6 episodes

Sister Wendy's American Collection - Season 1

First aired Sep 5, 2001Season 1

Browse all 6 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Sep 5, 200160 min

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.

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Episode 2

Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

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Sep 5, 200160 min

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.

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Episode 3

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Sep 12, 200160 min

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.

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Episode 4

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Sep 12, 200160 min

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.

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Episode 5

The Art Institute of Chicago

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Sep 19, 200160 min

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.

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Episode 6

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Sep 19, 200160 min

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.