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BEAUTY IN THE BERKSHIRES
Georgia O’Keeffe and Arthur Dove at the Clark,
Sol LeWitt Murals at Mass MoCA and More!

Tuesday, September 1st, 7am-7pm
Trip Fee: $95 (members $85); refund date: August 15, 2009

Join us for a day of great art in the Berkshires at two of the region’s most respected institutions. Our day begins at the Clark Art Institute with their summer blockbuster Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence. Georgia O’Keeffe’s iconic paintings of flowers and haunting depictions of the American southwest have secured her position as the most significant American female artist of the twentieth century. O’Keeffe credits the American modernist painter Arthur Dove as having the most significant role in the formation of her abstract work. Dove/O’Keeffe is the first exhibition to explore Dove’s role in O’Keeffe’s early artistic development as well as O’Keeffe’s influence on his work. Although Dove's and O’Keeffe’s approach to imagery ultimately diverged, their shared interest in capturing the ephemeral, fugitive traits of nature such as the play of light on water and the rustle of the wind through grass, was the basis for a profound aesthetic connection that lasted throughout their lifetimes.

Lunch is on your own at the Clark Art Institute. There will be plenty of
time to explore the treasures of the Clark and their new Stone Hill Center.

In the afternoon we will travel across the Berkshires to North Adams and
Mass MoCA for a guided introduction to the Museum. The Museum encompasses a vast complex of 26 19th-century factory buildings that form an elaborate system of interlocking courtyards and passageways rich with historical association. Bridges, viaducts, elevated walkways, and red brick facades lend a distinct architectural ambiance to the complex, which throughout its history has been a place for innovation and fabrication. Mass MoCA is presenting Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective which features over a hundred of former
Chester, CT resident Sol LeWitt’s large-scale wall drawings, spanning his career from 1969 to 2007. These occupy nearly an acre of specially built interior walls that have been installed—per LeWitt’s own specifications—over three stories of a
historic mill building. Responding to LeWitt’s murals a critic for The New York
Times wrote, “The ideas in Fra Angelico’s frescos are demanding and unworldly. The ideas in LeWitt’s drawings -- in the monumental, abstract annunciations and visitations and sacred conversations at Mass MoCA -- are exhilarating and of this moment on earth. So are we talking about Conceptual Art or spiritual art? I’d say both.” There will be time for touring the other exhibitions of contemporary art and museum shop before are departure.

To register for this trip, click here to register online,
complete the Registration Form and fax it in,
or call the Museum at (860) 434-5542, ext. 111.