Monday, Dec. 5, 2016
01:30 PM – 02:30 PM
US/Central
Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, c. 1873, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection).
About the December 5 Tour
A lesser-known aspect of Edgar Degas’s creative journey is his short but intensive foray into photography. Degas used photography both as part of a creative continuum that included paintings and pastels, and also as the vehicle through which he experimented with a new form of visual expression. The results were photographic figure studies, portraits, and self-portraits that stand alone as works of art in their own right.
Join Malcolm Daniel, the Museum’s Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of photography and author of Degas: Photographer, as he explores the critical role photography played in Degas’s work on this Exclusive Tour.
About the Tour
About Degas: A New Vision
The exhibition Degas: A New Vision reveals the continuity within Edgar Degas’s work from the beginning to the end of his career, as he restlessly moved among the media of oil painting, drawing, pastel, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, all the while employing common themes and approaches, revisiting poses and motifs that he had used decades earlier, and reworking paintings that he kept in his studio.
About Exclusive Tours
Exclusive Tours offer access to select Museum exhibitions on special Mondays when the Museum is closed to the public. In these lively, in-depth walking tours, Museum experts share their expansive knowledge about the featured exhibition. After the tour, discuss your experience over a glass of sparkling wine.
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Wednesday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Friday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sunday , 12:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Monday (Except selected holidays) | Closed.
- Tuesday | Closed.
- Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day | Closed.
- Adult $65.00 Members pay only $55.00 Senior (65+) $55.00
Directions & Parking
- Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005
Special Offers / Dining
Paolo Fronza, from Fellini Caffè, runs this sophisticated dining operation. Enjoy an array of Italian-inspired fare with a Texas flair, a European-style coffee bar, a kids menu, and much more at the MFA Café, located on the lower level of the Beck Building.
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