Sister Wendy Beckett
Herself - Presenter
Sister Wendy's American Collection (2001)
Season 1
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.
Released Sept. 5, 2001
Episode 60 min
2+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.nun, tmdb.art, tmdb.art-gallery, tmdb.art-museum, tmdb.fine-art, tmdb.scholar, imdb.art
Production Companies: Spire Films, WGBH Boston
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - 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.
Sept. 5, 2001, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
Sept. 5, 2001, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
Sept. 12, 2001, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
Sept. 12, 2001, midnight
S1E5 - 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.
Sept. 19, 2001, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
Sept. 19, 2001, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Sept. 5, 2001
Last Air Date: Sept. 19, 2001, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR / 2+
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