SPRING GETAWAY for the Museum of the Southwest PRESIDENT’S CLUB Heartland Collections & America’s Newest Museum April 19-22, 2012
HIGHLIGHT: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Tour the new museum complex that is home to an impressive collection assembled by Alice Walton, including hero portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, William Rush, and Thomas Eakins; Asher B. Durand’s Kindred Spirits (1849, key work of the Hudson River School); genre pictures from the “Age of Democracy” by Richard Caton Woodville, Winslow Homer, and George De Forest Brush; and get acquainted with the museum architecture of Moshe Safdie, set in the luscious landscape
designed by Peter Walker. Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849
APPROXIMATE ITINERARY (designed for 20 travelers) A detailed schedule with readings Thursday, April 19 — Fly to Tulsa (tour headquarter city) will be sent to all registrants • Morning flight to Tulsa* • Philbrook Museum of Art • Hotel check-in at historic Ambassador Hotel, downtown Tulsa • Welcome dinner in Utica Square
Friday, April 20 — A day in Oklahoma City/Norman (coach) • Oklahoma City Museum of Art • Lunch on your own at Museum Café • Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum • Fred Jones Museum of Art at U. of Oklahoma, American Art and Weitzenhoffer Collection of Impressionism • Group dinner TBA
Saturday, April 21 — A day in Bentonville (by chartered coach) • Crystal Bridges Museum of Art: architecture, landscape, collections • Group lunch on the Crystal Bridges grounds • Return to Tulsa, dinner on your own Sunday, April 22 — Return to Texas • Gilcrease Museum of Art • Sunday brunch at the Gilcrease • Late afternoon flights back to Texas*
Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre COST: $1300 per person (sharing/double; single $260, suite $530 additional) (Weitzenhoffer) Includes hotel (3 nights), breakfast each morning, Thursday and Friday dinners, Saturday lunch, Sunday brunch, all ground transportation, porterage, gratuities, museum admissions, readings; travel insurance; and commentary throughout the tour from Dr. Karen Pope, faculty for 19th-century European/American art in Baylor University’s Allbritton Art Institute; principal, Art inSight, Inc., Adventures in Art History
*AIRFARE: Additional, coordinated by Heart of Texas Tours VISA and MasterCard accepted REGISTER: by check to-- Payment due December 15, 2011 Heart of Texas Tours for Museum of the Southwest 8501 Silver Ridge Dr. Terms of cancellation: Austin, TX 78759 45 days prior 100% refund less $100 44-15 days 50% refund less $100 QUESTIONS: Karen Pope: [email protected] or (512) 431-8932 14-0 days prior no refund Karen Bluethman: [email protected] or (512) 345-2043