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All Episodes of Sister Wendy's American Collection

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...
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Season 1

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/2001

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
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    Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/2001

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/2001

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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    Los Angeles County Museum of Art

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/12/2001

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Art Institute of Chicago
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    The Art Institute of Chicago

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/19/2001

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Cleveland Museum of Art
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/2001

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown