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The Artist’s Grand Tour
MAY 5–14, 2021
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OPTIONAL EXTENSION TO Barcelona MAY 14–17, 2021
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Erik H. Neil
BARCELONA
Spain
Atlantic
DIRECTOR Ocean
MADRID
Erik Neil became Director of Portugal
the Chrysler Museum of Art in
October 2014. Neil is known CÓRDOBA
in the museum world for the SEVILLE GRANADA
Dear Friends of the
breadth of his artistic interests, MÁLAGA
strong management skills, genial Mediterranean Sea
Chrysler Museum of Art,
personality, and collaborative approach to work and leadership,
Algeria
with a common goal of making the good even better. Past and Morocco
present colleagues laud his intelligence, transparency, ability
You are cordially invited to join us for Spain: The Artist’s to build community, and visionary pragmatism. Neil’s education
Grand Tour, an artistic journey organized in celebration of the includes a B.A. (1986) in modern European and American
history from Princeton University and both a M.A. (1991)
Itinerary Overview
Chrysler’s groundbreaking exhibition Americans in Spain: SPAIN: THE ARTIST’S GRAND TOUR
and Ph.D. (1995) in the history of art and architecture from
Painting and Travel, 1820–1920, co-organized by the Chrysler
Harvard University. He also earned a certificate in museum
MAY 5 : U.S.A & MADRID, SPAIN MAY 11 : SEVILLE &
Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum. On our tour, management (2003) from the prestigious Getty Leadership •O
vernight flight to Madrid RONDA & MÁLAGA
we will follow in the footsteps of American painters like Mary Institute in Berkeley, California and has pursued leadership and • Excursion to Ronda—
professional development opportunities through the American
MAY 6 : ARRIVE MADRID Private walking tour
Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and William Merritt Chase. They •P
anoramic tour of Madrid • Museo de Bellas Artes
Alliance of Museums.
traveled to Spain in the nineteenth century, drawn by its storied •R
eina Sofia Museum • Ronda Bullring
• Puente Nuevo
collections and vibrant culture. Our journey begins in Madrid. MAY 7 : MADRID
•T he Prado Museum • Church of Santa Maria
There, we will experience the grand courtly collections at the
Corey Piper •M useo del Romanticismo la Mayor
Prado, where American painters spent countless hours copying • Thyssen-Bornemisza MAY 12 : MÁLAGA
BROCK CURATOR National Museum • Picasso Museum
masterpieces by Velázquez, Murillo, and other Spanish masters.
From there we venture southward to Seville, Cordoba, and Granada, following a
OF AMERICAN ART MAY 8 : MADRID • Picasso Foundation
•S orolla Museum • Alcazaba
path familiar to travelers since the nineteenth century and first made famous for Corey Piper joined the Chrysler • F ree afternoon • Free afternoon
American audiences by the author Washington Irving. Sites like the Great Mosque team in 2017. An art historian MAY 9 : MADRID & MAY 13 : MÁLAGA &
at Cordoba and the Alhambra palace offer a deep exploration of Spain’s Islamic specializing in nineteenth- CORDOBA & SEVILLE GRANADA & MÁLAGA
and early twentieth-century •E xcursion to • Excursion to Granada—
history, a particular fascination of painters like Sargent and Edwin Lord Weeks. All Cordoba and Seville— Private walking tour
American art, he holds a Ph.D. in
Private walking tour • Alhambra palace complex
along the way, we will enjoy exclusive visits, private tours, scenic beauty, and a rich the history of American art from the University of Virginia, a • Mosque—Cathedral • Royal Chapel
taste of Spain’s culinary traditions. master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a of Cordoba • Farewell dinner—Málaga
bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina. He has • Alcazar
Warmly yours, served as a curatorial associate at the Virginia Museum of Fine MAY 14 : DEPARTURE
•A lmodovar Gate,
Old Jewish Quarter • Individual departures
Arts (VMFA) and held fellowships at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Crystal MAY 10 : SEVILLE
MAY 14–17 : BARCELONA
Bridges Museum. Piper’s broad experience includes curatorial •R
eales Alcázares • Post-Tour
(Royal Palace) Extension Option
work with VMFA, where he worked on several exhibitions and (Available at an
gallery installations and served as co-curator for Catching •S
eville Cathedral
Erik H. Neil, Corey Piper, •B
arrio de Santa Cruz
additional cost)
Sight: The World of the British Sporting Print. He is a co-
ABOVE: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925),
La Carmencita, 1890, Oil on canvas, Musee d’Orsay, Director Brock Curator of American Art curator for the exhibition, Americans in Spain: Painting and •M
aria Luisa Park—
Paris, RF746 Horse carriage ride
BELOW: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, 1863–1923), Travel, 1820–1920.
Hall of the Ambassadors, Alhambra, Granada, 1909, •T
ablao Flamenco—
Oil on canvas, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Flamenco performance
Itinerary Bornemisza National Museum, which
houses the most important collection
of the purest and greatest examples of
Mudejar (Christian-Muslim) architecture
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
Málaga
outside of the United States. containing Moorish, Gothic, and This morning, we’ll begin our visit to
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5
HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (B,L) Renaissance elements. Afterward, visit
US 1 Madrid the magnificent Cathedral which rises
Málaga with the Picasso Museum
housed in the Palacio de Buenavista.
Overnight flight to Madrid, Spain SATURDAY, MAY 8 on the site of the great twelfth-century The permanent collection includes many
(MEALS ALOFT)
Madrid mosque that nowadays only retains
its minaret, known as the Giralda. We’ll
works by the artist and an autographed
This morning, we’ll depart with our art copy of his biography donated by Jaime
THURSDAY, MAY 6 finish our tour with a stroll through the
historian guide to the Sorolla Museum. Sabartés, who was Picasso’s secretary
Arrive Madrid The museum is a tribute to Joaquin
Barrio de Santa Cruz, which was the until the artist’s death. We’ll continue
Arrive in Madrid, and transfer to our hotel. Old Jewish Quarter. We’ll have lunch walking in the Old Quarter by the Picasso
Sorolla, known as the painter of natural
This afternoon, we’ll enjoy a panoramic then enjoy a horse carriage ride through Foundation to see Picasso’s birthplace ,
light. It is housed in what was Sorolla’s
tour around the city with our top historian. nineteenth-century Maria Luisa Park then continue in the Old Quarter where
home and studio and features numerous
See the most important monuments, to admire the incredible tile work. We’ll we will visit the Alcazaba. The Alcazaba
paintings by the Valencian artist. After the
including Las Ventas Bullring, Plaza end the day with a Flamenco show and is a restored Moorish fortification dating
visit, you’ll have lunch on your own and the
Cibeles, Plaza Neptuno, and Puerta del dinner at our favorite Tablao Flamenco in from the eighth century, although much
remainder of the afternoon is free.
Sol. Then we’ll continue with a visit to Seville. HOTEL COLÓN GRAN MELIÁ (B,L,D) of it was built around the middle of
HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (B)
Reina Sofia’s contemporary art center the eleventh century for King Badis of
where Picasso’s Guernica is housed. TUESDAY, MAY 11
SUNDAY, MAY 9 Granada and served as the palace of the
Once a historic hospital, the museum now
Madrid 1 Córdoba Seville 1 Ronda governors of the city. We will have lunch
boasts a new addition designed by Jean
1 Málaga together, then the rest of the afternoon is
Nouvel, the French architect known for 1 Seville on your own. HOTEL MOLINA LARIO (B,L)
Today, after check out, we depart for a
his work on the Cartier Foundation. The This morning, we depart on the high-
visit to the Museo de Bellas Artes, one
museum contains the best collection of speed train to Córdoba. We’ll visit THURSDAY, MAY 13
of the most important art museums in
twentieth-century art by Spanish artists.
Tonight, we’ll gather for a welcome dinner.
the incredible Mosque-Cathedral
of Córdoba. Then we will continue
Spain after El Museo del Prado in Madrid. Málaga 1 Granada
HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (D) the walking tour in one of the most
It exhibits the most famous paintings of 1 Málaga
the Seville School (fifteenth–seventeenth Today, we will depart for a full-day
important Jewish quarters in Spain,
centuries) featuring an impressive excursion to Granada. On arrival, we’ll
FRIDAY, MAY 7 between the walls of the city and the
collection of works by Murillo, Valdés
Madrid Mosque. The Almodovar Gate leads
to the Old Jewish Quarter with its
Leal, Zurbarán, El Greco, and Seville-born
begin our tour of the Alhambra palaces
complex and the Generalife Gardens with
We’ll spend the morning with an art Diego de Silva y Velázquez. Depart for
narrow, serpentine alleys. Finally, we’ll our top local guide. The Alhambra is a
historian at The Prado Museum, which Ronda. Built on an isolated ridge of the
visit the Alcazar, which was built under UNESCO World Heritage site and Spain’s
houses one of the finest art collections Sierra, Ronda is split in half by a gaping
the Castilian rule in the thirteenth and single biggest attraction. Next, transfer
in the world. Our visit will focus on river gorge, El Tajo, which drops 130m
fourteenth centuries on the remains of to the center and visit the beautiful Royal
Spanish masters Velázquez, Murillo, on three sides. The gorge is spanned by
a Moorish predecessor. This fort/palace Chapel. It is the final resting place of
Zurbarán, and Goya, whose works are an eighteenth-century arched bridge,
was where the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic
featured in the exhibition Americans in the Puente Nuevo, with tall whitewashed
Ferdinand and Isabella, made their first Monarchs who helped fund Christopher
Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920 houses leaning from its precipitous
acquaintance with Columbus in 1486. Columbus’s voyage to the New World.
on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art. edges. Enjoy lunch on arrival and then
The Alcazar’s terraced gardens—full of After lunch, we will return to Málaga.
We’ll continue with a visit to Museo del we begin the tour to visit the historic
fish ponds, fountains, orange trees, and In the evening, we will transfer to our
Romanticismo. The museum is housed medieval quarter and Ronda’s beautiful
flowers—are a delight to stroll around. farewell dinner in Málaga.
at the former palace of the Marquis of monumental bullring, the oldest stone
After the tour, we’ll have lunch with HOTEL MOLINA LARIO (B,L,D)
Matallana, built in 1776, and contains bullring in Spain. Also, visit the Church of
wine and then transfer to Seville by
a fascinating collection of nineteenth- Santa Maria la Mayor. Across the bridge
motorcoach. Tonight we’ll check into FRIDAY, MAY 14
century paintings by Goya, Esquivel, is the old Moorish town where you will
Madrazo, Alenza, and the Bécquer
our hotel. HOTEL WELLINGTON OR SIMILAR (B)
visit one of the town’s palaces, el Bosco, Departure
brothers and furniture and decorative which is a modernist palace built at the Individual departures to the airport or
MONDAY, MAY 10
art that will immerse you in the Romantic beginning of the twentieth-century and continue on Barcelona Extension.
ABOVE: Traditional Spanish Garden
MIDDLE: Metropol Parasol, Seville period. After the tour, we’ll have lunch Seville TOP: Old Town, Seville.
decorated with Arab style and regional
BELOW: Mary Bradish Titcomb (American, 1858–1927), with wine. Finally, we’ll enjoy a brief This morning, we’ll begin our tour in MIDDLE: Moorish tile ceramics. Transfer to our hotel in Málaga.
The Alhambra, ca. 1906, Oil on canvas, Chrysler Museum
of Art, Museum, Museum purchase with funds given in
walking tour of the Old Quarter followed Seville starting with a visit to the Reales BOTTOM: Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926), HOTEL MOLINA LARIO (B,L)
memory of Joan Foy French by her daughters Wendy and by a special guided tour of the Thyssen- Alcázares (Royal Palace), which is one Spanish Girl Leaning on a Window Sill, ca. 1872,
Christina, 2018.25.1 Oil on canvas, Manuel Piñanes García-Olías, Madrid
MAY 14–17, 2021
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TOP LEFT: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), La Carmencita, 1890, Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sir William Van Horne, 1906 TOP RIGHT: Childe Hassam (American, 1838–1920), Plaza de la Merced, Ronda, 1910, Oil on panel, Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza BOTTOM: Ronda
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