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FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM PRESENTS
A DAY TRIP FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS

WOMEN & ART
A STUDY DAY AT THE METROPOLITAN

A Study Day Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
to See Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
and Special Guided Tours on the Theme Woman & Art

Tuesday, March 23rd, 8:30am-7pm
Trip Fee: $85 (members $75); refund date: March 14th

Join friends and other Museum members for a study day at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York City. This study day is designed to give ample
time to explore the treasures of the museum on your own, but including one
guided tour on the theme of Woman & Art.

We will begin our visit in the new exhibition Playing with Pictures: The Art
of Victorian Photocollage. Although collage is commonly thought of as a
modern art form, the act of “playing with pictures” has a long, rich, and
surprising history. Sixty years ahead of the avant-garde—and more than a
century before Photoshop—aristocratic Victorian women were already
experimenting with photocollage. This exhibition is the first to
comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon, presenting many
eye-opening works that have rarely—and in many cases never—before been
displayed or reproduced. The compositions they made with photographs and
watercolors are whimsical and fantastical, combining human heads and animal
bodies, placing people into imaginary landscapes, and morphing faces into
common household objects. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale akin
to those Alice experienced in Wonderland, these images stand the rather
serious conventions of early photography on their heads. Although there
will be no tour of the exhibition, Maureen McCabe, noted collage and
assemblage artist, and David.D.J. Rau, the Museum’s Director of Education
and Outreach, will be on hand to offer informal commentary.

Lunch is on your own, either in the Metropolitan, or at nearby restaurant.
The Metropolitan has several dining options within the building such as The
Cafeteria, the Petrie Court Café and Wine Bar, and the new Balcony Café.

In the afternoon, we will gather together for a special guided tour. Women &
Art is a new cross-cultural guided tour that focuses on women, both as the
artist and the subject and, at times, both. To register for this trip,
complete Registration Form or call the Museum.

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.