The Artist’s Grand Tour MAY 5–14, 2021

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT $1,000 OFF PER PERSON OPTIONAL EXTENSION TO MAY 14–17, 2021 France

BARCELONA Erik H. Neil Atlantic DIRECTOR Ocean

Erik Neil became Director of Portugal the Chrysler Museum of Art in October 2014. Neil is known CÓRDOBA in the museum world for the SEVILLE GRANADA breadth of his artistic interests, MÁLAGA

Dear Friends of the strong management skills, genial Mediterranean Sea personality, and collaborative approach to work and leadership, Algeria Chrysler Museum of Art, with a common goal of making the good even better. Past and Morocco present colleagues laud his intelligence, transparency, ability You are cordially invited to join us for Spain: The Artist’s to build community, and visionary pragmatism. Neil’s education Grand Tour, an artistic journey organized in celebration of the includes a B.A. (1986) in modern European and American Itinerary Overview history from Princeton University and both a M.A. (1991) Chrysler’s groundbreaking exhibition Americans in Spain: SPAIN: THE ARTIST’S GRAND TOUR and Ph.D. (1995) in the history of art and from Painting and Travel, 1820–1920, co-organized by the Chrysler Harvard University. He also earned a certificate in museum Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum. On our tour, MAY 5 : U.S.A & MADRID, SPAIN MAY 11 : SEVILLE & management (2003) from the prestigious Getty Leadership • Overnight flight to Madrid RONDA & MÁLAGA we will follow in the footsteps of American painters like Mary Institute in Berkeley, California and has pursued leadership and • Excursion to Ronda— professional development opportunities through the American MAY 6 : ARRIVE MADRID Private walking tour Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and William Merritt Chase. They • Panoramic tour of Madrid • Museo de Bellas Artes Alliance of Museums. traveled to Spain in the nineteenth century, drawn by its storied • Reina Sofia Museum • Ronda Bullring • Puente Nuevo collections and vibrant culture. Our journey begins in Madrid. MAY 7 : MADRID • The Prado Museum • Church of Santa Maria There, we will experience the grand courtly collections at the • Museo del Romanticismo la Mayor Prado, where American painters spent countless hours copying Corey Piper • Thyssen-Bornemisza MAY 12 : MÁLAGA National Museum masterpieces by Velázquez, Murillo, and other Spanish masters. BROCK CURATOR • Picasso Museum OF AMERICAN ART • Picasso Foundation From there we venture southward to Seville, Cordoba, and Granada, following a MAY 8 : MADRID • Sorolla Museum •  path familiar to travelers since the nineteenth century and first made famous for Corey Piper joined the Chrysler • Free afternoon • Free afternoon American audiences by the author Washington Irving. Sites like the Great Mosque team in 2017. An art historian MAY 9 : MADRID & MAY 13 : MÁLAGA & at Cordoba and the Alhambra palace offer a deep exploration of Spain’s Islamic specializing in nineteenth- CORDOBA & SEVILLE GRANADA & MÁLAGA and early twentieth-century • Excursion to • Excursion to Granada— history, a particular fascination of painters like Sargent and Edwin Lord Weeks. All Cordoba and Seville— Private walking tour American art, he holds a Ph.D. in Private walking tour along the way, we will enjoy exclusive visits, private tours, scenic beauty, and a rich • Alhambra palace complex the history of American art from the University of Virginia, a • Mosque—Cathedral • Royal Chapel taste of Spain’s culinary traditions. master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a of Cordoba • Farewell dinner—Málaga bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina. He has • Alcazar Warmly yours, served as a curatorial associate at the Virginia Museum of Fine • Almodovar Gate, MAY 14 : DEPARTURE • Individual departures Arts (VMFA) and held fellowships at the Philadelphia Museum Old Jewish Quarter MAY 14–17 : BARCELONA of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Crystal MAY 10 : SEVILLE Bridges Museum. Piper’s broad experience includes curatorial • Reales Alcázares • Post-Tour (Royal Palace) Extension Option work with VMFA, where he worked on several exhibitions and (Available at an Erik H. Neil, Corey Piper, gallery installations and served as co-curator for Catching • Seville Cathedral additional cost) Sight: The World of the British Sporting Print. He is a co- • Barrio de Santa Cruz ABOVE: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), Director Brock Curator of American Art La Carmencita, 1890, Oil on canvas, Musee d’Orsay, curator for the exhibition, Americans in Spain: Painting and • Maria Luisa Park— Paris, RF746 Horse carriage ride BELOW: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, 1863–1923), Travel, 1820–1920. Hall of the Ambassadors, Alhambra, Granada, 1909, • Tablao Flamenco— Oil on canvas, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Flamenco performance Bornemisza National Museum, which of the purest and greatest examples of WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 Itinerary houses the most important collection Mudejar (Christian-Muslim) architecture Málaga outside of the United States. containing Moorish, Gothic, and WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 This morning, we’ll begin our visit to HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (B,L) Renaissance elements. Afterward, visit Málaga with the Picasso Museum US 1 Madrid the magnificent Cathedral which rises housed in the Palacio de Buenavista. Overnight flight to Madrid, Spain SATURDAY, MAY 8 on the site of the great twelfth-century The permanent collection includes many (MEALS ALOFT) Madrid mosque that nowadays only retains works by the artist and an autographed its minaret, known as the Giralda. We’ll This morning, we’ll depart with our art copy of his biography donated by Jaime THURSDAY, MAY 6 finish our tour with a stroll through the historian guide to the Sorolla Museum. Sabartés, who was Picasso’s secretary Barrio de Santa Cruz, which was the Arrive Madrid The museum is a tribute to Joaquin until the artist’s death. We’ll continue Old Jewish Quarter. We’ll have lunch Arrive in Madrid, and transfer to our hotel. Sorolla, known as the painter of natural walking in the Old Quarter by the Picasso then enjoy a horse carriage ride through This afternoon, we’ll enjoy a panoramic light. It is housed in what was Sorolla’s Foundation to see Picasso’s birthplace , nineteenth-century Maria Luisa Park tour around the city with our top historian. home and studio and features numerous then continue in the Old Quarter where to admire the incredible tile work. We’ll See the most important monuments, paintings by the Valencian artist. After the we will visit the Alcazaba. The Alcazaba end the day with a Flamenco show and including Las Ventas Bullring, Plaza visit, you’ll have lunch on your own and the is a restored Moorish fortification dating dinner at our favorite Tablao Flamenco in Cibeles, Plaza Neptuno, and Puerta del remainder of the afternoon is free. from the eighth century, although much Seville. HOTEL COLÓN GRAN MELIÁ (B,L,D) Sol. Then we’ll continue with a visit to HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (B) of it was built around the middle of Reina Sofia’s contemporary art center the eleventh century for King Badis of TUESDAY, MAY 11 where Picasso’s Guernica is housed. SUNDAY, MAY 9 Granada and served as the palace of the Once a historic hospital, the museum now 1 governors of the city. We will have lunch 1 Seville Ronda boasts a new addition designed by Jean Madrid Córdoba together, then the rest of the afternoon is 1 1 Málaga Nouvel, the French architect known for Seville on your own. HOTEL MOLINA LARIO (B,L) Today, after check out, we depart for a his work on the Cartier Foundation. The This morning, we depart on the high- visit to the Museo de Bellas Artes, one museum contains the best collection of speed train to Córdoba. We’ll visit THURSDAY, MAY 13 of the most important art museums in twentieth-century art by Spanish artists. the incredible Mosque-Cathedral Spain after El in Madrid. Málaga 1 Granada Tonight, we’ll gather for a welcome dinner. of Córdoba. Then we will continue It exhibits the most famous paintings of 1 HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (D) the walking tour in one of the most Málaga the Seville School (fifteenth–seventeenth important Jewish quarters in Spain, Today, we will depart for a full-day centuries) featuring an impressive FRIDAY, MAY 7 between the walls of the city and the excursion to Granada. On arrival, we’ll collection of works by Murillo, Valdés Mosque. The Almodovar Gate leads begin our tour of the Alhambra palaces Madrid Leal, Zurbarán, El Greco, and Seville-born to the Old Jewish Quarter with its complex and the Generalife Gardens with We’ll spend the morning with an art Diego de Silva y Velázquez. Depart for narrow, serpentine alleys. Finally, we’ll our top local guide. The Alhambra is a historian at The Prado Museum, which Ronda. Built on an isolated ridge of the visit the Alcazar, which was built under UNESCO World Heritage site and Spain’s houses one of the finest art collections Sierra, Ronda is split in half by a gaping the Castilian rule in the thirteenth and single biggest attraction. Next, transfer in the world. Our visit will focus on river gorge, El Tajo, which drops 130m fourteenth centuries on the remains of to the center and visit the beautiful Royal Spanish masters Velázquez, Murillo, on three sides. The gorge is spanned by a Moorish predecessor. This fort/palace Chapel. It is the final resting place of Zurbarán, and Goya, whose works are an eighteenth-century arched bridge, was where the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic featured in the exhibition Americans in the Puente Nuevo, with tall whitewashed Ferdinand and Isabella, made their first Monarchs who helped fund Christopher Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920 houses leaning from its precipitous acquaintance with Columbus in 1486. Columbus’s voyage to the New World. on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art. edges. Enjoy lunch on arrival and then The Alcazar’s terraced gardens—full of After lunch, we will return to Málaga. We’ll continue with a visit to Museo del we begin the tour to visit the historic fish ponds, fountains, orange trees, and In the evening, we will transfer to our Romanticismo. The museum is housed medieval quarter and Ronda’s beautiful flowers—are a delight to stroll around. farewell dinner in Málaga. at the former palace of the Marquis of monumental bullring, the oldest stone After the tour, we’ll have lunch with HOTEL MOLINA LARIO (B,L,D) Matallana, built in 1776, and contains bullring in Spain. Also, visit the Church of wine and then transfer to Seville by a fascinating collection of nineteenth- Santa Maria la Mayor. Across the bridge motorcoach. Tonight we’ll check into FRIDAY, MAY 14 century paintings by Goya, Esquivel, is the old Moorish town where you will our hotel. HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (B) Madrazo, Alenza, and the Bécquer visit one of the town’s palaces, el Bosco, Departure brothers and furniture and decorative which is a modernist palace built at the Individual departures to the airport or art that will immerse you in the Romantic MONDAY, MAY 10 continue on Barcelona Extension. ABOVE: Traditional beginning of the twentieth-century and period. After the tour, we’ll have lunch Seville decorated with Arab style and regional MIDDLE: Metropol Parasol, Seville TOP: Old Town, Seville. with wine. Finally, we’ll enjoy a brief This morning, we’ll begin our tour in BELOW: Mary Bradish Titcomb (American, 1858–1927), MIDDLE: Moorish tile ceramics. Transfer to our hotel in Málaga. The Alhambra, ca. 1906, Oil on canvas, Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum, Museum purchase with funds given in walking tour of the Old Quarter followed Seville starting with a visit to the Reales BOTTOM: Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926), HOTEL MOLINA LARIO (B,L) memory of Joan Foy French by her daughters Wendy and by a special guided tour of the Thyssen- Alcázares (Royal Palace), which is one Spanish Girl Leaning on a Window Sill, ca. 1872, Christina, 2018.25.1 Oil on canvas, Manuel Piñanes García-Olías, Madrid MAY 14–17, 2021 Post-Tour Extension: Costs & Conditions Terms & Conditions MAIN PROGRAM COST �����������������������������������������������������$8,290 RESERVATIONS, DEPOSITS, & FINAL PAYMENT: To reserve a space on services, and transportation are offered or provided, and the Chrysler Barcelona (Per person double occupancy) this program, a $2,500 deposit is required per person along with $250 Museum and Royal Adventures and their respective employees, agents, Travel to the Mediterranean coastline and Barcelona, one of the per person for the post-trip extension, if applicable. 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The minimum of nature, quarantine, force majeure, animal or insect bites, or other such group size is 15. Should the minimum not be met, we reserve the right to causes. All services and accommodations are subject to the laws of the including one piece of luggage, transfer from Barcelona airport levy a small group surcharge. country in which they are provided. Chrysler and/or Royal Adventures to hotel, private transportation by minibus where needed, one EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $1,000 OFF PER PERSON shall not be deemed to be in breach of these terms and conditions or dinner and one farewell lunch with wine at a local restaurant, Register by October 15, 2020 to receive $1,000 off per person CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS: Cancellations received on or before otherwise be liable to you, and shall not provide any refund, by reason from the main program. and basic tips. October 15, 2020 are eligible for a full refund. 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CFAR must be purchased within 14 days of registration. pandemics, quarantines, government intervention, or other unforeseeable the Barcelona airport to Vicens, Casa Mila known as available to registered passengers departing and returning An application for travel insurance will be sent upon confirmation. Neither event. Limitations on travel arising from the COVID-19 pandemic shall the hotel. In the afternoon, La Pedrera, Park Güell, and from Miami. the Chrysler Museum of Art nor Royal Adventures accept liability for any be considered a force majeure event. If this tour is affected by aforce we will explore tapas on Sagrada Familia. These visits airline cancellation penalty incurred by the purchase of a non-refundable majeure event, Chrysler and Royal Adventures shall be entitled to, and airline ticket or other expenses incurred by tour participants in preparing may in their sole and absolute discretion, vary, cancel, or postpone any a walking tour in the include private transportation. PROGRAM COST INCLUDES: All accommodations and for the trip. itinerary or arrangement in relation to this trip. The right is also reserved Old Quarter with a top We’ll stop for a farewell meals as specified in the itinerary • Transportation by to decline to accept or retain any person as a member of the tour or to local guide. lunch with wine tasting at private motor coach and high speed train (AVE) • All QUESTIONS: Please call or email Caitlin Blomstrom, Membership substitute another qualified leader or special guest. 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Such travel and services are right to participate in this tour, each participant will be asked to sign a to Boqueria Market and airport and transfers are on and international airfare (quoted separately) • Excess subject to the terms and conditions under which such accommodations, liability release. Picasso Museum. You’ll be your own. (B) baggage charges • Meals not specified in the itinerary • free to enjoy lunch on your Personal items such as laundry, email, fax, or telephone own, and the remainder of the calls • Alcoholic beverages aside from included wine afternoon is free. with included dinners • Dishes or beverages not included with meals • Room service • Passport fees • Private ROYAL ADVENTURES HOTEL SIXTY TWO (B) transfers • Medical expenses • Travel insurance • Optional 9 Crow Canyon Ct, Ste 205 • San Ramon, CA 94583 extensions or deviations from the scheduled tour • Tip to Email: [email protected] | Fax: (925) 855-1909 For Questions: Call Toll-Free: 1-800-453-4754 Ext 116 the tour director. TOP LEFT: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), La Carmencita, 1890, Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sir William Van Horne, 1906 TOP RIGHT: Childe Hassam (American, 1838–1920), Plaza de la Merced, Ronda, 1910, Oil on panel, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza BOTTOM: Ronda