick Collection RSVP by April 10

______May 16, Rough Point, Blithewold RSVP by April 16

______May 20, Trade Secrets RSVP by May 6

______June 21, MET and The Cloisters RSVP by May 31

______June 8-10, Brandywine RSVP by April 1

50% deposit with reservation 50% due April 1*

______Single accommodation

______Double accommodations with: ______

______Triple accommodations with: ______and ______

* Deposit is non-refundable, but transferable after April 1.

If you need an extra copy of the registration form, you may download a copy at thewadsworth.org/registrationform

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