Visit “Van Gogh Up Close,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and two historic Fairmount Park Houses on Feb. 7 on the Zimmerli Art Museum’s next bus trip.
Associate curator of European Art Christine Giviskos will join the trip to provide insight in addition to the guided tours. The bus departs at 8:15 a.m. from the Sears parking lot on Route 1 in New Brunswick and returns by 5:30 p.m. The cost of the trip, which includes transportation, lunch, and tours, is $105 for Zimmerli members and $115 for non-members. Please call 732-932-7237, ext. 611, or email membership@zimmerli.rutgers.edu to register.
The day begins with a guided tour of “Van Gogh Up Close” before public exhibition hours. This rare assembly of nearly 50 masterpieces from public and private collections focuses on van Gogh’s final four years, when he executed some of his most expressive and original paintings, while fiercely struggling with mental illness.
The trip continues with guided tours of Mount Pleasant and Woodford, two historic homes in Fairmount Park that exemplify 18-century tastes in architecture and represent the elegant lifestyle of colonial elites. Mount Pleasant was built in the early 1760s as a country estate by John McPherson.
Woodford was built in the late 1750s by William Coleman, a Philadelphia merchant and close friend of Benjamin Franklin. It reflects the individual lives of early residents who were loyal to both sides during the Revolutionary War.
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Future trips include: the Cloisters and Bronx Museum of Art on April 26, and the Delaware Art Museum and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library on June 12.
