Sister Wendy's American Collection
Overview
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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Seasons
Season 1 (2001)
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6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2001-09-05Marvel 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 Revere's silver Sons of Liberty Bowl.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 2: Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
2001-09-05Share 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 Cardsharps.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 3: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2001-09-12Tour 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 to experience the heavenly beauty of The Cloisters.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 4: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2001-09-12Enjoy 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 sculpture.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 5: The Art Institute of Chicago
2001-09-19Discover 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 glass epic America Windows.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 6: The Cleveland Museum of Art
2001-09-19Explore 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 Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo.
Runtime: 60 min
