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Sister Wendy's American Collection

10.0(1)
First Aired:September 5, 2001
Seasons:1 season
Episodes:6
Status:Ended

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.

Cast

Sister Wendy Beckett

Sister Wendy Beckett

Herself - Presenter

Seasons

E1Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

60m

Sep 5, 2001

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.

E2Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

60m

Sep 5, 2001

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.

E3The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

60m

Sep 12, 2001

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.

E4Los Angeles County Museum of Art

60m

Sep 12, 2001

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.

E5The Art Institute of Chicago

60m

Sep 19, 2001

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.

E6The Cleveland Museum of Art

60m

Sep 19, 2001

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.

Storyline

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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