Drop-in Tour | "Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond" Thursday, January 16, 2025 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
John Robert Cozens, View of Vietri and Raito, Italy, c. 1783, watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Dena M. Woodall.
Francis Towne, Lake Albano, 1781, pen and gray ink and grayish-brown wash over graphite on laid paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Mary Hale Lovett McLean.
John Sell Cotman, The Anglers (in Avon Gorge), c. 1829–30, watercolor over graphite, heightened with gouache with blotting and scratching out on wove paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Kim and Sellers Thomas.
January/February 2025
Take a tour through the Museum’s collection of works on paper from the Middle Ages through the 21st century, highlighting the exhbition Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond.
Plan Your Visit
- This tour is free with Museum admission. Meet your docent in the lobby of the Beck Building.
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All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.