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Sister Wendy's American Collection(2001)

Name: Sister Wendy's American Collection
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001-09-05
Rating: 5.0

September 5, 20011 Season · 6 Episodes

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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.

Network PBS

Seasons

Season 1

6 Episodes

2001

E01

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

9/5/2001·60m

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.

E02

Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

9/5/2001·60m

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.

E03

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

9/12/2001·60m

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.

E04

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

9/12/2001·60m

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.

E05

The Art Institute of Chicago

9/19/2001·60m

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.

E06

The Cleveland Museum of Art

9/19/2001·60m

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.