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Sister Wendy's American Collection

Sister Wendy's American Collection

★ 10.0/10•2001•1h 0m•Documentary
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 5, 2001

Episodes

E160m

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Marvel 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.

Sep 5, 2001

E260m

Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Share 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.

Sep 5, 2001

E360m

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Tour 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.

Sep 12, 2001

E460m

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Enjoy 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.

Sep 12, 2001

E560m

The Art Institute of Chicago

Discover 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.

Sep 19, 2001

E660m

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Explore 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.

Sep 19, 2001

Actors

Sister Wendy Beckett

Sister Wendy Beckett

Herself - Presenter

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