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Friends of the Crawford Gallery Itinerary 2011

Visit to Dublin Tuesday June 21st 2011

Itinerary

07.30               Depart by train from Kent Station, Cork
10.05               Arrive Heuston Station, Dublin. Transfer by taxi to Irish Museum of Modern Art
10.30               Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibition at New Gallery IMMA
11.30               Guided Tour of Barrie Cooke exhibition in Main Gallery at IMMA
01.15               Lunch at Radisson Blu Hotel, Chancery Lane
03.00               Guided Tour of the Art Books of Matisse, Chester Beatty Library
04.15               Taxi to Heuston Station
05.00               Depart Heuston Station for arrival in Cork at 7.30

Cost:               €75
                        Includes all transport within Dublin
                        Guided tours at IMMA and Chester Beatty Library
                        Lunch at Radisson Blu Hotel, Chancery Lane
                        All gratuities

Tuesday June 21st 2011

Visit to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and Barrie Cooke Exhibitions at IMMA and Art Books of Henri Matisse at Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) and her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957). The paintings exhibited include key images by Kahlo such as Self Portrait with Monkeys, and the major work by Rivera, Calla Lily Vendors. The exhibition also includes diaries, lithographs, drawings, pastels and collages. An exhibition guide brochure accompanies this exhibition.

Barrie Cooke Exhibition
Organised to mark the 80th birthday of the distinguished Irish painter, this exhibition includes paintings and sculptural works from the early 1960s to the present. Our visit to this exhibition will be guided.

The Art Books of Henri Matisse at the Chester Beatty Library
The Chester Beatty Library´s exhibition of the Art Books of Henri Matisse, marks the first public display of these works in Europe. The exhibition will feature four of Matisse´s most artistically significant books, including the famous Jazz, on loan from the Bank of America, Merrill Lynch Collection. A Matisse book inscribed from the artist to Chester Beatty and a copy of Matisse's illustrated version of James Joyce's Ulysses.

As an independent support group for the Crawford Art Gallery, the Friends´ aim is to promote awareness of the Gallery, its collections and exhibitions and to foster an interest in all aspects of art and heritage. Through your membership and participation in the Friends´ events we provide support to the Gallery for future acquisitions of art and for exhibitions.

Members of the Friends of the Crawford Art Gallery have the opportunity to attend our spring and autumn series of lunchtime lectures on art history, contemporary art and our local heritage of art and architecture.

Throughout the year the Friends of the Crawford Art Gallery also host short visits and guided day tours to galleries, museums and great houses and gardens of Ireland.

Members have the opportunity to attend short talks by art historians on specific works in the Gallery´s permanent collection followed by tea/coffee and scones in the Ballymaloe Gallery café.

Each year we organise a tour abroad for our members to places of cultural interest throughout Europe. Recent tours have been to Northern Italy, Provence, St Petersburg, Berlin and Barcelona.

Members of the Friends of the Crawford Art Gallery receive notification of, and invitations to, the opening of all Gallery exhibitions.

Details of membership are available in the Friends´ Office beside the Gallery Café. Opening times Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10.30 -–12.30

Tel: 021 4907864
Email: friends@crawfordartgallery.ie

Hon Administrators:
Anna O´Mahony,
Noreen Mc Sweeney,
Nessa Durcan.