| Subject: | TC Trip for Art in New York City on March 26! |
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| Date: | 15 Mar 2011 13:57:30 -0400 |
| From: | Trumbull Masters Office <> |
| To: | Trumbull College Students <itscomm2@yale.edu> |
TRUMBULL COLLEGE TRIP FOR ART IN NEW YORK: 2011
Trumbullians are invited to a NYC art day on Saturday, March 26, 2011. We plan to visit the Frick Museum featuring works by Rembrant in the morning then visit the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the afternoon. If your schedule allows and you are ready for an art day in NYC, please sign up in the Master’s Office or reply to the email () no later than Tuesday, March 22, at NOON. Students are asked to pay $15.00 to cover admission to both museums, transportation, lunch and dinner. (This special offer is available to Trumbullians only.)
Saturday, March 26
Leave Trumbull at 8:30 a.m. Please be on the bus by 8:15 a.m. so we leave on time.
Arrive back to TC around 9:00 p.m.
FRICK MUSEUM
One East 70th Street
10:30 a.m.
Henry Clay Frick was a major financier, industrialist (steel and railroads particularly), and art collector. His home on Fifth Avenue and 70th Street is now a museum with a wonderful collection of (principally) European art. Right now there is also a special exhibition celebrating the Frick’s Rembrandts. Frick reportedly said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Rembrandt was without a doubt one of the world’s great artists. He was also an entrepreneur who directly handled the sales of his work to middle and upper class collectors, not relying on either a prince or pontiff for patronage, true of earlier artists. So maybe Frick the entrepreneur saw something of himself in the painter. Who knows? The exhibition will give us a chance to see all of Frick’s Rembrandt’s (plus some former Rembrandts that have been reattributed) as well as works on paper. This may be your only chance to see these works together in an intimate show. And the rest of the collection is wonderful, too, including works by Vermeer, Fragonard, Titian, Veronese.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11 West 53rd Street
1:20 p.m. for lunch at MoMA's Café 2; visit museum after lunch
We will have lunch at MOMA’s delightful café and then explore this wonderful building full of great art for the afternoon. Special Exhibitions of particular interest include: Picasso’s Guitars, Abstract Expressionist New York [This will be closing in April, so this may be a last chance to see this show given the approaching end of the semester], a show called Looking at Music [without doubt, including sound], one on women photographers and at least three more special shows. This tour ought to have something to appeal to everyone’s interests.
After the MoMA, we’ll have dinner before heading back to New Haven at a nearby restaurant.
